This means WAR! (Fuzz War/Ultimate Octave content)

[TwilightOdyssey]

I retracked the guitars to this songwriting demo over the weekend. All of the tracks save for one solo were recorded with the Death By Audio Fuzz War pedal. One of the solos uses the Fulltone Ultimate Octave; it'll be very obvious when the UO kicks in.

I've mentioned this before, but it bears repeating -- I love the Fuzz War. It's mean, it's nasty, it's EXTREMELY LOUD.

Enjoy!

http://soundcloud.com/phantomisle/exhortation-of-the-heights-demo


Lyrics --

Exhortation of the Heights
© 2009

O, hearken you Titanic children,
Crown princes of uncounted realms
Invested upon a galactic dais
Wielding the scepter of sustaining fire
Planetary supplicants
Arrayed across fiefdoms vast
Confident in ancient power
In blazing vestments cast

Know that once, we too were Lords
Crowned in cloud and possessed of sight
Hawk and falcon; sentinel and messenger
Humbled before our Olympian might
Struggling life primeval, rising and falling
Extinguished before our dispassionate gaze
What sights we beheld from our heights
What sagas; what wonders; those eonic days.

From our ruin we call
From our darkened Halls
From our silent Shrines
With our shattered spines
Where The Void reigns
No Lords remain
Beware, beware, beware,
Pride goeth before…

 

[Chickenwings]

Re: This means WAR! (Fuzz War/Ultimate Octave content)

old school metal!
Yeeaaahhhhhhhhh boy!
I like the tempo change in the middle.

 

[crguti]

Re: This means WAR! (Fuzz War/Ultimate Octave content)

I liked it :headbang: . Kinda a mixture of black sabbath riffs and a female danzig :scratchch

off topic: I just discovered Death By Audio pedals, and I'm gasing the Supersonic Fuzz Gun so badly.

 

[the guy who invented fire]

Re: This means WAR! (Fuzz War/Ultimate Octave content)

We, you know what I think!

That OU tone is super cool...really "piched off" sounding on that track!

 

[TwilightOdyssey]

Re: This means WAR! (Fuzz War/Ultimate Octave content)

I liked it :headbang: . Kinda a mixture of black sabbath riffs and a female danzig :scratchch

off topic: I just discovered Death By Audio pedals, and I'm gasing the Supersonic Fuzz Gun so badly.

I love every pedal DBA makes, though a couple of them are way out there! The Fuzz Gun is a great pedal, too!

 

[Low_fidelity2100]

Re: This means WAR! (Fuzz War/Ultimate Octave content)

The fuzz war sounds really kool, gonna have to check one of those out. That solo sounds amazing, I've never been a fan of Octava style pedals, but this totally has me reconsidering that, haha.

As for the recording...you should Double (or triple) track the guitars, so they're thicker, especially during the quicker parts, make em stand out more (it'll help make those parts sound more urgent and important in the context of everything else). Also who ever that chick is singing, she sounds like......Whats a polite way to put it....In my head when I hear that voice I imagine a 500 pound woman with Wendy Braids dressed like a Viking.....I mean, her voice totally fits the track and sounds kool....Its just really off putting. Also, she needs some reverb on her vocals.