So it's been over 4 years :)

Long story short life carries on, I graduated engineering school, I now work in video games, wooo all that's great.

Anyway, some may know I play Guitar Hero at a high level ; this song was in one of the tournaments I've just participated in and I thought "yo this actually goes super hard and would probably make a great metal cover". Turns out it does!

This is now my second attempt at recording, mixing and producing absolutely everything on my own since I've been out of a producer. I'm honestly really happy with it!

My cover is in E despite the original being in Eb for tuning reasons. All guitar parts are my 7-string custom Capelli in drop A tuning, the bass is my Epiphone Les Paul (that I inherited from my dad), just standard tuning. Drums were programmed with MT-Power Drumkit, a free VST that I've been experimenting with.

Original: www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPPl1wiFuX4

Terminal - Renard Metal Cover

I've been experimenting with covering bits and pieces of the OST for the game Okami (absolutely phenomenal game if you don't know), and I think this turned out great!

I'm looking to make a fully fledged medley out of covers of selected tracks from the OST so hopefully there'll be more on the way.

Okami – Cursed Shinshu Field & Lake Harami cover soundbites

Alone, you usually think about what you've done. But it's too late to be sorry. The room you're in has nothing in it.
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The two guitars are me playing, the drums are programmed by me in FL Studio. Note I'm not a drummer, so I think that shows.

My first song ever. As in : first time I record myself seriously, first time I program drums (well yeah, I'm alone on this one), first time I write a score at all. I'm not planning to make that my job anyway, so you can be honest in your comments (if you have any).

Empty Room

I promised a friend I would play this song for him. Well, I did better than that, I played the entire song myself. Drums are programmed, lead + rythm guitar are me, bass is me too, and a guitar replaces the voice because nope.

Also, since I can't play the intro (god I tried hard tho), I replaced it with something else. Sorry about that, but that's a bit hard for me for now.

Anyway, enjoy !

This War Is Ours - Escape The Fate cover

That one's a remix of one of my favorite youtubers's intro song. Basically, take a quiet rock song and turn it into FUCKING SPEED METAL. Still major scales though, so it can give happiness. Also, now you know I'm French.

Joueur du Grenier - Intro Remix

Pretty much a challenge. I did 5 attempts at recording this, and it has only one single channel. I did everything with a loop station.

Luigi's Mansion Quick

A remix of the song of the same name by Utsu-P (the name is HIS fault, not mine).

The main reason why I decided to play this song myself it's because IT'S FUCKING AWESOME and also because there are originally Japanese Vocaloids singing on top of that, and not everybody like it. So now they can hear the killer song without the voice if they find it annoying o/

Constipation Of Death

This time a remix of UstuP's Otona no Omocha (オトナのオモチャ, Adults' Toy). As ever, I play both guitars + bass and I program the drums. Of course, all credits for the song itself goes to UtsuP.

I think I'll end up doing a remix for every single song of his album TRAUMATIC :P I mean, they're so good.

Adults' Toy (Otona No Omocha, オトナのオモチャ)

Here we go, FINALLY. After more than a month of waiting for my gear to be fixed, I finished recording the cover of UtsuP's song Nyan-spoken Understanding (ニャン黙の了解) (note that it's only one of many English translations for the title).

It's my first time recording with my Capelli 7 strings, and in my humble opinion it does sound quite good. You tell me ! It's also my first time using an actual bass guitar to record the bass part ! Yay ! It should only make it sound better.

Nyan-spoken Understanding - UtsuP

Another cover of a track by UtsuP. Yet another one !? I know, they're just so great. This time again I'm using my 7 strings, so engage the headbang.
Also, I've recorded this in one shot because I just kind of wanted to record a music. The whole programming drums + recording the two guitar parts took 2 hours in total, so it might be a bit sloppy ;from what I've heard it's okay but still, don't mind that too much.

