Instrumental edition of MES

While I was creating 'Morbid entropic spaces' I mentioned at some point, that I've got an idea for crafting slightly different sounding (drums, perhaps) and fully instrumental edit of this album. I've been working on this remix already during past few weeks and it has progressed quite far. Not just the drums might sound bit different but all the vocals, talks, shouts etc that once came out of my throat have been dropped away ... and perhaps bit surprisingly also all the space soundscapes have been dropped away. And the fadeouts the long songs have, are not fadeouts in this edit but long drone'ish ending passages that cut off abruptly (simply because they were originally recorded for fadeout endings) where the recorded guitars / bass end.

Personally I like how this instrumental edit is turning out. It's in a way quite different to the 'Morbid entropic spaces' with full vocals and more bombastic drums, space soundscapes and all that. It's also interesting soundscape edit in the way that you can better hear what's happening with the keyboards in the background - it's not necessarily all that obvious on the album itself, that there are keyboards most the way through. It's much more obvious in this instrumental edit.

I haven't decided yet the release date for this, but I don't think it's coming out right away simply because the actual album just came out and I like to give it all the attention it deserves. I truly like the way it came out. This instrumental edit might come out sometimes like ... late summer perhaps? We'll see.

PS: I will write deep details / background for 'Morbid entropic spaces' sometimes in the summer, or perhaps late summer only. After the album has been out there for some months or so. Stuff that gives some strong extra effect to some of those songs.

'Morbid entropic spaces' is released today!

Seems that we've passed through yet another time loophole and look; the release day is here!

You can find 'Morbid entropic spaces' from the most common streaming services (Spotify, Youtube music, Apple music, etc) already and I manually released it also at bandcamp a moment ago.

Enjoy! \m/

Lyrics

As the release date looms ahead, it's already tomorrow ... here are the lyrics for the album.

As you can see, there are quite a bunch of lyrics. And they are all interconnected, in multiple ways. I will write much more and with details about this matter sometimes in the summer as the release has been out there for some time already.

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1. Mother Earth's death

We watch from the freezing dark
Thy pale orbit one silent arc
The all seeing eye has closed its' lid
Beneath the ash her former life is hid
We pulled the tides and warmed up the soil
Now nothing breathes and nothing coils
Floating tomb of cracked grey crust
My mother of earth is reduced to dust

Oh thy mother is dead
The cradle is empty the rivers have bled
Barren stone in the cosmic sea
Bereft of life bereft of me

Golden glow reaches into space
Memories fade away with grace
No children walk no forests breathe
Swirling storms that slowly seethe
We saw the birth the molten fire
Now we see the end her funeral pyre
Galaxy turns silent and cold
Mourning thy mother earth's death

Oh thy mother is dead
The cradle is empty the rivers have bled
Barren stone in the cosmic sea
Bereft of life bereft of me

No more blue
Even less green
Red is the sunset 
Leading me into my sleep

We orbit a ghost
We circle a memory
Lost in the last
Rays of eternity

No longer blue
Vanishing all green
Red is fading
Making me sleep

We orbit a ghost
We circle a memory
Lost in the last 
Rays of eternity

No blue
No green
No red at all
Dormancy?       

Starlight fills her final grave
Mother earth has been saved
Her last wishes were so grand
Feel no sorrow just let me go

Starlight fills her former grave
My mother earth has escaped
Her last wishes can be heard

Just let me fly away like a bird

Starlight is her true second name now
One can do nothing else than just bow
She gave me orders of happiness
Doomed mother earth means loneliness

I'm trying to be strong 
Stop me, it hurts so bad, mother ...

