Bands I Like!

The various covers I have done over the years. The newer the more polished, the older they are the more diamond in the rough. This playlist conveys my growth in talent and technique. It wasn't always as effortless seeming. Over the years you can hear a sort of specific style to my sound and I like to see that conceptualized.

Studio Vocal Covers

Just a side project/think tank for me and my buddy. Recycling old and unwanted riffs from our main project, Iscah. Fun stuff, featuring many guests, that happen to be real good pals. Anything goes....

Flying Internet Hate Machine (FFO: BTBAM/Monuments/BoO/Periphery)

This is seriously an "un-serious" original track featuring Dakota "Koken" Ellis and Alan "The Bean" Romero on vocals. Obviously we had fun making this. Again, not a serious piece. We got bored.

Guitars: Alan, Alex
Bass: Alan, Alex
Drums: Alan, Al...
Vocals: Alex
Backing Vocals: Alan, Koken
Mixed by Alex's asshole

"I don giv rat-ass."

Trauma Handshake - Flying Internet Hate Machine feat. Koken

This is absolutely nothing. Spawned from a jam session. It is quite old, and I believe it was intended for Iscah, but since line up changes have plagued us, it kind of became forgotten. Thus, it befalls as a FIHM track. Njoi(;

Vocals; AC
Guitar: Alan Romero
Bass: AC
Guest Guitarist: Adam Miller
Guest Drummer: Koken

Lyrics:

Close your eyes!

Take my soul with you,
Nothing's left for me here.
No future, clandestine fear.

Fight!

Hate the hate, but love the feel.
Life's uncertainty seals the deal.

Excursion - Flying Internet Hate Machine feat. Adam  Miller & Koken

Take me away on dreams 
Open skies, a lie of your machines
Between the world that we see
I deny with every inch of me

What is this? Plugged me in. I will not be snuffed out by this betrayal. Hold my breath, tear my skin, ripping every cerebral cord.

Take me away

Caught in a static existence
Fabricate my dream sequence

FIHM is: Alan, Alex
Guitars: Alan
Bass: Alex
Drum Programming: Alan
Vocals: Electric Dream Machine, Alex
Sexy Model: Alex
Art: Alan
Fun Had: All

Dream.exe - Flying Internet Hate Machine

I realize this isn't exactly superb studio quality.

I dedicate this cover to my best friend, my uncle, no longer with us.

Change (In the House of Flies) [Acoustic] - AC (Deftones Cover)

Here's version 2.0 of our cover of Kendrick Lamar's "Swimming Pools" with the new line-up. This is a fun song to perform, and hopefully you'll get to see it live soon.

Ibanez ARZ307
Ibanez SR255
Beatcraft
Mixcraft
Guitar Rig 5
Shure SM58

Bass: Matt "Suzy" Soza
Guitars: Alan "Bean" Romero
Drums: Dakota "Koken" Ellis
Synth/Piano: Junior "Bambi" Reyes
Vocals: Alex "AC" Cabrera
Everything Else: "Skills"

Swimming Pools - Iscah

Here is a vocal cover I did with a guy I met here on SoundCloud. The guy is wicked talented, all I did was provide vocals. For the most part, I am super proud of my vocals, however towards the end I was really having trouble with that last clean note, so we unfortunately pitched it way up. Also some of these Vox patterns are seriously fuck'd hard, so I did the best I could to match the original.

Nothing else is altered at all. A huge thanks to @nicholas-darrell-stafford for letting me be use his rendition! Hope to do a little more sometime.

I used a cheap Guitar Center pop filter over a Rock Band (for the ps2) USB mic. An old laptop with Mixcraft and that's literally all my vocal production, from home anyhow. 

Enjoy!

Here are links to my band Iscah!

YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJsNl1K4xvgLoOFBnsLPAZA

Twitter:
https://twitter.com/iscah_band

Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/IscahOfficial

SoundCloud:
@IamBean

Zyglrox - Nicholas Stafford feat. AC (Periphery Cover)

Testing out a new Behringer board I got for christmas, which is pretty rad, if I could figure out where the hissing is coming from, but alas I cannot. Despite that, however, this cover actually came out great. I am back after 2 months, holidays, work, band and my car all got me down. But I am back! 

Also totally in love with TC in case you didnt know. I always have been, it is just gotten progressively better. And my love for cat pictures has not subsided. 

Holomovement - AC (The Contortionist) [Vocal Cover]

Thanks to Alex Cabrera for doing vocals and iambean for vocal production.

Veil of Maya - Pool Spray (Studio Cover Ft. Alex Cabrera)

I love this song, and since I learned it I really wanted to cover it. It is so beautiful, so much fun to sing and play. All around gorgeous song. This version is more personal. I've sang this for 2 people, pretty lucky, but now you all get to hear it! Enjoy.

AC - Rhythm and Vocals
Alan Romero - Lead Guitar

Sleeping Beauty (Acoustic) [A Perfect Circle] - Iscah

This is a demo. The first half was a jam session followed by a riff idea created by @IAmBean featuring musical input and recordings by Adam "Aduhm" Miller and Dakota "Koken" Ellis.

Perpendicular refers to a story about two people destined for each other, but only to meet once in their lives, ultimately losing their chance to become soul mates.

Flying Internet Hate Machine (FIHM) is a Progressive Metal/Rock project involving Alan (@IAmBean) Romero and myself. We were trading riff ideas and musical concepts and combining them in a way that our shared influences might (Periphery, Meshuggah, Tool, etc.)


Guitars: Adam "Aduhm" Miller (first half) and Alan "The Bean" Romero
Bass: Alex "AC" Cabrera
Drums (first half): Dakota "Koken" Ellis

Recording Interface: Onyx Blackjack
Guitars: Ibanez ARZ307 Artist 7-String, Cort Viva 7-string
Bass Guitar: Ibanez GSR200
Drum Program: Beatcraft
Mixing/Recording Program: Mixcraft 5

Perpendicular (Demo) - Flying Internet Hate Machine

@iambean and I got hooked by the piano part in this song, and ever since then, we have talked about doing a cover of it.

In no way do we claim rights to this piece, it is just a tribute to one of our favorite bands.

Guitars/Bass: Bean, AC
Drum Programming: Bean
Mixing: AC
Vocals: AC, Bean
Photo Editing: Bean

Ibanez ARZ307
Cort Viva-7
Ibanez GSR200
Shure SM-58
Beatcraft
Mixcraft 5

Eureka - Flying Internet Hate Machine (Periphery Cover)

Just a snippet of something in the works by @IAmBean and myself.

Njoi ;)

Mutlos - Flying Internet Hate Machine

Singer-songwriter and a primary writing force in Iscah.

I want to do covers, collaborate, or write for you. My voice is mostly suited for modern metal/progressive metal (djent). However, I love many differing styles of music and can work with whatever you have in mind. So don't let the pedigree deceive you. I am no producer, so almost everything I have here is a demo. I also love playing bass and writing grooves. My skill is not solely vocals if you wish. Metal bass is just one color in my palette. I can also be a consult and objective ear/suggestive mind for your writing. 

You can follow my band's links here:
https://linktr.ee/iscah_metal

SoundCloud:
@IamBean

Eureka - Flying Internet Hate Machine (Periphery Cover)

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