This is a song I originally wrote right before one of my previous bands broke up. We never got to finish recording/releasing it, so I decided to just record it myself.

This is my first completely self produced track, so while it's far from perfect I'm pretty happy with the end result.

For anyone curious of the source of the tones...

Guitar: Strandberg Boden 7 
Plugin: Archetype Nolly
Bass Plugins: Solemn Tones Loki Bass > Neural DSP Darkglass
Drums: Steven Slate 4

Resurrection

Written, Recorded and Produced by
John Tree

Drums Co-Written by
Thomas Lewis

For this recording I used:
Strandberg Guitars
Dingwall Basses
Tones by Neural DSP and GetGood Drums

Sorrow And The Empath

Exsanguine
Written, Recorded and Produced by
John Tree

Drums Co-Written by
Thomas Lewis

For this recording I used:
Strandberg Guitars
Dingwall Basses
Tones by Neural DSP and GetGood Drums

Exsanguine

Immolation
Written, Recorded and Produced by
John Tree

Drums Co-Written by
Thomas Lewis

For this recording I used:
Strandberg Guitars
Dingwall Basses
Tones by Neural DSP and GetGood Drums

Immolation

This is my first ever solo release with vocals, and it’s probably the most personal track I’ve made in a long time.

Fading In Entropy explores creative burnout—the slow fade of inspiration and the struggle to create again. I've made many attempts to return to making music since leaving the stage over 10 years ago, and only recently found the drive to really push at releasing material again.

Lyrics:
Is this the best that I'm able to give?
Doses of fractured time
Metered and resistive
Casting my truest self into a formless void
The brightest fragments of my soul are gradually denied

With apathy rising within me
Fading passions stagnate in entropy
A swirling vortex of dissonance
Threatens to swallow whole my only view of the firmament

A slow death
Yet somehow imminent
Everpresent

Have I already made my greatest waves across the arc of time?
Do they pale in the face of how I've changed?
A countenance redefined

So done with living this emptiness
Something just needs to be different
Dead tired of piling up on regrets
Who cares if the world ever listens?

Where is the fire that used to burn in me?
I'm holding out for a force of gravity
To take me back to the place I’m meant to be
Where is the fire that used to burn in me?
I need it's warmth like the air you breathe

Like wilted petals reaching for a shuttered light
In this inertia my soul wilts in kind

Yet it still survives on in the interstice
Ever ethereal
An ever waning voice
Dying impetus
Almost intangible

Have I already made my greatest waves?
Do they pale in the face of how I've changed?

So done with living this emptiness
Something just needs to be different
Dead tired of piling up on regrets
Who cares if the world ever listens?

Where is the fire that used to burn in me?
I'm holding out for a force of gravity
To take me back to the place I’m meant to be
Where is the fire that used to burn in me?
I need it's warmth like the air you breathe

Fading In Entropy

This is a song I wrote for a buddy of mine's recording project in grad school. He knew I used to perform acoustic stuff in college, and asked me to workshop something.

This song is the final thoughts of a man on death row, pleading forgiveness from those most important to him before he dies.

 I played almost everything live: guitars, bass, drums, vocals. Piano and synth parts are performed by Adam York. 

All recording courtesy of Jason York of Steel House Records.

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Guitarist

I have been playing guitar for 20+ years and I love making music. Metal is my first love, and that’s very plain to see if you listen to my music. After years of doing the band thing, I am now a self-produced solo instrumental artist. I hope you enjoy these instrumental offerings, I had a lot of fun writing them!

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