We watch from the freezing dark
Thy pale orbit one silent arc
All seeing eye has closed its' lid
Beneath the ash her former life is hid
We pulled the tides and warmed up the soil
Now nothing breathes and nothing coils
Floating tomb of cracked grey crust
My mother of earth reduced to dust

Oh thy mother is dead
The cradle is empty the rivers have bled
Barren stone in the cosmic sea
Bereft of life bereft of me

Golden glow reaches into space
Memories fade away with grace
No children walk no forests breathe
Swirling storms that slowly seethe
We saw the birth the molten fire
Now we see the end her funeral pyre
Even the galaxy turns silent and cold
Mourning thy mother earth's death

Oh thy mother is dead
Her grave is empty and I have bled
Barren stone in the cosmic sea
Bereft of life bereft of me

No more blue
Even less green
Red is the sunset 
leading me into forever sleep

Dormancy ...

2. Fractured cosmic web

Filaments of baryonic dust
Strung across the cold dark crust
A neural lace of billion years
Drenched in the stream of ancient spheres
Cold dark matter holds the weight
Of every star and every soul's fate
But the tension snaps in the Great Repel
As we spiral down this gravity well

The cosmic web is tearing at the seams
From fractured patterns into broken dreams
Dark energy breathes inside as the expansion slowly grows
Order falls in silent rows
Behold the loom of grand architect’s lie
Where the threads of light go out to die

Entropic decay is the only law
Fractal ghost in a frozen jaw
The nodes are cold
The lattice breaks
The Great Attractor finally wakes

Through the black wall we try to peer
At the geometry of this cosmic fear
Red-shift screams from the furthest node
The vast universe unspools its code
Void-space hungry void-space wide
There is no place for the stars to hide
Superclusters drift into the grey
As the unseen constant rips the wave

The cosmic web is tearing at the seams
From fractured patterns into broken dreams
Dark energy breathes inside as the expansion slowly grows
Order falls in silent rows
Behold the loom of grand architect’s lie
Where the threads of light go out to die

Entropic decay is the only law
A fractal ghost in a frozen jaw
The nodes are cold
The lattice breaks
The Great Attractor finally wakes

Accelerate! Accelerate! Accelerate!

Into the maw of a lonely fate
The filaments snap
The light goes black
There is no road no turning back
Fractured cosmic web
Fractured human soul

Accelerate! Accelerate! Accelerate!

Into the maw of a lonely fate
The filaments snap
The light goes black
There is no road no turning back
Fractured cosmic web
Fractured human soul

Accelerate! Accelerate! Accelerate!

Entropic decay is the only law
A fractal ghost in a frozen jaw
The nodes are cold
The lattice breaks
The Great Attractor finally wakes

The Great Attractor 
The Great Attractor 
The Great Attractor 
Takes the final toll

The Great Attractor 
The Great Attractor 
The Great Attractor 
Takes the final toll

Accelerate! Accelerate! Accelerate!



3. The beginning of delicacies

Atmosphere thins like a veil of silk
Under the skies with the color of dark green
Something has breached their magnetopause
A hunger that functions without any laws
We are the garnish the first bitter taste
A planet of protein all gone to waste
The morbid twitch of a dying sphere
As the shadow of the Great Maw draws near

Welcome to the beginning of delicacies
Savor the terror of thousand degrees
See the galaxy served on a platter of glass
Watching the soul of the universe pass
Harvest the light savor the scream
Drowning in the gullet of a celestial dream
Feast for the ancient a meal for the void
Black hole buffet of a world destroyed

The table is set with the bones of red moon
Stirring the oceans with a gravity spoon
A morbid digestion has finally begun
Chewing the core of their own shivering sun
No one remains to witness the event
Feel the cold empty stomach all bent
The end of the beginning has not started yet

This is the beginning of the delicacies

Welcome to set of delicacies
Savor the terror of news to me
Galaxies built into invisible glass
Watching the mold of universe pass



4. Reset the Morbid Terminus

The Hubble flow has turned to rage
The final ink on this cosmic page
Dark energy a phantom force
Deviating from the ancient course
The superclusters slowly drift away
Into a deeper darker shade of grey
The tension in the vacuum just grows
As the chaos falls in these silent rows

The stars are flickering like dying lamps
Across the cold primordial ruins
Beyond the Schwarzschild radius rim
The light of the universe grows so very dim
Invisible fractures in the nebulae
Existence is just a closing door
We wait for the morbid snap of time
The end of the rhythm the end of the rhyme
 
