Doom metal Original Song (guitar solo, vocals, youtube, soundcloud)

[everdrone]

update: its hard to record a big production video! with all the audio and video sync'd up. Its easy to write a riff or do a karaoke song. but I managed to finish one. Ok Im a little proud of myself, **pats self on the back**

I just wrote a new song, inspired by the Black Sabbath show I just saw two days ago. I wrote it and sang and played the guitar, bass, and guitar solo. Free download here:
https://soundcloud.com/earthalliance/contemplating-the-vastness-of-space-doom-metal



video:
https://youtu.be/byPYOwDwUls



lyrics:

Contemplating The vastness of space
Destroyers seeking out, lasers beaming through our minds
Im falling out, beyond my dreams
Death ray pointed at me, blinding light pierces through the veil
Im tripping out, slipping into oblivion

A sound of lightning, The high priest the coming
Im levitating, truth unraveling
A cloud of smoke, light form beings arrive
Welcome presence, intake erase

Given gifts of light, given all the eyes can see
Seven flying tigers find the key

Contemplating
The vastness of space
Im Counting down
Vanish without a trace
DESTROYERS MIND ERASE

 

[MetalManiac]

Re: Doom metal Original Song (guitar solo, vocals, youtube, soundcloud)

I think this effort is the best of yours to date- you seem to be firing on all cylanders here vocally . Tone is great. Lyrics are great- you didn't bottom out on that extended scream vocal inot the video!

I'd give it a 100% if you took that funky Halloween pickguard off and out the white one back on the SG..lolz. I dig the production, especially when on the top left frame you pop in after the intro..

In sum total; fantastic True Stoner rock at it's best!!

 

[everdrone]

Re: Doom metal Original Song (guitar solo, vocals, youtube, soundcloud)

I think this effort is the best of yours to date- you seem to be firing on all cylanders here vocally . Tone is great. Lyrics are great- you didn't bottom out on that extended scream vocal inot the video!

I'd give it a 100% if you took that funky Halloween pickguard off and out the white one back on the SG..lolz. I dig the production, especially when on the top left frame you pop in after the intro..

In sum total; fantastic True Stoner rock at it's best!!

Thanks friend! I appreciate your feedback since I know you dig Heavy Rock!!! :beerchug:

heh the pickguard is funky lol Im open minded it may go eventually. Im glad you dig the vocal tone/lyrics! been working hard at that, always new stuff to work on there, vocals are the hardest thing I have ever done. Glad you dug the production, I figured out some other video production stuff I might try later on too, cheers

 

[Swampy]

Re: Doom metal Original Song (guitar solo, vocals, youtube, soundcloud)

That rocked man!
What are you doing for drums?

 

[everdrone]

Re: Doom metal Original Song (guitar solo, vocals, youtube, soundcloud)

Thanks Swampy! I always use toontrack - usually metal foundry presets. I have an electronic drumset that I plug into toontrack and am trying to get my drumskills better.

I always just use whatever I have in the meanwhile

ya its great to rent a practice studio and jam with 5 pro musicians that love doom metal with access to a pro recording studio, but with my limited time and resources I make do lol :banana:

 

[Lazarus1140]

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I agree 100% with Uncle Jer ... that was fantastic, Ron - unquestionably your best effort to date. What I take from this is that you might consider putting less effort into covers and concentrate on doing your own thing ... solid all around!

 

[everdrone]

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I agree 100% with Uncle Jer ... that was fantastic, Ron - unquestionably your best effort to date. What I take from this is that you might consider putting less effort into covers and concentrate on doing your own thing ... solid all around!

thanks brutha, ROCK!!! :headbang:

I dont put any effort into the covers, I literally do one to three takes and then press record, then upload.

Im pretty open minded, that sounds really cool to just have high quality high effort videos and no cover videos on my channel though. maybe one day Ill just delete the covers, but I do want to be singer in a cover band in a year or two. Doom bands have bring like 7 people to a show, and its a long way to the top! unless your in a cover band lol

 

[rashayritto]

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Good to see you're still populating this section with the doomy riffs, man. Digging the way that bass grates when you dig in.