Hannya Shingyou Hardcore - UtsuP

Another track by UtsuP, Monkey doesn't Know (猿は知らない). Once again, I play every instrument except drums, which are programmed. Fun fact, I totally forgot to play a whole part of the song (1:21 - 1:37 in the original). Oh well. Enjoy anyway !

Original : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYpO5YWHFig

EDIT : you can watch me playing it live ! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wyS-SmrmWQo

Monkey Doesn't Know (猿は知らない) - UtsuP

And there we go again ! That one came up really fast because I've been thinking of recording it for a while, so I actually already knew everything by heart. As always, I'm playing all of the guitar and bass tracks and I've programmed the drums.

Enjoy !

Original : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z42xzH6S-24

Parasite (害虫) - UtsuP

Finally ! After months of anticipation and days of playing/recording/editing, here is the instrumental replay of Mikusabbath, one of UtsuP's most famous tracks. As always, guitars and bass tracks are played and recorded by myself (featuring 7 strings goodness) and the drums track programmed in FL Studio. However, this time the electronic parts are courtesy of Casual Friend, go check him out ! https://soundcloud.com/casual-friend

Original : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qCxSpkL5jvI

Enjoy !

(hint : vocals be coming. Brace yourselves)

Mikusabbath, UtsuP - instrumental replay

Black Widow of La Porte ... wow, that's a song I've been wanting to play for many years. Of course I'm only doing it now because until now I wasn't good enough at guitar. But shhht, here's the present for you.

Anyway, this song is amazing, epic, awesome, and all kinds of near-impossible to play, but here it is ! As always, I'm playing all of the guitar and bass tracks - 4 guitar tracks and one bass track for this one - and I have programmed the drums track with FL Studio (still no drums recording hardware ...).

For those who are interested, here's me playing the two main tracks, live (I worked hard on my fingers' speed) : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDd0xPPnVss

Original : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pOSaDbb9gaQ

Enjoy, and let me know what you think !

Black Widow Of La Porte, John5 - full replay

What an intense song we have here ! Some Japanese melodic death metal up in this. You might recognize the solo, because yeah, that's exactly the song my previous upload comes from :P

As always, the two guitar tracks and the bass track are played and recorded by myself and the drums are programmed using FL Studio. Once again, I had Casual Friend work on the electro parts (only a few notes for instance). Fun fact : the whole production of the song has been made at school (excluding drums programming, and including recording and rendering).

Original : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=33oIfyWcr50

Enjoy !

Purgatory Of Burning Roses, Imperial Circus Dead Decadence - instrumental replay

This time, something different, as I am playing some Austrian blackened death metal goodness from Belphegor's latest album (to date) Conjuring the Dead. Very fun to play, really fucking heavy, a crazy solo, what else to ask for ?

As always, I'm playing the two guitar tracks and the bass part, and I programmed the drums with FL Studio (I can't actually play this one, 2 fast 4 me). I use my 6 strings with a drop C, by the way (from low to high : C G C F A D).

Original : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lOG_9B8dmjs

Enjoy !

In Death, Belphegor - instrumental replay

WATCH ME PLAYING THE TWO GUITAR TRACKS : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FI3Rzu9h0cA

Hi there,

Everything is different this time ! Some technical death metal from The Faceless - this song is nuts ! I recorded the two guitar tracks (no bass track on this one), and props to Nhân Cổ (on Youtube) for programming the drums. I would NEVER have been able to program this shit, let alone playing it.

Original : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JClIE0PQn3U

Youtube video of playthrough coming soon (today) !

Enjoy !

XenoChrist, The Faceless - Instrumental replay

Hey there !

Today, it is more ICDD for death metal and technical death metal fans. Despite not having a single shred part, this song is very hard to play because it just keeps going full-speed for 5 whole minutes - well, I admit, there's a pause in the middle. It's also one of my favorite songs of all times !

As always, I played and recorded the two guitar tracks and the bass track, and I programmed the drums using FL Studio. The tuning is drop C (low to high : CGCFAD).

Original : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BoipqES1qiw

Enjoy !