We approach the Morbid Terminus
This is the void that will consume all of us
A static wall of infinite black
With no horizon leading us back

The cosmic flow has turned to rage
The final ink on our earth's page
Dark energy mixed into phantom force
Devastating what was ancient course
The galactic filaments drift away
Into a deeper darker shade of grey
The tension of all existence grows
As peace breaks these silent rows

The stars are flickering like dying lamps
Across the cold primordial ruins
Beyond the known Schwarzschild radius rim
The light of the known universe grows so dim
invisible fractures in the nebulae
Existence is nothing but a closing door
We wait for the morbid snap of time
The end of the rhythm the end of the rhyme

The scale is grand the end is near
This is the culmination of cosmic fear
One universe of shattered glass
Watching the light of the aeons pass

Reaching the very brink of the zero-point field
The secrets of the lattice are finally revealed
A flicker in the dark a gigantic quantum spark
The laws of decay lose their jagged mark
A signature written in the fundamental code
A  bypass found on the last terminal road
Entropy reverses its' lethal flow
We watch the trail of the doomsday go
 
Reset the Morbid Terminus
Let the stars return to comfort us
The expansion slows the threads rebind
The ultimate salvation of the cosmic mind
Gravity heals the fractured cosmic web
As the tides of the void begin to ebb
The Great Rip mends as the atoms hold
New story of light about to be told

We are watching the Morbid Terminus
This is the void that almost consumed us
Terminus has lost the war
The universe slowly breathes on
Rescued from the deep
Awakened from my sleep
Infinite is my space
Reset it all with grace



5. The post-entropic light singularity

The clock of the stars has ceased its chime
I’ve reached the final border of space and time
A universe frozen a dead dark sea
Maximized chaos total entropy
At the heart of this absolute cold
A subatomic secret begins to unfold
A focus of photons a density of sight
The gathering spark of the ultimate light

The singularity screams as the new dawn breaks
A post-entropic consciousness finally awakes

No more decay no more slow rot
We are the fire the vacuum forgot
Luminous waves in a structured dance
Beyond the reach of entropic chance
The void is filled the darkness is gone
In the light of the singularity we carry on

Post-entropic light singularity

The clock of the stars has ceased its chime
I’ve reached the final border of space and time
No more decay no more slow rot
We are the fire the vacuum forgot
But at the heart of this absolute cold
A subatomic secret begins to unfold
The void is filled the darkness is gone
In the light of the singularity I carry on

Behold the post-entropic light singularity
A new definition of cosmic reality
The vacuum is ignited the darkness is flayed
A kingdom of brilliance that will never fade
Beyond the horizon where the old laws died
We ride the wake of the luminous tide

Post-entropic light singularity
Carry us on



6. At the edge of outer expanse

The sensors go blind in the absolute hush
Beyond the reach of the starlight’s rush
We’ve sailed the lattice of the known
To find the edge of the master’s throne
No more galaxies no more dust
Just a thinning of the cosmic crust
The parallax fails the math dissolves
As the iron heart of the ship revolves

The edge is hungry      
The edge is wide
It’s pulling the gravity from inside
The vacuum is tearing
The hull begins to groan
We enter the zone
of the Great Unknown

What lies ahead is a geometric scar
Place where there is no "near" or "far"
Not a wall of stone but a fold in the galactic eyes
Where all the laws of physics will just go and die 
A shimmering fear of non-space foam
The jagged wall of the great ancients' home
We stare through the glass at the Great Outside
With nowhere left for our souls to hide
We have sailed the lattice of the known
To find the edge of the master’s throne
Great pillars of logic cracked and grey
Those are the blueprints of our old Milky Way
We see the machinery behind all this dark
The cooling embers of the primal spark

The edge is hungry      
The edge is wide
It’s pulling the gravity from inside
The vacuum is tearing
The hull begins to groan
We enter the zone
of the Great Unknown

We are at the edge of outer expanse
We watch the ghost of the universe dance
Eerie glow from the shoreless sea
The terrifying face of infinity
Mysterious structures unformed and raw
Sight that breaks our minds like thaw
We are the first to behold the rim
Where the light of the Mother Earth grows cold and dim

Cover artwork(s)

I'll write later more about the background of this album in length, and how it connects with the front cover - it might not be that obvious, but there is a certain connection. You might guess some of it, but not all of it. Anyway, now is not the time to write in length, I'll do that only later in forthcoming months - for now I'll concentrate into spilling the coverart work here.

