Another dark track, guess I'm a pretty dark guy! ha I'm actually more fun to hang out than some of this stuff sounds lol. Had the spark to lay down some fast drums again, only this time I bought a longer mic cable and got the bass drum sounding pretty badass. Also changed approach some on production, even though my process was exactly the same as the last Nebulous Peril song (drums first, then two different guitar tracks, then bass track, etc.). This time around what was different was that I didn't use my Ibanez guitar I used my regular guitar with duncan pickups. Discovered the Ibanez of course had no midrange and this guitar has probably more midrange than anything! slightly different distortion settings too: one guitar had the one marshall amp distortion, the other had that plus a Tonebone tube distortion pedal. Also this time around I did something I wanted to do the first time: add a layer of psychedelic keyboards to it, my first actual recorded usage of the Korg electribe I got at the pawn shop last week. the last step is adding the vocals. Last time was themes about inner turmoil and the mind, this time the theme kind of goes with my watching of some Stephen Hawking tv series (a 3 episode series I found on netflix about the speed of light, time travel, and how the universe was created). so anyway, what I'm "singing" about is "through dark clouds", traveling faster than the speed of light (which is impossible!), electricity, night sky, stars, dark matter, and energy gates of course. I like to think of it as a modern folk song.

Tags: black, dark matter, death metal, electricity, grindcore, heavy metal, lightspeed, nebulous peril, night, space, time travel, week 19 2012, View by:george bowles