Angel of Fire
Sleeping Awake
One of Us
Mr. Motherfucker
Porcelain Face
Forgotten
Judgment Day
The Steel
Roses
The Dead Live On (Envious)
Tuesday, July 28, 2009
Awesome Local Band
Hey everybody!
I figure that instead of a Blame Owen update I'd give a shout out to an awesome local band, maybe put up a video or two I'll see as I go along.
NO REMISSION:
Probably the best local act I've seen. High energy, complex arrangement meet in a whirlwind of musical anarchy to create a unique atmosphere; one that I would assume a Wyoming farmer experiences as a class F5 tornado rips through his home.
Will, and Kurt are probably two of the most talented guitarists I've seen/heard. Dan and Greg are one of the best rhythm sections I have seen locally in a long time and they have great fan support. These things together make for one hell of a show.
If you get a chance, go see them now for the $10 cover charge at Mr. D's or one of the other bars.
Their album will be coming out soon and I for one am looking forward to it.
Guys, if you read this... Finish it already!
I figure that instead of a Blame Owen update I'd give a shout out to an awesome local band, maybe put up a video or two I'll see as I go along.
NO REMISSION:
Probably the best local act I've seen. High energy, complex arrangement meet in a whirlwind of musical anarchy to create a unique atmosphere; one that I would assume a Wyoming farmer experiences as a class F5 tornado rips through his home.
Will, and Kurt are probably two of the most talented guitarists I've seen/heard. Dan and Greg are one of the best rhythm sections I have seen locally in a long time and they have great fan support. These things together make for one hell of a show.
If you get a chance, go see them now for the $10 cover charge at Mr. D's or one of the other bars.
Their album will be coming out soon and I for one am looking forward to it.
Guys, if you read this... Finish it already!
Monday, July 27, 2009
"The Dead Live On, Envious"
In the veil of darkness
Your life is over
Our time is done
And all I left you
Is a loaded gun
The dead live on
Envious
Of the life that I have
Of the life they miss
Run, Run far away
From the hell
I have to pay
With your death on my hands
You will never understand
The night I killed you
Blew your head in half
The ground soaked the blood
In revenge, I Laugh
Now I Run, Run far away
From the hell
I have to pay
With your death on my hands
I can not understand
Now my life is fucked
Thin air I fought
I know you're still here
And it's me you haunt
Run, Run far away
From the hell
I have to pay
With my death on my hands
Now I can understand
My soul is free
Death has come over me
The Dead Live On
Envious
Of the life I had
The life I miss
- James Allen
In a driving rain
I took your life
I took your pain
I took your life
I took your pain
Your life is over
Our time is done
And all I left you
Is a loaded gun
The dead live on
Envious
Of the life that I have
Of the life they miss
The story of us is fucked
A tale so tragic
The night I saw you
It tore the fabric
A tale so tragic
The night I saw you
It tore the fabric
I knew, right then and there
You weren't the one
I had to end your life
With a loaded gun
You weren't the one
I had to end your life
With a loaded gun
Run, Run far away
From the hell
I have to pay
With your death on my hands
You will never understand
The night I killed you
Blew your head in half
The ground soaked the blood
In revenge, I Laugh
Buried your body
Six feet deep
Put your blood in a vial
In peace I sleep
Six feet deep
Put your blood in a vial
In peace I sleep
Now I Run, Run far away
From the hell
I have to pay
With your death on my hands
I can not understand
Now my life is fucked
Thin air I fought
I know you're still here
And it's me you haunt
I can't take this
I can't be the one
You will kill me
My life is done
I can't be the one
You will kill me
My life is done
Run, Run far away
From the hell
I have to pay
With my death on my hands
Now I can understand
Run, Run Far Away
Now I have
My hell to pay
With our deaths on my hands
Finally I understand
My body coldNow I have
My hell to pay
With our deaths on my hands
Finally I understand
My soul is free
Death has come over me
The Dead Live On
Envious
Of the life I had
The life I miss
- James Allen
Sunday, July 26, 2009
The Dead Live On, Envious
As of today we have a brand new song: "The Dead Live On, Envious". The music as well as lyrics for this song were inspired by the short story of the same name written by horror author Keith Zuccarelli. You can find the story in his first published collection entitled "Tales of the Broken".
