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I started playing guitar in 1995 when I convinced my Dad to get me an electric guitar and amp. I also had a short lesson book that showed how to play "Ode to Joy". I quit playing for 6 months until a friend showed me how to play "Glycerine" by Bush before we walked to school one day. In 1996 my Grandma gave me her old stereo system and in 1997 I started recording stuff (with friends or by myself) onto cassettes with a microphone plugged into the tape deck. In 2000 a friend showed me how to program drums and record onto a computer, and in 2001 I finished my first solo album at 18 years old while I was honing my skills to form a band one day. I didn't know any drummers who wanted to play blast beats, so in 2002 I started playing drums myself on a kit of junk that included two broken cymbals, a snare drum with no bottom skin, and a cardboard box with weights inside as a bass drum, until my friend was ready to sell me his kit in 2003. Since then, I've been consistently releasing new music year after year with no end in sight.

I always thought my main creative outlet for music would be in a band setting, but eventually realized that I was getting enough fulfillment and fun out of making music by myself.

2022-11-14

Violations
NOSTRIL CAVERNS
★★★★★
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33:23 (1 song) -- This album is a sequel to "Nonconscious Paradox" with black/noise over a 30-minute drum solo. All instruments and vocals were freely improvised and recorded in one-try takes. Tags: black metal, ambient/noise, free jazz, free improv, improv, guitar, drums, keyboards, vocals

2021-12-20

Nonconscious Paradox
NOSTRIL CAVERNS
★★★★★
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31:13 (1 song) -- This album is sort of a mashup of themes from some of my previous albums: the 30-minute free jazz song from "End of the World", the semi-composed and improvised guitars and keyboards from "Apanda", and the random drumming-as-fast-as-I-can from "Long-Distant Aberration". The drums were a non-stop one-try improvised take, and then I wrote loose melodies for the rest of the instruments and improvised them along to the drums in one-try takes. Tags: black metal, ambient/noise, free jazz, free improv, improv, guitar, drums, keyboards, vocals

2021-11-08

Seeping Orifice
NOSTRIL CAVERNS
★★★★★
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2:59 (1 song) -- This song was written for a TBV unholy metal of death songwriting challenge. The song was made the same way as my "Introversions (Positive Awareness)" songs from "Spontaneous Synaptic Mutations - Part 1", I did a one-try improvised drum take and then deciphered the drums into notepad and wrote guitar using the notes. Tags: brutal death, tech death, death metal, mathcore, guitar, drums, keyboards, vocals

2021-03-23

Mistaken Lobotomy
NOSTRIL CAVERNS
★★★★★
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11:53 (1 song) -- This song was written for a TBV experimental avantgarde black metal songwriting challenge. I started by visualizing the structure and then recorded a one-try improvised drum take while leaving occasional pauses for keyboard parts. Then I wrote and recorded guitars piece by piece along to the drums, then added keyboards and vocals. Tags: black metal, prog, mathcore, improv, guitar, drums, keyboards, vocals

2020-12-16

Luring One's Self Into the Throes of Make-Believe
tCHADt
★★★★★
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8:33 (1 song) -- This song was written for a TBV wahmpyric battle hymns songwriting challenge, in the style of raw black metal. The drums were recorded with only one microphone, and effects were used on the other instruments to achieve a lo-fi atmosphere. Tags: depressive suicidal black metal, guitar, drums, keyboards, vocals

2020-09-26

Spontaneous Synaptic Mutations - Part 1
NOSTRIL CAVERNS
★★★★★
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2:11:42 (490 songs) -- This is part 1 of my work-in-progress 1000-song album of randomized brutal free improv. The album is split into groups of 100 songs and each group has a theme that relates to how I styled my guitar playing. "Introversions (Negative Awareness)" has no rules, "Unmuted Dreams" has a lot of ringing notes, "Romantic Abnormalities" makes use of only two scales, "Auditory Hallucinations" uses a an echo pedal, and for "Introversions (Negative Awareness)" I deciphered my improvised drums and wrote guitar to fit them. Favourite song: "Introversions (Negative Awareness) 034", "Unmuted Dreams 220", "Romantic Abnormalities 409", "Auditory Hallucinations 648", Introversions (Positive Awareness) 988. Tags: randomized, free improv, free jazz, brutal, death metal, black metal, grindcore, mathcore, drum solo, guitar, drums

