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*NEW MUSIC RELEASE* I decided to cover a song by Sam Hunt called "Make You Miss Me." The lyrics are absolutely great and I felt it would be a fun project.  If you haven't heard of Sam Hunt, check him out!  Feel free to download the recording and if you like it, PLEASE SHARE IT! Thanks!

Make You Miss Me (Sam Hunt Cover)

After listening to some progressive metal lately (Intervals, Angel Vivaldi, TesseracT, Animals as Leaders), I decided I wanted to just jam around and play something out of my comfort zone.  What ended up happening was that a new song was written and recorded in the process! This instrumental song is in 5/4 time and it developed into something far more brutal than I imagined.  Give it a listen!

Anguish

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My friend Ashley requested that I cover this song. Sevendust is one of my favorite bands so it's nice to be back with another cover.  I decided to make this one my own.  The band redid this song acoustically for "TIme Travelers and Bonfires" but I wanted to take it slower and with a little different feel.  Hope you guys enjoy it!

Sevendust - Karma (Acoustic Cover by Colton Rudd)

Think big, epic, and ambient.  Something you would hear in a movie almost.  This is a concept for a new song that veers a little off the hard rock path and incorporates more electronic elements to create a somewhat tense atmosphere.

Cinematic (demo)

Since I got really positive feedback from the demo version I posted, I ended up reworking it to make it function as an intro for my band's live set.  The drums and bass would be stripped from this when run as a backing track, but I left them in this version just to keep it sonically full. Can you picture this being in a movie?

Cinematic v2.0

This is a demo of a song I co-wrote with Clint Lowery of Sevendust back in February 2014. Until now I have kept it private and unreleased.  However, in light of Chester Bennington's tragic suicide, I feel compelled to share this for the first time.

This song describes the inner war we wage with ourselves.  We all face dark times and are pulled down by something.  Sometimes we become so depressed and feel so defeated that we are rendered helpless in our own minds.  It is easy to let an overwhelming sense of despair become a suffocating blanket we feel we can never escape. However, we ALWAYS have the choice to fight.  Whether we feel strong enough to do it or not, we always have the choice.

For me personally, this song was about recognizing that I was in a dark place and had destructive behaviors, and that I needed to decide how I wanted to live my life from that moment forward.  I wanted to be a fighter, and I was willing to face my demons head on and go to war and thus partake in the "firefight" for which this song was named.

One day I plan on polishing this up, laying down official vocal tracks and getting a great mix out of it to officially release it.  For now though, I felt it was more important to share the message in hopes of reaching somebody that may need to hear those words, and to know that they have a fighting chance.

Firefight

Firefight (2014 Demo)

After hearing a 30 second snippet of an unreleased Breaking Benjamin track titled "Torn In Two", I decided to make a mini-cover/interpretation of what I heard.  I wish I knew what the full track sounded like, but here is my interpretation of this sample, trying to add some Breaking Benjamin flare around the edges.

Torn In Two

First original song I released on iTunes! Recorded this one a couple years ago.  All music tracks and vocals performed and recorded by Colton Rudd. 

Colton Rudd

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