Tuesday 26 June 2012

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.