Escaping The Storm is the 6th track from Sector 7G’s 2005 self-titled EP. We were an original heavy metal band based in Loxton, and were active from 2003 until 2008. Starting off playing a broad range of classic metal covers, we eventually started performing our own songs and ended up releasing the EP, a full album (all new songs) and a few live DVDs.

We recorded the 2005 EP ourselves in a home studio, before any of us had seriously sunk our teeth into music production. The sound quality isn’t amazing, but it’s pretty good for the resources we had available to us at the time! Although we had 500 copies of the CD made, we decided (for some reason or other) not to have it mastered… so what you hear on the CD is exactly what came from our recording sessions at Loxton North.

Twelve years and countless technological advances later, I decided to use a mastering website called LANDR to do quick, simple masters of the two tracks from the EP I wrote by myself: Big Milk Daddy and Escaping The Storm. The resulting tracks do sound a bit nicer… and they’re definitely louder and punchier! The vocals are still a bit low in the mix, and probably need a fair bit of compression… but there’s not much I can do about that without the original separate recorded tracks.

I wrote this song early in the morning of Monday December 27th, 2004 (how’s that for being meticulous with my music-related record-keeping!). The lyrics are about the “adventures” of one of my best mates (who shall remain nameless… haha). It’s not the most serious of songs, though I do enjoy the main riff I came up with. Nice and meaty! I remember Head (our bass player) delighted in the 80’s glam metal-style guitar solo I jammed in there right after the soft, melodic bridge. It’s great to re-visit these songs after such a long time. Ahhh… memories! Enjoy. :)

PERSONNEL:
Tristan Kemp: Vocals, Backing Vocals, Lead & Rhythm Guitar
Ben Petch: Drums, Rhythm Guitar, Backing Vocals
Jason Hargreaves: Bass, Backing Vocals

Written by Tristan Kemp
Mixed & produced by Ben Petch
Artwork: Tristan Kemp

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Sector 7G - Escaping The Storm

I'll try and keep this short...

I was born in Loxton on February 4th, 1981 into a pretty musical family. My grandpa was a singer, my dad is a singer/guitarist and my older brother is also a singer/guitarist. It was only fitting (and hardly surprising) that I followed in their footsteps.

I've been playing the guitar for pretty much as long as I can remember, and I really should be a lot better at it by now, but I just don't practice! Naughty me! I also started singing when I was about 18 or so (when I finally got the courage to do it). As well as guitar, I'm also pretty handy on bass, drums and keyboard. I also shake a pretty mean tambourine!

Over the years I've been in a few bands, starting with the infamous "Fat Ankles" in year 8 at Loxton High with my mates Juice, Romers and Goodo. After High School came "Dead Panda Sandals" (later re-named to "The Loose Cannons") and then a couple of years later I joined "Sector 7G", which became a big passion of mine. We did pretty well for four local boys... we released two CDs, had airtime on Adelaide radio, made a few DVDs, played plenty of Adelaide gigs, did some festivals with big-name bands, got write-ups in magazines, etc. The G lasted 5 years, but unfortunately, all good things come to an end.

For over seven years now I've been in my current band "The Door Snakes" with my mates Gogs & Diamond Dave. We enjoy immense popularity locally, and our public Loxton shows are always chockas! We're a cover band, and I like to think we play a pretty vast range of songs, that pretty much everyone can enjoy. If you haven't experienced the craziness of a Loxton Door Snakes show, then I thoroughly recommend it!

In the last few years I have bought some really cool recording gear, and made myself a nice little studio in my house. Using results from a brief online poll among my friends, I named it "Suck My Studio"... classy, eh! Thanks to a lot of help from Wattsy (my studio guru), I'm now reasonably handy with Pro Tools, and have recorded quite a few songs.

I'm a very busy chap, and unfortunately I hardly find the time to get into my studio. Hopefully I can slink in there a lot more this year somehow! The tunes I've recorded so far have mainly been silly songs, cover tracks, or tunes written specially for mates. These songs have been really good opportunities to gain experience with the software, hardware, microphones, recording processes, etc. But I guess you could say I'm still yet to "get serious" and record some original Tristan Kemp masterpieces. I now feel I have enough experience in the studio to start doing this!

I enjoy having mates around to record stuff in my studio. Some mates have "guest starred" on songs with me, and other mates have used the studio to record their own stuff. The single aim of having the studio there is to have fun. It's a cool hobby! And I don't plan to profit from any of the music I make... in fact, I plan to upload all my songs so that people can listen to them for free. If you like any of my stuff, feel free to drop me a line and I can Email you an mp3... or of course, you can download them straight from SoundCloud. Careful though... some of the songs contain some naughty language!

I don't have any limits when it comes to songs I record... nor do I take myself too seriously. I'm a metalhead at heart, but I also have a good sense of humour... so expect everything from epic metal masterpieces, to silly jingles, to comedy tunes, to cover songs, to ballads, to dance tracks!!! Yes... I have many plans! Tee hee hee!

I'm currently doing an ongoing awesome project with Juice (my old school buddy and former Fat Ankles bandmate) called "STUTAP". It stands for "Slave To Uncle Tom's Appetite for Poundcake". Great name, eh! If you're a fan of 80's metal, you should be able to pick out the four song/album names we pinched to come up with our name. "The Tap" (as we like to call it) is all about fun and filth! Juice and I co-write the songs, and record them together. We've done a few songs so far, and they're on here... so check them out! Our main influence for The Tap is Steel Panther... so be prepared for some dirty, hard rocking hilarity!

Cheers for looking at my page. Dang... it seems I didn't try hard enough to keep this short! If you wanna drop me an Email, my address is terrytodger@hotmail.com

And don't forget to "like" my Facebook page: "Tristan Kemp's music" (the link straight to the page is on here).

Gooooood tiiiaaams!!!

Tris.