Whitby progressive metal group Protest the Hero have started a subscription service to sell their six-song Pacific Myth EP one track at a time.
For $12, fans can subscribe to receive a new song on the 15th of the month for six months until the full EP is out. Subscribers also have access to journals, pictures, lyrics, musical transcriptions and videos created during the recording process.
“We believe this to be a sustainable model for what we do and a wonderful and honest way of getting more music made for you all,” they said in a statement to fans. “Most record cycles are at least two years. That’s two years of promoting 40 or so minutes of music. Music that you may have written two years before that!
“We have never been able to release what we want to release now. So that’s exactly what this is. These are songs we love now, songs we are proud of now and songs which are inherently more candid than our other material.”
You also have plenty of chances to hear the tunes live throughout December. Protest the Hero play the Opera House on Friday and Saturday (December 4 and 5) and the Mod Club on Sunday (December 6) in celebration of the 10th anniversary of their breakout album, Kezia.
Get more info here.
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