You’ll all hopefully recall the last time Shooter Jennings — son of country music star Waylon Jennings — released an album; he held a release party for his electronica-heavy album Countach inside Portalarium’s Shroud of the Avatar (which, to the best of my knowledge, was the first time in history that any artist has held an album release party inside a video game).

Well, Jennings evidently enjoyed the experience so much that he’s decided to do it again with his new album, Shooter.

You are invited to another historical album premier inside the realm of Shroud of the Avatar! Rolling Stone lists Shooter Jennings’ latest album: “Shooter”, which releases on August 10, as one of the most anticipated albums of 2018!

For his latest album, the follow-up to his adventurous tribute to Giorgio Moroder, Countach (For Giorgio), country-rock-electronica mad scientist Shooter Jennings looked to his outlaw lineage, cutting an album of stripped-down classic country in the vein of his dad Waylon and one of his heroes, Hank Williams Jr. He also returned to where it all began, re-teaming with Dave Cobb, who produced Jennings’ 2005 debut, Put the ‘O’ Back in Country – the first album the Grammy-winning Cobb ever produced too. Simply titled Shooter, the LP will be released sometime this year via Cobb’s Low Country Sound imprint on Elektra. Says Jennings, “It’s the most country album I’ve ever done.” J.H.

The event will kickoff through a series of quests that will appear in Release 56 which goes live on Thursday July 26. The quests will lead to the party at 7:00 PM CDT on July 31st inside Shroud of the Avatar, in the Player Owned Town of Ordinis Mortis. The first players to collect the clues and finish the quest will receive prizes from Shooter himself! Those prizes will include exclusive items with Shooter’s heraldry in the game (armor, brewing casks, etc), wax cylinders with songs from Shooter’s new album, and framed art of Shooter’s heraldry that they can decorate their home with. At the party players will get an advance listen of the new album, among other festivities!

Jennings, in addition to being a country-rock recording artist, is an avid gamer, and has been a long-time fan of Richard Garriott’s work; he has collaborated with Portalarium on a few other things they’ve done in Shroud of the Avatar (e.g. a breast cancer fundraiser), plays the game himself, and even performed at its release party earlier this year.