Priority Male by Dildozer

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In 2014, Dildozer made a full-length with some new songs and some old songs, and a new bass player/backup vocalist. Our album cover wasn't loved by all, and that's okay. I always thought punk music was supposed to annoy everyone who doesn't 'get it'. We were before the phase when punk bands were instead trying to write songs in display of their niceness and general caring about pretty much anything. Who has time for that? I suspect Dildozer might have been kicked out of Punk if we'd stuck around. But what do you call this music if it's not punk? It's opinionated. It's catchy. It's mean. It was recorded in the non-climate controlled storage unit where we practiced all year round, in hot hot saint augustine. Dawson played my squier J-Bass, which wasn't set-up for standard tuning, so I autotuned it. On Youtube, you'll hear my newer mix of these tracks, but on the tape and on bandcamp you'll hear the nasty nasty original mix. These tapes were professionally duplicated, imprinted, j-carded, and cased. I would highly recommend buying a box to fill your closet instead of mine.

Laodicea Volume 1

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Laodicea is an epic dark metal band I play guitar and sing in. In 2018, I'd been contemplating doing another band that had be playing guitar and doing vocals. However, I wanted to write all of the music. I never wrote riffs without a clear idea for what I needed from the drums and the bass, to achieve what I needed to make the riff effective. It seemed like every month, there was a new hardcore band in town with a ten minute set. They'd play a few shows, and if they weren't an instant hit, the members would form a different group with another ten minute set. Instead of that, I wanted to do a set with two songs that were both twelve minutes long. With these things in mind, my friends Zach and Garrett got on board to play this music with me. Before our first set, I recorded myself playing our two songs as a way to solidify how they went and how they were intended to sound. After a time, the recording started to feel old to me, and it seemed like a shame to not let people hear it. So this is it. Two songs that are twelve minutes long, of epic dark metal.

Grind by Civilized Worm

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It took almost no time for Civilized Worm to to put together enough new material for a new tape, and I got to write the music for three of these new jams. Our last release was recorded live in my basement, but we did this one in separate sessions, with the drums tracked first. It sounds pretty heavy. We decided not to release it until the band started playing shows again. If I'd known the pandemic was happening, I would have spent a lot more time getting my drums perfect. Either way, I think this tape shows a great progression for the band.

Balrogs by Super Famicom

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In 2018, I had been sitting on a lot of songs for a long time, and I wanted to record them really well. A very daunting prospect, considering the lack of external encouragement I felt I'd been receiving to record new music. So instead of recording old, smart songs, I decided to write a bunch of new stuff without putting much thought into it. Often a piece of work isn't improved by puttig extra time and thought into it. Balrogs turned out to be, possibly, by my best-sounding Super Famicom album thusfar, and the playing on it's fairly tight, considering how it was very much thrown together. It was finished in 2019, but I had some complications with getting it released on tape. I didn't want to release it myself, because I wanted to have some form of extra help in promoting my release, and getting it heard. Also, I was hoping to collect a little more external encouragement for recording my next album. That didn't work out, so I released the tape myself.

3 Shirt Agenda by Civilized Worm

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In 2018, Porunga was slated to be without a vocalist and on a haitus from doing shows, and I couldn't very well be on a haitus from playing shows. My friend Danny McKinley was a fan of Porunga and said we inspired him to play guitar in his own heavy project, and I offered to play drums, and we got Mitch Duncan to play bass. I had a lot of band name ideas for this group, like The Schwartz and The Gods of Jesus. For a while, we were going to be called Ranglefant, but settled on Civilized Worm. We are to The Melvins what Hatebreed are to The Misfits, maybe not. However, I would call this music sludge. These 8 songs were recorded in my basement in 2019.

Self-Titled by Porunga

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In 2016 I was asked to play drums in a doom metal project with my friends Tommy and Jeremy. In 2017 we played a few shows and I did some vocals. In 2018, we got our friend Liv to do vocals, and we recorded this tape in my basement. It got a lot of good reviews, comparing us to great bands like Cirith Ungol, Candlemass, and Mercyful Fate. Since then, we've gotten our friend Anna to replace Liv on vocals, and once the world normalizes a bit more, we're going to get our next tape recorded.

