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Thanks for listening and for the comments and favorite, Evan. Interesting - the guitar at 2:30 is a cigar box guitar loop from this site (which I should have mentioned in my intro but forgot), which we kept (instead of replacing with Sunny's guitar) because the chorus emerged directly out of it and so fits like a glove. I wish I could claim credit for the mix but, after I do the initial loop mix on Audacity, I get the final mix done professionally at the studio where we record the vocals and guitar. I'll start posting my lyrics. Thanks again, man!

Thank you I appreciate it.

Thank you!

Wow!! all these kind words honor me! thank you very much Evan!
It's all the more pleasant as on the base you tell not to be a follower of this musical genre!

I think that Ad1980 (the rapper) will be proud to be compared to Ed Sheeran!

thanks a lot Evan!

Bleep

Hey Evan, I hope I haven't scared everybody off with my last few uploads. They are somewhat dark and evil sounding which is of course the result of such low resonance. And for that reason its easier to compose these type of tracks. I'm working on some more melodic stuff and hopefully will have something a bit more appealing next time. Thanks for the comments man, always appreciated.

I did kinda rush it. after steping back I do hear the inconsitancy in sound of the solo. I will work on that new at the guitar production. have a lot to learn. thank you so much.

Sometimes simple works best. I'm glad it worked for you.
I'm not a massive fan of Mastodon. I usually prefer Floyd, Rush, Porcupine Tree or Coheed & Cambria... but this is a great track. Simple but EPIC! Thanks for pointing me to it :)

TA

Hey Evan thanks man!..I have to admit it always befuddles me when I hear members here talking about cutting, boosting and manipulating the bejeesus out of audio why cannibalise whats already there and probably screw it up in the process...I like the less is more comment, originally I was thinking about incorporating an organ passage but it just weighed everything down so I left it out...thanks again mate much appreciate the kind words...cheers Dave :)

Furious greetings, head-hanging sad shit bro, with your bullshit three ring circus sideshow of freaks.

First you got Trumped, then you got positively brutalised by The Nomad. It's been quite a week.

It's mostly the same sort of chugging for the first minute as the mental drummer progresses through his ape-shit nuts beats, eventually settling on a nice swing metal groove as the first "proper" riff kicks in on 1:20. I think the jaunty character comes from the swing vibe.

"3:00 alternate picking moment is delightful"

I think you must mean the distorted rapid bass g fill. Yes - a nice one there.

"3:23 Drum break seems to need something in the background"

I agree but I don't know what to put there. I wanted a comfortable break from any intensity before kicking into the funkier guitar stuff on 3:35 but you're right that it does sound a bit empty. I should go back and try adding something subtle.

"pretty happy music, while still being heavy at times."

I don't think of it as happy but certainly joyful and exuberant. I know there's only a fine line between joyful/exuberant and happy. Can you believe that my mum actually liked this track? Because of the joy. See my reply to Neo for more on that.

Yes, the ending is fitting and the most badass section - just what was required.

"way more up my alley than your past half-dozen"

It's just as well I don't work on commission from you to make music that you enjoy hearing. I'd get fired. You know it's mostly just my rocking shit that you're into.

Never heard of Volbeat.

So, a furious fist bump to the DTrump if he visits you. But watch out for dark-suited, earpieced types hanging around him. They might shoot your fist off.

The Evanator says the end is near.
The Evanator says we'll see Armageddon soon.
The Evanator certainly hopes we will.
The Evanator sure could use a vacation from this

Thank You, it's really nice to hear that!

Thanks Evan one of the first recoeding i made on cubase sx3 i hear what your saying the vocals would need to be recorded again and some of the tracks too another project for me. thanks again clanripaul

Haha,"No fuck ups"

To be completely honest most of our songs and 100% of our demos are two best friends of 20 years getting drunk as fuck, avoiding family duties on the weekends and writing one take shit that we may or may or come back and refine. At this point we are just having fun and writing.

We hella appreciate the fact that you some feedback dude! Please leave feedback on more! Would love to hear what people think of our "songs" :)

Thanks for listening ! I love coal chambers early stuff, and I am honored with the comparison \m/

I have never been to much of a screamer lol

Rock on brother \m/

Thanks Evan...
Here are some lyrics I wrote that I'm wantting to put down on another rock or metal track.

I'm the evil that sleeps
that creeps up on you
I don't speak, I spit venom
unhinge this torment upon you
My jealousy and greed is what feeds my anger
I'm my own worst enemy
when it comes to blood
I'm spillin it
Life is short and so is time
so I'm killin it............

Word up, alliterative a*hole.

