Very cool stuff, Gerry!
I love that you and your mates in RBoTN are doing your best to keep that particular style of Metal around and make it heard. It seems to be a rare and unfortunately a dying breed where I live.
Love your last album and it stays in my Playlists; can't wait for a new one!
Man that's a massive compliment. Really thank you for saying that. We just do what we do. Anyone who ever buys one thing with our name on it is always paying a massive compliment to our efforts as a band and anyone who can enjoy one song makes it all worth while so if we are in your play list well f*ck yeah! That's amazing!
About the scene, well it's like that here as well where I live, but we helped bring it back, and on the Irish scene as a whole we are definitely the purveyors of traditional heavy metal. And it's inspired some younger bands and fans so it aint dying at all. Another thing, in Europe and in UK there is definitely a resurgence and with the internet it is easy to connect up and sorta unite powers I guess with like minded bands.
It's funny you say that about where you live, because from the U.S we were supposed to play with the band Night Demon (nothing like us but in the right ball park). Now those guys most be part of some kind scene out there in the States? Cauldron are another band I know from there and some Canadian bands too. Might be worth trying to network with some similar band out there man I dunno? The Night Demon gig is postponed to September now. They were ok in my opinion, I wasn't blown away though, and they pissed me off taking hours for a sound check forgetting about the bands before them!
And again thanks so much for the kind words, I actually can't describe how cool that is to hear