Davester2296 B-Sides | DAR - Crimson Premonition @Davester2296-B | Uploaded January 2019 | Updated October 2024, 3 hours ago.
Alright, the first original of 2019 (and a heavy one at that)!
This one actually started out with the part you hear from 1:50 - 2:42. I had been feeling like the album could use another energetic track.
However when I finally sat down to record this one, my hands were really cold and I was pretty sluggish. Because of that, I tried warming up by playing a slower, fairly simple part on the guitar.
Once I was all warmed up, I realized that the two ideas seemed to fit together pretty well. So rather than being completely energetic, it became a mix of slow and heavy with bursts of energy here and there.
I really tried to imitate a sort of Alice-In-Chains vibe with the slower parts in this song (just like I had done for "Descent Into Dementia").
As for the other parts, I'm not quite sure where I drew inspiration from. I feel that aside from that kinda 90's grunge and metal sound, there's a dash of thrash and hardcore sprinkled in.
I will say though, recording the leads from 3:57 - 5:30 was really exhausting (I went from feeling fairly cold, to pretty warm and sweating a bit). It was a lot of fun playing it though.
That tremolo-picking starting at 5:00 really wore me out and got me heated up for sure! It was really nice being able to do some tremolo-picking like that in an original again! Last time I had done trem-picking in an original was probably in short parts of "Nations Collide".
Recording the faster bass and rhythm guitar parts were also pretty tiring too (but man it was great fun to play!).
So recording stuff aside, time for the "story" of this one. Since it wound up sort of following in similar spirit to "Descent Into Dementia" I decided the topic would be another mind-related theme.
This time, our hero finds himself halfway through the overrun facility on Phobos. Suddenly, now aware of his presence, the big-bad-demon final-boss of this Phobos base awakens far in the distance (as heard with the roar in the intro).
Actually on a side-note, I'm still getting A LOT of mileage out of that scream sample that I made and wound up originally using in Descent Into Dementia! I had used it for the roar heard in the beginning here. I just tweaked some things and threw some effects on to it and liked the deep, distant roar that it became!
Anyways, so now the big-bad has awakened, and Sin-Slayer is affected and begins seeing visions of the impending showdown. Between these premonitions of impending doom, our hero continues to soldier on and clear out the next area.
Originally I was going to call this one "Crimson Fever Dream" but that felt awkward to say. So I opted to name it "Crimson Premonition" since it just rolls off the tongue a lot better (and sounded more fitting story-wise).
Overall I'm quite happy with how this one turned out. I think its a pretty good way to start off the originals channel for 2019!
Anyways, I hope you all enjoy this new jam! ~DAR
MP3 DOWNLOAD: mediafire.com/file/610s6b8lo30zok8/DAR_-_Crimson_Premonition.mp3/file
Next Song: "DAR - Requiēs": youtu.be/VUSCBY0kxhE
Previous Song: "DAR - The Stickney Groove": youtu.be/4Z5pn87Z4nM
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Alright, the first original of 2019 (and a heavy one at that)!
This one actually started out with the part you hear from 1:50 - 2:42. I had been feeling like the album could use another energetic track.
However when I finally sat down to record this one, my hands were really cold and I was pretty sluggish. Because of that, I tried warming up by playing a slower, fairly simple part on the guitar.
Once I was all warmed up, I realized that the two ideas seemed to fit together pretty well. So rather than being completely energetic, it became a mix of slow and heavy with bursts of energy here and there.
I really tried to imitate a sort of Alice-In-Chains vibe with the slower parts in this song (just like I had done for "Descent Into Dementia").
As for the other parts, I'm not quite sure where I drew inspiration from. I feel that aside from that kinda 90's grunge and metal sound, there's a dash of thrash and hardcore sprinkled in.
I will say though, recording the leads from 3:57 - 5:30 was really exhausting (I went from feeling fairly cold, to pretty warm and sweating a bit). It was a lot of fun playing it though.
