Here we go again (doomier than thou)

I bet you can't guess what the subject line above hints ... or then it's too easy to guess!

 Yeah. :)

Not only did I compose the track#6 already, but I also recorded all the guitars and bassguitars for it, too. Drums are still simple base beats, so there's work to be done for them, but all in all a very proper song base, I'd say. And certainly different to that "faster" track#5 ... 

I thought this track#6 would certainly be the last track, and ... well, it quite certainly is. I have a feeling I'd come up with more suitable material, but on the other hand I don't want to make this album too long. The world is filled with too long albums these days, in any case. Thinking the days from 1980s or early 1990s, when your usual metal albums (pretty much whatever genre) went from bit under 30 minutes into around 45 minutes or let's say bit under 50 minutes. Of course there were exceptions, but you know, in general. 

I have a feeling this pack of 6 song will go quite close to something like 45 minutes and it feels like a perfect length to me. And more importantly, it feels very fitting for the theme of this album and the overall flow, I think.

Speed metal doom

Well, guess what? I just finished putting down all the basic stuff for the track number 5. When inspiration strikes, you gotta act upon it. That's what I do. Late yesterday evening just before going to sleep I laid down simple drumtrack rather fast for the idea I had for this song. And now, saturday morning, I jammed the riff a bit and felt like yeah, this certainly is it and it totally fills the theme / tale of exactly this song perfectly.

After breakfast I played some Hades a bit, then went to record the guitars and bass. And that's what happened and it happened fast, too. Recorded two guitar channels, all guitars and one bassguitar channel, some tweaking - and just 50 minutes later the demobase for song#5 was ready. And it sounds really sweet to me, even better than what I imagined beforehand.

So far I don't have as clear idea for the song#6 which will quite like be the closing track of this album, but I have a feeling that the idea is right behind the corner and soon here. Now I'm off to spend some quality time with our kiddo (who was listening all the time as I was laying down guitar and bass tracks). :)

From smooth basslines forwards

I recorded the bassguitars for that 4th monster already yesterday and it went exactly as smoothly as I thought it would. Really good vibes.

I have also clear ideas for next two tunes already and not just that but it looks like this album might have just 6 tunes overall. That might sound like little, but it's more than enough because two of the tunes are long ones. I think the overall length might turn around 40-50 minutes or something like that? I haven't really looked at what kind of length it would be nor do I care - I'm doing this purely on instinct and how it feels overall. There has to be certain kind of flow and currently it's looking good to me.

More as composing progresses.

Recording bass for the 4th new tune

Warping, Indeed!

In previous blog post, I wrote its' topic about "warping" towards next tune ... well, warping literally happened and I am not exaggerating a bit! 

Think about this: Already late yesterday I had not just composed but also recorded guitars over basic drumbeats (which will require lots of tweaking) for the 4th tune demo which is like I predicted a very heavy, long piece. Goes well past two figures in minutes in its' demo form. It is droneish, dragging, very doomy song and it feels exactly like the vision I had for it - describes something very personal indeed (about which I might wrote much later after the album has been finished). 

And the composing vibes are great. I have to record bass for this 4th monster and I look forward to it. I think bass in this tune's case will make it more lively and perhaps twisted in a way or two.

Bass for #3 and warping towards next tune

I recorded the bassguitars for song #3 yesterday only. So much things have been going on in my personal life, that it just wasn't possible earlier. Recording went smoothly though, as I thought. This thing is going on "inside my head" even that I don't work on it - and as a result I know this "song#3" is going to be sort of short passageway into song#4 which I haven't composed yet, but for which I have main riff idea pretty much ready. And it connects thematically to main title track, too. I think this forthcoming tune#4 will be long and heavy one. 

Just this morning I suddenly knew what the song title for song#3 will be, too. Song#2 is still untitled, but song#1 has had name even before recording anything of it. Sometimes it goes like that, sometimes like song#2 case, that the title forms later.

When things start to flow ...

... it was just day before yesterday as I wrote about having turned the 2nd song into demo base. Well, it's now just some 1-2 days later and I have third new tune in demo format already! That happened yesterday.  It's brand new tune which is not based on any older riff ideas etc. The demo base for this one so far has just guitars, no bassguitars like the first two. But recording bass will be just breeze and it won't take long, I bet.

Shortest song so far, works kind of like interlude of sorts, perhaps. I have a feeling next tune will be slower, heavier and much longer - but we'll see what comes out next. But the vibes are good and doomy.

Next tune into the demo stage

Since last writing I've recorded the second tune into demo shape with drums / guitars / bass. Turned out pretty sweet, and even got a brand new end section for it which was born on the fly while recording the demo. 

Now I don't have any other riffs nor melodies saved from earlier times - so it's now going into full composing mode. It's good, since there will be this certain theme going on in this release. I think I won't touch lyrics before I've composed all the music. Or most of it, anyway. 

I've also continued working with the album coverart and it's turning out very fitting for the album's theme and general mood. Connects with the main title song visually, in cosmic ways.