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Not bad. Not bad at all. :mrgreen: These are currently on my discovery list today: Krabathor - Cool Mortification Death- Human Morpheus Descends - Ritual Of Infinity Blood Red Throne - Altered Genesis Edge Of Sanity - The Spectral Sorrows Gorement - The Ending Quest Any additional recommendations or feedback?
Tasty list, Gorement in particular might be my favorite Swedish death metal band, and I listen to a few...
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Baby girl Zoe was delivered by C-section just after 10 this morning. Mom and daughter are doing well, currently resting. Bandcamp and hangovers can wait.

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Writing is going well' date=' though, we had a short but productive jam session last night so there are four or five songs nearly done now. :)[/quote'] Tell us of you new band Usal, is it Black Harvest after all, and who is in it, I know there is another guitar player you're glad about, and a drummer about whom I believe you may have some ambivalence. I imagine you have said here and there, but please break it down for us again, as I feel we deserve to know what exactly it is distracts you from Sexually Efficient Oyster.
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Very nice. I feel like I made a horribly wrong purchase with my guitar. Bass instruments seem to be more my thing...
At least it wasn't a very expensive guitar, although you might get more enjoyment out of playing a better instrument. Try thicker strings and a lower tuning, or a baritone guitar - or go for a bass, you may be able to even come up with a combination of string gauges that lets you tune in fifths, and fretless basses are easier to find than fretless guitars. Or stick to cello.
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At least it wasn't a very expensive guitar, although you might get more enjoyment out of playing a better instrument. Try thicker strings and a lower tuning, or a baritone guitar - or go for a bass, you may be able to even come up with a combination of string gauges that lets you tune in fifths, and fretless basses are easier to find than fretless guitars. Or stick to cello.
That's true. I currently find D tuning the most comfortable to play in. Anyways, I could stick to cello, but I feel like it's time to expand.
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Tell us of you new band Usal' date=' is it Black Harvest after all, and who is in it, I know there is another guitar player you're glad about, and a drummer about whom I believe you may have some ambivalence. I imagine you have said here and there, but please break it down for us again, as I feel we deserve to know what exactly it is distracts you from Sexually Efficient Oyster.[/quote'] I have a feeling it will be a "new" band rather than BH. The guitarist is a Berklee-educated metal guy who's been a friend of mine for several years now, and we share an interest in classic prog as well. We're in search of a bassist. The drummer has played with the other guitarist in previous bands. He's a year out of practice right now, but I've seen him play a lot of shows and recorded him three times, and I know he'll be solid once he gets his feet back under him. He and I will be doing vocals. The last drummer we had was a very hard hitter, very aggressive, but with a tenuous grasp of tempo and hardly any ability to leave space in a song, and it didn't work with what we're trying to write. I'll miss the aggression, but I think it'll be worth it to work with the new guy, who's got much more accurate timing and a better sense of song structure. As far as the music, so far it's akin to the more melodic and black-metal-influenced sections of BH, and we're making an effort to simplify the song structures and/or guitar parts to leave more space for vocals, or atmosphere, or just to relax for a minute. But until the drums and vocals are in place, it's hard to say just exactly what it'll be. I don't plan on doing any clean singing, though...
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I just ran into this guy who was one of the drummers in a band I was in for ever. He was the longest standing drummer out of 7 guys who drummed for this band over the years and years it lasted. He was loud and didn't seem able to leave much negative space at all. We agreed that drummers like to make a bunch of noise, and a big part of what they are in for is to hit stuff hard for the pure physical pleasure of it. Only one of those 7 drummers was able to control his volume especially well. (The band sucked {but was fun} in case you were wondering).

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Same kinda weather here. I wouldn't mind it being a bit colder but it's nice. I might have trouble in my Ethics and Interational Relations class...my professor is certainly a very knowledgeable woman but she's also something of a bleeding heart, which is going to make it kinda hard for me to take the sort of cautious and relentlessly practical bean counter attitude I usually try to have in discussing these things.

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I just ran into this guy who was one of the drummers in a band I was in for ever. He was the longest standing drummer out of 7 guys who drummed for this band over the years and years it lasted. He was loud and didn't seem able to leave much negative space at all. We agreed that drummers like to make a bunch of noise' date=' and a big part of what they are in for is to hit stuff hard for the pure physical pleasure of it. Only one of those 7 drummers was able to control his volume especially well. (The band sucked {but was fun} in case you were wondering).[/quote'] Yeah, music is addictively fun to play whether or not it's great music in its own right. Some of the simple and easy stuff is more fun, if anything. I think a lot of drummers don't have any better sense of timing than the rest of us, and they have to keep playing hits or they lose their place...
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I got hired to do cover art for an EP and possibly an album by a local group that plays mostly as a string quartet, with occasional drums and vocals. I may also do some vocals for them, or for the main songwriter's "metal" songs. I'm really looking forward to the artwork, and it's a real honor to be asked to contribute to the music as well. Happy!

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I got hired to do cover art for an EP and possibly an album by a local group that plays mostly as a string quartet' date=' with occasional drums and vocals. I may also do some vocals for them, or for the main songwriter's "metal" songs. I'm really looking forward to the artwork, and it's a real honor to be asked to contribute to the music as well. Happy![/quote'] Awesome to both the offer and the string quartet. Have you received guidelines or will you be free to interprete the music and paint something yourself?
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I got hired to do cover art for an EP and possibly an album by a local group that plays mostly as a string quartet' date=' with occasional drums and vocals. I may also do some vocals for them, or for the main songwriter's "metal" songs. I'm really looking forward to the artwork, and it's a real honor to be asked to contribute to the music as well. Happy![/quote'] Congrats buddy
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Awesome to both the offer and the string quartet. Have you received guidelines or will you be free to interprete the music and paint something yourself?
I did a preliminary sketch based on a conversation we had yesterday, and they approved it, so I'll start work on the actual piece this Friday. Some of the vocals will be left to my interpretation as well, and I'm writing lyrics for one of their songs as well as two of my own right now.
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