Good and pleasantly easygoing listening here. I enjoyed the sound and lyrics.

This is dope,  sounds like it belongs on Spirit Goth

thanks for the feedback, glad you enjoyed the track!

UNDERGROUND
A Tribute to Metallica's Kill'Em All Phase
Music by Overdrive

Check out the IG promo video:
https://www.instagram.com/p/C2AFHGkOJG7/

This is an original track inspired by Metallica's Kill'Em All phase, which features James Hetfield's AI-generated vocals. It's a non-commercial/experimental track made as a tribute to the band and created under the fair use permission of copyright statute.

The use of AI-generated vocals is still a source of much controversy and heated discussion. I've been following the issue closely since the beginning of 2023, when French DJ David Guetta replicated the voice of American rapper Eminem during a concert, causing a wave of immense buzz about it.

Also in early 2023, the track "Heart on My Sleeve", which used AI-generated vocals from Canadian rappers Drake and The Weeknd, went viral before being taken down by streaming services. 

In September, John Lennon's voice was removed from a demo tape recorded in 1978. The poor quality audio was processed with AI for a new Beatles recording, giving rise to the song "Now & Then".

During this period, there was an eruption of websites focused on voice cloning, which, in October 2023, led RIAA to request the inclusion of such websites on the government's piracy watchlist -- and the main target became Vocify.ai. 

On the other hand, Aditya Bansal, a 20-year-old UK student who founded Vocify.ai, claims that several record companies have already contacted him wanting to make models of their own artists for demo tracks, "as drafts before the full recording process".

As MusicBusiness rightly pointed out, "major record companies hate AI voice-cloning platforms that don't pay".

I myself have had some very interesting personal experiences on the subject. A demo track of "Underground" was posted on a Discord server dedicated to vocaloids and synthesized vocals. The track was deleted less than 24 hours later by the moderator, who made a point of publicly censoring me on the open channel, stating that he didn't accept what he called "unethical" methods. I tried to explain that it was an experimental track, with no commercial purpose; that it was made as a tribute; that I had also sent the link directly to the band on their official Metallica Instagram, and so on. But the mere act of replying got me summarily kicked off the server.

I honestly believe that merely using tools like Voicify.ai and Kits.ai is not an unethical activity when the aim is to test the potential of a new technology. And the track "Underground" worked exactly as an experiment. It taught me that AI-cloned vocals need a lot of filters on the daw to mask defects derived from the cloning process. It served to show that the quantity of examples provided during the training of the AI is essential for improving the quality of the model. It served to show that training the model is better with vocals recorded in mono than with vocals in stereo; better with vocals recorded dry than recorded with reverb; and so on.

Moreover, I'm particularly happy with the AI-generated commercial voices I already use with Synthesizer V software, so I have no intention of replacing them with cloned voices of famous singers.

Hopefully, this small initiative will at least serve to dispel a little of the immense prejudice that has arisen around a technology that will soon become commonplace in the music industry. Nowadays, no one remembers all the controversy caused by the emergence of radio, when record company managers boasted that no one would buy albums anymore. It's the same story every time a new technology emerges.

Hope you enjoy the track.

TECH TRIVIA
* The guitar solos were assembled from multiple pieces of isolated audios of Kirk Hammett's solos available on YT.

* The rhythm guitars and the bass are Kontakt libraries. 

* The original vocals were created in Synthesizer V with NineZero voicebank. The NineZero's isolated audio was then converted into James Hetfield's vocals.

Underground - A Tribute to Metallica's Kill'Em All Phase

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A Good Lie

A Dream Waiting To Happen

Song composed & created by The Boilerman
Eric created & plays: all distorted lead guitar
Eric created & mix's: all drum, bass, ambient & Synth
Sergiyaro created & sings: all vocals
Production by E.H.T Studios
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Night & Day

Night & Day - ft. Sergiyaro

24/24

Liebe.brennt.2025

Mama packed my lunch again, bread was dry, the milk was thin,
Took my seat, they closed right in—grinning, fists already clenched.
Bag torn, bread gone, spit-wet, joke’s set, black eye, left dry,
Boot trip, lip split, boys grin, sink in, fist tight, goodnight.

