The main riffs in this song were written after finding out my dog had died, just months after losing my other one.

The first recording was done with the Tele’o'doom, using Amplitube set to a fuzz -> clean classic stoner rock type tone. With that fuzz being turned off for the clean parts.

I finished the song a few months later, adding and extra layer of riffs and the solos with my Les Paul into Amplitube set to the Orange Rockerverb. With the gain being up for the heavy parts and down for the clean parts. I also used the Proton Envelope Filter for the first time on the solos and the last time the main riff comes around, although that was with a different setting.

The title is a reference to the name of the dog, since he was named Chachi by my mum after the character on Happy Days.

Lyrics:
Instrumental, so there are no lyrics

I needed some music for something I’m doing over at Frozen Beer Reviews. So I wrote some. This is it.

• Title is from That can be my next tweet! a site that creates a tweet based on your previous ones. It is usually almost sensical, and I just hit refresh until I got something cool.
• Left guitar (in both picture and the song) is my Silver Top Special, an Epiphone Les Paul with Dimarzio Chopper and Crunch Lab pickups, thru a Soldano SLO100 model in the new Amplitube
• Bass is as before, running thru the Studio Devil British Valve Custom
• Right guitar is the upgraded Tele’o'doom, with Seymour Duncan Boobuckers, thru an Orange Rockerverb 50 in the new Amplitube

Not much else to say, its just some cool riffage and improv’d solos that sound cool.

So there’s this competition, you can win a bunch of stuff including a guitar.

To enter, you have to jam out some blues.

So I did.

Problem is, I didn’t want to go to the trouble of using an amp or anything, so I plugged the Tele’o'doom direct and used some free plugins for the sound.

Problem is, I couldn’t decide between the fake Marshall, fake vintage fuzz or fake Boogie tones. So I just gave up and layered them all in together.

I also used some new free delay and reverb plugins I found to round out the sound.

So even when I don’t win, it was still good as a tonal experiment. Plus, both of my fans get to here a new tune.

We all know the classic morse code sms alert tone:

Do-do-do Daaa-Daaa Do-do-do

This is that, but played in my usual metal style.

I recorded this at the end of 2008 for my own personal use, but I thought someone out there might want it. It’s a full “band”: drums, bass, rhythm and lead guitars, and it really cuts through any background noise.

I’ve never not heard this when my phone isn’t on silent.

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Weird.

Image found by groping around here

A new concept album.

The title should give away the theme, and then some.

Especially if you speak ancient greek and can therefore understand the title of the suite.

This part is the obligatory instrumental introduction.

Starts with a soft bit, blippy synths, jazzy drums, soft pads and some noodley clean guitar solos.

Gets heavy in the second half.

I’ll explain it all when I get to the end of the set of songs.

As much as I can anyway.

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The title is a quote from the book To Hell And Back, by Lilith Saintcrow (the fifth and final title in the Dante Valentine series).

It is used to describe how a certain weapon feels.

As I was reading it I felt that it was a good phrase that sums up how I felt whilst finishing the book.

The song itself is…. weird. It is based around the D#/Eb Moorish Phrygian Scale with a 9/8 time signature, which those who understand what that means would know is not a basis for any kind of normal pop music.

In terms of instrumentation it is mostly synth driven, with a few guitar solos laid over the top in strategic places.

Genre wise, I think the music by Fear Factory, Liquid Tension Experiment and Frank Zappa I listened to last night might just have influenced the style. It ended up in some kind of weird avant-garde jazz fusion place with an industrial edge in the percussion.

Hence me calling it weird.

A brownie in traditional folklore is a type of elf or fairy or hobgoblin that helps out around the house.

Of course they could be mischievous at times, and I like the idea that every good thing has a dark side. No matter how good something appears to be, there is a capability for it to be evil.

The song itself is an instrumental based around some tribal beats, with some heavy grooving riffs and a lot of dissonance in terms of note and chord selections.

And yes, that picture is completely unrelated…. but it looked tasty.

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Instrumental.

Not entirely sane.

Soft intro with pads and soft guitar solo, rocking middle with keyboard and guitar solos, a bass solo and then the slow, crushing destruction of the end.

Exactly the kind of the unexpected thing you should expect from me.

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A tune I improvised while in the middle of marking all these damn exams.

Not much to it really, just some slow, heavy blues that may drift into stoner territory.

Although no blues tune I know uses a dance drum loop like that.

But what do you expect from me?