That tremolo-picking starting at 5:00 really wore me out and got me heated up for sure! It was really nice being able to do some tremolo-picking like that in an original again! Last time I had done trem-picking in an original was probably in short parts of "Nations Collide".
Recording the faster bass and rhythm guitar parts were also pretty tiring too (but man it was great fun to play!).
So recording stuff aside, time for the "story" of this one. Since it wound up sort of following in similar spirit to "Descent Into Dementia" I decided the topic would be another mind-related theme.
This time, our hero finds himself halfway through the overrun facility on Phobos. Suddenly, now aware of his presence, the big-bad-demon final-boss of this Phobos base awakens far in the distance (as heard with the roar in the intro).
Actually on a side-note, I'm still getting A LOT of mileage out of that scream sample that I made and wound up originally using in Descent Into Dementia! I had used it for the roar heard in the beginning here. I just tweaked some things and threw some effects on to it and liked the deep, distant roar that it became!
Anyways, so now the big-bad has awakened, and Sin-Slayer is affected and begins seeing visions of the impending showdown. Between these premonitions of impending doom, our hero continues to soldier on and clear out the next area.
Originally I was going to call this one "Crimson Fever Dream" but that felt awkward to say. So I opted to name it "Crimson Premonition" since it just rolls off the tongue a lot better (and sounded more fitting story-wise).
Overall I'm quite happy with how this one turned out. I think its a pretty good way to start off the originals channel for 2019!
Anyways, I hope you all enjoy this new jam! ~DAR
MP3 DOWNLOAD: mediafire.com/file/610s6b8lo30zok8/DAR_-_Crimson_Premonition.mp3/file
Next Song: "DAR - Requiēs": youtu.be/VUSCBY0kxhE
Previous Song: "DAR - The Stickney Groove": youtu.be/4Z5pn87Z4nM
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![HORIZONS [Album Announcement]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/B3xSJD4E2h8/hqdefault.jpg "HORIZONS [Album Announcement]
Its been a long, long time since Ive done an album (over a year now since I last did an instrumental album). I plan to have Horizons out by Sept. 9th, 2016.
This time, Im trying for a more electronic rock kind of sound/influence. Similar to how New Genesis had some Post-Rock influences.
Ive gotten 6 songs done so far, and I plan to have 12 total. Im going to attempt to make this the longest of my albums, as well as having the most songs Ive put in an album yet!
I hope you all look forward to this release! Below you can find links to the first two tracks, Cryostasis and Voyage of the Fractured Horizons. ~DAR
DAR - Cryostasis:
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![DAR - Nations Collide {OLD_VERSION} [2015]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/BYBNOLk4I4s/hqdefault.jpg "DAR - Nations Collide {OLD_VERSION} [2015]
Decided to make a video for Nations Collide, since I have my green-screen now. Hope you all like it!
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![Come With Me Before They Get You | Wolfenstein Rising OST [MIDI] (Wolf3D/Terminator mashup!)](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/GOzrcj48X5U/hqdefault.jpg "Come With Me Before They Get You | Wolfenstein Rising OST [MIDI] (Wolf3D/Terminator mashup!)
Never in a million years would I have ever thought of mashing together Wolfensteins Get Them Before They Get You and the Main Theme from Terminator! So very big thanks goes out to Raees for having such a moment of genius! The short proof-of-concept audio clip he sent over to me also really helped a lot as well.
In terms of how this would fit in the mod, way early on in the soundtrack, Raees had floated this idea around. How itd be neat to have this mashup of Wolfenstein and Terminator and use the song for a secret level with a Terminator easter-egg sort of thing going on. Its not too far-fetched an idea either, after all weve got the Ubermensch mechs in the mod. Most of them are human-operated while a few are totally autonomous.
Im just surprised how well the two tracks meshed together! Both are the same tempo: 90bpm/180bpm (same thing, just depends on how you want to write your notation and spacing of notes). So there wasnt any tweaking really needed in terms of the tempo. As for key, I just bumped up Wolfensteins track by two semi-tones in order to make things fit with Terminators original key. I wound up having to remove a couple of the flute harmonies for the Wolfenstein track, since I needed to make enough room for Terminators melody and its supporting string sections!
