This is a cover version of the title track from the old Amiga Game Turrican II - The Final Fight by Chris Hülsbeck.
Special Thanks to Chris for his amazing soundtracks, that have influenced so many of us!

This is a cover of it, created newly with just a bit of guitars underneath, to keep the 80s synth qualities. 

All synth patches hand created on Vital
Guitar: Ibanez RG7621, Ibanez RGA-8, Washburn Custom Shop 6-string
Bass: Peavey Millenium BXP
Amp: Line6 Helix
Recorded, mixed and mastered on Reaper on Linux

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Turrican II - The Final Fight

Turrican II - Metal Cover

Re-recording of an older song. A more depressing look into schizoid personality structures.

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This is remix of unfa's 'In and Out' track.
Original: https://soundcloud.com/unfa/in-and-out

Since the sound and feeling did fit quite well, I added some tracks with the 8-string guitar and mixed it.

Created with LMMS, ardour and the calf plugins on Linux.

Special Credits to unfa for his amazing LMMS work in creating the original.

unfa - In And Out (Guitar REMIX)

The Canyon is about the states of mind, dreams and weird feelings you can have after a important relationship broke down in a painful way.

Vocal contributions would be very welcome!

It's more of a quite retro NIN style vs the down-tuned more modern metal parts.

I have been working to improve my integration between electronic music and metal as well as to try out new things in mixing after watching Nolly's Periphery Studio Pass on Creative Live.

Created on Linux with LMMS, Ardour and first time with Drumgizmo for the accoustic drums. Mixed mostly with the Calf Plugins, OvertoneDSPs FC70 and PEQ2A, TSE BOD and 808 and the LePou plugins.
Guitar is an Ibanez RGA8-string through a Line6 PODxt into a Focusrite Saffire.

Image is from Nik Gaffny off flickr from his Stillness photo series (CC).

Have fun!

The Canyon (w/o vocals)

Mixing of the stems from North to Alaska's "All the Same" from 

http://www.cambridge-mt.com/ms-mtk.htm#Rock

Mixed in Ardour on Linux with mostly open source and free plugins. No reamping done, I wanted to see how far I could get with the provided tracks.

North to Alaska - All The Same (Mixing Exercise)

Mixing of stems of Eli Rises' "Send You Away" got from 

http://www.ultimatemetal.com/forum/threads/mix-these-raw-stems.918260/

Mixed in Ardour on Linux with mostly open source and free plugins. Drums are done with Drumgizmo with Drumdrops Mapex Heavy Rock Kit. Guitars reamped with the LePou plugins. 


Eli Rises - Send You Away (Mixing Exercise)

This is the end product of a video tutorial series for Libre Music Production (you can see the whole tutorial video series here: http://libremusicproduction.com/tutorials/complete-audio-production-workflow-muse-and-ardour )which shows how to produce a cover song with free and open source software on Linux.

Picture by gnuckx (https://www.flickr.com/photos/gnuckx/5350361507/)

Surrounded - (Dream Theater Cover feat Susanne Wallner)

Cover version of Queen's 'Who want's to live forever'.

Vocals: Susanne Wallner
Background Vocals: Hanna Stiles, Dagmar Nageler, Judith Roitner
Instruments: Michael Oswald

Created on Linux with Ardour and Muse.

Picture CC by CC by Pierre Pocs Photography
https://www.flickr.com/photos/pierrepocs/6063727116/

Who Wants To Live Forever (Queen Cover feat. Susanne Wallner)

A slow track I composed to the text from Niels Reszies. 

Lyrics: Niels Reszies
Music: Michael Oswald
Vocals, Trumpets, Horns: Marius Stärk (https://soundcloud.com/marius-staerk)

Created on Linux with Ardour, LinuxSampler and ZynaddSubFx.

Ich will das ganze Programm

Ich will das ganze Programm (feat Marius Stärk & Niels Reszies)

A cover version of "To the Hilt" from Die Krupps. Vocals by H. 

In my first band, we played this cover version and after a Die Krupps concert I thought it would be nice to record it again after 20 years. Johannes Resetar was so nice to provide the vocals (as he has done in the band before). 

Created on Ubuntu Studio with Ardour, DrumGizmo, ZynAddSubFX, Zebra2, and an Ibanez RG into a Line6 Helix and a AKG MXL-900 for the vocals.
Mixed with Calf Plugins, LSP plugins, OvertoneDSP plugins, TDR plugins

Recorded, mixed and mastered exclusively on Linux.

To the Hilt

To the Hilt (Die Krupps Cover feat. H)

A remix version of the old track "The Ride". 

Imagine a race of spaceships around the earth through aurora borealis.

AEON-6: The Repatriation Clauses

The Ride

The Ride - Remix Session

Cover of Darkest Hours's Convalescence. This was just a quick recording within 3 days to see if there is progress during my screaming vocal lessons. So, no time to learn the guitar solo (sorry!). If somebody would be willing to donate the solo, this would be great!

Drums taken from tab at ultimate-guitar.com and extracted with tuxguitar. Edited in Ardour, with DrumGizmo and the Crocell drumkit. 
Bass: Peavy Millenium BXP 5-string -> Helix -> Saffire Pro
Guitar: Washburn Custom -> Helix -> Saffire Pro
Synth: ZynAddSubFx
Vocals: AKG MXL 990 -> Saffire Pro
All mixing done in Ardour with Calf Plugins, OvertoneDSP PEQ-2A, IR for reverb with Lexicon PCM impulse responses. 
Mastering in Ardour with EQ10Q, Wolfshaper, TDR Nova, TDR Limiter 6


Photo von Dark Indigo: https://www.pexels.com/de-de/@darkindigo?utm_content=attributionCopyText&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=pexels

Undoing Ruin

Convalescence (Cover)

Darkest Hour - Convalescence (Cover w/o guitar solo)

Work in progress. A track intended for my album.

Started again doing more audio work. Theses are some left-over songs from my old band Empower as well as new tracks.

Also I am learning mixing and mastering a bit, so there are some demos present.


Picture from NASA ISS (https://www.flickr.com/photos/nasamarshall/3953553396/in/photostream/)


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