Remember Corelia? You'd be forgiven if you didn't. The progressive band made waves in 2011 with their release, Nostalgia. Four years later, they launched a crowdfunding campaign to release a new album. The campaign was asking for $15,000 and ended up getting $33,455, and then the band disappeared. Until today!
For years, the band commented that they did not scam anybody and that a new album was coming and nothing came of it, until last Saturday, April 11th.
A Facebook page launched for “Corelias” with the URL/username "Immastealyomoneypunk." The page announced that it would be posting the album online, today, 4/20, if the rest of the band agrees to it or not:
“So here’s the deal, due to inter band fighting, we never got to release our album.
“It was finished. On the hard drive. We have art ready. But due to our own personal differences we never got to release it.
“I do not have access to the original page so I had to create this one. I have the album. We’ll release it on 4/20/20. I have no idea how to rectify the damage done by stealing $35k+ from our fans but I figure this will be the logical first step.
“Thanks for always listening and im excited to take this journey with you all.”
Looks like the actual Corelias was taking this seriously, because they finally popped up and believed the person who launched this page to be a member of the group who "abruptly ceased all communication over a year ago."
Their full statement reads:
“It has come to our attention that there is a facebook page with similar spelling to ours that has been made to represent an anonymous member of our band. Sadly, a member of our band abruptly ceased all communication over a year ago, despite our attempts to continue communicating. We believe the owner of that page to be this person, so we have made additional attempts to contact them, with no response.
“We are very sorry for everything that fans of Corelia have had to go through. We’ve only ever wanted to complete this album that we spent so much time recording and show the world our art. But, unfortunately that has been a very rocky road.
“The opinions expressed on that page do not express the views or opinions of Corelia. Any and all media owned by Corelia is not authorized to be distributed by any party or site that is not this page, the official Corelia facebook page. We will continue trying to contact them to try to resolve the situation. Going forward, we will be updating you as much as possible, and will be posting a more detailed update on the whole situation and how we can move forward in the future. Once again, we are very sorry to everyone.
“Corelia”
So, today is the day, and what happened? The song that was promised to be released was a complete troll job. There was no song, as was clearly evident a few seconds in:
Los Angeles area producer Tim Ossenfort outted himself as the person responsible:
“To stop the speculation.
“My names Tim Ossenfort, I produce records for prog rock/metal bands in LA and am in a few bands. I am for sure not a member of Corelia.
“This was all for the joke not my music, but if you wanna check out some legit prog metal by someone who has never stolen 35k from their fans please go check out my bands newest song! Its not even live on Spotify yet I’m just uploading now because screw it y’all deserve tasty riffs from SOMEONE. The band is absolutely fresh on the scene Washington Nadir.”
Good job, sir. But will we actually hear new Corelia ever?
In the meantime, here is some Washington Nadir
So here's the deal, due to inter band fighting, we never got to release our album.It was finished. On the hard drive….
Posted by Corelias on Saturday, April 11, 2020
To stop the speculation.My names Tim Ossenfort, I produce records for prog rock/metal bands in LA and am in a few…
Posted by Corelias on Sunday, April 19, 2020
[via MetalSucks]
