Are we there yet?

It's hard to believe but it's a year since Pete and Grae first got together to discuss what would become Morpheus Rising!

In that time we've written sufficient material for more than a standard album (and thrown most of it back into the melting pot!), released a charity single, been interviewed live and played on local, national and global radio stations, appeared in 'real' newspapers, we've been mentioned on Dave Gilmour's blog (yes, that Dave Gilmour!) and we've seen our first commercial release appear on iTunes, Rhapsody, Napster and IndieStore... not bad considering the limited esposure we've had and the fact that other commitments meant we had to turn down the gigs we got offered in support of the release!!

But all is definitely not lost!  We have made use of all the well known social networking tools to help us in our bid for global domination and more than a couple of not so well known ones... ReverbNation is akind of social networking site for independent musicians where you can build a fan base, show off your music, and generally pimp your wares.  There are also a number of charts on the site broken down into Local, National and Global charts by genre.  Morpheus Rising have fared consistently well in all of these charts but, until today, didn't really realise how well...

We are placed in the top 3 percent of ALL the charts in RverbNation where we appear!!  This includes the Global All Genres chart which has over 184,000 acts listed!  Our positions are as follows:

Global All Genre: 4473 out of 184,897 (Top 2.4%)

Global Metal: 136 out of 4781 (Top 2.8%)

National Metal: 10 out of 391 (Top 2.5%)

Local Metal: 1 out of 30 (Top... er, TOP!)

These positions have been fairly consistent over the last 3-4 months and we'd like to thank all of you for helping us achieve these great figures... how about we for a Top 5 National Metal placing now... or push into the Top 100 Global Metal?  To help us, just point your broweser at our ReverbNation page and click on the Widgets tab under our status and spread them on your sites... let your friends know, and we'll soon be there ;)

Or you could simply add this code to your email signature/blog/website to let people join our newsletter!!

<a href="http://www.reverbnation.com/morpheusrising?add_email=true"><img alt="Mylinks_join_mailing_list" src="http://cache.reverbnation.com/images/my_links_badges/mylinks_join_mailing_list.png" /></a>

The above code will produce the button below:



We look forward to seeing you soon...

All the best,

Grae, Pete, Daymo, Andy & Gibbo

Morpheus Rising

...resurrecting British Heavy Metal