A song about leaving behind.

Lyrics:

you say i’ve changed
but i’m still the same

you say i’ve changed
i heard you call me bitter
and unlikeable
you know it all
you've got it all figured out
if thats what you say
it’s not my fault
you chose the company
of snakes over mine

you say i’ve changed
but i’m still the same
it’s not my fault
just walk away

you know it all
you got it all figured out
if thats what you say
tell me i’ve changed
i wanna hear you scream and
tell me to my face that
it’s not your fault
how you bathe and bed yourself
in lies

you say i’ve changed
but i’m still the same
it’s not my fault
just walk away

you did everything you could
you did your fucking best
you say i’ve changed and
it’s not my fucking fault
you say i’ve changed
you did your fucking best
keep pretending
until you believe yourself

you know it all
if that’s what you say
you say i’ve changed
but i’m still the same
it’s not my fault that
you don’t know

Strangers

A song about the transience of humanity.
We are irrelevant, we shall pass.
Lyrics below:

This is all I waited for
To see the virus perish
Witness the empires drown
And see our self-proclaimed
Humanity fail

Crash and burn, plagues and greed
Shall tear us off the throne we built
Of our stride towards the top
Defied and denied

Something's out there
Contemplating
We don't belong here, we never did
Listen to the waves

Don't look up, enjoy the show
When the tides return, remember
All that's here and all that's been
Was built from merely transients to
Time and space

Ashes to ashes and fuck the dust
Our species versus everything
Evolution will claim its price
Rinse and deplete

Something's out there
Contemplating
We don't belong here, we never did
Listen to the waves closing in

Here comes the flood

So evolved and so fucked up
Our mutation claims its height
We're sick, endemic and infected
Devour the scourge we have become
And cleanse this world

We don't belong here, we never will
Listen to the waves, something is out there
Listen to the waves, here comes the flood

The Surge Prospect

Metal cover/remix of Tove Lo's track "Habits".

Habits (Tove Lo cover/remix)

Demo track for my new drum plugin "Sean Pandy Drums".

Available as VST2 32/64 for Windows and VST+AU 32/64 for OSX.
Free download and more information here:
https://free.chokehold.net/sean-pandy-drums/

This track is called "Dream On" and I recorded it in 2011 or so, which means the playing is untight, the guitars sound bad and all that, yes. There are also some badly tuned notes in there, but who cares. It's Rock!

All the Kick/Snare/Tom/Boom sounds come directly out of the SPD plugin, "what you hear is what you get". I did not use any compression or EQ on the drums, just a little on the master bus. The cymbals come from Superior Drummer, they were squashed a little with Korvpressor.

Sean Pandy Drums Demo - #1 Rock/Metal

Demo track for my new drum plugin "Sean Pandy Drums".

Available as VST2 32/64 for Windows and VST+AU 32/64 for OSX.
Free download and more information here:
https://free.chokehold.net/sean-pandy-drums/

This track is called "Deadeye", it was a quick write-and-record back in 2011 and never got out of the concept stage. It is basically still a "guide track song", so please forgive the sloppy "solo" part.

All the Kick/Snare/Tom/Boom sounds come directly out of the SPD plugin, "what you hear is what you get". I did not use any compression or EQ on the drums, just a little on the master bus. The cymbals come from Superior Drummer, they were squashed a little with Korvpressor.

Bass went through Audio Assault BassGrinder and AirWindows Mudslide, all Guitars were shot through Audio Assault GrindMachine. Stereo rhythm guitars used Raptor amp and Serpant cab, all center guitars are 3130 amp and Attitude cab.

No EQ was used on any Bass and Guitars, just a little Korvpressor on each.

The Reverb is u-he Uhbik-A (for Ambience).

Sean Pandy Drums Demo - #2 Rock/Metal

Lyrics: 

far away on the other side of this world, of this life
beats the heart i'm born to love without me

isolated, in disconnect, a hardened stare with emptiness
i've become in constant fault of something

i try to hold on but i falter
i try to let go but i fail

far away on the other side of our thoughts, of our minds
we're un-alone, yet left behind and longing

well aware of the tragedy for every day and eternity
we burden on, we choose to stay forsaken

i try to hold on but i falter
i try to let go but i fail

across the land, across the sea, anywhere but here with me
lies the only one i've ever come to need
locked inside another life, wolfsbane hair and the saddest smile
salty red in her emerald eyes

far away on the other side, out of reach and unalive
remains the heart i'm born to love without me

Anatolian Gloom

I tracked this in early 2013, so before I had any sort of clue about (correctly) screaming and growling, that's why it's all distorted rubbish. I just woke up one morning, and my first thought sounded like what you can hear at the beginning of this track, so I made some coffee and recorded it.
Only dug this out now because I needed something to try those tasty Galaxy Drums on. <3
Fairly simple mix, I only used the SSL Native channel strip and bus compressor. Vocal distortion comes from SoundToys Decapitator. All guitars amped through my own amp sim plugin, bass going through Guitar Rig, everything into Ownhammer impulses. The melodic bit uses a Celestion Plus impulse. My own 1-band limiter plugin on the master. That's it.
No fancy business.

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