Heart in Squalor by Glatisant

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I recorded this in 2018 at my house in Bloomington. It's my 2nd solo black metal album. On Metal Archives they call it an ep, but this tape is nearly 40 minutes long. I packaged the tapes in kraft paper boxes, but I might switch them over to plastic. Diamond Famicom isn't a very metal name, so I ditched it in favor of Glatisant. It must be a lucky name, because the European label, Depressive Illusions Records, put out their own version of this tape.

Getting Colder by Thunderhoof

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This is the 2nd album I made with Thunderhoof, and I think turned out better than the first one. Once again, it was recorded in my storage unit, and has that 'recorded in a storage unit' sound. The songs on this one are even darker and more aggressive than on By the Flames. For this tape, we sprung for the professionally printed j-cards with the jewel cases. The coloring on my old computer monitor was pretty bad, and you can tell because of the color difference between the paper and the background on the album cover. So it may not look as pro as you might expect from a band like Thunderhoof, but that's okay. Often the pros are boring. The drawing on the cover was done by Brittany Drennan, and I think it looks awesome. Definitely worth purchasing!

As A Human by Super Famicom

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With at least as much effort as my last album, I recorded another tape in 2014. For that year, I had moved into a little house on Lovett street where I had the smallest room, so made sense for me to spend as much time as possible in the storage unit. With As a Human, I tried to write the darkest, smartest songs of my career. I even used a thesaurus for the lyrics, which might have been a bad idea. My vocal parts were extremely hard to sing, so I used a program called Melodyne to correct my notes, like on a pop album. I don't think it made my vocals sound better, by any means. So I made them somewhat quiet and highly compressed, to carry a melody like an instrument instead of a focal point. I think As a Human has some of my sickest jams. My friend Jake Brown played drums in the next storage unit over, and put out this tape on his label, Computer Club Records.

In Spades by Super Famicom

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Following the nature of Purpose Defeated, I made another album of music that I thought needed to exist, for my own enjoyment. It's dark, passionate, and called In Spades because it has Super Famicom (as an adjective) in Spades. The lyrics are vaguely about anarchy and living the life of an artist with intention. I tried my best to be poetic. Chorus effects are used. You might refer to this style of music as Dark Punk, considering how Dark Wave relates to New Wave. These songs were recorded in the late winter and early spring of 2014, in my storage unit.

By the Flames by Thunderhoof

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In 2012, I was living in Saint Augustine, and despite all of my plans, seemed to be without a band. That is, I was without a band that I could count on to play shows and practice regularly. Thunderhoof was a two piece, drum and bass metal group, and they were my friends. I asked if they'd let me play guitar with them, and they were down. Some of the songs on this tape are older jams of theirs, and others were co-written with me. There are thrashy parts and doomy parts, all recorded in the storage unit I shared with Westley Durden. These tapes were duplicated in my room, and I lazer printed the sleeves. Honestly, I think the tapes are probably too punk for Thunderhoof's fanbase. We didn't sell a lot of them.

Purpose Defeated by Super Famicom

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In response to my attitudues on Endless Fervor, I tried to 'live the life'. Work hard, play hard, and do what your friends are doing, and it made me really depressed again. So I poured all of my time into making Stone Wings, and the soundtrack. Also during that time, I wrote this album, Purpose Defeated. It was goth and emo in, to me, all the right, unexpected ways. I made the kind of album I would want to hear, because I finally had the equipment and the space to do it. I never set out to write music that was folk punk, except for The Bottom's "Folk Punk Bash". Still, I played acoustic guitar and some of my songs were punk, especially in attitude. I hoped with this album, nobody would again call Super Famicom folk punk.