Cthulhu's Wedding, Imperial Circus Dead Decadence - instrumental replay

Hey guys,

Something really different this time, is a metal remix of one of my favorite songs from the game Geometry Dash : Electrodynamix. This song is awesome by itself, so I tried to make a cover that lives up to it. I'm pretty happy with it myself to be honest !

As always, I played and recorded the 3 guitar parts (7 strings guitar with AEADBGE tuning, low to high) and programmed the drums with FL Studio. 

Original : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fGjDZgluC60

Enjoy !

Electrodynamix, DJ Nate - Geometry Dash metal remix

LIVE YOUTUBE PLAYTHROUGH : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYwHI5hlIdM

'sup !

It's been a little while since I last posted anything, but that's mainly because I was working on this beast. This is without a doubt the hardest song I've ever recorded, and I'm super happy with the result. Abducted, by Rings of Saturn, a f*ckin' heavy shred-fest for yall, isn't that nice ? Oh yeah, happy new year too.

As usual, I played and recorded all the guitar tracks (5 here, including two 5 seconds-long tracks just for the small intro riff) (tuning is AEADGBE low to high) and I programmed the drums in FL Studio (real drums ... one day ...).

Original : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FVFhwIGk9dU

Also, a Youtube video playthrough is in the works for this, so stay tuned ! It will feature the two main guitar tracks. - HUSH MY MOUTH HERE IT IS !

Enjoy !

Abducted, Rings Of Saturn - full instrumental replay

Hey there, it's been a while.

As school stresses the shit out of me (finals in 2 months), I took some time to relax and record this masterpiece of a song. It's one of my favourite songs ever, and definitely my favourite song by Symbolik. Besides, some melodic technical deathcore has never hurt anybody, right ?

This song is beautiful, and very challenging to play. But well, you'll hear by yourself.

As always, I played and recorded the two guitar tracks and the bass track (with an actual bass this time ! Note how awful I am at it), and I programmed the drums with FL Studio. 

Original : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5hwnZ8reBo

Enjoy !

Twin Fates, Symbolik - full instrumental replay

Hey there, it's been a while hasn't it ?

Exams have been taking up all of my time up until now, but hey, I assure you the wait was worth it, because guess what ? Please welcome my producer, Satyam Bhardwaj ! He's an awesome guy who knows his shit around music, and he's been making my guitar tracks sound much more awesome than I could ever make them sound with my non-existing mixing skills. Props to him, and let's hope he stays around for a while !

This time, we bring you a song I said I would cover a while ago - I did the intro of it before : Invasion, by Rings of Saturn. The technical death metal band's very first release in 2010 is a song I really enjoy, and thus wanted to play. Now that thanks to Satyam it also has awesome, near-professional audio quality, I'm thrilled to share it on here.
And well, since Rings of Saturn released a 2.0 version of Seized and Devoured off the same album, we could say this is Invasion 2.0 ... right ? No ? Okay.

As always, all guitar parts are played by me ; I used my 7-strings with AEADGBE tuning (low to high). Drums have been programmed by me using Guitar Pro 6 and rendered using Superior Drummer by Satyam ; mixing and mastering is all by Satyam.

Enjoy !

Original : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-WlL409YtM

Satyam Bhardwaj : https://soundcloud.com/thedarkestvoid

Invasion, Rings Of Saturn - full instrumental replay

Hey there,

It's been a while hasn't it. Don't tell me otherwise, it has ! Mostly due to slacking off, unfortunately.

But hey, this doesn't mean we've been doing nothing. This time, we have some pure, unadulterated progressive technical death metal for you. For here comes the cover of a track by a very famous band, Blotted Science ! *cue thunder sounds*

For this track Laser Lobotomy, we have Satyam Bhardwaj playing the rhythm track and handling the mixing and mastering, and myself playing the lead track and writing the drums track (fun fact : no way to find the drum sheet for this, so I had to write it myself. Very complex and fun). Guitars used are 8-strings for him and 7-strings for me, with the relevant tuning being AEABGDE.