The story itself is actually quite a tragic one, but we won't dive into that now. That's for the sewing circle to discuss:
Anyways...
The song is off the hook! I'll have the lyrics posted up soon! The idea for the music can be found on youtube or... RIGHT HERE!!
I hope everyone enjoys it!
Peace,
- Eric
The story itself is actually quite a tragic one, but we won't dive into that now. That's for the sewing circle to discuss:
Anyways...The song is off the hook! I'll have the lyrics posted up soon! The idea for the music can be found on youtube or... RIGHT HERE!!
I hope everyone enjoys it!
Peace,
- Eric
Friday, July 24, 2009
Where the songs came from pt. 2
Well, I did promise to try and update daily.
Here we go!
Seeing in the Darkness:
I wrote "seeing in the darkness" while I was in a little known (and far less impressive) band called scepter, or maybe we were specter. I don't know, it doesn't matter. My older brother, the front man for the band wanted me to write a song that was actually good. I did not do that. Instead I wrote a terrible piece of dog shit that was actually two very different songs smashed into each other and offered up as art. We never played it... Thank God. It was terrible, the guitar line rambled around, the drums were out of time and the bass played all of like five notes. It did however have this one really good riff.
When I went back and reworked the song a few years later, I threw out five minutes of so called "music" and was left with this very short riff. The part of the song where Allen sings "Would you kill me if I said please?", that riff... yup yup yup, that's the one. I kept that, took the main riff out of another song that I figured we would never ever play and it worked. Originally it was meant for two guitars, bass and drums, but I think the piano makes it sound downright haunting.
Fratricide:
Fratricide was written about a news story that hit very close to home. A local man shot his brother to death. Their father was a coworker of my father's and I was very sad for him. I took a riff that I had been messing around with for a few weeks and in the blind anger, frustration, fear and rage that come with hearing about a situation such as this, I fired off this song. It has not been changed from the original concept.
Angel of Fire:
Right now, our most popular song. The song we play as a closer was actually, originally, a love song. Once upon a time I was very very drunk and I was watching a movie (probably Lord of the Rings) and I decided that the most romantically tragic situation for lovers mathematically is the "Trapezoid" so I wrote a song about it.
The lyrics were a love song from one of the parallel lines to the other. He was sad because she always ran next to him, but they would never cross paths. Meanwhile their counterparts would intersect and at one point they would become one. This actually kind of made me sad thinking about it, so I wrote a song. I was very synth heavy and actually not quite bad.
So where then did "Angel of Fire" come from? Well, I got drunk one morning it was a saturday and I had been up writing music all night. I had opened my last bottle of colt 45 and sat staring at the T.V. I had been writing for ten hours straight and nothing was going right so I decided to flip through some of my old stuff and see what I could use. I found "Trapezoid" and realized that one little riff in there was pretty cool, so I ripped it out and stuck it down on paper. Then I went into another one of my songs "Terminality" and stole the verse/chorus chords and made those the verse/chorus of my latest Frankenstein song. It actually worked and from there I sat down, put in the drums, recorded them from guitar pro into cubase, played the three original guitar parts and the bass part and the rest is history.
Next time we'll learn about the Drop D song: Never Coming Back, The Damned, and Why is Everybody Dead?
Here we go!
Seeing in the Darkness:
I wrote "seeing in the darkness" while I was in a little known (and far less impressive) band called scepter, or maybe we were specter. I don't know, it doesn't matter. My older brother, the front man for the band wanted me to write a song that was actually good. I did not do that. Instead I wrote a terrible piece of dog shit that was actually two very different songs smashed into each other and offered up as art. We never played it... Thank God. It was terrible, the guitar line rambled around, the drums were out of time and the bass played all of like five notes. It did however have this one really good riff.