Personally I think I like the front cover artwork of 'Morbid entropic spaces' more than I've liked any of the previous releases' front covers. Don't get me wrong, I do like those too - sure, I've done em myself ... but this time the connection with music and the certain kind of theme going on with the album and how it connects with front cover makes it special for me personally. And intentionally the cover artwork is not based on real pictures but it's more like a painting. 

Here goes.

front cover

back cover (of CD jewel case)

Full album stream

Check out the full album stream (with lyrics synced to music) <here> in Youtube.

Or as usual, check it out below.

Visual full album stream under work

I started working on visual full album stream, with lyrics included / synced, too. It means a lot of work of course, especially considering the amount of lyrics (a lot) and syncing them, and ... so on. I've also crafted kind of humorous (some might say it's black or should I say entropic humor) "advertisement clips" here and there between the songs as an extra effect, and some tune or two might have some extra graphic elements to it. But overall, it's rather simple full album stream. Much less effects and stuff, compared to the videos I usually do.

Considering it's only 5 days to the release date (26th May), this full album stream might appear just some days prior to actual release, into Youtube. But that's just fine. If all goes well, there is possibility that it might appear there within a day (or two) already. I'll let you know when it happens.

Tracklist & song lengths

As I'm soon off for a trip to other end of this country (funeral trip) I'll reveal the tracklisting and song lengths now. It's only 6 songs like said, but 3 of the songs are longer ones while 2 of them are shorties (in doom metal category anyway) and 1 tune (that music video songy) is average length. 

As you can see, it's almost 49 minutes overall. Personally I like how it flows, musically speaking, and there's certain theme to it all - death - and there are some real life connections as well, more than one. Two big ones. But I'll write more about this sometimes after the release is out there.

Music video for 'Fractured cosmic web'

Just threw the final edit of 'Fracture cosmic web' into youtube.

Check it out <here> in youtube or if you feel lazy just hit the play below. 

Music video under work

Yesterday I recorded some relaxed / loose playthgrough videos in our backyard, both with guitars and bass. Thought to craft a music video of some kind for one of the songs. The is going to be the 2nd cut on the album; Fractured cosmic web. 

I recorded the playthroughs with one take only. It was quite a hot day yesterday, very sunny, unusually warm weather for this time of year, around May day / workers' day. But the shooting didn't take long, as it was all done with one take. I spent more time fetching instruments from downstairs to upstairs and heading into backyard, selecting places to shoot the clips - than the actual recording of the clips.

Anyway, I'm working on the video - it's at the same time kind of playthrough video, and it's also lyric video as I'm smashing the lyrics into it, too. Some space video clips mixed in, and some graphic effects, nothing really complicated. I think it's turning out nicely, but we'll see. Zero budget promo video thingy, true DIY style - of course.

The video might appear into youtube in next day or two if all goes well.

Test photo before shooting the videoclips yesterday

PS: Oh, and I got confirmation from CDbaby, the album has passed the examination stuff etc and so it will find its' way into all kinds of streaming media services on the release date for sure. 26th May, that is.

The song titles are ...

 'Morbid entropic spaces' contains 6 tunes and here are the song titles:

1. Mother Earth's death
2. Fractured cosmic web
3. The beginning of delicacies
4. Reset the Morbid Terminus
5. The post-entropic light singularity
6. At the edge of outer expanse

The new album's title is ...

Morbid Entropic Spaces

There you go, that's the title of this new album. 

