The more i listen to this the more i like it, this is so good!

Demonstrating the Ample Metal instrument series, along with a few others for some movement. I use Ample Sound's libraries because they can achieve a very convincing sound. The guitars are numerous and varied in timbre, and they don't hit the CPU so hard, unlike so many others out there (looking at you, Kontakt).

Ample Metal Hellrazer: https://www.amplesound.net/en/pro-pd.asp?id=33

Ample Metal Eclipse: https://www.amplesound.net/en/pro-pd.asp?id=16

Ample Metal Ray5: https://www.amplesound.net/en/pro-pd.asp?id=18

Ample Guitar SC: https://www.amplesound.net/en/pro-pd.asp?id=2

Ample Guitar Martin: https://www.amplesound.net/en/pro-pd.asp?id=4

Restitution

AUTUMN SUNSHINE 

Here’s an uplifting tune celebrating the golden rays of light these last few days here in my part of the World, a much needed lighter tone to counterbalance all the insanity of our current day…

I hope it can uplift your spirits a bit too. As always I really enjoy all your likes, comments and shares. -Dan

Recorded with the EVH 5150 Series Standard Stealth Black EB guitar.
Track written, recorded and played by Dan van den Berg,

Bass: Fender Performer Jazz Bass
Recorded using Amplitube and AURIA for iPad
Mixing in AURIA, mastered with Final Touch
Drum programming in Amplitube, metal kit, arranging in AURIA
Recorded October 2022.

Autumn Sunshine | Dan van den Berg

Light Sparks and Water Dorps

This new track I recorded has many flavors of electric guitar music in it. Fusion with a hint of Rock would be a good description, for it has a blend of several styles. In my earliest experiences with the electric guitar, the sounds and the music, I can remember bands like Return to Forever, Zappa's guitar work, Mahavishnu Orchestra and it's founder John McLaughlin, Pat Metheny, later some Yes, Asia, Steve Lukather, some Genesis, Al Di Meola, Steve Vai, Joe Satriani, amongst many others.

Fusion music I got to hear very early on through mixtapes my uncle made for me. These were mesmerizing to me. Didn't always understand what I heard, but it stuck with me through life and through the years I developed my ear more and more. This track celebrates those sounds and uses accessible and uplifting harmonies and melodies, that are at times snappy, then smooth, some are rock, some more blues based, some are jazz oriented. (Note: There is a hint to Bruce Hornsby's most famous song in one of the melodies.)




I hope you will enjoy this track and as always I really appreciate your comments, likes and shares.




-Dan




All music and guitars by Dan van den Berg, written and recorded in February, March 2017

Drum programming using samples from Amplitube. 

Guitars recorded with Amplitube

Drum arrangements, editing and mixing in AURIA

Mastered with Final Touch

Guitar: Fender American Elite Stratocaster® HSS Shawbucker, 2016

Light Sparks and Water Drops

Light Sparks and Water Drops | Dan van den Berg

Using only MIDI, I recreated the verse after the tempo change in Threshold's Liberty, Complacency, Dependency from March of Progress. 

Amplesound: AME guitars, ABJ bass
Toontrack: Superior Drummer 3 (all mixing done in native mixer)
IZotope: Ozone 8 (for guitar eq matching from the song)

Threshold - Liberty, Complacency, Dependency (Drawn & Quartered)

Bridges Burning

Fulcrum

Borrowed Time

This track comes all the way back from 2010. Originally done with  Garageband EXS24 instruments, now fleshed out with "real"  vst instrumentation.

Video version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5DtTqIio4I&ab_channel=Drawn%26Quartered

Chains of the Wicked

Lyrics:

Verse 1:
Hey, wake up
Another day is here
The sun is bearing down
But your head is in the clouds
Rise and shine
No hope will be denied
The one’s who chase their dreams
Will find the life they seek
 
Chorus:
Hey, Wake up!
Your life’s a journey 
All your darkest days
Can hold you back 
From a life uncharted 

Verse 2:
Hey, wake up
The walls are ever near
No one deserves a crown
But I’ll ever bring it down
Rise and shine
No ghost within the night
Gives in to every whim
On the cusp of deadly sin

Bridge:
All that we’ve got sometimes doesn’t 
Give you all that you may want
Your story isn’t over 
Until you’ve given up

SleepWalker

written by Haymon
recorded at Village Road Studios
mixed and mastered at Kalthallen Studios

Haymon - Invocation - 02 - Invocation

Martyr 
 
You are my judge, you pass verdicts on me. 
Your broken deeds waste my last precious bit. 
Father, hangman, the symbol that you wear 
means mercy for all, yet never for me.
 
Your wish for whispers to finally cease 
Son of a whore, bearing  the sign of love 
around your smelly neck.
Leech you drain my blood
And I can still see the dark in my eyes.

While your red robe conceals perversion within its many folds. 
In this red robe the blessings  you will say. 
My foul savior, from the inside you rot. 
Wrapped up in gold, to me yielding just rust. 
Punishing me, your poor disabled child.

You like those games, perverted fucking prick. 
My helplessness, the more it boosts your strength. 
Put on your crown, pronounce the blessing now 
then let us pray, before you’ll have to hang 
on the truth’s noose, false martyr corrupt scum.

Martyr

AudioSupernova is Dennis Koop.

An eclectic mixture of genres where heavy metal guitars, 80's synthesizers, big drums and acoustic pianos call themselves home.

Born and raised on NES and SNES video games. If you hear a boss fight in a song, it's no coincidence.

SleepWalker

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