Empty lunches, belly punches, laughing till I bled,
Names were carved into my skin, but I wrote theirs in my head.
Oh, I wrote theirs in my head.
Teeth like pearls, blood swirls—wrote 'em in my head.
Oh, wrote 'em in my head.

Tommy liked to break my spine, said I’d never walk in line,
Ricky thought it made him tough to knock my books into the dust.
Jesse swore I’d always lose, laced my laces in a noose,
I just smiled, I just bled, but I wrote theirs in my head.

Empty lunches, belly punches, laughing till I bled,
Names were carved into my skin, but I wrote theirs in my head.
Oh, I wrote theirs in my head.
Teeth like pearls, blood swirls—wrote 'em in my head.
Oh, wrote 'em in my head.

Years went by, I grew tall, worked in silence, learned it all,
Sharpened steel, took my time—vengeance waits with patient eyes.
Tommy runs a hardware store, Ricky drinks behind closed doors,
Jesse's got a wife and kid—pity what I did to him.

Tom ran, big man, gold tooth, shot proof, thick neck, no check,
Rick stole, hellhole, smoke burns, bad turns, mom cries, blue lights.
Jess lied, snake-eyed, cracked door, shook floor, tied tight, no fight,
Took my licks, took my kicks, took their names, wrote ‘em right.

Empty lunches, belly punches, laughing till I bled,
Names were carved into my skin, but I wrote theirs in my head.
Oh, I wrote theirs in my head.
Teeth like pearls, blood swirls—wrote 'em in my head.
Oh, wrote 'em in my head.

Mama packed my lunch again, bread was dry, the milk was thin,
Ain’t no bullies left to grin—guess the lesson’s mine to give.

Empty Lunches & Belly Punches

https://www.terriblecalmbeats.com/beat/slappin-21336840

Slappin

call me
call me he said
but the silence says
romance is dead

i loved you
you idiot she said
how many years did it take 
to get that into your head?

all the good days
and the bad
all the moments
that we wished we'd neverr had

sometimes, he said,
i'm so happy i could cry
but most of the time
i'm wondering why

we're falling
falling through our time
and remembering 
is how we hold the line

all the good days
and the bad
all the moments
that we wished we'd never had

all the triumphs 
and the hurt
all the ups and downs
what was it worth?

The Triumphs and the Hurt

https://open.spotify.com/track/74uBanA8eEiO0OF6BFm28Y?si=j5mC6RdZRnK44BeMq50YrA

prod me ft @six-days-after-christmas

@requiem-for-you
sittin in my room i swear i can hear the echoes of u still
cus i rlly got nothin to do and now ive got so much time to kill
start the car and light the match
promised we'd never look back
but its so hard to stay by that
cus ur perfect n thats fact

girl ur perfect n thats fact
oh god i rlly want u back
cus ur perfect n thats fact
ur perfect n thats fact

@six-days-after-christmas
when i was offering to help u
u just left, u disappeared
nothing matters when ur gone
ur in my head and in my tears
so its fine, im alright
u wont ever see me here
and i was right, would u like
to open up and keep me near

all i wanted was u
but u dont see that x3
all i wanted was uuuuuu

@requiem-for-you
sittin in my room i swear i can hear the echoes of u still
cus i rlly got nothin to do and now ive got so much time to kill
start the car and light the match
promised we'd never look back
but its so hard to stay by that
cus ur perfect n thats fact

girl ur perfect n thats fact
oh god i rlly want u back
cus ur perfect n thats fact
ur perfect n thats fact
x2

perfect w/ christmas

alcoholics (daydrinking)

Shoegaze, indie, post rock and electronica from Manchester, UK
tomleonard_uk@protonmail.com

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