The album title formed bit by bit as the tunes were being born. It didn't came like out of blue instantly, but literally word by word. From the vibes of music and events surrounding the creation. This title was already there before I started working on lyrics, and even that during that stage I kind of hardly remembered the album title  as weird as that might sound (I had it simply written down not in front of eyes all the time) I noticed that after I had something like 80% of lyrics done; hey, all these three words seem to appear here and there throughout the album? Yeah. In about all of the songs, in some way or another. It only made the album title even more fitting.

Not just that, but the album title connects with certain songs on the album as well. It strongly connects with what I call the main title song (opening track) as well as one of the other songs (longest one) and it also is linked with other songs too.

Lots of work + release date

Instead of relaxing this past weekend and before weekend I was working with M4D release pretty much all guns blazing so to speak. First thing that was under work already before weekend really, was listening and feeling if there's something more to be added. There was not. So, ... I found myself heading into mastering process. And that was the "lots of work" thing that took most of weekend. Even that I'm nothing sort of perfectionist, I noticed some flaws that needed finetuning even to my lofi ears - and after fixing sessions happened, I was of course bouncing new master for listening ... then listening 1-2 times the whole package through, and then back to fixing again as / if needed. Etc.

The master number 5 was the version that became the very final version.

I listened that final package several times and felt satisfied. Nothing to be fixed, and I abandoned the thought I had at some point, for adding some crazy vocals here and there - there is only one place with such thing going on, and there reason for that, too. The overall vibe benefits from the certain kind of monotonic vocal style going on for the most of the time.

So, ... the package just went to CDbaby and I've set the release date as 26th of May 2026. As there is full month to that date, I'm sure there will be no delays and the release will be verified more than in time for release date by CDbaby. Meaning that it should appear into all known and less known streaming medias exactly on that date. I'll write later (quite probably only after release) about why I chose exactly that date, and later also what going on about these tunes ... at some point.

I've still got some stuff to go through, even that I have front cover artwork and back cover artwork all done. I'm going to craft a graphic lyrics package (as pdf file) that I can throw as bonus into sites like bandcamp for example. Not just that, but I've also had idea for several weeks already; that instead of stopping the work here with this new album, I'm going to make an instrumental edit of it and later release it as separate thing. Not right away, possible like end of the Summer 2026 or something.

I'll return here to reveal more about the forthcoming album in coming days / weeks. Track titles, final lengths, overall length of album, album title and of course the cover artwork too.

Teaser!

Teaser for the album is online at Youtube! Check it out <here> or right below. 

Teaser/trailer under works

As I had pre'planned and worked some visual materials in advance (already in early March or so) it wasn't big task to really get working with crafting a teaser/trailer for this forthcoming album. I mainly had one problem, and in the end I guess it's a positive problem ...

... the trailer isn't your typical 20-30 seconds or something shorts style of clip. It's doom metal all right? Or should I say dooooooooom metal? Can you guess what it means already? Well, my problem was that I had way too many moments to choose from, I mean moments that I feel depict this package in a great way - choosing the moments was kind of hard, but I did choose them all. One clip from each song, and there's certain logic in the clips. Some of the clips are shorter, but the ending clip is longer. All in all, even that I tried to make it "tight" it's ... 4 minutes long video, currently.

The video is still under works, but it's pretty far already and I don't think I'll go adding much more effects and fancy stuff to it. This is going to be quite a stripped down album musically, at least I personally feel so ... so the teaser/trailer kind of depicts it, too.

Oh, and the visual in the forthcoming teaser/trailer are animations based on front cover art.

PS: The trailer might be ready sooner than I (or you) think. 

Final vocals recorded + plans for a teaser/trailer

Yesterday I recorded the final vocals for the opening track, the so-called main title song - and a very personal one at that. I recorded the vocals exactly as I visioned, after certain tragic event had just happened and the vibes went straight to vocals. Came out great, very much in a way I thought it would, in the end. Literally in the end. 

Now I'll listen to all the tracks and see how the overall flow and vibe goes. I do think there is some small finetuning to be done, but nothing major. As I was listening to the opening track with vocals, I already felt there might be need for some extra space sound elements, gotta look more into it.

