Something I wrote on piano about 2000. Used to have vocals but they were so cheesy I've tried to forget them. I hope to add more depth to this song with the help of another musician and more instrumental layers, but this basic idea is the best I can do by myself. 

Like The Sun

I'm a better performer than I am a writer, but I'm a better writer than a musician. Understand? I played trumpet for seven years in school, including symphonic band, pep band, and marching band. Late in those years I became enamored with metal and started playing bass and singing in a thrash band. My first band was a joke. We called ourselves Plasttica. Later we changed the name to Blow Chow. After graduating from high school we wanted to get serious and decided we needed a more serious name, so we called ourselves Talisman. We used that for about a year and a half until we discovered that a hard rock band in Sweden beat us to it. In 1991 we came across an obscure term that no one seemed to know of and began calling ourselves Xeriscape. Today that is a completely ridiculous name, but we tried. We released one 3-song demo on cassette called Kayak Through Hell. Then the bottom fell out of my life and I shipped myself off to the Marines for the next four years. I stayed busy writing, though, and literally composed many albums worth of material. In 1996 I was honorably discharged and hooked back up with my Xeriscape guitarist in Denver and unleashed Drudgery on the scene -which wasn't much to speak of at the time. We helped bring metal back to prominence in the Mile High City and for the next eight years played about 100 shows and released four CDs: Strength Beyond The Pain, The Path Of Most Resistance, The Lost Art Of Dying, and Negative Residual Energy. In 2004 I put an end to the band. I have missed being musically creative and playing in a band, but I don't have much time for it anymore. I'm starting to record some unpublished material at home that has been burning in me for years (1988 to the present). Some of this has nothing to do with metal, but it needs to be purged from my mind. I hope you enjoy the ride! 

Murray Alexander Neill