Shadows Fall News

Hey everyone,

Head on over to our merch store where now until noon EST on Sunday November 29th anything you buy in our merch store is 20% off. All you have to do is enter the code: Tgivs09 at check out. Happy shopping!

-Shadows Fall

We regretfully announce our annual hometown holiday concert scheduled for December 26^th, 2009 has to be canceled due to unforeseen family commitments. Tickets will be refunded at point of purchase.

There are only a few more days left to submit your design for the merch contest we have going on.  For more info head over to:

 http://www.ultimateguitar.com/news/general_music_news/shadows_fall_facebook_merch_design_contest.html

-Shadows Fall

Shadows Fall is Fuse on Demand’s HD Artist of the Month (November).  Check out this video where the guys talk about their new album “Retribution”, success in the metal world and starting their own label.

http://link.brightcove.com/services/player/bcpid6217856001?bctid=49628223001

We’re already getting some really great designs in from everyone but we wanted to give you some extra time to come up with and submit designs.  We also have been getting messages that the shirt templates aren’t large enough.

We have updated the NEW download link for the templates so you can get the new templates Here: http://www.sendspace.com/file/c6dm6m.

Here are the new dates and details:

STEP 1: Create a new Shadows Fall design. Final files must be in 300 DPI or higher. Layered photo shop, illustrator, or corel files are best.STEP 2: Place your design on one of our merch templates. The design needs to have the Shadows Fall logo. You can download the logo and shirt templates here: http://www.sendspace.com/file/c6dm6m.  Please, do not send us the artwork file. Only use sendspace.com. All artwork files will be deleted and not entered into the contest!

**IMPORTANT** Myspace doesn’t let you open the sendspace download link directly. Please COPY AND PASTE the link into a DIFFERENT BROWSER and it will work!!STEP 3: Upload your file to www.sendspace.comSTEP 4: Email us the link to download your design at shadowsfallbandcontests@gmail.com BEFORE NOVEMBER 29^th 2009.We will go through all the submissions and pick our 5 favorite designs. Those designs will be posted on http://www.facebook.com/shadowsfall . Vote for your favorite design and the winner will actually become a real Shadows Fall merch design.Voting begins at Noon EST on December 2^nd, 2009 and ends at Noon EST on December 9th, 2009. Winner will be announced on

www.ultimate-guitar.com on 11 AM EST December. 10th, 2009.Grand Prize Winner -2 pieces of the merch created as well as their myspace and facebook links on band’s page and a Shadows Fall box set

http://shadowsfall.merchnow.com/products/106182!2 Runners Up –Choice of 1 Shadows Fall t-shirt from merch store!We can’t wait to see all the awesome ideas you guys have. Good luck!

The link below will take you to a page with the html coding for these 3 Ding banners- http://www.dingbanners.com/streetteam/shadowsfall/index.html

Hey guys, we’ve been nominated in three seperate reader polls based in the UK & Europe.
We’d love to get some help from all of you so please post bulletins on Myspace, updates on Facebook and Twitter, text and call to tell your friends, do whatever you can to get the word out!
**USA Fans can still vote as well!**

Below are the direct links to the poll’s websites. Thanks for all the support!!

Terrorizer - http://www.terrorizer.com/survey/readers-poll-2009
Rock Sound - http://bit.ly/readerspoll
Kerrang - http://poll.kerrang.com/

We’re giving our fans the opportunity to design a new Shadows Fall shirt. Check out the instructions for submitting your design below and start sending them in NOW.

STEP 1: Create a new Shadows Fall design. Final files must be in 300 DPI or higher. Layered photo shop, illustrator, or corel files are best.

STEP 2: Place your design on one of our merch templates. The design needs to have the Shadows Fall logo. You can download the logo and shirt templates here: http://www.sendspace.com/file/2ncfex. Please, do not send us the artwork file. Only use sendspace.com. All artwork files will be deleted and not entered into the contest!

STEP 3: Upload your file to www.sendspace.com

STEP 4: Email us the link to download your design at shadowsfallbandcontests@gmail.com BEFORE NOVEMBER 11, 2009.

We will go through all the submissions and pick our 5 favorite designs. Those designs will be posted on http://www.facebook.com/shadowsfall . Vote for your favorite design and the winner will actually become a real Shadows Fall merch design.

Voting begins at Noon EST on Friday November 13th, 2009 and ends at Noon EST on November 19th, 2009. Winner will be announced on www.ultimate-guitar.com on 11 AM EST November. 20th, 2009.

Grand Prize Winner -

2 pieces of the merch created as well as their myspace and facebook links on band’s page and a Shadows Fall box set!

2 Runners Up –

Choice of 1 Shadows Fall t-shirt from merch store!

We can’t wait to see all the awesome ideas you guys have. Good luck!

Want to hear us on the radio?

Below is list of stations playing “Still I Rise”. Make sure you call up the request lines and ask to hear “Still I Rise” to get some real metal on the radio.

Check out the trailer the folks at Machinima.com made for the new video game: Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2. Set to the sounds of “Still I Rise” at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qIGPPratOBo.