It looks like the overall lenght might go around 49 minutes - with two songs being just 3-4 minutes long, one song under 6 minutes long and the rest three tunes are rather massive 10+ minutes long pieces. 

I think I am aiming for late May release, a certain date which coincides with the main title song directly.

PS: I am also planning for crafting a little trailer at this stage, it's not a problem if the songs aren't in 100% final shape (they are getting very close to that anyway). Perhaps within a week? In best possible case within days. So that it would appear into Youtube about a month before release date.

PPS: I have also idea for making an instrumental edition of this album later. If it happens, it will be separate release.

More vocals recorded

I recorded vocals for the closing song, song # 6, tonight. Came out really fitting, and the end result is something that I more than accept. And as I didn't "finetune" the lyrics for this closing song earlier as much as other songs' lyrics, there were some notable changes while recording the vocals - even that some changes came, the vocals were recorded mostly on 1st take. Some took two takes. And I have to say that the changes I made to the lyrics were like ... it felt like it was meant to go this way, 100% certainly. Because of the changes the album closes lyrically so that it connects with the main title song (opening song) ... which is more than fitting considering the theme of it all.

Gotta see if I have time to continue working on this during weekend. It could be that I relax and continue only after weekend as I'm in no rush with this. Ever since I started crafting this album I felt strongly that I know what the release date will be. And I'm more certain of it now, it connects with the main title song and the connection with real life events. 

Enjoy thy weekend!

Progression?

It's been row of days since I last wrote about how things are going. Or has it been, really? Huh ... just checked, can't really say row of days ... well it makes this post even more descriptive for the situation. Does the bit (one day or bit more?) longer silence mean nothing has happened in the meanwhile? Nope. It means actually the exact opposite!

To say a lot has happened since last writing is not exaggeration at all.

It almost feels like I don't even remember all that I've done for this new material since I last wrote as I tend to work in trance'like state with music projects I do. But yeah ... instead of going to work on 6th song's lyrics as I thought I would, I went into recording vocals. For the other songs which have lyrics ready and pre'arranged, too. I thought I'd just try how it feels and goes but instead of just trying, well, the vibes were so good that I was soon recording the "real" vocals instead of just some tests. Layered vocals; currently there are 3 channels for vocals, kind of low growling, very high bit robotic kind of vocals and then quite normal / cleanish vocal channel. And it might be that I'll do some extra layer (4th channel) for some sections. 

As you might guess already from that, I've got quite a lot of vocals recorded. Yeah. I started with track 3 which went great, fully completed and I liked how it sounded - so I went ahead. Next was track 5 and the same results as with track 3 ... so ahead I went. Next into track 2 and the same strong vibes continued there. Tonight I went into track 4 which is one of the long tunes and I got it completed, too. So I have vocals pretty much recorded for four tunes out of six tunes (!) and not much lyrics have been changed / finetuned in the process, either. Pre'arrangements have worked fine.

I have two long tunes left and I already know the order how it will go ... next up will be the 6th tune (I already worked for its' lyrics today, they should be pretty much ready for recording too, now) and the last one will be the 1st tune. The song I call "the main title song" or key song of this pack ... and there is a heavy, deep reason why it will be the last. I will write about that later, as the release is all ready and has been out there for some time.

It feels really crazy how fast this release has progressed. Talk about outlet for personal life, which this release this time truly is. There's been that element in past releases at times, but never in this scale, for sure. It's been just one tune here on one tune there. Now ... well I'll write about this later, like said. But I can say it's stuff that makes heavy doom album feel even more heavy. That's how it feels for me anyway.

More lyrics and some thoughts

 I took a well deserved rest from all of this last weekend, but then went straight back into writing lyrics. I finetuned some parts for tunes 3 and 4, got them pretty much sorted out / ready from lyrics and arrangements' point of view, I think. 

Also wrote base of lyrics for 5th song, and got demo vocal arrangements done for it quite nicely. And late yesterday evening I wrote chunk of text as base for lyrics for the closing song, tune # 6. That one needs a lot of more work still, when it comes to lyrics and of course arranging the vocals. And some decisions as well; it's either extremely slow vocals or rather fast ones - or it could be mixture of both. But we'll see, gotta work on those lyrics way more and then it gets easier to decide.

