OK, so what are everyone's favorite songs from our recently released "our synthetic soul..." CD?
Multiple selections are OK!
Multiple selections are OK!
Chris P said:Gotta go with WURM so far, but I've only been through the album twice in the car. Perfect song to go with the SARS headlines I've seen all month.
Chris
suburban_punk said:"Choke" is sick!
Good stuff guys!
Terminus Est said:In no order:
Enlightenment
Shut it Down
Put it Off
Age of Mystics
Great music! The other songs are also good.
Bob what are you planning to do with HEX after your release of OSS?
Demonspell said:I voted for Wurm, even though I added Enlightenment to my listening station earlier this week...
TheKnightWhoSay...NI! said:vurm, put it off, choke =)
rgbeach said:OK, so what are everyone's favorite songs from our recently released "our synthetic soul..." CD?
Multiple selections are OK!
Gudinna said:Personally I like Fragment and Enlightenment....great tunes!
rgbeach said:Those were funs songs to write. Fragment was our first demented blues/jazz/metal fusion experiment (wurm being the other). We really like the contrast between heavy, distorted guitars and clean channel guitars using interesting, modal-based chording. Dan had written the bass line and rhythm for the song, and I had a very difficult time coming up with the guitar parts. Then, after countless attempts at riffs, it just came together. I like the chorus for its simplicity and heaviness. And, of course, the outro with the guitar, bass, and drums fading out and the clean channel guitar (playing a modified verse part) fading in is really cool.
Enlightenment went through more guitar rewrites than any of the other tunes. The only remaining original part is the guitar harmony during the verses. The chorus was tricky. Originally, it followed along with the bass guitar almost identically and, after a while, it just wasn't interesting enough. So, I kept working at it and finally it came together (after many suggestions by Dan!). The bridge section was originally heavier, but we thought that the clean channel guitar created an interesting, dynamic effect.
Thanks for listening, and for the post!
bob