i have been listening to a lot of black metal recently, ranging from burzum and abigor to usbm. but i have seemed to be busy doing other things besides music so after this week i will focus solely on writing.
i have set myself a target too - to write a black metal opus each month until i have 9 - enough for a full length cd. it doesn't seem too difficult to achieve if i look back at how many songs i was writing last year but this is going to take a monumental effort as the amount of work that goes into each fragment of a song is almost infinite.
last week i started writing the 2nd song for my black metal project "baal ov". it took over 3 hours just to record the opening 10 seconds. i could say an analogy of the process is a quote by boswell on the writing of "the life of samuel johnson" - "every word was like tearing a strip of flesh".
the beginning to the song - hmm - well i sampled for a beating heart (it was actually very hard to find a decent sample on youtube). i use the beating heart as the rhythm instead of a drum and a piece of music fades in over it reminiscent of goblins soundtrack to profundo rosso. then it kinda goes folky and then BRUTAL!!!!!!!
last year i would have been posting a song here every few days but hey i'm going for quality over quantity now.
i was quite pleased with it apart from i didn't like the sound of the drums too much.
oh well - better go and get on with music now.