Satyam Bhardwaj : https://soundcloud.com/thedarkestvoid

Original : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQEywzR4QbM

Enjoy !

The Machinations of Dementia covers

Laser Lobotomy

Laser Lobotomy, Blotted Science - full replay

Hey there !

Do you know what the most ridiculously technical metal band is these days ? Well tell me, because I've been wondering.
But hey, I'm sure Infant Annihilator is somewhere up there ! Their stuff is really hard to play (especially on drums, thank f*ck for drum programming software) but so much fun and so satisfying !
This song is also the first one to use my brand-new 8-strings guitar, my Agile Intreprid Pro 828 ! This is the first time I use it for recordings, not bad right ?

As always, I have recorded both guitar parts (this time on an 8-strings ; tuning is EAEADGBE from low to high) and wrote the drums and the bass parts. Mixing, mastering and drums and bass rendering by Satyam Bhardwaj (@thedarkestvoid check him out !).

Original (NSFW video) : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0SxT8GaiYDc

Enjoy !

Motherless Miscarriage, Infant Annihilator - full instrumental replay

Hey there !

Behold and brace yourself, for here comes the first single out of my future technical death metal EP, called Circular Permutations. If you like Blotted Science or WatchTower, you'll like this (if I dare compare myself to these gods of technical metal) !

After discovering and finally trying out Ron Jarzombek's Circle of 12 tones writing method (you can read up on it on his blog : http://www.ronjarzombek.com/rj12tone.html), it turns out that it's just what I needed to actually get me going ! So expect more in the future, is all I'll say.

All instruments' tracks written by me. The guitar parts were played and recorded by me using my Custom Luthier Capelli 7 strings (tuning AEADGBE low to high). The bass track has been played and recorded by Szymon Milosz (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCx-dCbsLJ1iSCUM8Gt_Kt9g). The drums programming and the production (mixing and mastering) has been handled by Satyam Bhardwaj (@thedarkestvoid). Artwork done by me.

Enjoy !

Circular Permutations

Hey there !

This is the new (read : quality) version of a song I covered about two years ago - time sure flies ! It sounds much better this time, and uses the actual original tuning because I do have my 7 strings guitar with me this time (as opposed to last time when I only had my 6 strings and didn't feel like downtuning 4 whole tones).

For those who weren't there at the time (so, everybody ?), this song is originally a Vocaloid track by UtsuP (check him out if you can stand Vocaloid screams and growls, which is a value that I sure have), but since most of my friends couldn't stand the Vocaloid vocals, I decided to take them out by replaying the entire song in an instrumental version. Fun fact, this is what got me started into recording.

As always, all guitar parts are played and recorded by me, this time using my Custom Capelli 7 strings with tuning AEADGBE low-to-high. The bass part is by Szymon Milosz (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCx-dCbsLJ1iSCUM8Gt_Kt9g) using a 6 strings bass with tuning AEADGC low-to-high. The drums have been written by me and recorded by Satyam Bhardwaj (@TheDarkestVoid), who also handled the mixing and mastering (the dream team as always).

Original : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Upn1fGbXeHw

Enjoy !

Traumatic

Constipation of Death, UtsuP - full instrumental replay revamped

Hey you,

Damn ! - you must be thinking, that was fast ! Only 7 days since the last upload !? Crazy, I know ! That's what happens when you stop slacking off like a big baby and actually get on it I guess ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

Anyway, enough of that. This time, we take a step back to tackle a song from the swedish death metal band Bloodbath (that I'm sure many of you know), Hades Rising. Some good old traditional death metal never hurt anybody, in fact, I feel more healthy now that we've done this.

As always, I played and recorded all 3 guitar parts on my 7 strings Capelli custom (with tuning AEADGBE low to high) ; the bass part has been played and recorded by Szymon Milosz (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCx-dCbsLJ1iSCUM8Gt_Kt9g)with his 6 strings bass with tuning AEADGC low-to-high ; the drum rendering and the mixing and mastering were handled by Satyam Bhardwaj (@TheDarkestVoid or his Youtube : https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcVnZpLAyE7n5u_OxcAtLKw). This has been done on request from Alex DeRose, vocalist of Bog Wraith (check them out on Youtube !).

