Symphonic acoustic/metal demo from 50/90. My favorite track of the bunch. The sounds are very much demo quality, but the ideas for this one really flowed. 2012 { Tags : melodic, metal, rock, symphonic, acoustic, fantasy }
Down pleading from the mountain passage
Leads an old, crude stairway
Mirror Lake in the open valley
Rests in silent stillness
Leafless birches hush
As he moves down the last stairs
No eyes could see the tension build
When he heads for the bridge across
Soon as the fading evening sun
Bows and paints the landscape in the tones of gold
Inside he can feel the urge to turn his eyes on the surface
He shakes and hurries over to find the nightfall
To where he'll flee and disappear
Melodic instrumental metal for Killing Engine soundtrack. This one I thought it would sound neat if I did a bit of sampling in the beginning. So I looped a couple beats of the rhythm guitars that I had recorded and pretty much got the result i was hoping to hear. 2012 { Tags : melodic, instrumental, metal, soundtrack, rock }
Melodic heavy metal. I did this one for FAWM. Basically I just wanted to do a short song quickly and it turned out not half bad. 2013 { Tags : melodic, metal, rock, fantasy, scifi, synth, vocals }
Melodic instrumental metal for Killing Engine soundtrack. This one turned out surprisingly mellow. I didn't really care for the track at the time I recorded it, but it really grew on me. Gives a nice atmosphere to the game. 2012 { Tags : melodic, instrumental, metal, soundtrack, rock }
Melodic instrumental metal for Killing Engine soundtrack. Mobilize turned out to be pretty much the theme song of the game even though I already had "Behind the Enemy Lines" that had served the position well. This one started from an idea I composed for an old band of mine. I finished it and the melodic approach really pulls the track apart from the rest of the bunch. 2012 { Tags : melodic, instrumental, metal, soundtrack, rock }
Instrumental metal for Killing Engine soundtrack. This is one of the tracks that I just basically made up as I recorded. It's completely in 9/8. Not my favorite of the bunch but it has its moments. 2012 { Tags : melodic, instrumental, metal, soundtrack, rock }
Melodic instrumental metal for Killing Engine soundtrack. One of the tracks I mostly wrote years ago. This time I added something to the middle of the track and wrapped it together. The first couple riffs are from the KE demo tape. I really liked them so I made a whole track around them. 2012 { Tags : melodic, instrumental, metal, soundtrack, rock }
Melodic instrumental metal for Killing Engine soundtrack. This song is one of the more rhythmic variety on the album and the intro really turned out better than I ever could've hoped. 2012 { Tags : melodic, instrumental, metal, soundtrack, rock }
Melodic instrumental metal for Killing Engine soundtrack. In my opinion, one of the filler tracks. When you sit down to compose an album's worth of music there's gonna be a few that didn't quite pan out. Not horrible, but not that special either. 2012 { Tags : melodic, instrumental, metal, soundtrack, rock }
Melodic instrumental metal for Killing Engine soundtrack. This is the first track that I wrote and although I didn't like it that much at first it really grew on me. It has got some interesting elements. 2012 { Tags : melodic, instrumental, metal, soundtrack, rock }
Melodic instrumental metal for Killing Engine soundtrack. One of the more fun tracks on the album. This one has a bit more groove than the other ones. I had really no idea what I was doing as I recorded the parts but turned out the song can hold up on its own. 2012 { Tags : melodic, instrumental, metal, soundtrack, rock }
Some old melodic heavy metal. One of the first tracks I made with Reaper. I was still learning the basics of mixing and singing (both of which you can definately hear). I wrote this one when I was around 16 years old and really into Iron Maiden. I still like the track, as simple as it is, and it might deserve a better finish. 2011 { Tags : melodic, heavy, metal, hard, rock, vox, iron, maiden, demo }
Moments they carry my soul into a temple of crying sins
As the years of childhood fly in the wind the longing of my heart begins
I try to see and find myself crying under a star light
A calm blue sea is only a memory of my past life
Written in stone is the empire's name -- a hasty moment of shame
And the falling walls of my anonymous race -- is it the destiny of this place?
