Doom 2016-Inspired Release

Very fun experiment with the genre!

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Alright!

1st Song of a 6 Song release!

The theme of this collection was to try my best to write something in the "Doom 2016" soundtrack genre using some new tools I've added to my arsenal.

I strayed a bit, and took some artistic liberties to try some stuff, and I had a lot of fun writing this music.

The pacing is supposed to be pretty modular - idea being that if placed into a game setting, the sections could be programmed to loop each section based on what's going on.   At least, that was my thought process.

I got a bit stuck mixing, and lost a lot of creative momentum around the final 2 songs - but I think they've turned around a bit - definitely some learning to do when it comes to mixing and mastering, but I feel like I've made some progress with this release.

Definitely a lot of imperfections in here, but overall I am proud of how it's turned out, all things considered.

It's been a lot of fun to write - especially making use of my lower-tuned guitars, but I think my next release will be a little more chill haha!

I started this project last month! 

At The Gates


2nd Song of a 6 Song release!

The theme of this collection was to try my best to write something in the "Doom 2016" soundtrack genre using some new tools I've added to my arsenal.

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This one has some interesting liberties taken, I really like how the riff flows though - kinda slow but groovy.

I tried to set more of a setting with the talking and ambiance, etc.

Overall, this one was written very Stream-of-Conscious; do I think it could be made to sounds 'heavier'?   Yes.  Does it need to be?  No.

Cheers!

The Pit

Alright!

3rd Song of a 5 Song release!

The theme of this collection was to try my best to write something in the "Doom 2016" soundtrack genre using some new tools I've added to my arsenal.

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Another fun track!   Decided to improvise with some piano and the rest of the song wrote itself.

It has some jarring moments between the swing riff and switch up to straight time - but I think that's kinda fun.

Overall I think this is the track that really wrote itself as I went - another stream-of-conscious writing format.

Cheers!

Bisect

4th Song of a 6 Song release!

This one was really kind of an 'in-between' track.

Wanted one to be shorter, slammy and with a little more movement.

It's a bit more structured than most of these other songs.

Cheers!

Absorb

5th Song of a 6 Song release!

This one is basically just supposed to be a prelude to the next song.

Not too much to say, supposed to be lyrics related to the story of the character - but they don't make much sense granted I didn't exactly push the theme very hard.

Short sweet, but tried some things.

Cheers!


Howl

Final Song of the 6 Song release!

Busy one!   This one took a lot of work to really set it in stone.

The main problem is I wanted to add double-bass, problem being that the electric drum kit that I am using to drive the digital kit does not have a great response for a double kick pedal - so it took improvising with a piano pedal and some programming to tighten it up.


This one is 100% stream-of-conscious, but also had a lot of reworking and indecision during the writing process.

Overall it turned out pretty interesting as a closing track.

If you've made it through all 6 tracks, thank you for listening, I hope you enjoyed!

Cheers!


Living Tomb

Hi, y'all!

Name's Tristan, or Butch, or 'Cast Iron Pan' depending on where I meet ya lol, too many nicknames these days.

I am going to try a lot of different genres here - this project is mostly going to be me experimenting and learning the DAWs and other tools.

Keeping it simple with very simple tools as well - everything is self-produced and live tracked with real instruments (mostly), all manned by yours truly.

AND yeah I know the art is super shoddy at the moment lmao - that's kinda the point but It should get better later.

Thanks for stopping by!

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Project 3rd Shoulder