Original : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4OfUVmfNk4E

Enjoy !

Hades Rising, Bloodbath - full instrumental replay

Hey yall,

it's been a little while I know, school and stuff has been in the way, but it's better now, we should be putting more stuff out !

For now, here is an instrumental cover of an amazing song by an amazing band ; bringing you some technical death metal mastery all the way from Canada, Sous la Lueur de l'Empereur, in addition to being all in my favourite and native language, is a real buffet of time signature changes. Real fun to play, and the solo ... mmmmmmh the solo ! Smexy as hell. The song is a bit different from the original this time, but hey, nothing wrong with taking some liberties amirite.

As always, all guitars have been done by me. This time, I'm using my Agile Intrepid 828 Pro, and although the song is originally played in standard-1 tuning, I'm using it in EAEADGBE (f*ck having to retune all 8 strings, are you kidding me). The bass is once again courtesy of Szymon Milosz ( https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCx-dCbsLJ1iSCUM8Gt_Kt9g ) and his 6 strings bass with tuning ADGCFA#. Satyam Bhardwaj of @TheDarkestVoid ( https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcVnZpLAyE7n5u_OxcAtLKw ) took care of the mixing/mastering and drum rendering.

We do take requests, so if you've got a song you'd like to hear in instrumental form, hit us up in the comments !

Enjoy !

Original : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7dmHPTJ9zM

Sous la Lueur De l'Empereur, Beyond Creation - full instrumental replay

WATCH LIVE ON YOUTUBE : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZZc9QbUEps

Hey there,

been a while, ain't it ? It has, yeah, that's kind of our bad. As with every time when it had been a while, a mixture of school work and other things got in the way, but hey, there's always another track coming out in the end !

Enough of that, for today we have an instrumental version of one of the most br00tal songs out there : Evisceration Plague by Cannibal Corpse. I don't think I need to introduce the band, as their name speaks for itself ...

This time around, we have Satyam Bhardwaj ( @TheDarkestVoid, https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcVnZpLAyE7n5u_OxcAtLKw ) on rythm guitar, drum rendering, mixing and mastering ; Szymon Milosz ( https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCx-dCbsLJ1iSCUM8Gt_Kt9g ) on the 6-strings bass and myself on the first rythm and lead guitar. We used 7-string guitars for this, with tuning G#D#G#C#F#A#D# (the equivalent of drop A and -1/2 step).

Original : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=482tDopNzoc

Enjoy !

Evisceration Plague, Cannibal Corpse - full instrumental replay

Hey there !

There hasn't been much going on at all on here lately (for the past what, 7 months ? erf), but that's because I've been working on much bigger stuff, that you will hear about later (maybe) (one day).

But enough of that ! Something unusual this time, since it's not a cover or a replay, but a metal version of a track from an animated movie. You guessed it from the title (you can read !), it's from Ghibli's Nausicää of the Valley of the Wind ! I've been told that the theme was hard to recognize because of the 3/4 feel (as opposed to the original's 4/4). See if that goes for you as well !

I tried myself at recording and programming everything this time around, from the 6-strings guitars and the bass (drop C tuning) to the programmed drums. Produced by a friend still, 'cause there's no way I'm getting good at that.

Original : look it up champ, it's called "Nausicaa's requiem" from the aforementionned movie.

Enjoy !

Nausicää of the Valley of Metal - Ghibli classic metal version

Guitarist/composer/founder of @Unheavenband

French game developer currently doing 3D rendering R&D. Doing music when I have time, and also when I have no time. Totally 100% into metal, so you know what to find here ! 

I sometimes post playthroughs of the songs I do that I find especially technical on my Youtube channel (see below).

Enjoy your stay and happy headbanging !

matrefeytontias

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