Think of the time and the moments we spent
As the angels smiled at my window-sill
Shine to my brothers and shine to my friends
The link of the afterlife sealed in both ends
Let the rain fall again to this wounded land
Of my wasted youth and my wasted sand
The hourglass is end and the time is up
There's no reason to stay - take me there out away
In a moment you run towards calling years
And see then how can those falling tears
Glow in the sun light
Waiting and spending those endless years
And hoping the daunting stream of tears
Will dry in the sun light
Every hour of the day I count to feel the moment when my spirit will rise
In front of the God I finally kneel and open my fearful eyes
I bow for my pray to make yet another day
It's hard in a way to sit down and make me to stay
Preparing to leave my earthly remains and open my heart for the truth
It's odd how you know the moment you'll go -- time to state you last famous words
Winter has come and the angels are gone
Now a snow white velvet covers the land
The sun of my life is to reach for it's night
And the whisper of end breaks the dusk of my light
In a moment you run towards calling years
And see then how can those falling tears
Glow in the sun light
Waiting and spending those endless years
And hoping the daunting stream of tears
Will dry in the sun light
This is a skirmish song from FAWM that I wrote and recorded in an hour. I wanted to do something in a major key so I started with a fun arpeggio and went from there. The title was imposed on the contestants so I figured I'd give it a Legend of Zelda type of spin. 2012 { Tags : heavy, metal, rock, fantasy, fawm, quickie, guitar, hard }
Acoustic fantasy demo from FAWM. This was the ending track of my album on FAWM. I wrote and recorded the whole thing in 7 days so I tried to keep it simple. I really like this one, but I was learning everything, so the demo doesn't really live up to the idea. 2011 { Tags : acoustic, fantasy, melodic, fawm, demo, vox }
I made this little song for FAWM and got MJ Kwan do some cello solos for it. It was meant to be weird and I think it lives up to that idea. I really love the cello parts and tried to do something cool with my guitar to work with them. 2012 { Tags : fawm, heavy, metal, hard, rock, progressive, funk, synth, cello }
Rain falling down
They keep you out
"Time ease my pain"
Lines they run in vain
In the hours late
They bring me to you
Sleeping til last day
Due my state
We come and bring justice to this town
The stakes were clear since the beginning
A race to the cloudscape bring them back
Keep them awake in a bed of horrors
Believe in me
I'm here
Now, take the time and
Remember your lines
Somewhere here is our clear-headed child
Healing call and the
Big-headed statues they
Approve my stay
As blind
We understand the unstated truth
Where they watch we don't know
It is sealed in your head
We never cared for the nameless rooms
We are away for the artist
Who clears out the canvas
A day clear of the harm
A road back home
We streamed down from the astral space
And aligned ourselves with truth or lie
Symphonic acoustic/metal demo from 50/90. This is the first track of the set and it's supposed to continue seamlessly to the next one which explains the ending. 2012 { Tags : melodic, metal, rock, symphonic, acoustic, fantasy }
A chilly morning waves her hand
Pines iron gray the spectators of the slopes
The movement creeps closer
The road whispers empty tales
In the Raven's Crossing Inn
He's been waiting for the sign to move on
The gorge rests in silence
And the old bridge no louder speaks
Go and you shall see
How the world treats an uncautious man
The taker of darkening versts of deep striding
The winter treats even boys like men
And the wind it brings a taste of a clearing weather
Movement takes you by the hand
Symphonic acoustic demo from 50/90. One of my favorites of the bunch. The vox really turned out better than I expected. Really happy with this one. 2012 { Tags : melodic, symphonic, acoustic, fantasy }
Steam and smoke fill the air
Trains they hurry to the night
Towering engines -- steel horses of north
Carrying cargo -- coal and iron from inside
Steam and smoke fill the air
Steps under the railway bridge
The city is silent -- the copper pipe cradle in snow
Gears are stagnant -- drained from the day's work
Yellow lantern light shows the way
Through the city streets paved in grey
Signs worn in time's cold grace
Taller grow the walls of the old
Buildings in their years of savory sloth
The time gives tiles their own subtlety
Waiting the call
Waiting the change
Never brings people their distant dreams
And the life runs you by
A hand-measured halt for your feet
Seven silver pieces for the modern heat
A stay won't always render you old
Take a little time for your health
Take a little joy in a late morning's tea
And find your once lost smile
Waiting the call
Waiting the change
Never brings people their distant dreams
And the life runs you by