But progression goes like it has gone past weeks; really good and feels really good to work on this. I think this is turning into quite an exciting package in many ways. It is definitely continuation for previous album, but it's also something more than just that.

Writing more lyrics and stuff

And the work with this album progresses. This time I haven't worked with nothing else by lyrics but I've worked a lot with them, inspired, and as a result I have lyrics let's say 90% completed for songs 3 and 4. Lots of lyrics, some personal events mixed with cosmic viewpoints. Life and death, from small to grand scale. 

And it's not just about writing the lyrics with inspiration, but I've also done quite a lot of vocal arrangements on mind's stage so to speak. Meaning that I listen to the song(s) and shape (as needed) the lyrics so that they'll fit the music. It seems that there will be lots of lyrics, it wasn't just with the 1st song but seems to be sort of element to this album. Well, so be it.

The writing continues.

More ... and more

Again lots of work done for the material tonight.

Most time was spent with space elements which grew a lot and also some finetuning for the elements I already had crafted. Combination of soundscapes and stuff. Rewarding work, feels like the atmosphere got more towards what I want. Some very dark vibes in some places.

Not just space elements, but I also finetuned some keyboard works done earlier, and then I went into finetuning the lyrics for first song - and also did vocals arrangements pretty much for the whole song. It's a long song with lots of lyrics, partially very personal ones, so it will have quite some vocals to be recorded at some point ... but it shouldn't be that hard now that I worked a lot with vocal arrangements. 

I also wrote big chunk of lyrics for 2nd song. Also did some vocal arrangements for that one, but there's still work to be done. Also end section of the song needs finetuning of certain lyric sections and better arrangements.

Progress = good.

Space elements and beginning of lyrics

The work is progressing on a daily basis and with some massive leaps, too. It makes me feel really good. 

I started putting together some space ambience, there will be short cosmic soundscapes as small intros into the tunes and some of the tunes also end with space soundscapes. All goes according to vision and these space elements fit in well, mix also with the keyboards nicely, methinks. I have a feeling it will be just some days to get all the space soundscapes completed.

I also started working with lyrics, too. I actually have full lyrics for first song already. Perhaps some very small tweaking required, but nothing major - and I like how the cosmic tale fits in with real life elements ... I can say this is some personal stuff. Probably the most personal I've ever done musically speaking. Perhaps also lyrically? Could well be. But I won't reveal yet what this is all about. It might be quite evident - or then not - as the material gets out. It's something that everyone has to deal with in one's life. Not everything is happy and doom metal certainly fits for this mood, literally. Oh, yeah ... mood for doom ... how ironic is that? And this is not the only personal song in the package, but there is one other equally big tune emotionally, and actually it has pair for it, connects to the song thematically even that it's completely different sounding song.

In any case, things are progressing great ... feels like lot happens in just day or two, for this musical piece of work. 

Keyboardin' and finetunin' and stuff

Keyboard stuff has progressed big time. I'm quite sure I've got it all pretty much done. Like said, I'm not trying to be some keyboard guru (which I am not) but it's minimalistic, drone'ish and kind of hypnotic approach I'm after. Fitting the doom tunes ... in a beautiful (at times) yet in a doomy way. So that's that, I'm happy about them keys.

I've also done more finetuning for drumworks and I feel also drums are "getting there", not much tweaking required. Soundwise I've got the sounds I want for drums, I tweaked soundscapes in the beginning already, but the tweaking I'm writing right now, means the actual beats.

I've started writing some initial lyrics, more about that as it progresses - but the vibe there, too, is good. 

