Hello everyone,

It’s been a long time since you’ve heard from us but we’ve got a lot to share. The band is entering a new season which is exciting for us, and we hope that means it’s an exciting time to be a Caedmon’s Call fan too! We’ve got renewed vision since finishing our deal with Essential Records, we’ve started work on a new album that we think is going to be amazing, and we’ve just relaunched our fan club, The Guild, for the 5th and final time.

Why is Guild 5 the final Guild ever? It’s simple: memberships for Guild 5 are lifetime memberships. No more yearly renewals like in the past. In previous Guilds, you’ve paid about $35 for the year and received a few goodies. With Guild 5, you pay $13.50 for a LIFETIME membership ($10 for membership, $3.50 to mail you your membership card once we have them finished). That’s it. No more membership fees ever.

What will your membership get you? Glad you asked. Your $10 entitles you to a membership card, access to the Guild Site, access to the pre-show Guild Rooms (when made available by venue), and discounts on Merch at the online Guild store.

How do you sign up? Head over to caedmonscall.com, click “Fans_The Guild”, and then click “Register Now”. Once you’ve submitted your registration info, you will be taken to the Guild Store. This is where you purchase your Lifetime Guild Membership. A lifetime Membership will automatically be placed in your shopping cart. If you’ve never purchased from our store before, you’ll need to register for a store account in addition to the registration you just completed for the Guild. Pay for your Guild 5 account with your credit card using our secure server, and your Guild account will be activated. YOUR GUILD ACCOUNT WILL NOT BE ACTIVATED UNTIL PAYMENT IS RECEIVED.

As a special thank you to folks who sign up for the Guild in the next week or so, we are making the Guild 2 and Guild 3 CDs available to you for only $5 each! You can even get a copy of the Guild 4 DVD for only $10! These prices will only stay this low for a week or two, at which point we’ll increase them again and offer them to the public. So if you’re thinking about joining the Guild, we hope you’ll do it now and take advantage of these great deals.

At this point you might be wondering about the Guild 5 CD, and if there will there be one. The answer is Yes, there will be, but since we are keeping membership fees down so low, there will be a nominal fee to purchase one when they are made available to Guild members. It will be no more, and possibly less, than $10. As for when it will be available, our guitarist/vocalist extraordinaire, Andy Osenga, explains what you can look forward to:

“I’ve got a box full of CDs and a hard-drive full of material that we are going to use for the Guild 5 CD. In addition, we are going to use outtakes and songs that don’t make the cut for this next Caedmon’s record and put them on the Guild 5 CD as well. Because of this, you’ll probably see the next Caedmon’s record come out before the Guild 5 CD does, but the Guild 5 CD won’t be too far behind and it will be worth the wait.”

So there you have it. Exciting things are on the horizon for you as fans of Caedmon’s Call. The band is as excited as it’s ever been, the Guild is back, and there’s a new record in the works. In the meantime, go over and sign up for Guild 5 and pick up some discounted merch while it’s at the special rate. And remember, you can also keep tabs on what’s going on with the band over at their fan run website www.caedmonscall.net.

We hope all of you enjoy the upcoming Christmas season, and we hope to see you out there on the road this year or next!

Grace and Peace,
Caedmon’s Call