Next one

So, ... I started crafting the next tune few days ago and did this 5th one in multiple sessions. It's clearly a different piece if compared to previous newbies. It's also slower. Hypnotic, sleeping stream song. And different also when it comes to riffs, not so much traditional riffing but sort of experimental in some ways. I have a feeling this song will expand notably when it's time for recording bass guitars.

At its' current stage this song is also the longest one so far, around 7 minutes or so. 

Them composing & demoing sessions shall continue. More is still to come.

The 4th one

As I had free from work today, I had time to arrange & expand the fourth new song base. Funnily the song length at this stage begins with ... 5, again. Well, if these songs will be all around that length, so be it. It's not the length that matters, even if I myself keep mentioning it in these posts. It's just funny thing to take note since in past M4D songs have usually been notably longer.

Well, the length of song bases is not the only thing that makes me wonder. Today I knew I'd be working a "faster" song so to speak. Not exactly fast, but not Reverend Bizarre kind of dragging true doom style either. And here's another nice observation since I don't force the songs but I let them form in the way they feel the best for me: The song that was supposed to be "fast case" is not so fast, but instead it drags in hypnotic way, mid'tempo beats.

And like with the other new song bases, I really like this one too - already at this rough crafting stage.

Just noticed that I have still three melodies / riffs I've saved in past few years to be used. One of them is something that I don't know if I'll use it or not. It's quite a weird riff and tricky to play, too. Well, we'll see what happens. At least 2 more songs will form from the riff archive, that's certain.

Third gait sang

Third new song base got crafted today. Continuation clearly, at the same time in a way also different one - and it happens to be the slowest song of the pack so far (80 BPM currently, in case you wanted to know). Funnily it still seems to be around the same length than first two song bases, nod longer but still about the same length. Well, if that's the way it goes, then so be it.

Very good vibes anyway, again. Heavy stuff.

Towards the newbies

Today I crafted second new song based on the melodies I've saved during past 2 years or so. If I got good vibes from the first rusty demo session, this one feels instantly awesome to me. It reeks the certain kind of desperate & sad mood combined with heavy doom metal stuff. And the mood does not stay the same and has some hidden connections to ... well, better not reveal it all. Anyway, it sounds and feels great to me at this very early stage, containing nothing else base drums and rhytm guitars.

I haven't set any certain length for the songs, but I'll let them form as they come - so far it's not monstrous songs but around 5 minutes long songs. Interesting to see if it continues this way or not.

Time

Look, yet again about 1 year has passed since my last writing. Yes, I'm still here. What happened during the last year? Few more melodies were saved for later composing stage. And guess what? Suddenly just yesterday was the time: I took my guitar and went into composing / structuring stage for first new song. Crafted the basic drumtrack yesterday and recorded the basic riffs today. Not final guitar tracks but like a rehearsal / composing demo for myself. Nice flow, about 5 minutes long midtempo song.

Well, anyway ... I have no schedule, I'm going to continue this process of composing & rehearsal demoing as I see fit / feels good. Currently it looks like I will surely continue and not stop with this first experiment. Album might form during this 2020, or then not. At least there's suddenly lots of time as there's this certain 'coronation of our domain' (Malevolent Creation reference for ya) going around the globe.

Melodies

It's almost a year since I last wrote here. Time sure passes and so on, but I'm not here just to write about how "time flies when it's fun" and cliches like that. I'm here to state that what started about a year ago, recording down one riff for future usage ... that has continued ever since. I only recorded yet another riff for M4D back in October 2018, something that I really liked a lot (and still do, of course). Then winter came and I seemed to have no need to record any riffs down. I didn't feel like "riffin" either. Fast forward to May 2019, this month right now ... and look what has been going on:

Instead of recording one riff down, I've so far recorded five riffs (and some extra variations to some of them) this month alone! And what makes this all special, is the way the melodies have been coming to me. I've been playing guitar almost each evening to our baby (bit over 1 year old currently) and often while playing I've suddenly come up with something so good that I've recorded the riffs for later use. Very doomy riffs, certainly M4D material. And there seems to be a funny formula to how the riffs come & work - when I come up with a special riff, I can't stop playing it but I have to feel it, and I don't have to play it around for more than 5 minutes or so and the baby sleeps heavily. That does not happen all the time, and I feel (there is that word again) strongly that when a melody makes baby sleep fast and easy, it's good stuff to me. :)

Is it happy stuff then? Well, nope. Though not just doomy, miserable stuff either - family member commented some of the riffs like "this sounds like some national anthem thing, just so very miserable at it, huh" ... or "this sounds so sad that it almost makes me cry" ... then there's something that "sounds so happy and oldschool that what is this thing!?" ... So there is variation in the feelings. As there is in life.

I don't really know when I'd start really recording the material though - it happens, when it happens. So far I'm still demoing and putting down ideas. But there is some great, moody base material being born currently.

Long time (doom time?) no see

About a week ago as I was playing guitar for our newborn baby (yeah!), just picking up riffs out of blue when I suddenly came up with massive riff of doom. It felt instantly like yeah, this sounds like definite 'M4D' material. So, ... I kept testing the riff in a funny way, playing it to our baby and yeah, she dozed of soon to the riff. To me that is a good sign. :)

Tonight I finally took up and recorded a brief demo (with distortion), just guitars - to see and feel how it sounds as so far I've been playing it acoustic. It sounded so good to me ... that is certainly a main riff for some future 'M4D' song, I can state that already.

Funny but true, this isn't only musical thingy inspired (sort of) by new life so to speak. I've got a lunatic music idea also related to our baby, but that's something completely different than doom metal so that's all about that.

More about things when there's more to tell. There will be, I'm sure, as time passes.

Have a nice summer!