ICE Them Out
By Paisleyfrog on January 31, 2026 3:18 am
Let's do some punk, shall we?
This song was partially inspired by a...somewhat spirited conversation in the Discord. I won't rehash any of that, but suffice it to say that it got me thinking in an angry direction again. I had thought about doing some rock or melodic metal, but when I sat down in the studio that night...the riffs were punk. Cool, let's go with that...I've been wanting to try that again since WB'24.
The song itself came together in probably an hour and a half, with a half hour of that being spent trying to dial in the guitar and bass sounds...trashy, but not falling apart. I laid down some placeholder vocals, and refined them later that night when my wife came home. She changed the original title I had (ICE Gestapo), and we had a good discussion...it led to some ideas that will end up being Week 6. She had a great lyric suggestion for this week, but the idea deserves way more than a one minute punk song...
Overall, I tried to be a bit more aggressive than last time, and go faster. Wanted to also be a SHORT song, never tried that before. Also tried to sound less like Fred Schneider (IYKYK).
The music was largely set at the end of Thursday night and my wife once again encouraged me to leave it alone...but I did a few more tweaks on Friday (added the solo, cleaned up a few vocals that were maybe a little too rough). OK, maybe not the true punk aesthetic, but neither am I
Amusingly enough, the cover art this week fought me way harder than the music. For whatever reason, the ICE logo I grabbed initially refused to export to my final file and kept vanishing. Oddly appropriate, that.
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