When you've no one to blame but yourself, just own up to it, and make better choices next time.

Yet another simple track composed in the key of D minor.

[Please note: as this un-mastered track was mixed using headphones, I recommend that it be listened to via headphones/earbuds to ensure the best listening experience.]

Demos

Problems Of My Own Making

"It is my honor to bestow upon you, the full wrath of my snark.  May you appreciate its sting for as long as you like... you certainly earned it."

Yet another simple track... brought to you by the key of C.

[Please note: as this un-mastered track was mixed using headphones, I recommend that it be listened to via headphones/earbuds to ensure the best listening experience.]

The Wrath Of My Snark

Its the same kind of bullshit as the rest of my stuff. Enjoy!

Squeezy

This track is mostly in C major, and the tempo is mostly 100 beats per minute.  

*YAWN*

[By the way: This un-mastered track was mixed using headphones.  To ensure the best listening experience, you should listen to it with headphones or earbuds -- or however way you please.  You can also choose not to listen to it at all.  That is perfectly fine, too.  I hope you have a nice day!  Cheers.]

Milquetoast

"Mind squatters are the consequence of not locking your mind's door after you have taken leave of it for some time..."

Living rent-free inside your head: a dark shred-wave tune in the mode of D Phrygian flat 4.

[Please note: as this un-mastered track was mixed using headphones, I recommend that it be listened to via headphones/earbuds to ensure the best listening experience.]

Living Rent-Free Inside Your Head

"Keep your eyes on the prize and stay on target..."

Stay On Target: a dark shred-wave tune in the key of E minor.

[Please note: as this un-mastered track was mixed using headphones, I recommend that it be listened to via headphones/earbuds to ensure the best listening experience.]

Stay On Target

A virtual instrumental cover of Megadeth's "Reckoning Day".

[Please note: as this un-mastered track was mixed using headphones, I recommend that it be listened to via headphones/earbuds to ensure the best listening experience.]

Reckoning Day

Reckoning Day (Instrumental)

"Every struggle is an opportunity to thrive..."

The Struggle Is Real: a shred-wave tune in the key of A natural minor.

[Please note: as this un-mastered track was mixed using headphones, I recommend that it be listened to via headphones/earbuds to ensure the best listening experience.]

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What seems trivial to one person may be an insurmountable challenge for another. Our individual experiences, perspectives, and circumstances shape how we perceive and navigate the world. Empathy and understanding play a crucial role in recognizing and addressing the struggles faced by others.

The Struggle Is Real

"When the process of in vitro gestation was finally `perfected`, the world was not ready for it."

A dark electronic instrumental track with a dystopian feel.

[Please note: as this un-mastered track was mixed using headphones, I recommend that it be listened to via headphones/earbuds to ensure the best listening experience.]

Babies R Us

"There is nothing quite as charming and exquisite as matching carpet and drapes."

[Please note: as this un-mastered track was mixed using headphones, I recommend that it be listened to via headphones/earbuds to ensure the best listening experience.]

Carpet Matching Drapes

"Creative differences... of the irreconcilable kind."

[Please note: as this un-mastered track was mixed using headphones, I recommend that it be listened to via headphones/earbuds to ensure the best listening experience.]

Creative Differences

SHADOW EATS

SHADOW EATS (AI GENERATED MUSIC)

"What was meant to be nothing -- just a few loose notes tossed into the night -- became something.  A song of the unnoticed, the humble, the ones who move through the world with quiet cool -- knowing that sometimes, simply being 'Small Potatoes' is the sweetest deal of all."

[Please note: as this un-mastered track was mixed using headphones, I recommend that it be listened to via headphones/earbuds to ensure the best listening experience.]

Small Potatoes

"When your peers don't appreciate being 'entitled to your own opinion'"

[Please note: as this un-mastered track was mixed using headphones, I recommend that it be listened to via headphones/earbuds to ensure the best listening experience.]

Nobody Asked You

"In a distant future where organic life and machine consciousness have merged, a towering structure rises from the heart of a neon-lit metropolis—a cathedral not built of stone, but of circuitry, fiber optics, and humming energy. This is the Circuit Cathedral, a sanctuary where digital souls come to reflect, recharge, and transcend."

The concept for this track came from prompting A.I. for inspiration for a new track.  The A.I. suggested a synth-laden electronic rock track with a rogue theremin thrown in for good measure.  It also came up with the track's title, cover art, and backstory.

[Please note: as this un-mastered track was mixed using headphones, I recommend that it be listened to via headphones/earbuds to ensure the best listening experience.]

Circuit Cathedral

"To tame the wild within, one must first face the inner beast."

"Facing the Beast Within" is an instrumental demo of the collaboration with keyboardist and ambient composer @mobiuscog.

Key: G Minor
BPM: 90

Please note: as this un-mastered track was mixed using stereo headphones, I recommend that it be listened to via headphones/earbuds to ensure the best listening experience.]

Facing The Beast Within (a collaboration with MobiusCog)

ToneDeF is a software engineer by profession, part-time composer by inclination. He is influenced musically by what he listens to, which consists of hard rock, hair metal, synth-pop, progressive rock/metal, new age electronic, techno/trance, and classics from the Romantic and Baroque periods. It is not unusual to hear tiny shades of commercially successful works within his own humble little ones -- he considers it an homage to the truly talented.

One of ToneDeF's guilty pleasures is recreating the music of classic computer/video games utilizing modern synthesized and sampled sounds. His first submission to SoundCloud was a re-imagining of the main theme music from the classic LucasArts game, "Ballblazer".

Although he has chosen "ToneDeF" as his handle, rest assured that he is not actually "tone deaf".

Who exactly are "The ElectroMetal Minstrels"? They are the virtual musicians "performing" the virtual instruments on each track sequenced by ToneDeF.

New tracks tagged #tonedef