Toxic Frame of Mind
By ViridianLoom on March 31, 2024 6:27 pm
› Lyrics
‹ Lyrics
It seems to me we’re trapped in a loop
Infinity spiraling down, down, down
Tearing at the seams the room in unraveling
Get a grip, it’s not your place
You’ve had the floor for too long
So give it all away
I wish you were dead
Slowly spinning drops in the air
Corrupting sight looks through
Iron thoughts that leave us ensnared
Sneering face of a ghoul
In all our heads
No matter living or dead
Shrouded in a cloak of dread
Some things are better left unsaid
I wish you were dead
Insanity
A blood oath defined
Insanity of mine
› Song Notes
‹ Song Notes
Firstly, I set out with one goal this week to try and put as much effort into writing my song on Monday with the goal of having something completed by Friday so I could chill this weekend, an idea I got from Orange Drink in the last Weekly Meets chat.
For the most part that worked out. I experimented with some ideas on Monday but, come Tuesday, nothing struck me as particularly worth pursuing. However, one idea reminded me of something else I had already started so I just decided to pivot to that.
I started this song in Week 3. At that time it was just the first and second riff, then a series of disconnecting riffs (most of which didn’t make the cut here), but I was vibing with it. I immediately got this image of it sounding like a Deftones or Flyleaf song, but that’s when I fell into a trap. I was trying way too hard to make it sound like those bands and started writing myself into a corner. Then, every time I’ve come back to try to work on this song, I was thrown off by the mix. Something about it just wasn’t jiving.
So I did something I rarely do (maybe I should do more often) which is start over. I just opened up a new project, dialed in new guitar tones that sounded good to me, and started rewriting the song from memory rather than referencing the project I had been working on. I figured if a part was good enough to remember then it was good enough for the song, otherwise I’d write new parts. Seems to have worked out decently well. It allowed me to make a lot more forward progress rather than feeling like I was patching a sinking ship the whole time, haha.
Honestly, this song has a multitude of influences at this point. Defttones, Flyleaf, Adema (embracing that cringe because they were like a knockoff Korn band, maybe I should have lied and just said “Korn”), Voivod, Tool, and I think a little bit of Weedpecker by the end. Had some fun with putting distortion on my voice to make it sound like it was coming through a broken megaphone.
If there's a few things I'd change, it would be figuring out better ways to utilize the "extra" space in some sections rather than just guitar solos. Hopefully that's not too tiresome. I mostly just wanted to get the general idea of the song across. Also, I had strongly considered replacing "I WISH YOU WERE DEAD!!!!" as a lyric because it sounded pretty cringe to me... but fuck it. I think it works in context with the concept of the song which I'll leave open to interpretation.
Pretty happy with the result. Also happy to have given life to this song rather than let it sit in the project folder unfinished.
› Bonus Content: Tucson Meet up!
‹ Bonus Content: Tucson Meet up!
(Left to right: Zatelite, Nullsleep, Beefpounder, blighters_rock, Saguaro Gigante, ViridianLoom, Steveskiano)
All the Tucson Peeps met up this weekend at Cafe Passe. We enjoyed some coffee, ate some breakfast, got to know one another, chatted about WeeklyBeats, etc. It was a pretty good time. We plan on having these kinds of get-togethers every quarter but maybe at different locations since Tucson has some pretty cool places to eat.
There were actually a couple of others that weren’t able to make it this time (maybe next time?) which were Lukayo and lhrin. I wonder if there are any other Tucson people we’re unaware of?
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