Yo!
First bit of news: Finally decided to start posting work from my indie metal album. Gonna trickle the songs out as they're done.
This album is a little weird. Titled 'Warcrimes', it's actually a concept album that stems from the player characters in a huge 10 person DnD campaign I started running in 2018. In 2020 I decided to write a song for each character just as a thank you to my players. Originally I just sketched out some rough demos for each song and planned to leave it at that. But I wasn't very happy with where I left most of the tracks and decided to go back over and re-record/polish mostly everything. Over the past 4 years I've very slowly re-recorded and mixed what I could, working on a song for a couple hours every week or so. But unfortunately I've also had 2 computer crashes and lost a ton of the original recordings and couldn't fix a lot of problems I wanted to.
But it's been a while since I posted anything so I decided... screw it. I'm going to post both the album versions as well as the demo tracks. In my experience some people will like those more than the album versions, occasionally a first draft has some kind of raw essence a "final" or "finished" version doesn't. Some tracks don't have these demo versions because they've had major revisions/complete rewrites.
In short: It's gonna be a mess.
Tonally the album varies between a total meme and something more serious. While most of it is metal, I tried playing around with various styles and genres throughout. Almost every track has vocals and and while I drastically improved both in performance and tone over time even to this day I'd say I'm only a 5/10 singer, hitting maybe a 7 at my absolute best moments. But god dammit I had some fun doing it.
I'll organize it all here and update this post with links over time.
TRACKLIST:
1 - DREAMER OF LIES
2 - ICON MAIDEN
3 - HAMMER DOWN
- Album Version
- Album Version (Instrumental)
4 - AIN'T STOP SHOOTING
- Album Version
- Demo Version
5 - THE HUNTRESS
- Album Version
- Album Version (Instrumental)
- Demo Version
- Demo Version (Instrumental)
6 - CAT
- Album Version
- Album Version (Instrumental)
7 - COUNT ON INSURRECTION
- Album Version
- Album Version (Instrumental)
- Demo Version
- Demo Version (Instrumental)
8 - EULOGY FOR A SUCCUBUS
- Album Version
- Album Version (Instrumental)
9 - LOST AND FOUND
- Album Version
- Album Version (Instrumental)
- Demo Version
- Demo Version (Instrumental)
10 - SCALES OF FAMILY
- Album Version
- Album Version (Instrumental)
11 - THE NAN THEORY (INSTRUMENTAL)
- Album Version
- Demo Version
12 - THE LINK (INSTRUMENTAL)
- Album Version
- Demo Version
13 - LITTLE BROTHER (INSTRUMENTAL)
Also, I made a few dumbass Youtube dub videos for fun cause I definitely know how to use my time wisely.
Also also my podcast Eric Hates Dragonball Z is starting up again, going over Dragonball Super.
And now that I feel sufficiently gross about plugging my random projects, hope y'all have a great day!