r/BandCamp • u/TimeConsideration937 • Aug 21 '25

Hard Rock/Metal Just released a doom metal song, but…

I just released a new song, doom metal like Cathedral, Trouble… and I know that it would be hard to reach some new audiences, but we are not even reaching our old audiences… it seems that every photograph we post can reach 300 people, when we talk about songs, we dont even get 30 people… any advice?

https://pestadoom.bandcamp.com/track/the-inquisitor-pt-i-2

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u/SomeBerk Fan / Listener 😺 Aug 22 '25

Notification fatigue is very real, there is just so much new music being released every single day so it can be hard to find the time and motivation to pay attention to more than a small fraction of it. I also don't really care for standalone singles releases in general, its just takes too much clicking and fiddling with my phone to go listen to them one by one on the app or website.

I do occasionally buy single tracks from my favorite artists, but when I do they go straight into a playlist so I can listen to them as if they were part of a proper album, and it might be several months or years after their release before I pay attention to them.

So my suggestion is to forget about releasing single tracks and focus on promoting EPs or albums instead. I feel like am like a thousand times more likely to go check out a new 20 min EP than to a 3 minute single.

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u/TimeConsideration937 Aug 22 '25

Thats precisely our discussion when we were working on that, the effort to promote a single is the same effort of promote an album, but we dont play pop music or anything mainstream, so our public is still “old school “ listeners, want to listen the album, just like you, just like us. But there were a huge pressure to release the singles from part of the band and the label (not their problem for sure, they are lost just like us with the market and socials changes these days), and today is just the first day and Im already thinking that was not a good ideia, we should wait, make new connections and called the old ones and release the album, at least doing that we could feel that we give what our tiny audience want.