BLACK METAL PART II

This took up most of my time between march and may of this year. but finally i completed the second song in my black metal project. (the first being symbols in the sand).
i am aiming to write nine songs so i can put together a full album of this stuff. but it's hard work! i really started to get bogged down with this one and it got to a point where it wasn't a labour of love anymore. yet i didn't want to rush it just to finish it. i can't remember how many tracks i ended up recording for it but i remember listening back to the finished version for the first time i was disappointed in it. i guess it's cos when you're recording something you listen to the passages countless times so i was sick to death of it. but now listening back to it i am pretty pleased with it.

"my own private armageddon"

i am just garnering a few ideas for the third song. i have a couple of riffs written for the next one. at the moment i am thinking of opening the next one with a classical piece. we will see. i seem to swing from one idea to another though during writing.

aside from working on this song i have been working on redoing the brutal insanity cd from years ago (see previous post). i started to write new riffs to play over it but when recording them it sounded to disjointed - kind of like an afterthought (which is exactly what it was). anyway i have redone 9 out of 10 songs - just adding little bits here and there and tidying it up a bit. it's just that the original cds frequencies and balance are all over the place so there's not a lot i can do with it.

once i have remastered the final song i am thinking of adding guitar solos to it - but then again it may sound like an afterthought. i will see how it goes. the other idea i had for it is this: i was going to take 3 or 4 songs at a time and run them together - linked maybe by samples so instead of it being a cd with 9 or 10 it'll be a cd with 3 parts to it - the first (that i am aware of) deathgrind concept album!

so i will post it here once complete and maybe make it available for download.

it's been a while!

wo when did i last post?! so much to catch up on! where do i start?
ok......looking back on my youtube account there's a few videos that i haven't posted here so here goes!

"the nocturnal silence"

this was a cover of the swedish band necrophobics early 90's classic. i really felt the sample of bela lugosi would top it off well. i play this song slightly different to the original.

"dreaming of drowning"

i had a simple riff in my head but by adding layer upon layer of guitars and synths it makes it sound anything but simple. my favourite "guitar sound" of all time is the sound billy corgan has on his underrated solo album "thefutureembrace". i sort of got that on this song. don't know how though - i think there'll be a bit of difference in the price of equipment we use!

"wolf at door"

once again i kept it simple. simple drum patterns, ugly little guitar riffs, just adding and adding things as the song goes along and grows. i think it has a sort of film score quality to it.

i have several other videos on my youtube account which i won't be posting here if you would like to check them out.