Epic guitars man. The cover art threw me off lol

Thanks for the support man this is so good keep it up man!

Wow, what a mindblowing song, really enjoyed it

Not much into Metal, but this seems like a real deal man!!! [via https://sc.repostexchange.com]

Love avante garde shit like this. Brilliant rhythm. Did i hear a crying baby at the beginning?

Karl Kim - Compositions

Ray Of Sound (Acoustic)

Rax Of Sound (Acoustic)

"Benzos" is an original song about the antidepressant family know as "Benzodiazepines."  They are commonly prescribed, but as a narcotic, they are easy to abuse and very difficult to stop.  Although I've taken a "Benzo" for years, by the grace of God I haven't abused them beyond my prescribed amount.  This song goes out to many that I've met in my journey who have benefited and been frustrated by Benzodiazepines.  #creatorsdesignmusic

Benzos

... did I dream ... you dreamed about me ...

Death My Bride

Tv Love

Saw the weakness of my generation. 
All enjoying a bottle or two.
And who quickly progressed from those dancing young nights and then searched till their minds were shot through.
Who are sad that they're still by the ocean? But why would that be? 
Who's castles of sand crumbled right in their hands as they entered into their thirties?
Oh, these are your days and this is your life.
Pitied the best minds of his generation.
And watched as they struggled to breathe.
Who has seen them descend into madness?
Stressed out from the ordinary.
Who is glad that he lives by the ocean?
Why wouldn't he be?
Who with just a bit more education. 
Could of turned into a somebody.
Oh, these are your days and this is your life.
Your heads gone to pieces.
Give yourself a break and make a new start.
Who is sat with little miss Moffat.
Glugging down all her peaches and cream.
Who is moving on to bottles of vodka?
To get to that place more quickly. 
Who feels sad as she looks at the ocean?
And why would that be?
Who has wasted the rest and is failing the test?
Passing out never falling to sleep 
Oh, these are your days and this is your life.
So don't worry too much.
Never stood a chance right from the start.
Cos nobody told yas.
Starting drinking at Twelve. 
What did you expect?
Your heads gone to peices.
Give yourself a break and make a new start.
Before you start fading away.

I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness starving hysterical naked
dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fix
angelheaded hipsters burning for the ancient heavenly connection to the starry dynamo in the machinery of night
who poverty and tatters and hollow-eyed and high sat up smoking in the supernatural darkness of cold-water flats floating across the tops of cities contemplating jazz
who bared their brains to Heaven under the El and saw Mohammedan angels staggering on tenement roofs illuminated
who passed through universities with radiant cool eyes hallucinating Arkansas and Blake light tragedy among the scholars of war
who were expelled from the academies for crazy & publishing obscene odes on the windows of the skull
who cowered in unshaven rooms in underwear burning their money in wastebaskets and listening to the Terror through the wall
who got busted in their pubic beards returning through Laredo with a belt of marijuana for New York
who ate fire in paint hotels or drank turpentine in Paradise Alley death or purgatoried their torsos night after night
with dreams, with drugs, with waking nightmares alcohol and cock and endless balls
incomparable blind streets of shuddering cloud and lightning in the mind leaping toward poles of Canada & Paterson, illuminating all the motionless world of Time between
Peyote solidities of halls, backyard green tree cemetery dawns, wine drunkenness over the rooftops storefront boroughs of teahead joyride neon blinking traffic light, sun and moon and tree vibrations in the roaring winter dusks of Brooklyn ashcan rantings and kind king light of mind
who chained themselves to subways for the endless ride from Battery to holy Bronx on benzedrine until the noise of wheels and children brought them down shuddering mouth-wracked and battered bleak of brain all drained of brilliance in the drear light of Zoo
who sank all night in submarine light of Bickford’s floated out and sat through the stale beer afternoon in desolate Fugazzi’s listening to the crack of doom on the hydrogen jukebox
who talked continuously seventy hours from park to pad to bar to Bellevue to museum to the Brooklyn Bridge,
a lost battalion of platonic conversationalists jumping down the stoops off fire escapes off windowsills off Empire State out of the moon
yacketayakking screaming vomiting whispering facts and memories and anecdotes and eyeball kicks and shocks of hospitals and jails and wars
whole intellects disgorged in total recall for seven days and nights with brilliant eyes meat for the Synagogue cast on the pavement.