2019-04-16

Choice Trinkets
CORA CANNING
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1:00:53 (81 songs) -- This album is similar to our previous album "Unveiled Webbing" in that the songs were randomly arranged with improvised instruments, but for this album we listened to metronome clicks while recording the instruments in an attempt for them to sync up more often. The final track more free form and recorded without a metronome. We used candid audio clips before each song of us being morons while recording the guitars and talking. Favourite song: "Unsweetened". Tags: randomized, free improv, free jazz, rock, metal, guitar, drums, vocals, keyboards, samples

2019-03-07

Perverse Teleportation
NOSTRIL CAVERNS
★★★★☆
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42:00 (20 songs) -- After completing the grueling "Sanity's Unnecessary Elaborations", I switched it up on this album and went with very simple and straight-forward song structures. This album has two distinct styles where the tracklist alternates between dissonant black metal and ambient/noise dungeon synth. The guitars were written unplugged and then recorded with distortion, so there are dissonant ringing notes in virtually every riff. I deducted one star because the vocals are "way" too loud and the drums are just a bit too loud. Favourite song: "Selfish Satiation". Tags: black metal, ambient/noise, guitar, drums, keyboards, vocals

2018-02-02

Sanity's Unnecessary Elaborations
NOSTRIL CAVERNS
★★★★★
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44:37 (9 songs) -- Here is where I stretched the convoluted song structures to the extreme, along with my memorization and playing skills. Three of the songs are each made up of 100 non-repeating sections where the tempo changes for each section, and two of the songs are only 5.5 minutes long so the riffs are constantly changing the whole time. Learning and playing these songs on guitar and drums was crazy. Favourite song: "Illogical Infatuations 1". Tags: death metal, black metal, mathcore, prog, ambient/noise, guitar, drums, keyboards, vocals

2017-09-08

Unveiled Webbing
CORA CANNING
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51:16 (99 songs) -- This album was made the same way as "Self-Inflicted Memory Loss". We each recorded 49 drum tracks, 98 guitar tracks, and 49 keyboard tracks that were all 20 seconds long, and everything was completely improvised. Each song was randomly given two guitar tracks, one keyboard track, and one drum track, then an appropriate Star Trek TNG sample was chosen. The final track is a mashup of old audio files I still had on my computer. Favourite song: "Astral Emanation". Tags: randomized, free improv, free jazz, rock, metal, guitar, drums, keyboards, samples

2017-01-10

Spatial Lacerations
NOSTRIL CAVERNS
★★★★★
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52:36 (99 songs) -- This is my second 99-song album but the first one where the music was actually composed. Every 11th track is a part of the song "Phonetic Thoughts", an ambient/noise song I made to play a drum solo along to for a live show Dave and I played (he also made his own ambient/noise song for his drum solo). The rest of the songs had their lengths capped at 30 seconds and feature ultra compressed song structures. The drums were written and recorded in only three days. Favourite song: "Reflective Fades". Tags: death metal, brutal death, grindcore, black metal, mathcore, ambient/noise, guitar, drums, keyboards, vocals

2016-08-28

Self-Inflicted Memory Loss
NOSTRIL CAVERNS
★★★★★
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39:58 (99 songs) -- I wanted to make a 99-song album for a long time and this was my first. I'm super proud of this album because it came out exactly how I envisioned. I started by making a 20-second "timer" that had a count-in and count-out with silence during the 20 seconds. Then I added 99 markers into Reaper and added the timer to each marker. Then I recorded 99 drum tracks and 198 guitar tracks (99 twice) of random improvised free jazz while only listening to the timer and the instrument I was playing. Then I randomized the order of all the drum and guitar tracks. Then I recorded an hour of audio from my tv while flipping through the channels and picked out 99 samples. Then I wrote lyrics and recorded vocals. Favourite song: "You Need Glasses". Tags: randomized, free improv, free jazz, brutal, death metal, black metal, grindcore, mathcore, drum solo, guitar, drums, vocals, samples

