Dave: Guitar. Jimmy: Drums. Yours Truly: Bass

Recorded in one take at "Harrisound" Studio (Inside joke)

Please use headphones/earbuds or separate PC speakers for this if available. The demo was not equalized for teeny laptop speakers, and I've gotten comments about not hearing the bass.

*No post-editing except for mixing, applied instrument effects and overdubs. No click-track used when playing. What you hear is what you get.*
My band is currently ironing out the composition of some new songs, and this one is all but done except for lyrics and vocals. We'll have to stretch/contract sections of it to fit vocal melodies when the time comes, so that'll be another recording altogether. We did another take with everything tightened up a bit more, but it's far from perfect. It's still just a demo, but our drummer Jimmy spent much more time playing with the mix after we did it, there's some keyboard ambiance and even a scratch solo in there holding the place for something more refined in the future. It's the same song as before; low, slow, and heavy, but with much better balance in all the instruments and effects used. Again, not perfect, and not a final product, so this is open to critiques so long as you realize what you're hearing. Particularly, Dave dialed in something nice with Amplitube. I am fond of how much cleaner it is compared to previous versions and how punchy the drums are, which shows that we can do even better with what we already have at hand if we just take more time with it..

A bit about prospective future changes in our sound:

Eventually, we want to try an effects set-up like all the old Swedish death metal bands used in the late 1980's and early 1990's (e.g. Entombed): A Boss HM-2 and Distortion DS-1 combo turned all the way up on a small amp for the guitars is all those guys used. I already have an old Yamaha distortion pedal (circa 1980) meant for guitar but used on my bass to give it that "buzz saw" sound when playing through an amp, but the above mentioned gear is needed for the guitars to sound that way as well. However, because we use effects plug-ins through Reaper (because of the flexibility), and not physical gear recorded with microphones, getting that sound might be tricky. Overall, that kind of thick tone would be much better for the "Doom Metal" we're writing at the moment. Plus, future songs will be all over the place with tempos, so not every song we have is going to be slow like this one.

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