By popular demand, I have chosen to release the instrumental versions of all of my Chinese Democracy-adjacent covers / remakes. Because I would have never forgiven myself if I hadn't, I also decided to superficially mix the tracks differently so the individual instruments are more distinguished, so the listening experience is more enjoyable and so the compilation is generally more cohesive. In order to ensure the integrity and flow of the albums these tracks were initially featured on, I have also included tracks that already were instrumental (i.e. "The General"), however they are only available on the unabridged version of this compilation (which is the version on Bandcamp); the version available on streaming services will omit any unnecessary instrumental parts.

Tracklist:

1. Tiananmen (2022 Mix) 00:00
2. Chinese Democracy (Instrumental) 01:18
3. Oh My God (Instrumental) 04:14
4. Better (Instrumental) 07:38
5. Blood in the Water (Instrumental) 12:12
6. Catcher in the Rye (Instrumental) 13:23
7. Street of Dreams (Instrumental) 20:33
8. There Was a Time (Instrumental) 26:34
9. Madagascar (Instrumental) 32:44
10. The General (2022 Mix) 38:18
11. Scraped (Instrumental) 39:45
12. Shackler's Revenge (Instrumental) 43:35
13. Sorry (Instrumental) 49:58
14. Silkworms (Instrumental) 56:05
15. This I Love (Instrumental) 01:00:56

Nothing Good to Say: Instrumentals '19-'20

Nothing Good to Say: Instrumentals 2019

By popular demand, I have chosen to release the instrumental versions of all of my Chinese Democracy-adjacent covers / remakes. Because I would have never forgiven myself if I hadn't, I also decided to superficially mix the tracks differently so the individual instruments are more distinguished, so the listening experience is more enjoyable and so the compilation is generally more cohesive. In order to ensure the integrity and flow of the albums these tracks were initially featured on, I have also included tracks that already were instrumental (i.e. "Recurring Puncture"), however they are only available on the unabridged version of this compilation (which is the version on Bandcamp); the version available on streaming services will omit any unnecessary instrumental parts.

Tracklist:

1. Warmth Before the Cold (2022 Mix) 00:00
2. Hard School (Instrumental) 02:34
3. Quick Silver (Instrumental) 05:47
4. Going Down (Instrumental) 09:15
5. Recurring Puncture (2022 Mix) 15:18
6. State of Grace (Instrumental) 18:48
7. How One Remains (2022 Mix) 23:04
8a. Assuage the Pain (Instrumental) 26:04
8b. Take It Back (Instrumental) 29:53
8c. An Act Most Devious (2022 Mix) 33:32
9. I.R.S. (Instrumental) 35:38
10. Atlas Shrugged (Instrumental) 39:28
11. Perhaps (Instrumental) 45:29

Nothing Good to Say: Instrumentals 2020

Stage 5

Two Late

Features various samples from the solo in "Madagascar" from the Martin Luther King, Jr. speeches "Why Jesus called A Man A Fool" and "I Have A Dream", and samples from the movies "Mississippi Burning", "Cool Hand Luke", "Casualties Of War", "Se7en" and "Braveheart".
EDIT 20th July 2020: Lossless version uploaded, downloads now permitted

10 Years of Democracy

Madagascar Samples

EDIT 20th July 2020: Lossless version uploaded, downloads now permitted

Silkworms

This track was slowed down, since the original seemed to be too joyful for the dark theme of school shootings.
EDIT 20th July 2020: Lossless version uploaded, downloads now permitted

Shackler's Revenge

Scraped

"The General" is a transition into the final part of the album.
EDIT 20th July 2020: Lossless version uploaded, downloads now permitted

10 Years of Democarcy

The General

There Was a Time

Street of Dreams

Catcher in the Rye

"Blood in the Water" is a transition into the next section of the album.
EDIT 20th July 2020: Lossless version uploaded, downloads now permitted

Blood in the Water

Additionally features a friend of mine, Elnaz Lotfi, on the backing vocals.
EDIT 20th July 2020: Lossless version uploaded, downloads now permitted

Better

"10 Years of Democracy" is a solo, label-less project in honor of the 10th anniversary of Guns N' Roses' most recent album, Chinese Democracy.
Full album, gapless playback.
EDIT 17th June 2020: Lossless version uploaded, downloads now permitted

10 Years of Democracy (Full Album | Gapless Playback)

Re-uploaded 20th July, 2020 after a bit of a back-and-forth with my distributor blocking my own content, but the lossless version is now available, downloads now permitted.

Chinese Democracy

Tiananmen

This is one of the three songs I demoed for a previous band I was in, called "Time of Sanctuary". Works quite well as an intro.

2020 Intentions Sampler

The Start of Something... (2019 - 06 - 04 Demo)

This is the second track I demoed for a band I was in, called "Time of Sanctuary". It was deemed "too heavy", which makes sense when you take into account what kind of music we usually played

It's Never Too Far Away (2019 - 06 - 04 Demo)

This was released as the final version of the song for "In Addition to Democracy", but I now consider this a demo, as I'm not really satisfied with its mix and production.

Riad N' The Bedouins (2019 - 03 - 02 Demo)

I.R.S. (2019 - 04 - 13 Demo)

If the World (2019-10-10 Demo)

This is one of the many tracks I'm playing with INTERGANG (webpage: intergang.at ), but it's the only one I have re-recorded myself as of the release of this sampler. It also seems to date back to the 20th of April 2017. Anyway, I think it's one of their best songs in the almost 10-year history of the band, during which they surprisingly never released finished versions of anything.

What If (INTERGANG 2019-11-03 Demo)

This is still certainly a demo, and will be part of "Too Late for Democracy" in a different form.

Hard School (2020-02-03 Demo)

Atlas Shrugged (2020-02-03 Demo)

The song is a cover of a recent Guns N' Roses leak named "Dub Suplex" (possibly written by Buckethead) under a different name. The audio comes directly from my guitar fx pedal and the exact same backing track used in the concert is used.

Few and Far Apart (Live at the Kaisersaal, Vienna)

A Recurring Puncture (Live at the Kaisersaal, Vienna)

Too Late for Democracy

Perhaps

State of Grace

Recurring Puncture

Going Down

Based off of "Quick Song", this is the first song I've ever written lyrics for.

Quick Silver

Hard School

Warmth Before the Cold

My second album, features multiple tracks that are re-worked Guns N' Roses demos from 1999-2001. "Too Late for Democracy" is a concept album which revolves around betrayal and murder within a group of 3 people who have known each other all their lives.

Catalog Number: ATVSv3.0.1

Too Late for Democracy (Full Album | Gapless Playback)

I'm a Canadian artist and current guitarist of Austrian alt rock band INTERGANG. I would describe my music as hard rock mixed with progressive rock, a bit of industrial metal, and progressive pop.

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