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This Week in Kardashev News! New Demo Available! We've been working on a fourth song for our full length album and have some awesome ideas worked out! "History" tab in our Articles section! Nico's been hard at work remembering back through the anthology of Kardashev...
This Week in Kardashev News! New Demo Available! We've been working on a fourth song for our full length album and have some awesome ideas worked out! "History" tab in our Articles section! Nico's been hard at work remembering back through the anthology of Kardashev...
New Demo Available! We've been working on a third song for our full length album and have some awesome ideas worked out! "History" tab in our Articles section! Nico's been hard at work remembering back through the anthology of Kardashev and the various milestones!...
This Week in Kardashev News! You can now install our website to your smart phones! If you're on a mobile Android device, you can install our website as an App and even enroll into push notifications for our weekly posts! The install should pop up for you, but if it...
This week in Kardashev News! Huge Updates to Patreon and Kardashev Website The Kardashev website now has an "Articles" section where you can get direct updates and if you're a Patreon Patron, even listen to new demos of upcoming music! We've created an Enamel Mug!...
This week's snippet focuses on Sean's drum composition and new drum samples along with a remix of the demo overall. We look forward to making it sound more like Kardashev and developing more "Doom Mood" into the song. (Palindrome) Next Week We hope to have a more...
This week's snippet focuses on Sean's drum composition and new drum samples along with a remix of the demo overall. We look forward to making it sound more like Kardashev and developing more "Doom Mood" into the song. (Palindrome) Next Week We hope to have a more...
This week's snippet focuses on Sean's drum composition and new drum samples along with a remix of the demo overall. We look forward to making it sound more like Kardashev and developing more "Doom Mood" into the song. (Palindrome) Next Week We hope to have a more...
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Next week We hope to bring you some drum updates as we’ve invested into Superior Drummer 3 and Sean has been working on making a Kardashev-specific kit for this new album. From all of us here at Kardashev, thank you for your continued support! Remember, we’ll have...
Rhopography Track 3 - New Melodic Idea This week's snippet is brought to you by our drummer, Sean! He wrote this little piece a few years back for a solo project of his called The Great Filter and since he'd not used it there, he invited us to check it out and maybe...
This week's snippet is brought to you by our drummer, Sean! He wrote this little piece a few years back for a solo project of his called The Great Filter and since he'd not used it there, he invited us to check it out and maybe develop the tune as a Kardashev track!...
Rhopography Track 3 - New Melodic Idea The Patreon community gets exclusive access to new music, song breakdowns, commentary, and even a monthly one-on-one call with Nico.
Rhopography Track 2 Welcome to the music demo blog! Today I’m going to explain in detail our new song that we’re working on for our upcoming full length album tentatively named, “Rhopography”. Enjoy! At this point in the song writing, we're on our second song of the...
Rhopography Track 2 - New Demo This demo shows the melodic approach we're taking to create the soaring leads that we have been showcasing since The Almanac. It also has many nuances from our past works including composition and bass accompaniment. One of the biggest...
The story of the Album The Almanac is a narrative continuation of the 2013 release, “Excipio”. It is a series of short story adventures through time and space following a character by the name of, “The Traveler”. This story focuses on the character’s journey of...
The story of the Album The Baring of Shadows tells four separate stories of loss, pain, and sorrow from the perspective of a single person. This is a visceral telling of universal pain. The album’s direction was intentionally built by Mark’s desire to explore what it...
The story of the Album Peripety breaks away from the Kardashev mythos, a hopeful story of our far off future, and explores themes of purpose, meaning, and responsibility. It faces the realization of one’s own place in a vast, primarily empty existence. Who are we to...
The story of the Album Excipio was Kardashev’s first EP with a focused effort in writing narrative around the second tier of the Kardashev Scale. The EP is titled, “Excipio” which is Latin for “I rescue” or “I capture” and is lyrically based on the concept of a...
The Beginning The history of Kardashev begins in 2009 when Nico Mirolla met Mark Garrett at Northern Arizona University while listening to metal and playing Magic the Gathering in a dormitory common area. After discussing their desires to make music, they began to...
The story of the Concept “IOTA” was the first deviation that Kardashev took with their writing as they began to crave a more mature writing approach and more atmosphere in their compositions. Having parted ways with their drummer James, Nico took on drumming duties...
The story of the Album Progression is less of a story and more of a concept. It is a figurative and imaginative layout for describing the concepts found in Nikolai Kardashev’s concept work. Creative license was used on the naming of the songs and the world around...