Madness, Starving, Hysterical, Naked.

Howl At Nowt

Composed for week 8 of Z-i-v Summer Contest 2021: Onomatopoeia

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Random Scaternal Melmordy

This is our first acoustic cover of a favorite Jesus and Mary Chain song, recorded live at home. Vocals: RedRose Collage (Meg). Vocals/guitar: Tim Trainer. If you dig it please feel free to comment or repost! 
Thank you 🙏🏻✌🏻

Sometimes Always (Jesus and Mary Chain cover)

Here's a song I had that I sent over to my boy Brandon Sweeney who's the ultimate songsmith.  He took this piece I wrote gave it the ol' Sweeney twist and this is now the wonderful results of that.  Enjoy and do be sure to crank this to 11.

PRETTIEST WATERFALL

Demon Dog

Shirou Senshi X XeroKotaku Collaboration

Drums: Shirou Senshi 
Guitar: XeroKotaku 

Shirou Senshi X XeroKotaku Collaboration

A Vagabond's Path

Noise Improv No. 1

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Op. 3

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Poem 14

Twelve Tone Piece No. 1

Credits: 

Matthew Leland - trumpet
Josh Bialkin - trumpet
Peter DelGrosso - horn
Karl Kim - trombone, electronics
Caitlin Jodoin - tuba

Twelve Tone Piece No. 3

The world is very serious
Everything lies in ashes
People cry, they miss their old world
People cry, they miss their old world
Children cannot go to school
Everything is toxic
People cry, they miss their old world
People cry, they miss their old world
You look at the street
But you see only dirt
You see the faces of the people
But see only masks
People cry, they miss their old world
People cry, they miss their old world

People Cry

Karl Kim is a man of many musical hats (perhaps too many for his own good, but that's a discussion for another time). 

​​His musical journey started off with piano lessons at age six, and from there he has picked up many other instruments over the years, including but not limited to: violin, guitar, trombone, and various percussion instruments. Karl was also just as quick to branch out to styles of music other than classical; most significant of these styles is rock and metal (especially of the progressive variety), but jazz, EDM, experimental music, and folk music from various parts of the world have also played a role in shaping him as a musician. 

As a concert music composer, these musical experiences, especially those as a metal guitarist, are what make up the voice that he projects into his compositions, especially in recent times. Pieces like "The Jury is Sleepless", "Without a Minute to Spare", and "So Cold, So Dark, So Chaotic" exist at a crossroads between music for the concert hall and music for the mosh pit. His music has been performed by ensembles such as the Rhythm Method, S.E.M., and Bearthoven, and he holds a B.M. in Music Theory and Composition from New York University. 

"Karl with a K" is an alter ego of Karl Kim. Karl with a K, while having the same musical background as Karl Kim, draws upon a fascination for rhythm game music that started with Dance Dance Revolution at the age of eight, and grew considerably to encompass games including, but not limited to, Sound Voltex, In the Groove, beatmania IIDX, Voez, and Arcaea. Karl with a K brings his background in metal and 20th century classical music into rhythm game original tracks such as "!CAUTION! small but deadly", "BELLUM", and "rudimentary methods of overkill", which can be characterized by plenty of guitars, unusual rhythms, and sometimes non-instruments being used as instruments. Much of his output as Karl with a K is written for the purposes of Stepmania simfile creation (though as of BMS of Fighters: EighTeen's "0verfl0w_err0r" this is no longer exclusively the case).

Karl Kim currently resides in Bloomington, Indiana where he is pursuing an M.M. in Music Scoring for Visual Media at the Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University. Karl with a K can be seen lurking around the internet (especially specific Discord servers), occasionally not being above a good meme from time to time. In addition, Karl with a K is working on his first project as a game developer, a typing meets rhythm gaming fusion titled "glyph;".

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