The Titular Tape by Dildozer

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In 2013 I was still setting up punk shows, and needed a punk band to play those shows. So I started Dildozer with Westley and Treymon. The idea was to, while acknowledging the rules of political correctness, proceed to make the meanest, nastiest, snottiest pop punk music. I wanted to make music like Carcass, but pop punk. The thing about political correctness is that, the rules of being correct are always changing. So I doubt all of these songs are very p.c. anymore. By the time you read this, it might in fact be very wrong to shame people for breaking their phones or using good hygene. Oh well. These tapes were duplicated and imprinted professionally, and packaged in sleeves I printed at home.

Stone Wings OST by Super Famicom

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Released in 2013, this was a pretty fun tape to make. It's a collection of mostly instrumentals to provide background music for my first completed computer game, Stone Wings. The game is playable, but I wouldn't recommend it. However, I think the soundtrack is worth hearing. I used a yamaha 4-track to, for the first time, record my drums with 3 microphones. The guitars and bass were recorded into my computer, through a boss gt-50 pedal. There are also some keyboards and flute things. The tape was dubbed at home, onto some tapes I think I found somewhere. They sound fine. The O-Cards were printed with my Brother lazer jet, in the cheapest (punkest) way possible.

Endless Fervor by Super Famicom

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With the sadness of Punishing the Faithful behind me, I moved back to Saint Augustine and played the most prestigious show of my career, 2012's plan-it-x fest. In my own life, for the first time, I was able to make the money I needed to buy better gear. I was feeling very positive about the world, and my life in it. With my first drum kit in tow, I recorded this tape, meant to save the world with radical punk idealism. Written and recorded in 2012, this tape was released in 2013 on my friend Chris Eugene's tape label, Ghost Friend Records. I don't know if it's still a thing or not.

10 Movements by Diamond Famicom

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Released in 2012, I recorded these songs in my parents' basement in Jacksonville, IL. It's my first solo black metal album. Not all the lyrics are about metal things, like they probably should have been. Instead most were about punk things, and doing the punk thing. I hope it sounds nasty and punk enough for you.

Punishing the Faithful by Super Famicom

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After a while, living on the bottom didn't just make me angry. It made me sad. So Punishing the Faithful is more sad and serious, at odds with the society who I felt rejected me. Was it too much to want a room with a complete floor and an air conditioner? In desperation, I moved back into my parents' house and recorded this album. I used a lot of midi drums, since I wasn't allowed to have real drums at my parents' house. Living in Illinois, I had hopes of reconnecting with my old 'fans' by further exploring my emo roots. So if you like Emo, this is the tape for you.

Super Famicom split with Noah Eagle

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In the summer of 2011, Noah and I had been housemates for a year. He's one of my best pals, and I've always intended to support his musical endeavors. I don't know whose idea it was to do a split, but I was down. In fact, I needed to be doing more splits. At the time I was doing a lot of loud singing and loud screaming, and felt like I had a strong voice. Half my tracks on this are serious, and done with acoustic guitar. The others are weird and heavy, including a powerviolence song about my friend Garrett Oliver getting his drivers license. Justine did the cover art.

The Bottom by Super Famicom

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This is Super Famicom's punk album, and I was sick of everyone's crap. I 2011, I'd been living on the bottom for a good four years. I wrote some songs that I thought were funny, at the expense of a world I didn't like. It seemed like a lot of punks liked this album, and thought it was cool. It felt pretty neat while it lasted. You may have noticed how this album has two covers, one is on the far right of the above image. I don't know why I haven't used two covers for an album in the future, since I thought it was pretty cool, to do one just as a Fuck You to whomever isn't punk enough for me.

The Diamond Rainbow by Super Famicom

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For most of the writing and recording of this album, I didn't have a working computer, countered with an excess of heavy music ideas. Some might say this album would have had more appeal, had it had less songs, and less songs that don't sound like the last eighty songs I'd recorded and released. Songwriters evolve, and that evolution happens within shorter time frames when you write as much as I. Too bad it took me so long to get good at drums, but what can you do? I didn't want anyone else playing on my album and trying to tell me how my songs should be played. The original tapes I put this release on were found in the dumpster of a thrift store. So punk.