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Alright, here it is, the first demo of my black/thrash band Capela dos Ossos. It's pretty rough (this was a black metal demo recorded in my basement, lol), but hopefully you guys can hear what we're up to. We don't have anything physical available yet, and when we do it will probably only be CDr's with some artwork, but feel free to download from the link here: Capela dos Ossos This is a pay whatever you want kind of download, so you can get it free if you like. I welcome all feedback, even if you're not into the style, or just think it sucks, but I know that everyone here will worship this thing for fear of their account being deleted if they don't. :twisted:

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About fucking time! :D Disciples is where it's at, that was a cool track and I felt like the thrash elements were well integrated. Moon's Rapture took a bit too long to get going and didn't feel as cohesive. The last track, I really liked the last half of it - again I feel like it took a bit too long to get to the interesting parts. The doom riff in particular is heavy as shit, love that minor sixth goodness. The vocals sound great. I like how different the two guitars sound, and the drummer is pretty much on fire. That dude plays fast really well. It's a little too raw and loose to my ears, but I know you're into that sound. I dig it, overall, energetic and evil-sounding. If I was going to make any suggestion it would be to tighten up the songwriting, and not make so much out of some of the parts - there are some simple riffs, like at the end of Eat The Dead, that really shine, whereas some other riffs - like at the beginning of the same song - are a little too standard (as opposed to just being simple) and tend to drag the song down. That's my three cents, anyway. Cool stuff. Got any art in the works, or a logo?

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I liked the drumming, and the leads were good but I personally would have liked more variation in the rhythm guitar. As for the composition, it certainly seemed varied enough in general. I know that neither black nor thrash are genres I like at all, but perhaps these comments will be useful. 'Eat The Dead' was my favorite track.

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About fucking time! :D Disciples is where it's at, that was a cool track and I felt like the thrash elements were well integrated. Moon's Rapture took a bit too long to get going and didn't feel as cohesive. The last track, I really liked the last half of it - again I feel like it took a bit too long to get to the interesting parts. The doom riff in particular is heavy as shit, love that minor sixth goodness. The vocals sound great. I like how different the two guitars sound, and the drummer is pretty much on fire. That dude plays fast really well. It's a little too raw and loose to my ears, but I know you're into that sound. I dig it, overall, energetic and evil-sounding. If I was going to make any suggestion it would be to tighten up the songwriting, and not make so much out of some of the parts - there are some simple riffs, like at the end of Eat The Dead, that really shine, whereas some other riffs - like at the beginning of the same song - are a little too standard (as opposed to just being simple) and tend to drag the song down. That's my three cents, anyway. Cool stuff. Got any art in the works, or a logo?
Nothing yet for art or logo, that is the next step. I intentionally made my guitar sound quite different from Edgar's to achieve a bigger overall tone, which I think we achieved. He's using a Boss Death Metal pedal, which is of course horrid for death metal, but with the mids and highs turned all the way up gave him a really buzzy, treble heavy sound. I'm using my same settings as Nevertanezra, same guitar, tuning, distortion, I'm just playing one string up to basically play in standard without having to reset my guitar. They sound really cool together IMO, as well as helping to differentiate what we're doing separately. I like the same thing about our vocals, Edgar has the more Ihsahn like raspy tone, whereas mine are more raw and thrashy. And yes, Evan is a crazy fast drummer. As far as development goes, I see your point. I tried pushing for some vocals at the start of Moon's Rapture, it didn't end up happening, but I have a shitload of fun playing the intros to that one and Eat the Dead still the same. Thanks for the notes though, it's good to know another musician's take on it. I didn't write much of this, just a few riffs here and there (like that doom riff at the end of Eat the Dead. Big surprise, right?), most everything was written by Edgar, but Kyle did contribute a bunch too. It's been a great time though, I love thrash and black metal, so playing them together fast as hell when I've only ever had doom experience otherwise has been awesome. We're going to tighten things up after my baby break is over and hopefully start doing some gigs, I miss playing live so I'm thrilled for this. Hopefully the future will be bright. Sent from my HTC PH39100 using Tapatalk 2
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My main complaint is with the sound quality. It's very difficult to make out what's going on at certain parts and the drums tend to drown out almost everything else at various points. Hardly surprising given the circumstances surrounding this recording of course. It does feel very much like a demo but I don't mind that. Some good stuff going on here overall. I look forward to hearing more from this project.

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My main complaint is with the sound quality. It's very difficult to make out what's going on at certain parts and the drums tend to drown out almost everything else at various points. Hardly surprising given the circumstances surrounding this recording of course. It does feel very much like a demo but I don't mind that. Some good stuff going on here overall. I look forward to hearing more from this project.
We have received the drum/cymbal volume complaint before, so I'm not surprised. I don't think we noticed as much because we knew the riffs we were playing, and I think our minds filled in the gaps. The overall recording is pretty rough too, but I've definitely heard plenty of demos that sounded worse. We'll have to make sure Edgar mixes/records with that in mind for the next demo. Hopefully we can get some live videos up on YouTube once we start playing shows that will sound a bit more balanced, which probably won't be for a couple of months, since my baby will be here on Tuesday. Sent from my HTC PH39100 using Tapatalk 2
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