2016-07-30

Shapeshiter's Realm
CORA CANNING
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32:32 (16 songs) -- We recorded this album the day before playing a show in Hamilton and everything was improvised. We recorded two songs live and then split them up into tracks. Tracks 1-9 have Dave on drums and me on guitar, and tracks 10-16 have Dave on guitar and me on drums. An echo pedal was used with the guitar. Favourite song: "Minus One". Tags: rock, metal, improv, free improv, free jazz, guitar, drums

2016-01-29

Repressed Memory Games
NOSTRIL CAVERNS
★★★★☆
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28:39 (5 songs) -- This album pushes my convoluted riff-machine song structure style even further. Tracks 1 and 2 were recorded for an MA riff salad songwriting challenge and the last three tracks are re-recordings of the songs from my "playdoh" album with more aggressive drums and guitar, plus some added keyboards. I deducted one star because the riffs on three of songs are very old. Favourite song: "The Effects of Child Birth". Tags: mathcore, prog, death metal, black metal, guitar, drums, keyboards, vocals

2015-12-08

Cadaverns
CADAVERNS
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21:01 (2 songs) -- This song was written for an MA 20-minute-song songwriting challenge and the song was split in half. For track 1, Dan wrote the synthesizers first and then I added drums to it. For track 2, I improvised the drums first and then Dan added synthesizers to it. Favourite song: "Part 2". Tags: ambient/noise, sci-fi synth, drum solo, synthesizers, drums

15-12-01

Vague Evolving Patterns
NOSTRIL CAVERNS
★★★★☆
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20:00 (1 song) -- This song was written for an MA 20-minute-song songwriting challenge. The rhythm guitars and drums were recorded in a full take with no post edits, which was pretty challenging for 20 minutes of composed music. The rhythm guitars only used one tone and all the dynamics were done with my hands (no pedals or knobs were used). I recorded the coyote sample myself with the door open and microphone pointed outside. I deducted one star because the drums are a bit too loud. Tags: black metal, death metal, prog, mathcore, guitar, drums, keyboards, vocals

2015-08-01

Tragic Immoral Illusions
NOSTRIL CAVERNS
★★★★★
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34:30 (6 songs) -- This album was written for an MA black metal songwriting challenge. From start to finish, this album was written, practised, recorded, and released within two months. Favourite song: "Reliving Fading Memories". Tags: black metal, prog, mathcore, guitar, drums, keyboards, vocals

2015-06-04

Long-Distant Aberration
NOSTRIL CAVERNS
★★★★★
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30:03 (3 songs) -- After the huge success (in my mind) of "Waiting for Water to Boil", I made this album as a sequel. The drums were recorded first and were all improvised. The first two songs are direct sequels to "Waiting for Water to Boil" with random-nonstop-as-fast-as-I-can drum solos, while the third song has slow drums. The keyboards are a mix of semi-composed and improvised. Favourite song: "Tropospheric Scatter". Tags: free improv, free jazz, improv, ambient/noise, drums, keyboards

2014-11-14

The Future of Asexual Logic
NOSTRIL CAVERNS
★★★★☆
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12:07 (6 songs) -- This album consists of re-recorded tracks from my "It's a Trap" album with real drums and vocals. It might not sound like it, but these songs are tuned to E-standard. I was desperate to improve my drum mix so I tried replacing my snare, kick, and toms with samples from my kit in post, but I hate it and it drives me crazy. I deducted one star because of the sample-replaced drums. Favourite song: "Exquisite Milk, Glowing Teeth". Tags: brutal death, death metal, guitar, drums, vocals

