Three New Heavy Songs! (DFH1, Battery, Podxt)

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Hey guys,
i havent been here in a while!!
i have been working on my demo for my band Periphery for the past couple days, and i have 3 tracks that have everything except some vocals and maybe some missing lead lines or solos, but they are still heavy and nice i think!


the songs are called:

Resonance
Year Long Car Alarm
and,
Beyond

and you can get them here: http://www.soundclick.com/bands/8/bulbmusic.htm

please check em out and let me know what you think!
let me know what you think of the production as well as i am gonna be sending the demo to labels and i would like to have the best sounding product possible!
any constructive tips or comments you could give would be well appreciated!



Enjoy

t

[GDan]

This is weird. I've seen you on the Line 6 froum. Guitargeek and this one.

[thisfilter]

yes, i am on several forums trying to get my music out there! it works really well too!

[chimp_spanner]

Hey man! *does secret mesh handshake*

Okay, listened to Resonance first...pretty kickass stuff. Very explosive/energetic. Not what I was expecting from you (polymetric Meshuggah-ish stuff), so it's a nice departure. Reminds me a little of In Flames, when they were good hehe. Really liked the bit at 2:40. Kind of dark, and uplifting at the same time. Nice. There's enough variation in the riffing to keep things interesting. Very cool.

Okay next up, Year Long Car Alarm. Hm this is also very different to what I was expecting. I'm hearing a wealthy of influences in there, (some strong Mnemic vibes, although you may not listen to them at all!) but also something very distinctive in this song - something "you". The use of odd meters in there is very discreet and tasteful, and slots in nicely rather than dominating the song and dictating where it should go. Really digging the crazy Cath 33 atonal patterns in there (sorry to keep comparing lol it's the only way I can describe stuff!). Yeah this one definitely took me back to some of the better Nu Metal that was around way back when, but with a weight of intellect behind it. Liked it very much.

Beyond - awesome intro. Machine gun bass drums rock. Some excellent drum programming too, especially the nice little tom ditty during what sounds like the verse. Blast beat around 3:20ish...very nice also. This probably wasn't my favourite out of the three, but still good nonetheless.

One observation that applies to all three recordings - the guitar tone could do with some work. I know the sound you're going after; I'm thinking the opening riff to Left Behind (there I go comparing again hehe). But it's that nice little distressed squeel before every note. But, it may be a little overdone. I'm guessing it's the Boost+EQ stomp with the mid control used to emphasise the extreme high mids? Perhaps back off on it just a tad. On Year Long Car Alarm (my personal fav) there's alot of interesting stuff going on but it gets lost in a deluge of squeel! Like a wah pedal left fully open.

That's probably the only flaw in the recordings. They'd actually sound alot more "pro" if the tone was a little tighter, more focused. The real meat of the guitar lies in the mids - those high mids are just a nice glossy coat on the top. At the moment they sound a little thin, but with a bit more oomph behind em these tracks could really rupture some spleens.

As I said, drum programming was excellent. Snare on Year Long... was the better of the three. A little too quiet and dry on Resonance.

Other than that, great stuff. Good luck with your demos! That's something I've been meaning to do for a very long time but, I have no band, and I wouldn't have a clue where to start pushing 9 minute progressive/ambient/sega metal music. Ah well.

Look forward to hearing these with vocals on them. Keep kickins áss!!!!

- Paul O

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Hey man! Thanks a lot!
your opinion means a lot to me since you are a **** good "minimalist" producer!

after listening a few more times, i agree with you, the high mids take over a bit, i think ill cut those a tad and boost more low mids (more crunch and less screech). I also am somewhat limited by my equipment cuz i am still using a pitchshifted guitar for the "bass" and the drums are dfh1 (i need to get some cash for superior soon, cuz i think i have reached my limit of how good i can get those stupid toms to sound...in other words not good enough)

Dont worry about the comparisons, tho these songs were written over a year ago, and i hadent heard in flames, catch33 (for obvious reasons), or mnemic back then hehe, but its cool and i definitely see the similarities now!

btw my "band" is still incomplete (big surprise), why do all of you awesome musicians live on the other side of the world from me? We still need another guitarist!! (hint hint, nudge nudge)

[chimp_spanner]

Man, don't worry if everyone else is using Superior - you can still manage to make DFH1 sound pretty shít hot - especially the kicks. Nothing in Superior even comes close to the kick in the original DFH; not without alot of bouncing. And bouncing = hassle *nods*

Personally, I'd take any spare cash you have, and buy yourself a cheapo 4 string (an Encore, Squier, anything), string it up with some 130's and you're set hehe.

Well hey I know I'm too far away to be in any band *sniff* but perhaps we could collab on something some time, just for a bit of fun ya know! Get some vocals going on. Could be cool!

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hmm, you are the first person to tell me NOT to get superior! are the kicks really that bad? cuz the toms and cymbals and snares sounds so much better from the demos i have heard!

I would be up for a collab, i have never really tried one before, but it would be an interesting experiment to say the least!

[chimp_spanner]

Well hey don't get me wrong, Superior still rocks my world pretty hard ;) but it's so much harder to get that nice resonance throughout the kit, and that sense of...power. Not without bouncing anyway. And bouncing ties me in to whatever state the arrangement is in at the time. Which simply won't do for someone as afraid of commiting to anything as me! I'd still reccomend it for everything except the kick. But what I meant was, at the moment, I think your songs would benefit more from real bass, seeing how you make DFH1 sound amazing anyway!

[thisfilter]

I see. Btw your mixes obviously sound amazing, but do you record the bass direct and then post process, or do you have some sort of bassdriver in the front?

[chimp_spanner]

Nah, on the earlier stuff it was just bass -> dynamics -> Amplitube -> sometimes more dynamics.

Nowadays it's just bass -> XT Pro!

[thisfilter]

awesome!
btw i uploaded a song i made/covered for jens bday, i have a feeling you might like it, if you like catch33 that is hehe!

[chimp_spanner]

Hehehe, madness, pure madness I tell you! Who would have thought Catch 33 would make good techno material :)

I dig, this puppy is going on my playlist for sure. 2:10 kicks so much butt!!!!

Please don't be offended or cry "copycat" when I start posting Mesh techno covers lol now I'm intrigued....

[chimp_spanner]

Oh and sorry to double post, but...now that I have broadband, at last, I finally got round to downloading all your stuff.................

Excellent - Oxidius has gone round a good three times already. I've heard bits, and pieces, but never the whole lot. What country do you live in again? We need a band lol

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i live in america, hehe, it sucks doesnt it, you are in the uk right? you should move here and join my band already, cuz you are really something else on the guitar! (my faves are spirals and clarity in chaos, oh man how i wish i had written those hehe!!)