Remember when I mentioned that one of these new tunes was built on melodies / riffs which I composed while we were visiting wife's parents in Spring 2025? I mentioned composing the riffs using wife's dad's truly ancient and even more truly beaten up acoustic guitar, which only has three strings left and ... it has taken such a beating since it was last time used (late 1950s / early 1960s) that it has a special, twisted dark sound. Fitting for crafting doom melodies, ehh! So, check out below, here's one pic I took some year or two ago about just this acoustic guitar. Picture tells a lot about it, don't you think? :)

rather ancient and nasty tool for crafting doom melodies

Drumsworks (read; fills) and key plans

As a break from keyboard experiments (which continued really nicely, methinks!) I worked massively on the last three songs' drums. Those three had just basic beats unlike first three songs, so I went through these last three tunes and created fitting fills and little things of interest to make it more lively and flowing.

The result is ... fantastic. I've always loved working with drums programming and this was no exception. The songs certainly grew a lot as a result. And I've got some good vibes for the keyboard experiments. I'm like 99% certains there will be these minimalistic keys expanding the tunes. 

I have a good idea for certain way how the tunes go - slow ones differ from the "less slow ones" (I can't really say fast ones, there are no really fast tunes even that there might be some short furious bits in some song - which comes from the tune's background tale / inspiration directly, more about things like this much later). Slow ones have majestic keys, dark & kind of scifi'ish vibes, not so slow have bit different kind of approach. And it all will work together, it already feels like that even that I've not yet put my plans into reality fully. Next update will quite likely tell more about the keyboard stuff.

But yeah, things are progressing really good. I think "good" feels like an understatement. Things are progressing in a great way. I have awesome vibes for this material. 

Key(board) experiments and stuff

Yesterday I listened few times all the six songs in a row, the current rough mix versions. The flow feels good to me, and even the song order feels like it's already there. Seems that there's no need to throw some song here and some song there. I did expect this as I had the vision for certain songs in certain order, but it felt almost surprising how good the flow is in this current order, according to the original vision.

I already started next stage which is something I'm going for after a very long break indeed. I'm not really a "keyboard guy" but it feels that I will expand the slow tunes with some background keys. Nothing major, nor complex - this is not music that needs complicated keys, certainly not. Instead it's very minimalistic, simple, adding to the power of the guitars. Or that's what I am aiming for, anyway.

I recorded keys for the 6th tune already late yesterday and it feels pretty good and solid. Not 100% sure if the sound is yet the final one for keys in this track, but it's close already. I also have some ideas for possible key/guitar solo things, short sections, but we'll see if those ideas work or not. If they work, you can be sure you won't hear that kind of experiments in these slow, long tunes though. Somewhere else. :)

After I get the keyboard stuff sorted out, I will go into space samples / sounds / dark ambient elements. Part of them might happen with keys, depends in certain things - but part of them will be sample stuff expanding the (event horizon) songs' atmospheres. That's something I haven't planned / visioned yet, so I won't go deeper there at this point. Same goes with vocals / lyrics, even more so. For them I have ideas already for many of the songs, but anyway. One step at time.

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.

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.

Here again, after a long break

I have been through some rough times recently. Some very personal ones, sadness, but also something that have started to channel into music ideas ... and especially fitting for Mood:Doom. I will probably tell about these things leading to the inspiration later, perhaps only after the next M4D release is out there. But I can say already, that 

1. I've started composing tunes for full length M4D album
2. The material will be heavy, that's safe to say already
3. It might be theme album naturally, not planned really

I've had melodies ready for one tune for several months already, but only today I started crafting drums for this tune for real. I think this tune will be key tune in the album, so to speak. Even jammed it a bit and it works exactly as I visioned it to work. 

I haven't really planned that I'd be doing M4D album in 2026 especially, but certain recent life events have led me into this point where I have started crafting M4D album and I'm quite certain it will be released in 2026. What makes it twisted is that three previous full lenghts have happened back in 2021, 2016 and 2011 - seems that it's always year ..1 or year ..6 as M4D album happens? So far, anyway. Who knows how long I want to do this project - but I don't plan anything ahead. It seems that new stuff is now flowing from me very naturally which is always the sign for me and it feels like perfect outlet for certain life events ... so be it, then.

I'll write more as things progress.

The vibes are doomy to begin with