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This Scourge Can Be Wiped Out

By Paisleyfrog on December 1, 2024 9:49 pm

Very little time for music this week, what with traveling for Thanksgiving (and not really liking anything I made en route). Over the week I was revisiting a few of my favorite industrial albums, Greater Wrong of the Right and Downward Spiral. This track arose out of trying to duplicate some of the sounds in I'mmortal (and failing LOL). But, it led me to the sound I got here. Ended up with a heavy Ministry feel. And since Uncle Al is retiring, someone's gotta pick up the slack with angry political-esque music smile

Tons of guitar layering in this. Mix isn't the best, and my chorus doesn't hit as hard as I'd like, but that's what comes from doing a song  in a few hours (started Saturday night, finished Sunday morning). The guitar "solo" at the end was just sorta strangling the guitar (and breaking a string in the process). Oh well, keep playing. Which of course meant that I HAD to keep that take smile

Biggest fun was accidentally deleting my sample track, and then working for another hour or so. In the process, I got to learn that Logic has an amazing project import function that allows you to specify down to the track of what you'd like to import - rolled back my Undo list to where the tracks existed and saved a version, then rolled back to current and saved. Imported the tracks from the other version. Done.

The track pretty much built around the sample, which is from Reefer Madness (public domain). I thought it had a great legalistic mob rule feel, and everything grew from there.

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I love all your industrial tracks! your instrumentation is great

Interesting ending!

hell yeah, I agree with fetalface, I've been loving your industrial tracks as well. This one is fantastic. Nice samples and soft piano ending.

I've never hit play so fast as when I saw your Skinny Puppy tag.  Great track, I am amazed you could put this together so quickly.  Can hear the Ministry certainly but also hints of Puppy's album The Process (release before Greater Wrong).  I think this is my favorite of your industrial tracks thus far...awesome choice of sample btw.

Oh, and if you didn't keep that take with the string breaking ol' uncle Al would have been sad...der

fetalface wrote:

I love all your industrial tracks! your instrumentation is great

Thanks! This was a lot of fun to put together - I was really pressed for time, so it meant a lot of just going for it and not overthinking. Which usually helps my process a lot smile

fetalface wrote:

Interesting ending!

I sorta borrowed the ending idea from something Trent did on one of the Downward Spiral remix albums (further down the spiral, I think)….where he cut the noise with a hard stop to a soft piano. I’ve always loved that, and wanted to try it myself smile

SQF wrote:

hell yeah, I agree with fetalface, I've been loving your industrial tracks as well. This one is fantastic. Nice samples and soft piano ending.

Thanks! It’s been fun ending the year sort of how I began it, going back to dark industrial.

lament.config wrote:

I've never hit play so fast as when I saw your Skinny Puppy tag.  Great track, I am amazed you could put this together so quickly.  Can hear the Ministry certainly but also hints of Puppy's album The Process (release before Greater Wrong).  I think this is my favorite of your industrial tracks thus far...awesome choice of sample btw.

Oh, and if you didn't keep that take with the string breaking ol' uncle Al would have been sad...der

Ohhh…being compared to The Process makes
my heart happy….thank you. Such a good album, although it’s taken me some time to come around to it (one of the best concert experiences of my whole life was SP doing Candle at their sound check on the final tour). I’ve learned so much this year - I’m able to get tracks going a lot faster now. One might say I’ve figured out The Process.

I’ll see myself out.

Heavy! Very cool industrial vibes.

Vocals are super cool.

so many cool elements here, Pf. that solo tho!

Appropriately menacing, though not sure what the significance of the brown is.

djippy wrote:

Heavy! Very cool industrial vibes.

Vocals are super cool.

Thank you!!

jwh wrote:

so many cool elements here, Pf. that solo tho!

Thanks! big_smile big_smile I was sort of channeling the spirit from IDGAF on that solo, just pure aggression. I also didn't have the time to do something fancier LOL

Devieus wrote:

Appropriately menacing, though not sure what the significance of the brown is.

Thanks! "Brown" in this song is in reference to the Brownshirts, government thugs from 1930s Germany.

YUSSSSS MOAR INDUSTRIAL!! You put together an absolute banger in less than a day! Big Ministry & SP vibes of course, but that stuttered sound you open with smacks of KMFDM. Your vocals are ideal here - angry, sarcastic, and just plain seething. Processed just enough. Yeah, gotta agree with the masses: this is one of my faves of yours hands down! Al's legacy is in good hands smile

This is dirty..... def feeling that industrial vibe pumpin again. Those samples used between your vocals work sounds really, really cool. They somehow fill that gap and add an ambience. Nice piano break at the end, too smile
Some great sounds here, great stuff

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