Name: Underground Inc. by Jackal Crow
Duration: 7 min 24 s
Description: This song is very much based on the Joker but specifically the Heath Ledger Joker. It’s got hip hop Trap beats at the start and a Saxophone solo in the middle 🎷 No Rules. The Jackal Crow way!🤘💀🤘

This song is very much based on the Joker but specifically the Heath Ledger Joker. It’s got hip hop Trap beats at the start and a Saxophone solo in the middle 🎷 No Rules. The Jackal Crow way!🤘💀🤘

Underground Inc.

While we're at it, I finished this cover of ELO's Don't Bring Me Down a few days ago. 

Made life hard for myself by taking a song with very famous falsetto and tuning it down to the point that I couldn't sing it in falsetto, so had to rewrite the vocal harmonies and most of the song to get it to work together. Could've added layers forever but I only had limited time and I'm pretty happy with it. Should've called it 'Don't Tune Me Down', but the artwork is done, so that's that.

Written by Jeff Lynne, adapted and performed by me, all rights belong to the respective right holders.

Don't Bring Me Down(tuned)

I wrote a song about going to a social gathering and not wanting to socialise, and then finding company in somone else who also doesn't want to socialise. 

This is that song.

Music & lyrics: Me. Matt Graham. I did them.

Together Alone

Together Alone - Mix

All rights and credits belong to the composers of the original version: MYGIND A/WERNER M/MOGENSEN N/JANZI A of the fantastic Danish band VOLA.

Link is in the bio, as always. Check out the original here for a comparison: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oV71YZluVQc

This began as part of an assignment to rework an existing song. I've loved VOLA and this song years, but had no idea where to start and the first draft was essentially a complete recreation of the original with some acoustic guitars here and there.

I had to go back to the start and redo about 70% of the arrangement. Even still I didn't end up straying from the original in terms of composition, beyond the intro.

It was a difficult process as I was working with time and technical constraints, made some simple mistakes and took shortcuts that I baked into the tracks for convenience in the short term. In the long term it meant that if I wanted to release a version I was happy with I'd have to spend hours working around these issues rather being able to fix them. Which is exactly what I did.

In the end I just had to stop work and let it out of its cage.

Alien Shivers - VOLA Cover

I was listening today and realised I'd uploaded my mix of Together Alone without finishing it for release. This one is a little bigger, a fair bit bassier, and hits a bit harder - in other words it's closer to the kind of sound I'd imagined. I figured I'd upload the Master seperately so there's a before and after for those who care.

I wrote a song about going to a social gathering and not wanting to socialise, and then finding company in somone else who also doesn't want to socialise. 

This is that song.

Music & lyrics: Me. Matt Graham. I did them.

Together Alone - Master

MUSIC: M. Graham; LYRICS: S. Eliot

This one had some dust blown off it a few times. I recorded the music in 2022 - the first metal song I'd written in...10-15 years? Mixing metal is hard as hell, and I restarted from scratch about 2-3 times as I was learning. A colleague of mine (who you can find online as Jackal Crow) lent his incredible lyrical and vocal talents. We worked so well on this that we have a few more in the works.

Took me over a year to get the time to really dive into it and polish it up, and then I decided I was going to release the 4 songs we have almost finished all at once as an EP. And with that single move I created an obstacle so large I couldn't even begin to surmount it. 

So I took 2 months off (not by choice, just entered a fugue state and finished every Soulsborne game), and then came back to it a few days ago and finished it. 

And here we are - the first song from a project called REFINERY. I hope this gets you through your work day.

Blood Red Rust

Need in the Hay 2024 submission.

Lyrics:
_______
The sky looked down on lovers 
All staring toward its face
It couldn’t tell you what they see in it
They still look despite it’s changing 

It can hide all it wants
Deep within its blankets 
It knows not of our patience 
until finally It faces us 

And still we stare in awe 
Mutual fragile honesty
No matter how long you’re in the clouds
There’s always someone waiting 

With Eyes that just can’t wait to meet you 
When you’re ready to face the earth
And feel this sense of warmth 
When you remember you have worth
_______

The Lovers (demo)

This is the start of a new project called: A Future Painted Black between Legendary Shred metal Guitarist Shred Sean Formerly of Blessed by a Broken Heart and Tyler Hacker a popular Metal Guitarist found on Y00T00Bz. 

Blood Stained Redemption

💀 Jackal Crow unleashes his dark spin on a KMFDM classic! 💀
This is Juke-Joint Jezebel (Metropolis Mix) reimagined with a feral, industrial-metal twist—gritty riffs, pounding drums, and a sonic shadow that only JC could summon. 🔥

🎸 If you thought you knew the song, think again… Jackal Crow takes it to the edge, blending chaos and melody into a storm you won’t forget.

⚡ Crank it loud. Feel it in your bones. Welcome to the underground.

#jackalcrow #kmfdm #industrialmetal #metalcover #metropolismix #sonicalchemy #maskedmetal

Juke-Joint Jezebel (Metropolis Mix)

Mp3Arhiv.net

Snoop Dogg - Smokin Smokin Weed (feat. Nate Dogg  Ray J)

This is a live version of Hemorrhage (In my hands) by fuel that was recorded with my new project (Name TBC) w/ Guitarist Brendon Heien.

'Live' Hemorrhage (Acoustic) - Fuel Cover Mp3

Welcome to the strange world of Jackal Crow. A masked artist with the visceral influence of Slipknot but with the colour and lateral thinking of Tool.. A creature combining the light and the dark sides of life with a visceral sound but esoteric ideals and ritualistic practices with a cyberpunk aesthetic and an avant-garde presentation to bring this strange music and visual art to life.

Underground Inc.

Jackal Crow

Related tracks