First song of a FAWM set. I was really trying to grasp the controls of Reaper at this point and simultaneously trying to record a video. It was a daunting task for me and I'm glad I could pull it through. 2012 { Tags : heavy, metal, hard, rock, fawm, synth, progressive }
What will you say as a gaze through your lies
Vacuous prime time
Deities provoking our land
Awaking the urge in our heads
Turning our parcels in sconces
And heating resentment for our kings
Breeding our sense of need
Place of interminable grace
As high the thuribles wave
Lights masquerading as saviors
Lavishly guiding us to our grave
Learning our way as thieves
Learning to turn the other way
Find our quiescence destroyed
And then there is no other way
We stand up on the foliate foundation
And claim our subsidies in blood
And so we are learning our way as thieves
Learning to turn the other way
Building up faith beyond them
Learning how high can they go
Learning our way as thieves
Learning to turn the other way
Building up faith beyond them
Learning how high we can go
First track of the FAWM set. I wanted to make something cool quickly to get me going with the FAWM so I started with a really simple synth sequence and tried to make the rest of the song evolve around it. 2013 { Tags : synth, progressive, heavy, metal, hard, rock, fawm }
Seek not grains of light
Seek not justice
Seek not face of God
Seek an ordinary life
Seats of dusk and dawn
Glory on their flags
Tempt us with the view
Distance is so close to us
With no rays of sun
Blinding us from our hearts
In an ordinary life
Last song of a FAWM set. I wrote the drums for this track in the first day of that February and then used them for the very last track. The song has a neat 2 minute long organ solo in the very beginning but then it starts to get really interesting. 2012 { Tags : fawm, heavy, metal, hard, rock, progressive, synth }
Second track of a FAWM set. After getting more familiar with Reaper I started to get more in zone with writing. I really like how this track shaped out to be and it's one of my favorites from that year. 2012 { Tags : fawm, heavy, metal, hard, rock, progressive, synth }
Life is so easy
As an internalized dream
A revitalized nightmare
Long I've heard this tune
Tautological phrases
Repeat in my head
"Free, alas, you will be
And no cage can refrain you!"
A misanthropist plan
Regarding my salvation:
Turn off the real world
And turn on your true self this time
Subservient to the goal
The flickering dies
With blow of
The battering wind
I know as my home
The wandering flood
Engulfs all within
The choir starts chanting
As I feel it rushing in
The Devil's music
I hear again
Like your face
I've seen this place a million times
Until it gets painful
I will stay in here
Like your trust
I broke my faith once before
A maddening tune
Nurtures my ears
Soothing glare
Of prying eyes upon your mind
A picturesque freeway
For souls lost in their ways
I hear my voice
Pathologically prevaricate
And sections awake
For a slender cry
Verses of a turgid manner
Pierce my memories
From the lost anthology
Of sane
The battering wind
I know as my home
The wandering flood
Engulfs all within
The choir starts chanting
As I feel it rushing in
The Devil's music
I hear again
I wanted to have some fun with FAWM so I went with the style that comes to me like breathing: fantasy metal. I don't really know where the acoustic intro came from... probably that one song from Edguy. It really builds up the atmosphere, tho, so I'm glad it's there. 2012 { Tags : fawm, heavy, metal, hard, rock, progressive, synth, acoustic }
Instrumental track made for FAWM. This was inspired by Unreal Soundtrack and the feel of those fantastical landscapes in foreign planets. There isn't too much of guitar apart of the solo, but I was really trying to make it more synthesizer-heavy. 2012 { Tags : fawm, synth, guitar, instrumental }
Melodic instrumental metal for Killing Engine soundtrack. The intro riffs of this track came from the 2010 demo tape. I really liked their rhytmic weirdness and so I just had to pick them for the soundtrack. Other than that it's a pretty slow track. You might catch a hint of Diablo influences around 3:30, hehe. 2012 { Tags : melodic, instrumental, metal, soundtrack, rock }
Melodic instrumental metal for Killing Engine soundtrack. This is one of the older tracks that I just re-recorded. I really liked the first version so I tried to keep it as close to that as possible. It's supposed to be one of the more melodic songs of the set. 2012 { Tags : melodic, instrumental, metal, soundtrack, rock }
I wanted to do some remixes of the old NES games and I've been toying with the idea of recreating the old Castlevania tracks, but they really have been done to death already. Ones I haven't heard too much are the tracks from the first Mega Man game from 1987 so I went with that. 2012 { Tags : megaman, mega, man, heavy, metal, cover, nes, 1987 }
Melodic instrumental metal for Killing Engine soundtrack. For this one I pumped up the tempo a bit and went with a sort of a crazy intro riff. It's always nice to improve my playing while recording, too, hehe. 2012 { Tags : melodic, instrumental, metal, soundtrack, rock }
