SpyderX

Thank you, Michael. I consider you to be one of the Looperman gurus, so accolades from you lift my spirits greatly. Rock on, brother...

Spyder

Thank you so much, my friend. I appreciate the listen and review.

Spyder

Thank you very much for the listen and review, Spivkurl. I sincerely appreciate it, bro.

Peace,

Spyder

Thank you for the kind words, my friend.

I try to "push the envelope" every now and then in order to keep my (limited) composition skills at their best. Sometimes it works out well (as on this track), sometimes it doesn't, but it's always fun!

Anyway, I'm glad you enjoyed the track, and thanks for the listen and review ~ I really do appreciate it.

Peace,

Spyder

Oh, no, girl, thank YOU for posting such wonderful pellas. Your voice really is amazing.

Thank you very much for the listen and review, Chris ~ I really do appreciate it.

Yeppers, dark yet majestic was exactly what I was going for when I wrote this one....

Peace,

Mike

Yeah, you know I'm basically a guitar guy, Mark, so regardless of what genre I'm composing in, there HAS to be some heavy guitars in there somewhere...! LOL

I got the tracks, buddy, but, to be honest, I stuck 'em in a folder somewhere and forgot the location. I'll shoot you an e-mail a little later this evening, bro.

Peace,

Mike

Glad you enjoyed it, Andy. I often get told that at times I'm the strangest guitar player on the planet ~ usually I take it as a compliment. ;-)

Thanks for the listen and review, brother ~ I do indeed appreciate it.

Peace,

Spyder

Thank you for the kind words, Kelvin. I ride myself, so a lot of my tracks have that sort of "road" feel to 'em, I guess. Glad you enjoyed the tune, bro, and I hope you get to make that trip some day.

Peace,

Spyder

Thanks for the words of encouragement, Michael ~ I appreciate you taking the time to listen and review, bro.

You know, I always try to compose a track around a "hook" of some kind, something that sort of sticks in the mind of the listener, something that keeps coming back to them after the song is finished. If I accomplish that alone, then I'm a happy musician.

Peace,

Mike

Thank you very much for the listen and review, my friend.

Yes, though the track is a funeral dirge, I don't see that myself as a sad thing. It's merely the passing from one reality to another, so no reason for a dirge to be particularly mournful, eh?

Peace,

Spyder

Thanks for the listen and review, Neal ~ I really do appreciate it, bro.

The VSTi is a new Sugar Bytes instrument called "Guitarist". I have the demo version, which only has a Strat Sf file (the full version has four or five different guitars).

the pattern sequencer in this VSTi is simply amazing ~ VERY expressive and intuitive. I just played around for a few minutes and came up with a pattern I really liked, then I put the pattern through a few mutations (changing chord progs, timing, strum types, etc.) until I came up with four or five different sounding (but compatible, since they all started out the same) patterns.

The VSTi doesn't have many effects or amp sims to go with it, but I've got all that stuff anyway, so that isn't a major issue. For a demo guitar emulator it sounds pretty darn cool though, don't it?

Peace,

Spyder

Thank you, Michael. I appreciate the listen and review, bro.

Peace,

Spyder

Thank you very much, my friend. I recently got a shitload of new processors, so I'm currently re-mastering some of my earlier stuff to bring it up to par.

Appreciate the listen and review, bro, as always.

Peace,

Spyder

Thank you for the kind words, bro ~ I appreciate it.

Peace,

Spyder

Just standard Metal riffs and progressions ~ nothing really too original.

Thanks for the listen and review.

Peace,

Spyder

Thanks for the listen and review, bro.

Peace,

Spyder

Thanks, Michael.

I thought it was a bit too repetitive the way it was, so I thought I'd try to "jazz it up a bit" to make it a little more interesting.

Peace,

Spyder

Thanks for the listen and review, SpyderByte ~ I appreciate it.

Peace,

Spyder

First, give my apologies to your gf: Metal is often painful ~ that's just the nature of the beast.... LOL

I just re-masterd this one and replaced some of the Slayers with a SF2 called "Jackson's Distorted Guitar". I also tweaked the vocals a bit to keep them from crowding out the instruments. I'm still not totally satisfied with it though. I think I may have to record some of the vox myself and run them through a forman filter (to make them sound female).

Glad you like the track though...

And, as always, thanks a bunch, Neal, for listening and reviewing.

Peace,

Mike

Thanks for the listen and review, Donnie. I really do appreciate it, man.

Peace,

Spyder