The "I'm a musician, kiss my ass" thread.

Decided to resurrect this thread.

I've bought a few VSTs lately and started working on orchestral music for indie videogames...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pn21hN1P_gw&feature=feedu

 

I make what I call 32 bit industrial funk music, best way I can describe it. Mainly work with midi instruments and digital manipulation but I'm working on getting some recording equipment up to start writing some real music.

Just finished up my favorite work to date, a cover of apocalyptica's hall of mountain king.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OKHuGnDGvmw[/youtube]Much thanks to Little Robot for the input

Here's my favorite original work. A few of you have already heard this one though...

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHxJdvL6Hu0[/youtube]

There's a couple five or six more but they all suck for the most part. Nothing serious for now, mostly just cool sounding tunes I came up with when messing around and built songs around. Just trying to build my skills with the softwares and composing for now.

Damn fine
I've been playing the guitar for a couple years, much envy of that skill level

I hate to add to a months old discussion but I totes agree. A good example is Dani Filth, of Dani And The Filths. Amazing on records, almost unlistenable live. Marilyn manson too, but he's not a smoker, just a shitty singer. On the other hand, one of my favorite singers, ICS Vortex, is a heavy smoker and drinker and can sing like the finest opera star and sounds amazing both on stage and recorded. Doesn't really have that much endurance though, sings in short bursts in a lot I've seen and in the arcturus shipwrecked dvd he gets pretty rough and even sits down for a couple songs, visibly winded Check out dimmu borgir's sacreligious scorn or arcturus's chaos path for examples of his best work imo. His ex-arcturus buddy Garm was a pretty bitchin smoker too. Probably better than vortex but his style is something much different, especially in Ulver.

 

Woo, this is in fact pretty old.

I actually hate music, to be honest. I do sing something at times though... Hope that'll suffice to pass me as a musician.

 

Haha thats like saying "I hate being able to see in color".

 

I do amateur songwriting in my spare time. I have vague ambitions of amounting to something but never will because I simply don't have the drive, discipline or will to do so. However, I can still occasionally put together ass-sounding shit, and I'm getting a decent mic soon so I'll at least be able to record vocals that don't sound like they've been through a cement mixer.

Random crap, a lot of it unfinished or really rough or badly mixed or whatever:

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/10680698/Music/Melocrap_1.mp3
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/10680698/Music/Force Nightmare.mp3
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/10680698/Music/New Song!.mp3
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/10680698/Music/Peurile Desecration_bass.mp3
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/10680698/Music/Death Is.mp3
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/10680698/Music/Death in Fire_vocals.mp3 (cover)
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/10680698/Music/Black Metal Stuff.mp3
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/10680698/Music/Blinded By Fear.mp3 (cover)
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/10680698/Music/Vile Putrescence - Zombie Warlord (Final).mp3 (oldest coherent song of mine that isn't entirely unlistenable)
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/10680698/Music/Dismember Knockoff.mp3

And just in time for the season:

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/10680698/Music/Secret Santa Gift.mp3

I hate myself and want to die.

 

You should use soundcloud or something, not many people would download a raw mp3 anymore. I tried a couple of them, sounds awesome. Do you do all the instruments yourself?


Forty-eight hours or so after being introduced to dubstep by Little Robot and suddenly I'm an official dubstepper. I think. I've actually only heard like three dubstep songs and I wasn't really paying attention while listening. And they were all by that skillrex duder and everyone's like "Dude he's not dubstep gosh." Nevertheless, this is what I assume the genre is like

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^That is indeed dubstep.

I play the piano well and several instruments not so well. I have a truly hellish singing voice, but like to sing - especially when drunk. Much to the annoyance of others.

 

OK, maybe I don't hate music, but I certainly am not a big fan of it. I really want to find music that I can listen to on and on, and the thing is, the genre does not matter at all.

I haven't so far, some of it can have a really good bit in it but then it gets completely spoiled later on.

 

That's not how music works. That's not how anything works. Everything gets boring after a while

 

a couple of years ago i had a band called euthanasia, i was the lead voice and guitar. but since the band is over i only play or sing at home now.

 

I know a few NMAers liked and bought my previous album so I figured I'd do a bit of gravediggin' to introduce my new band.

Meet the ...



DURR DURR DURR


In all seriousness, Engines of Malice is Roxy from Contre Jour ( a cool, semi-famous french cold wave / synth pop band ) on vocals and myself on keys, programming and guitars.

We sound like something between Fever Ray, Björk and Nine Inch Nails but with our own twist.

Here is our first single, "Surrender" !
This song was written, recorded, tweaked, re-tweaked and produced between August of 2012 and last February.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MiVCAdHsT9o&feature=player_embedded

If you like what you hear, you can join our FB page for more songs, news, tidbits and medias

 

That was really good. Is all your music in a similar vein? Would be nice to hear more. Very atmospheric. I'm usually not a big fan of electronic music, but this is just how I like it.

 

Sounds pretty cool. I like the voice very much.

 

Thank you guys !

It's in the same vein yes. Some songs are more electronic/industrial than this one, others feature eastern instruments more heavily, while some are almost entirely orchestral but all feature the same eerie atmosphere.

We are going to unveil new songs on our FB page in the weeks to come. Our goal is to build some anticipation for a few live shows, ideally before this summer

 

Would sure put that in my Spotify playlist. :3

 

Contre Jour are great, I love french cold wave or anything -wave, really.

Awesome! Now show me where I can buy your stuff.

 

You can't...yet

Our facebook page / Contre Jour's will point you in the right direction when the time comes.

We will release other songs in the weeks to come

 

New excerpt from the upcoming EoM E.P ( should be 6 to 8 tracks long ). The song is called "Dread" and is way more agressive and over the top than "Surrender".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iOlPH-AIYsc

Enjoy.