 

[everdrone]

Re: Doom metal Original Song (guitar solo, vocals, youtube, soundcloud)

Thanks brutha, Im glad you dig!

 

[Kamanda~SD]

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My comment is the same every time you put one up....best yet!

 

[DankStar]

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cool - those dual vocals are killer. may want to consider doubling the whole tune. mix is great too, love the bass guitar.

 

[JOLLY]

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The drums sound like sh!t. Otherwise, I've always loved your Earth Alliance stuff!! It totally kicks ass!!

 

[JOLLY]

Re: Doom metal Original Song (guitar solo, vocals, youtube, soundcloud)

I would love to lay down some drums on that. We just need to figure out how.

 

[everdrone]

Re: Doom metal Original Song (guitar solo, vocals, youtube, soundcloud)

My comment is the same every time you put one up....best yet!

Thanks so much brutha! thanks for the listen. I am glad I am on the right path...TO DOOMING OUT!!! :headbang:

cool - those dual vocals are killer. may want to consider doubling the whole tune. mix is great too, love the bass guitar.

Rock on, I really appreciate it. I am excited the dual vocals worked out, they are one take wonders with no pitch correct, so the practice has paid off! I have not used pitch correct in years. if they are out of pitch, it really shows in harmonies.

The drums sound like sh!t. Otherwise, I've always loved your Earth Alliance stuff!! It totally kicks ass!!

Thanks brutha Im glad you dig my shizzle! Im my own worst critic, if my drum skills were up to par there are things in my head that I would do on a drumset to make them better!

I would love to lay down some drums on that. We just need to figure out how.

ROCK ON!!! I am always trying to collaborate with other musicians.

I just finished a mix for you with the metronome and none of my drums, so that you can download my track here and send me your recorded drums so I can mix them in:

https://soundcloud.com/earthalliance-area51/contemplating-the-vastness-of-space-no-drums

 

[MetalManiac]

Re: Doom metal Original Song (guitar solo, vocals, youtube, soundcloud)

You rock, and Jolly is gonna make that Roll!

 

[Myaccount876]

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Cool song - the vocals remind me of a much less wimpy/nasal Matt Belamy meets Ozzy singing over a Sabbath song. I'd say keep with the doubled vocals - they're challenging to do (I hate having to do them lol) but can be rewarding. The only issue with doubled vocals (that isn't too much of an issue) is when you have them doubled for the first verse, do the chorus, but wonder "what do I do now to make the second verse different/stand out?". In that case, you can double them as normal, but harmonize in 4ths, 5ths, octaves, whatever on the tail ends of phrases.

 

[everdrone]

Re: Doom metal Original Song (guitar solo, vocals, youtube, soundcloud)

You rock, and Jolly is gonna make that Roll!

Thanks MetalManiac! I PM'd Jolly just now to get that ball rolling

Cool song - the vocals remind me of a much less wimpy/nasal Matt Belamy meets Ozzy singing over a Sabbath song. I'd say keep with the doubled vocals - they're challenging to do (I hate having to do them lol) but can be rewarding. The only issue with doubled vocals (that isn't too much of an issue) is when you have them doubled for the first verse, do the chorus, but wonder "what do I do now to make the second verse different/stand out?". In that case, you can double them as normal, but harmonize in 4ths, 5ths, octaves, whatever on the tail ends of phrases.

Thanks for the listen, Im glad you dig my song!

That sounds cool, I might try that in the near future, cheers

 

[bearded madman]

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Man that sounds good. Been wondering if there were any sludge/stoner/doom type bands in Ft Worth

 

[JOLLY]

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Awesome!! Give me about a week or so. Hopefully I can have them done over the weekend.

 

[everdrone]

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Man that sounds good. Been wondering if there were any sludge/stoner/doom type bands in Ft Worth

ROCK~!!!!!!!!

thanks

there are a lot lol there is two facebook groups for just those bands

Awesome!! Give me about a week or so. Hopefully I can have them done over the weekend.

cool lets think creativity and art, and not timeframes, maybe well collab after this as well that would be cool. Im cool with a week or a month or...

I personally like to collab and mesh ideas without going public about the progress, just by PM or email etc, thats my approach but Im open to other approaches