When I went back and reworked the song a few years later, I threw out five minutes of so called "music" and was left with this very short riff. The part of the song where Allen sings "Would you kill me if I said please?", that riff... yup yup yup, that's the one. I kept that, took the main riff out of another song that I figured we would never ever play and it worked. Originally it was meant for two guitars, bass and drums, but I think the piano makes it sound downright haunting.
Fratricide:
Fratricide was written about a news story that hit very close to home. A local man shot his brother to death. Their father was a coworker of my father's and I was very sad for him. I took a riff that I had been messing around with for a few weeks and in the blind anger, frustration, fear and rage that come with hearing about a situation such as this, I fired off this song. It has not been changed from the original concept.
Angel of Fire:
Right now, our most popular song. The song we play as a closer was actually, originally, a love song. Once upon a time I was very very drunk and I was watching a movie (probably Lord of the Rings) and I decided that the most romantically tragic situation for lovers mathematically is the "Trapezoid" so I wrote a song about it.
The lyrics were a love song from one of the parallel lines to the other. He was sad because she always ran next to him, but they would never cross paths. Meanwhile their counterparts would intersect and at one point they would become one. This actually kind of made me sad thinking about it, so I wrote a song. I was very synth heavy and actually not quite bad.
So where then did "Angel of Fire" come from? Well, I got drunk one morning it was a saturday and I had been up writing music all night. I had opened my last bottle of colt 45 and sat staring at the T.V. I had been writing for ten hours straight and nothing was going right so I decided to flip through some of my old stuff and see what I could use. I found "Trapezoid" and realized that one little riff in there was pretty cool, so I ripped it out and stuck it down on paper. Then I went into another one of my songs "Terminality" and stole the verse/chorus chords and made those the verse/chorus of my latest Frankenstein song. It actually worked and from there I sat down, put in the drums, recorded them from guitar pro into cubase, played the three original guitar parts and the bass part and the rest is history.
Next time we'll learn about the Drop D song: Never Coming Back, The Damned, and Why is Everybody Dead?
Thursday, July 23, 2009
Where the songs came from pt. 1
I figure I might as well shed some light on the creative process and where my songs come from. Usually when people ask me I just say something stupid like "I take a bottle of colt 45 and go from there." That is a bullshit answer that I use either to hide behind when I feel like I wrote a song that was too simple or when I don't feel like explaining all the emotion behind the music. I don't write lyrics often because for me the story is the music itself. So here we go...
"Judgment Day"
This song was actually written during a sound check for a show we played when I was in high school. There was this really pretentious "prog rock" band warming up and Mark, Mike and I decided we should mess with them, so I offered up a riff that I had been messing around with and we jammed on it unplugged in the lunch room at Fordham Prep. Then we took the stage and blew them away. We should have played it at the show, but we didn't. Allen wrote lyrics for it and called them "Black Hearts and Tyranny" That was all well and good, but way to Emo and it didn't feel right, we were playing this like ominous song and the lyrics were about a break up or something. So when the band and Allen split for a while we called it Judgment Day to get as far away from that old idea. Tim wrote the lyrics as they are now and everything has worked out pretty well since.
"The Steel"
This song has actually been around since about 2003 or so. Around then I was really into Manowar. So I wanted to write basically a tribute to "Warriors of the World". The steel was my horrible attempt at that. The original song was like 100 bpm with a galloping bass, a straight 1,2 beat drum track and a really really boring guitar. However it was the first time that I wrote solos. They were really really bad. When Mark came into his own as a drummer we went back to "The Steel" and reworked it a little. At first he did the running cymbal throughout the song, but we got rid of that, used it only during the verses and in the choruses (to give mark a break) we put a breakdown sort of double bass line that is really fun to play on the bass as well.
