Nebulous Peril - Silent Kingdom (george bowles dice game #2)
By george bowles on February 8, 2026 6:13 am
years and years ago when i first started weekly beats, i began a heavy metal project with elements of death, black, and grindcore. but also art rock, goth rock, and psyche rock. I have been thinking of resurrecting the project, which ended up recording a few albums and a couple EPs and did play live a few times. it was sort of like a solo side project from my main metal band, home recording oriented, that morphed into a band with different lineups.
also, this started out as part of a dice game i made for this year, involving 20 instruments, 20 effects pedals, and a d20 (roll of the dice). so what I ended up with for this one was 4 instruments and 4 pedals + vocals.
anyhow, there are a few nebulous peril tracks floating around weekly beats over the years, and here's another! I plan a new album soon that will be the most experimental release by this band ye! let's get down to the details of this track...
instruments used:
fretless 90s ibanez guitar (black) tuned to B on the lowest 3 strings and some kind of open higher tuning on the highest three strings. I used a capo but kept moving it lower and lower as the track went.
Yamaha DJX keyboard from the 90s gave it sort of some kind of vintage aspects in the ambient keysboards and the clean beat channel since the DJX does it all.
Korg Pandora's Box a vintage multi fx from korg that was ahead of its time because you could fit it in your pocket. for this track I only used it for its drum machine since it was classified as an instrument in the dice game. it was run through an overdrive and a fuzz pedal and is the super distorted beat you'll hear throughout the track.
effects pedals:
Nux Tubeman this is a really good sounding tubescreamer type of guitar pedal which pushes some near distorted midrange dirt. it was used on both the beats coming from the pandora's box and on the guitar.
Devi Ever Aenima fuzz the Devi Ever Aenima fuzz pedal is one of the best pedals i've ever bought. it works good on everything but also has a signature sound. guitar, bass, and even beats. this, like the nux tubeman is on both the pandora's box beat and on the fretless guitar.
wampler terraform is a stereo modulation pedal which i used on the yamaha djx keyboard (had to use a stereo splitter cable)
which then went into the last pedal i rolled with my dice game system, the tc electronic triple delay
so to sum up, the d20 dice game and spreadsheet rolled up a few instruments i own and 4 guitar pedals. i made a track with them, then decided to do vocals over it. I'll probably redo the vocals somewhat, half of it is sort of unintelligible. done on the fly lol. here's the lyrics:
Frost-choked lungs in the hollow night
Beneath the gaze of a pale dead moon
The soil remembers the blood of the old
A kingdom of silence, a cavernous tomb
No warmth for the weak in this barren expanse
Where the roots of the world grow twisted and black
The spirit is severed from the flicker of hope
And the shadows move forward, never looking back
We are the echoes of a forgotten age
The ghosts of the mountain, the fire in the ice
Through the veil of the void, our voices arise
Under the shadow of the iron sky
The cross is a splinter, the light is a lie
Starlight bleeds onto the jagged stone
A coronation for the king of dust
History is written in the ash of the burned
By the hand of the god that we no longer trust
The silence is heavy, a weight on the soul
The wolves have grown quiet, the rivers have ceased
Only the grinding of celestial gears
Awaiting the hour of the ultimate beast
Vanish into the gray
Dissolve into the dark
Let the winter consume
The final, dying spark
The iron sky descends
Cold...
Final...
Eternity...
i don't usually mess with links and code on here so hopefully it works out lol.
I'm guessing this is influenced by bands like dodheimsgard and jute gyte
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