Onslaught Six

http://onslaughtsix.bandcamp.com/track/tachikouma Metally instrumental. The rest of the album has vocals all through it, plus the majority of the solos will be composed by other people so I figured I might as well have one track where it's all me. Drums and intro still need work but the majority of recording is done.

http://onslaughtsix.bandcamp.com/album/2008 Mostly stuff written during '08 while I was learning my way around FL.

Why yes, I am starting another thread to pimp my shit. Lamda Ecks is staying up until the end of this week or so because I'm a lazy jerkoff and also because I just promoted it last night at my old college's Open Mic Night so maybe some people are gonna go download it. (Nobody is going to download it.) In the meantime, I finally finished an accompanying EP with a song that I planned to include on Lamda Ecks until it became a concept album. It's a conceptual piece highly inspired by the Protomen that focuses on the main characters of the anime/manga series Trigun. It's a dirty, grimy piece and my vocals aren't exactly the best I've ever done, but there's desperation in there (and I tried to rerecord it like fifty times but I'm terrible so it always sucked), maybe I could've worked on it more but I don't have the original mix file right now so it's moot. This is the final version. Sometimes you just put stuff out and hope you can do better next time. Included also is a better-mixed version of Mancubus Down (that I think you already all heard in the Zombie Soldiers soundtrack but I'm considering adding my original May 2009 demo to that at some point) and FEED's Transcribe remix of Future; the winner of my remix contest (which I think had a whole three entires. Sadface.) plus a fucking NEW cover of Fascination Street by The Cure. That and the title track are the selling points of this thing. So at least listen to it. Tell me if it sucks. http://onslaughtsix.bandcamp.com/album/angel-arm

I don't understand; why is it a free download but I can't stream it?

Wasn't aware I was touching a nerve. But I like how everyone's all "Concept album means it's okay!" even though I just wrote a concept album and every song has its own individual feel. But hey. My point is that a lot of bands that don't change things up, stuff *does* start to get repetitive after a while. I love Arch Enemy but I usually can't listen to more than half of an album at a time because all the guitars sound exactly the same in every song. After a while, it just gives me a headache. What's even weirder is that this didn't bother me before, but it seems like ever since I started making music, it has. Weird. And actually I just gave those four tracks a brief skim, and yeah, I 'can' tell it's the same snare. And it wasn't even one I particularly liked. I'd rather not start a flamewar here, I voiced my opinion and now I'll respectfully bow out.

Yikes, gotta say I don't like how you've decided to go forth with this at all. Especially the bits about "You'll mostly only be working in MIDI," which begs the question of why the hell even get someone else to do that part? You'd be the one choosing the sounds, then, which, to me, reduces well over half the control I, as an artist or collaborator, have over my synth. The other part is "The same acoustic drumkit, same guitar, same bass," for every song. That's...well, boring, repetitive and crap if you ask me. I try to never use the same guitar sounds for another song without tweaking them 'somewhat.' The same with drums--if I can help it, I try to never use the same combinations of drums. I dunno, to me it seems like you're trying too hard to make it "cohesive" while in the same respect taking away the individuality of everybody working on it. As a control freak, I can understand why you'd want to do all that but it begs the question--with you doing so much of the parts yourself, why would you even need us?

Week's been extended for a few days until I can finish up another EP I'm working on to tide you folk over.

You know, I was just asking my friend the other day, "How come there's no Duke Nukem 3D remixes posted on the site? Or an album project? Especially now?" I mean, not even Grabbag remixes or anything! So now I'm downloading this. I hope it doesn't disappoint.

I am the singer--it's all me! Except the solos in Serious Songs. Actually this demo's kind of outdated, I have a much better one on my Bandcamp now. And yeah, I'm working on mixing everything lower right now to avoid clipping--I'll make it all louder for a final release.

Well, I'm a lazy fuck and I need money to actually release Lamda Ecks for consumption. But I decided I've hyped it enough, and it's done anyway. There's no point in not letting people hear it...at least for a week, right? So, for the next week, listen to Lamda Ecks, streaming on Bandcamp. Come Sunday, it's going back to hidden until I get $500 to press 500 copies. http://onslaughtsix.bandcamp.com/album/x-enter-the-machine And in the mean time, here's some demos from the new album, Serious Songs For Serious Earth, which will probably be finished by the end of the year at this rate. http://onslaughtsix.bandcamp.com/album/serious-songs-for-serious-earth-demos If you enjoy what you're hearing, consider buying one of my older albums so I can get money to press Lamda Ecks?

I really don't like automating volume or panning, though, because I had a bad experience once where I could never get it to go back up whenever I started. (I probably did it wrong, this was years ago.)

Yeah, I'm with you. Thanks a bunch, I'll give that a try at home over the weekend. There's so many of those included plugins, half the time I forget they're even there...

I like Bandcamp.

I'm trying to find a VST plugin that will pan a channel between the right and left automatically and sync to the tempo of the song--right now I'm using mda RoundPan but it doesn't sync to the tempo, I have to do it manually. You can hear the effect I want in the hi-hats in the beginning of Devin Townsend's Things Beyond Things: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2j--lwDc0DY&fmt=18 I wanna be able to do that but synched to the tempo. Kind of like how Fruity Delay works, I dig that plugin.

Well. I use, like, actual professional mics (in the $100ish range). Then what I do is I run it through my Line6 Gearbox USB dongle. Usually I record it clean but sometimes I add distortion right there. (This can have its drawbacks though.) Then I record it right into Fruity Loops, myself.

Well shit dude that's almost exactly what I wanted. Can you send me a raw WAV of that so I can mix it in properly?

Here's an example track: http://www.sendspace.com/file/5cbhty The solo would be around 1:13 to 1:43. And nothing else! That's like thirty seconds. I'm looking for something similarly sized for the rest of the songs too, so really there'd be not a lot of effort involved.

I need badass guitarists to do solos for my new album because I suck at guitar. PM or reply if interested. Compensation can be discussed...

http://www.sendspace.com/file/qjvxz2 While waiting for funding for my industrial metal album, I've decided to go forward with my other album idea: Basic thrash/classic metal stuff (Metallica crossed with Judas Priest basically) with an entirely non-serious tone. This song's about The Shredder, and the lyrics reflect this attitude towards seriousness. (One of the lines is "Tonight I dine on Turtle Soup; put you where you belong.") It's a rough demo mix obviously but give it a listen and throw me some feedback.

Did a new song last night! It's nifty, if a little weird. Not a direction I intend to pursue seriously but it was fun doing it: http://onslaughtsix.bandcamp.com/album/zeppelin

Actually, er, I can't, the best option it's giving me is FLAC, but for some reason when I try to download it, the resulting file is just silence. EDIT: Nevermind, I decided to try uploading it to Bandcamp anyway and it worked. You guys can't see it now, of course, because the single is (right now, anyway) scheduled to get released in October...maybe. I dunno! Also, I really like how you two guys' remixes work in entirely opposite ways. DJ Gram's is clearly electronic in nature while Fernito's is nice, quiet orchestral organic stuff. And they both play off my original melodies really well. I'm amazed to see this come from the basic riffy ideas I had in my bedroom. (And honestly--the music in a lot of my stuff feels more like a backing for my lyrical ideas, so to see this kind of attention paid to the music itself makes me happy.)

I'm going to need lossless WAV files of those tracks, you guys. You can email them to me or PM them to me or just post them here. Upload them to Sendspace or Megaupload or something, or just email them to me. Thanks!