Showing posts with label metal. Show all posts
Showing posts with label metal. Show all posts

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.

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!

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.

China Buffet Dollar Tree by Super Famicom

Stream it - YouTube Download it - Nextcloud Here is yet another album from Super Famicom, my solo project since the year 2002. As ...