From the 2020 EP My Bike's Busted & My Submarine Stinks, by Dereification. Find more at http://dereification.bandcamp.com

My Submarine Stinks

I'm uploading a different take to YouTube, but I thought I'd upload this one to SoundCloud, as it was my second favorite!

(Exivious put out the backing track to the guitar solo section of their song "Entrust")

Exivious "Entrust" Solo (Alternate Take) - Devin Wilson

Gear: Ableton Live, EZDrummer 2, Korg padKontrol, Steinberger Spirit GU Deluxe (stock), Ibanez RG8 (stock), Ibanez SR375 (stock), POD HD500X.

Improvised 5 riffs on the RG8, then came up with bass lines for them, and then used the Steinberger for Holdsworthian chords or a Cynic-esque riff or a solo. Then I played the padKontrol with EZDrummer 2... the double kick sections have that aspect overdubbed (no double kick pedal here)... and I used a fill from my MIDI library and I did *some* quantizing and editing... but not *that* much.

After/during all that, I arranged it as you hear it.

I wanted to record and upload this in one afternoon, so the mix is a little impatient, to be honest.

12 March 2016 Demo-thing

Just some quick improvised guitar and bass loops over some drum loops.

Gear:
EZDrummer 2
Ableton Live
POD HD500X
Ibanez SR375
Jackson J22-7

14 May 2016 riffing

This is a tongue-in-cheek improvised death metal song from 2006.

I suddenly realized that it's now _a decade_ since I was a junior in high school recording all sorts of demos like this one.

I was probably playing a BC Rich Ironbird through a Boss ME-50 and some cheap practice amp? Can't remember for sure.

Perish, If You Don't Mind (May 16, 2006)

I think Paramore is great and I thought "Misery Business" could sound good in a metal arrangement. This is a chunk of the recording I'm working on right now... I'm not sure if I'll finish it. I was going to play lead guitar to mimic Hayley's vocal line, but it's not sounding great. I may need to re-record some things.

I'm taking a ton of liberties with transposing and arranging the song, as you can hear. The bridge is going to be mostly improvised, at least in the current vision for the cover.

(I probably should have just done a more straightforward version of the song.)

Anyway, I figured I would at least share this much. We'll see if I do more with this. It was a fun afternoon's worth of experimenting, if nothing else (and it got me using Guitar Pro again).

"Misery Business" cover-in-progress

A somewhat rushed metal/guitar cover of "Misery Business" by Paramore!

I took some liberties with the arrangement, and I improvised a decent bit, too.

Gear:
POD HD500X
Jackson JS22-7
Ibanez SR375
EZDrummer 2 (with various EZXs combined for this kit)
(Also, this Guitar Pro file was indispensible in not only providing drum MIDI—which I only tweaked a little—but also in helping me learn the song quickly... because my ear is just not very good! https://tabs.ultimate-guitar.com/p/paramore/misery_business_ver4_guitar_pro.htm)

I could spend more time re-recording and mixing but eh this is fine-ish. Not really trying to show off too much with this. Just thought it'd be a fun way to celebrate Paramore (cuz they're rad) and record something (cuz I enjoy that).

M0s0ry B0s0n0ss

I hadn't recorded anything in a while. This is pretty spontaneous and minimal.

Jackson JS22-7 -> Pod HD500X (looper & modeling) -> Ableton Live + EZDrummer (Metal! pack)

21 October 2017 Rumination

Still have some work to do on this short instrumental metal thing, but I wanted to share a little chunk of it.

29 January 2020 Work in Progress

I make sounds, often with an electric guitar. Some of my favorites are released under the name "dereification".

Devin Wilson

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