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Last Active 01-06-23 10:47 pm Joined 10-07-12
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So my band has a new record out 20th September - a double EP - with a couple of cool feature guests on it. We're a hip-hop/rock type thing and today we've dropped our first song from it, called "Ruckus". Check it out and let me know your thoughts. I'm pretty proud of this project, but even if you think it's shit, it would be cool to get your feedback.
You can listen on Spotify or stream/download it for free on good ol' Bandcamp. | | 1 |  | Despicable BC
https://despicableband.bandcamp.com/track/ruckus | | 2 |  | Despicable AD
Spotify
https://open.spotify.com/track/4w2m3keiA8KrbNUrg8kjkx?si=qvo1hfupTda2gc4E2qah5g&context=spotify%3Aalbum%3A63ocDWl1I5ipEQHWFTejgv | | 3 |  | Despicable Meditations
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Gameofmetal
09.06.24 | Not my speed exactly, but I didn't mind it. Some cool instrumental stuff in there specifically. | DrGonzo1937
09.06.24 | Thanks for checking it game, appreciate you taking the time to listen to it. | anode
09.06.24 | dig it quite a bit, think after that first verse could use a prechorus or some type of brief slow down / electronic experimentation. also a lil anticlimactic at the end. good stuff tho | kildare
09.07.24 | Strong notes of Limp Bizkit and Rage Against the Machine without sounding derivative. Lack of a (standard) guitar definitely makes it more hip-hop and less metallic than those guys. I can't connect with Silver's vocal style, but then I can't connect with Bizkit's or Rage's either, so that's not helpful.
But your bass during the "quieter" sections (on Ruckus) was the highlight for me. It sounds like the tone is different from one section to the other. Like, the "quieter" sections have more standard (I don't have the vocabulary here) amplifier settings, but it changes abruptly on the "noisier" sections into a sound more like Electric Wizard's Dopethrone? Is that with help from the synth player? I mean, it's too fast to change the basses' tone during a performance, no?
Anyway, interesting stuff. I probably can't be trusted on this -- not being a true fan of this kind of thing -- but if I heard this track come on after a Bizkit or Rage track on a major radio station, I wouldn't notice a change in vibe at all. It sounds professional. | Hawks
09.07.24 | Gonzo bro this track absolutely rules. | DrGonzo1937
09.07.24 | Thanks a lot Hawks m/
Thanks a lot everyone for checking so far.
@kildare
The heavy parts, minus the screechy part, are actually just drums and bass. Well observed with the synth sound though, coz the tone comes from a collection of distortion and synth pedals | kildare
09.08.24 | Cool. When I see "synth" I automatically think EBM or pop or something -- just my own bias -- but you guys are using them a lot more like Einsturzende Neubauten and other "original" industrialists might have. I don't know the genre, but that seems like a bonus for originality, or at least a fresh sound | Egarran
09.08.24 | Pretty sweet, I found myself nodding my head. | DrGonzo1937
09.09.24 | thanks egarran.
appreciate it kildare. tbf, this is the only tune with that combination of sounds, the rest of the record uses more conventional distortion etc. | kildare
09.11.24 | "the rest of the record uses more conventional distortion": I'll give it a hard listen anyway! |
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