I also wound up using an instrument change for once, mainly because the clarinet on the left got drowned out by the string ensemble. However, along with being really drowned out, part of the clarinets sound still managed to cut through, and it made this really weird-sounding mess of notes. So to avoid that, I made it switch over to the synth brass 1 sample when the strings all kick in. Then as the part finishes up, I had it switch back over to the clarinet.
Really enjoyed making this little Wolfenator mashup! I also had a bit of fun while I was listening to the MIDI, I decided to goof around and quickly create that silly little image you see in the video!
Anyways, I hope you all enjoy! VOLUME 1 of the soundtrack will be making its way to the Covers channel quite soon, as well as a nice showcase video about the Wolfenstein Rising project! ~DAR
MIDI DOWNLOAD: http://www.mediafire.com/file/qcaiv2gnstnhg45/Come+With+Me+Before+They+Get+You.mid/file
Originally Completed on November 18th, 2020
Composition Credits:
Get Them Before They Get You originally composed by Bobby Prince
Terminator - Main Theme originally composed by Brad Fiedel
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![DAR - Always Right [REDUX] | { OLD VER. }](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/I9CE9_CGIas/hqdefault.jpg "DAR - Always Right [REDUX] | { OLD VER. }
Lyrics:
You can lie to yourself
And make it so no one else
Can make a fool of you
But thats just what you do
You cant hear whats real
cuz youre deaf to truth
And Im so sick of your denial
Paint me wrong, but you know its true
Always right, cuz youre never wrong
Always wrong, you just say youre right
Blame it all on your deities
Blame it all on the ones you love
Tonights the night, I will end this fight
Im always right, cuz Im never wrong
You tell yourself, as you block them out
You cant hear whats real
cuz youre deaf to truth
And Im so sick of your denial
Paint me wrong, but you know its true
Always right, cuz youre never wrong
Always wrong, you just say youre right
Blame it all on your deities
Blame it all on the ones you love
Tonights the night, can I end this fight
Youre always right, cuz youre never wrong
Always wrong, you just say youre right
Blame it all on your deities
Blame it all on the ones you love
Tonights the night, I will end this fight
Hurt us all, cant you see youre wrong
Blame us all, is it not enough
Tonights the night, we can end this fight
Always right, Always wrong
Always right, Always wrong
Tonights the night, can we end this fight
Always right, Always wrong
Always right, Always wrong
Tonights the night, we can end this fight
I think Im going to wind up redoing Fate later down the road again... I had decided to completely re-record the lead guitars for this track. I hadnt quite realized just how bad some of these really resonant frequencies sounded! The original lead recording had a lot of these higher-pitched hums (the vocals even had some in certain places). I was able to salvage the original vocals with some very aggressive EQ, but the lead guitar parts were toast after such EQing. Those high-pitched hums and almost feedback-like frequencies were just too much! So with the original leads being pretty much trashed, I scrapped them and started fresh again.
After redoing all of it, I really think this sounds great now with the newly recorded leads! Hell, I even decided to throw in some new lead parts to make things sound a bit more interesting as well. Ive changed around the drum parts ever so slightly since I started to feel like the original drums were just a liiiittle too repetitive. I also decided to spice up the rhythm guitars in the verse and for the outro. I also decided to change up the outro too, letting the vocals finish before I go into the fadeout. Ive also taken what Ive learned from mastering the 2 tracks from On Impulse so far, and have applied them here. I think I wound up squashing the sound a bit too much in the Fate [redux], but atleast Ive caught all of this early!
Anyways, hope you all enjoy the facelift Ive given to Always Right, hope you all look forward to more of Cyclic Divide Redux album! Not There will be the next one to get a makeover. ~DAR
OPUS DOWNLOAD: https://www.mediafire.com/file/4v66s58lu9lj4tn/DAR Always_Right.opus/file
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