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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 07 2010 at 08:19
Oh, there's a few bits which are a little Yes-sy I guess, although mostly just because of the synth/guitar sound.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 07 2010 at 08:18
^ I would have expected you to squeeze some Jon Anderson/Yes stuff in there Tongue
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 07 2010 at 08:10
So far, most of the tracks which seem to be the best out of them all are shoegaze-y sort of stuff (fairly similar in style to Jesu) although it's still all subject to change and some of it is very post-metally in parts. The longest track thus far is about 9 minutes, although I'm not really happy with most of that one so far so it'll change a lot before the final product. Most of the guitar has lots of delay with distortion although a lot of it is also cleaner playing too. It's pretty disjointed, to be honest, mostly just random tracks that don't sound at all similar
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 07 2010 at 08:05
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What will the music be like actually?
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 07 2010 at 08:03
Originally posted by The Sleepwalker The Sleepwalker wrote:

Originally posted by progkidjoel progkidjoel wrote:

I'm hoping for Christmas, although it doesn't seem likely between exams and all unfortunately. It's all written up this stage (at about 2 hours of material written and about 45 minutes of super low quality rushed demo versions recorded) so I basically want to work on some new ideas that I have, finish off the other hour or so of stuff and then pick the best parts to create a 30 minute or so demo.

So currently, and tomorrow, I'm working on
-The tracks I want to finish
-Re-recording, adding to and editing the tracks which I've already written
-Choosing whether or not to add vocals/lyrics (which will probably add a month or two for writing for the time it takes)
-Getting a rough idea of which tracks should/will make the final cut.

Really having a fun time making it so far. Hopefully the audio quality on the final product isn't terrible I'll post it up for free download for sure, btw, and I'm making CDr's with booklets for some friends and other people who are interested, not sure how many I'll end up making though. I don't really want this to end up becoming super serious or a chore.
That sounds interesting. I'm really looking forward to hear if your album will be able to top Conor's Recordungs. LOL
Also, you should definitely add the album art to the download, just like PtS.

That's the plan - if it has lyrics it'll probably take longer to create the booklet, although at this stage it doesn't look like it will. The booklet will probably just be a few scans of pieces of ink on canvas art I've made around the same theme over the past few months. I'm hand making 10 or so CDr's as is, possibly more if there's interest. I'll be making the ISO available for download anyway, so if anyone wants to burn a CDr they can.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 07 2010 at 08:00
I hope you hit it big time with your demos, guys Cool Count me in for the special edition preorders! Wink




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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 07 2010 at 08:00
It's about 50% guitar, 30% piano and 5% bass with the other instrumentation being most analog synth effects. I'm considering using drums from the Guitar Pro 5 engine, although they have that really computer generated sound to them. I'm considering either actually recording the drums or asking a friend to, but I think it'll probably be drumless if it continues as is.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 07 2010 at 07:57
Originally posted by progkidjoel progkidjoel wrote:

I'm hoping for Christmas, although it doesn't seem likely between exams and all unfortunately. It's all written up this stage (at about 2 hours of material written and about 45 minutes of super low quality rushed demo versions recorded) so I basically want to work on some new ideas that I have, finish off the other hour or so of stuff and then pick the best parts to create a 30 minute or so demo.

So currently, and tomorrow, I'm working on
-The tracks I want to finish
-Re-recording, adding to and editing the tracks which I've already written
-Choosing whether or not to add vocals/lyrics (which will probably add a month or two for writing for the time it takes)
-Getting a rough idea of which tracks should/will make the final cut.

Really having a fun time making it so far. Hopefully the audio quality on the final product isn't terrible I'll post it up for free download for sure, btw, and I'm making CDr's with booklets for some friends and other people who are interested, not sure how many I'll end up making though. I don't really want this to end up becoming super serious or a chore.
That sounds interesting. I'm really looking forward to hear if your album will be able to top Conor's Recordungs. LOL
Also, you should definitely add the album art to the download, just like PtS. 
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 07 2010 at 07:57
I'm struggling with recording the final track of my demo/album/whatever, I gave myself a summer deadline, but as I expected it didn't happen. Got some bass done saturday, though.
 
What instrumentation will you have? Smile
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 07 2010 at 07:54
I'm hoping for Christmas, although it doesn't seem likely between exams and all unfortunately. It's all written up this stage (at about 2 hours of material written and about 45 minutes of super low quality rushed demo versions recorded) so I basically want to work on some new ideas that I have, finish off the other hour or so of stuff and then pick the best parts to create a 30 minute or so demo.

So currently, and tomorrow, I'm working on
-The tracks I want to finish
-Re-recording, adding to and editing the tracks which I've already written
-Choosing whether or not to add vocals/lyrics (which will probably add a month or two for writing for the time it takes)
-Getting a rough idea of which tracks should/will make the final cut.

Really having a fun time making it so far. Hopefully the audio quality on the final product isn't terrible I'll post it up for free download for sure, btw, and I'm making CDr's with booklets for some friends and other people who are interested, not sure how many I'll end up making though. I don't really want this to end up becoming super serious or a chore.

I'll upload one of my tracks somewhere tomorrow if I finish it; the project is still nameless currently, although I'm 90% decided on a name.


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 07 2010 at 07:49
Originally posted by The Sleepwalker The Sleepwalker wrote:

Originally posted by progkidjoel progkidjoel wrote:

f**k yeah, just finished the cover art for my up and coming demo.
ShockedBig smile

When will it be finished? Shocked
Woo, wanna hear Clap
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 07 2010 at 07:49
Originally posted by NecronCommander NecronCommander wrote:

I've heard most of Enter on Youtube, and it was alright.  I'd like to try and find a copy on CD but it's hard to come by one.

AAL are pretty metal, though.  Djenty djent djent.


That's interesting, I would have expected you to love Enter. But it's cool.

RE AAL, I must confess I've only heard the album once, so my impressions might not be that accurate.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 07 2010 at 07:48
Originally posted by progkidjoel progkidjoel wrote:

f**k yeah, just finished the cover art for my up and coming demo.
ShockedBig smile

When will it be finished? Shocked
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 07 2010 at 07:44
That's great, Joel! Clap
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 07 2010 at 07:36
f**k yeah, just finished the cover art for my up and coming demo.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 07 2010 at 07:31
Alright, first class.  Be back later.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 07 2010 at 07:25
I've heard most of Enter on Youtube, and it was alright.  I'd like to try and find a copy on CD but it's hard to come by one.

AAL are pretty metal, though.  Djenty djent djent.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 07 2010 at 07:24
Originally posted by Henry Plainview Henry Plainview wrote:

Originally posted by harmonium.ro harmonium.ro wrote:

This is for all the lonely boys out here. Tongue
Did all those get published in the magazine? I didn't think you could get away with nipples in the US without the Playboy foil.


I thought all pictures were theirs, yes. Maybe they published them online?
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 07 2010 at 07:22
I saw you said last night that AAL were the only metal band that does instrumental music well, and I instantly thought of RC's "Enter". It's not very metal, though, but neither is AAL.

EDIT: so if you like AAL you'll like "Enter" maybe even more. However, don't try their other two albums before, they're not nearly as good.


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 07 2010 at 07:19
I've not listened to much, but I enjoyed what I heard, yeah.
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