Surely your greatest alliterative intro ever. Your true calling may be as an alliterative greeting card writer. The land can go scape itself.

"sitting in solitude"

Very true.

Cool intro is a mixt of spiccato playing on the high string and regular bowing on the lower strings. Tricky switching between different bowing techniques.

"theme music for '80s detective shows like Columbo or Murder She Wrote."

That's a surprise. They don't have any Eastern vibes, do they?

"How are you getting the volume swells around 1:30"

Careful bowing, with emphasis at the right points. That cello sound is really muscular. Deep and moaning.

"abruptly have an interruption with half the band stopping"

Yeah - I told them to fuck off and let The Nomad do his thing uninterrupted. They never returned so I finished the rest of the track on my own, playing all the instruments simultaneously in real time. Genius me.

"3:07 kick is great"

Not much skill from me as that kick is simply part of a drum loop. My skill is just in choosing it. And then letting it breathe, with the somewhat minimal instrument playing around it.

"experimental shit after 4:00 is killer."

I agree. Most of that is "beyond the fingerboard" harmonics. You just roll a finger to move up a semitone as the distances between notes are so short though it's pretty damn haphazard so required lots of editing. Very alien sounding.

4:19 I think that's the start of a cool, distinctive lead line. That's the "beyond the fingerboard" harmonics.

"woodwind or some kind of flute breaths mixed in there"

I think that's all just cello. I keep finding new connections on the cello between bowing and blowing. I even got a bit of a bluesy harmonica sound out of it in one of my new, unfinished tracks.

"7:30 lead line sounds like some smooth bass guitar in sections"

No, I can't hear anything to do with bass g there. That's when a new, dark guitar part enters. Maybe some of its lower notes sound like bass g.

"an outro full of breath and ghostly feeling."

The breathy stuff is partly cello, partly ominous pad sound. Nice chillout, dark stoner couple of final minutes. Could have gone heavy but never even tried it. Ominous chillout seemed quite sufficient.

I hope you're exceptionally well.

I had a real tough kayaking journey the other day on my own. Got one leg stuck in the mud up to the knee. Tried to dig it out with the paddle. Broke the paddle and then had to leave my sandal behind just to get my leg out. River current was later so strong that I couldn't paddle against it so had to get out of the boat and pull it upriver. Stepping barefoot on the river bed was not fun. Then decided to put a spare shoe on that bare foot. Had to wear one soaking shoe the rest of the night out around town but it was OK as the weather is warm right now. Crazy Nomad adventures...

Muddy Nomad, outta the butt end of the banana vessel

Oh my, my mythical gate keeper...

You have reviewed another of my nice tracks bro. It was no longer a featured one so you may even have tracked it down all by yourself.

Not too much funkiness here (a shame for a funk soul brother such as yourself) though 4:31 double time shuffle is kinda funky.

"stretched sounding underlayment"

That sounds like stretched underwear (eg a wedgie) but I think the "underlayerment" here is the long, legato synth bass notes. There's also an 800% timestretched female vocal starting 0:50 that I love.

"Guttural bass at 1:38 is cello"

No, something I like to call "bass g". I couldn't get that low and with that tone with cello. I like that bass playing. Nice high note fills 2:20 and 2:30. No cello in this track. There was some but I removed it and used it to start a new, Eastern dance track.

"picked from your many layers, surely"

Yes, lazy fucker that I am, I only vaguely know what I'll play when I record so I get down loads of stuff and then spend ages editing it, doing some very creative things and making it sound like I was actually clever enough and fluent enough a player to come up with it all in one go.

3:52 is a nice load of Eastern guitar playing. Very spooky and moving.

"a lot of that, thanks to you"

I've got to encourage you to try new stuff. Some you won't even try, some you might, possibly resulting in some new coolness.

"6:17- You stretchy bastard, you"

No timestetching there, but that is a dark, dark section. I think it's a flattened fifth riff (the devil's music).

"6:55- A drop-out that I am envious of"

Yes - nice drop. I keep the same sort of drum groove but switch from a heavy kit to a lighter one and let the delay of the string part ring out, which really eases the transition down. The waveform shows that I'm dropping the energy there, kind of floating down into something else after a dark, relatively heavy section. Then beauty follows.

7:34 is another good drop.

"My stuff lacks a lot of air compared to yours"

I recommend wearing a pair of Nike Air Jordans when mixing.

"all while the city around me is exploding"

Damn, I thought you'd moved to a proper war zone. That or the Missouri-Iowa Meth Wars have finally kicked off. Methheads do know how to blow stuff up, even if it is mostly themselves.

All is mostly well, thanks.

Nomad, scrambling to reach higher ground