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.

Advancing nicely via jammin' and demoing

During past few weeks I've been rather cozily jamming especially the song I call "the main theme" or key song of this forthcoming release. Not just jammin' but I've also recorded the song and finetuned some of its' structure - as a result I've got full demoversion with basic elements; drums, guitars, bass. Nothing else. It's a massive song which feels good, and it's very personal since it comes purely from recent life events. Funeral scifi doom with some twists and turns ... and it's a long song, goes well past two figures in minutes so the main theme clearly is main theme also in this way.

I've also been jamming that one other song, not demo base yet though - and also been working on front cover for which I've had a clear idea / vision since I felt this release will start taking its' form. No lyric work yet, but clear visions for them also, especially for the main theme song.

Tuesday's revelation

I have continued jamming with good (= really dark, brooding, gloomy) vibes. There was this funny little event which I'm gonna write a bit. Last weekend as I was watching winter olympic games, the last events - at the same time I was playing with acoustic bass and I came up with riff / melody which instantly felt good to me. I kept playing with it, then told wife about it that check this out, does this remind you of something, some band? She listened, nope, or I can't say right away it would. I was like ... this feels familiar to me myself, but I can't pinpoint it to anything really ... but I like this, this would work as well as fast tune as extremely slow crushing tune. So I kept playing it and thought that I have to save this (so I saved it ... into my head only). Until tuesday, today, came. 

Suddenly I remembered something, let's check email ... didn't I record riff or two sometimes in 2025 when we were visiting wife's parents? Yeah I did, while we were there, I came up with interesting riff with wife's dad's about 70 years old guitar in poor condition (it has only 3 low strings and barely stays in tune, it's really beaten up but I always play with it when we are there). I saved the pair of riffs, melodic line and heavy riff with my phone and sent it to my email for later use.

So now I went to check out the mail. Yeah, there it is ... it's from early May 2025. Let's listen to it. Yeah here goes the first melodic riff ... not familiar. Ok, now comes the heavy hitter ... BOOM! It's the riff I "came up" last weekend! Hilarious but also kind of exciting. I had completely forgotten the riff, then suddenly it comes back to me and it's the same one I saved for later use 9 months ago. I can say for sure that it will certainly make one tune, too.

Doom to you, too

PS: I also updated the M4D logo in top section of this blog, into more lively one (the eye in it) with some scifi/tech elements added.