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By BarristerPlong on January 24, 2026 7:22 pm

I designed 6 separate intricate patches on my minifreak to make some ambient music this week and used none of them. Nothing really spoke to me or did what I was wanting them to do I decided to make some big shiny metal.
It turned out alright. Supermassive is doing a lot of heavy lifting in what is basically a one take nonsense in B Phrygian. It's a transistor fuzz into a Bassman then into Ableton with a healthy dollop of supermassive then a bubbling bass patch from my minifreak to fill it out. I feel like it'd sound interesting with some drums, but that's for another time I suppose.

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Nice and menacing.  I like!  Exotic Sunn O)))

Big things. The feedback swell into the finale was nicely executed. I just watched some Villenuve Dune earlier today and this is a nice pairing.

gotta love that phrygian feel that makes you feel like you're eric draven wailing on a rooftop. \m/ well done!

The bends on this kill me in the best possible way. I also love how the distortion is just barely contained throughout, fantastic track.

actual footage of BarristerPlong recording this scorcher:

jokes aside, this rips and i actually found it really pretty and it was the perfect soundtrack as i made coffee this chilly morning looking out at the snow that fell last night.
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The perfect soundtrack for the perfect view

This song slays!

I like this a lot. All the elements are heavy and distorted and about to catch on fire. But to me the overall effect reads as meditative. With notes of triumph toward the end.

Dude. Wow. I have no words. BarristerPlong was cooking with this one.

Honestly I do the same thing where I spend a bunch of the week trying to make "the" track and then just do something completely different. I also love a big ole juicy nothing in a key.

This wails mightily.  I think it's kind of interesting to hear it without any drums.  It lets the guitar just do all the talking, and it has plenty to say.

Very grand, and imposing.
- Valx

super clean tone on the lead, love it, great contrast
Always tempting to call that mode Egyphrygian

rdomain wrote:

Nice and menacing.  I like!  Exotic Sunn O)))

Thank you! Sunn is definitely a huge inspiration for me for creating so much from so little.

Cakes wrote:

Big things. The feedback swell into the finale was nicely executed. I just watched some Villenuve Dune earlier today and this is a nice pairing.

Thank you! Yeah, phrygian scale definitely has a place in any desert cinema. It's fear, awe, and mystery.

Tone Matrix wrote:

gotta love that phrygian feel that makes you feel like you're eric draven wailing on a rooftop. \m/ well done!

It's really such an emotive scale. Thank you!

neon liminal wrote:

The bends on this kill me in the best possible way. I also love how the distortion is just barely contained throughout, fantastic track.

Even just the tiniest bend with all this distortion and reverb creates such a powerful swell, it's so cool. Thank you!

jwh wrote:

actual footage of BarristerPlong recording this scorcher:

jokes aside, this rips and i actually found it really pretty and it was the perfect soundtrack as i made coffee this chilly morning looking out at the snow that fell last night.
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Thank you! We got a bunch of snow here too and it fits the scene. I definitely enjoyed ripping this one out for sure.

alterationx10 wrote:

The perfect soundtrack for the perfect view

This song slays!


Thank you!

deeckzeven wrote:

I like this a lot. All the elements are heavy and distorted and about to catch on fire. But to me the overall effect reads as meditative. With notes of triumph toward the end.


Thank you! Distortion itself feels like it's own instrument considering how transformative it is. I found it very meditative too, especially while playing it, the rhythm guitar echos out like a gong in the reverb with a consistent pace.

dewdrops _tunes wrote:

Dude. Wow. I have no words. BarristerPlong was cooking with this one.

Honestly I do the same thing where I spend a bunch of the week trying to make "the" track and then just do something completely different. I also love a big ole juicy nothing in a key.


Thank you! It happens to me all the time. I get like 60% of the way there and just can't find the accoutrements to get it the rest of the way.

Cosmic Cairns wrote:

This wails mightily.  I think it's kind of interesting to hear it without any drums.  It lets the guitar just do all the talking, and it has plenty to say.


Thanks! All the reverb and distortion is huge on its own and phrygian itself is very emotive.

DESLRV wrote:

Very grand, and imposing.
- Valx

Thank you!

XC3N wrote:

super clean tone on the lead, love it, great contrast
Always tempting to call that mode Egyphrygian

Thank you! My brother Neon Liminal got me the Barad-Dur-Fuzzdrive and it's such a massive nasty fuzz I almost always use now.

Gawd those bends sound massive

(Not wishing for future minifreak problems on you or anything, but more of this would be rad. cool)

Quickly becoming one of my fav stops on weeklybeats, some more original sounds and just interesting ways that you present them, I love how this just fills the room with sound.

Who says no to some doom metal on a Thursday evening? Not me wink Great tones and well executed cool

Heavy deep and dark, down the into alien canyons. That lead slays. It vibrated the body. I'm transported!

This is epic. Love it and love your energy in the community too

Love the grittyness and I agree that it would probably sound amazing with drums

full and imposing.  really enjoy that soaring guitar lead.  feels like reentering the atmosphere

ineff wrote:

Gawd those bends sound massive

(Not wishing for future minifreak problems on you or anything, but more of this would be rad. cool)

I really enjoyed this and tried to recreate it a couple times but came up dry. I'm definitely going back to this kind of aesthetic though for sure. Thank you!

Jason Nijjer wrote:

Quickly becoming one of my fav stops on weeklybeats, some more original sounds and just interesting ways that you present them, I love how this just fills the room with sound.

Thank you so much! Big soundscapes are definitely my thing. Something about a wall of sound just slows my brain and lets me feel.

cortx wrote:

Who says no to some doom metal on a Thursday evening? Not me wink Great tones and well executed cool

It's always time for doom metal. We have so many flavours.

miraclemiles wrote:

Heavy deep and dark, down the into alien canyons. That lead slays. It vibrated the body. I'm transported!

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monstret wrote:

This is epic. Love it and love your energy in the community too

Thanks so much! The WB community rules.

Nik Novo wrote:

Love the grittyness and I agree that it would probably sound amazing with drums

Thank you! I'm definitely going to experiment with drums on it some time and see if I like it.

Disposable Planet wrote:

full and imposing.  really enjoy that soaring guitar lead.  feels like reentering the atmosphere

That's a great visual. I really like that. Thank you!

Weekly Massive.  (before i came here, "massive" was the word in my mind, even before reading you). Thanks for the journey.

tuyieu.beats wrote:

Weekly Massive.  (before i came here, "massive" was the word in my mind, even before reading you). Thanks for the journey.


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