"Sleeping Awake"
In high school I was really into writing these tributes to my favorite songs. My family took a trip across country, and in a hotel room in New Mexico I saw for the first time Jerry Cantrell's video for "Anger Rising". I wanted to harness the anger and power of that main riff. So when we got back I sat down with my guitar and jammed out this riff that was pretty close. Then I added these other parts which to me sounded pretty good. It was the first time I had come up with a drum part that used quintuplets. It was awesome (or at least I thought so). I even wrote lyrics. They were about not being able to sleep and because of that the protagonist of the song was speaking to demons and seeing things that were destroying the world... So when my computer died I didn't have backups of the shitty lyrics, which is probably for the best. So I sent it off to Tim for lyrics. Tim's very into politics and such so he came up with this apocalyptic song that works. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED... I love that line. It captures the essence of the song.
That's enough for today. I'll let it all soak in... Coming up next... Seeing in the Darkness, Fratricide, and Angel of Fire.
- Eric
"Judgment Day"
This song was actually written during a sound check for a show we played when I was in high school. There was this really pretentious "prog rock" band warming up and Mark, Mike and I decided we should mess with them, so I offered up a riff that I had been messing around with and we jammed on it unplugged in the lunch room at Fordham Prep. Then we took the stage and blew them away. We should have played it at the show, but we didn't. Allen wrote lyrics for it and called them "Black Hearts and Tyranny" That was all well and good, but way to Emo and it didn't feel right, we were playing this like ominous song and the lyrics were about a break up or something. So when the band and Allen split for a while we called it Judgment Day to get as far away from that old idea. Tim wrote the lyrics as they are now and everything has worked out pretty well since.
"The Steel"
This song has actually been around since about 2003 or so. Around then I was really into Manowar. So I wanted to write basically a tribute to "Warriors of the World". The steel was my horrible attempt at that. The original song was like 100 bpm with a galloping bass, a straight 1,2 beat drum track and a really really boring guitar. However it was the first time that I wrote solos. They were really really bad. When Mark came into his own as a drummer we went back to "The Steel" and reworked it a little. At first he did the running cymbal throughout the song, but we got rid of that, used it only during the verses and in the choruses (to give mark a break) we put a breakdown sort of double bass line that is really fun to play on the bass as well.
"Sleeping Awake"
In high school I was really into writing these tributes to my favorite songs. My family took a trip across country, and in a hotel room in New Mexico I saw for the first time Jerry Cantrell's video for "Anger Rising". I wanted to harness the anger and power of that main riff. So when we got back I sat down with my guitar and jammed out this riff that was pretty close. Then I added these other parts which to me sounded pretty good. It was the first time I had come up with a drum part that used quintuplets. It was awesome (or at least I thought so). I even wrote lyrics. They were about not being able to sleep and because of that the protagonist of the song was speaking to demons and seeing things that were destroying the world... So when my computer died I didn't have backups of the shitty lyrics, which is probably for the best. So I sent it off to Tim for lyrics. Tim's very into politics and such so he came up with this apocalyptic song that works. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED... I love that line. It captures the essence of the song.
That's enough for today. I'll let it all soak in... Coming up next... Seeing in the Darkness, Fratricide, and Angel of Fire.
- Eric
Saturday, May 16, 2009
New Shit
The lyrics for one of our two new songs:
"Roses"
no longer will i take your shit
i'm not your fucking slave
I bust my ass day in day out
i dig my fucking in grave
I burn my candle ever faster
fire on both ends
you stab my back and slit my wrists
and call yourselves my friends
while you taste glory
i taste grit
when you get roses
i get shit
this fucking shit has got to stop
before i go insane
theres got to be a better way
than a bullet to the brain
no longer will i do this shit
i'm not your fucking slave
i'm worn and tired broke and beaten
lying in my grave
While you taste glory
i taste grit
when you get roses
i get shit
- Eric
"Roses"
no longer will i take your shit
i'm not your fucking slave
I bust my ass day in day out
i dig my fucking in grave
I burn my candle ever faster
fire on both ends
you stab my back and slit my wrists
and call yourselves my friends
while you taste glory
i taste grit
when you get roses
i get shit
this fucking shit has got to stop
before i go insane
theres got to be a better way
than a bullet to the brain
no longer will i do this shit
i'm not your fucking slave
i'm worn and tired broke and beaten
lying in my grave
While you taste glory
i taste grit
when you get roses
i get shit
- Eric
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