2014-02-28

Inside the Cell
NOSTRIL CAVERNS
★★★☆☆
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13:44 (4 songs) -- This album was written for an MA thrash songwriting challenge. It's just a straight-forward death/thrash album with no surprises. I deducted two stars because the songs are imaginationless and the drums are too loud. Favourite song: "Immortal Agony". Tags: death metal, thrash, guitar, drums, vocals

2013-11-01

The Dying's Last Breath
NOSTRIL CAVERNS
★★★★☆
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14:24 (1 song) -- This song was written for an MA black metal songwriting challenge. I recorded it in three parts, the black metal parts at the beginning and end, and the ambient part in the middle. The title is a reference to my older album "The Last Breath of the Dying". Tags: black metal, mathcore, ambient, guitar, drums, vocals

2013-08-25

The Restaurant
NOSTRIL CAVERNS
★★★★★
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8:28 (4 songs) -- This album was written for an MA songwriting challenge where a narrative unfolds through the lyrics. The story is about two couples who spend a quiet night out at a small restaurant but end up getting more than they bargained for. The drums in track 4 were improvised and then the guitars were written after. Favourite song: "The Entree (Middle)". Tags: death metal, mathcore, prog, brutal death, improv, guitar, drums, vocals

2013-07-28

Waiting for Water to Boil
NOSTRIL CAVERNS
★★★★★
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10:22 (1 song) -- Whenever I make pasta for supper, I play this random-nonstop-as-fast-as-I-can style of drumming while waiting for the water to boil. So, I decided to record a song out of it by improvising 10 minutes of drums and then adding some ambient/noise keyboards to it. Tags: drum solo, free improv, free jazz, improv, ambient/noise, drums, keyboards

2013-05-02

Escaping the Spiral Labyrinth
NOSTRIL CAVERNS
★★★★★
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44:49 (29 songs) -- This album was my return to death metal where I just wanted to make a no-nonsense metal album. It's also my first album to feature vocals throughout the entire thing. The guitars for the first 28 songs were written in only 6 straight days and the last song was written a couple days later. The vocals are reading from a transcript of the Star Trek TNG episode "The Schizoid Man". Only one microphone was used to record this album, an AT2035. Favourite song: "Every Waking Moment". Tags: death metal, black metal, grindcore, brutal death, mathcore, thrash, guitar, drums, vocals

2013-02-13

Apanda
NOSTRIL CAVERNS
★★★★★
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12:15 (7 songs) -- I wanted to test out some new mics I got, so I made this. Everything was improvised except for some of the guitar and keyboard riffs where I listened to the drums a couple times first and then semi-planned some riffs. Favourite song: "Shins and Kneedles". Tags: free improv, free jazz, brutal, guitar, drums, keyboards

2012-12-21

End of the World
NOSTRIL CAVERNS
★★★☆☆
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31:08 (2 songs) -- This was recorded one night as one free improv song with no rules for structure or melody, just play absolutely anything. I deducted two stars because I'm not happy with my improvised guitar playing. I smoked a joint before recording this song and it shows (negatively). Tags: free improv, free jazz, guitar, drums

2012-01-01

Bad Ending
NOSTRIL CAVERNS
★★★★★
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23:36 (31 songs) -- This was my first free improv album, everything was improvised except the first 20 seconds of track 1. On the last track, I just mimicked the drums on guitar during certain beats. "No Look Pass" was recorded all at once and then split up into tracks later. While recording each instrument, I only listened to a mostly silent midi I made that had metronome clicks every 30 seconds, I didn't listen to any of the other recorded instruments. That's why every 30 seconds all the instruments will stop together or play notes together for a few seconds, the rest of the time they're playing without any idea of what the other instruments are playing. Favourite song: "No Look Pass 09". Tags: free improv, free jazz, death metal, guitar, drums

2012-01-01

Flies
NOSTRIL CAVERNS
★★★★★
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12:04 (29 songs) -- This was sort of like a mathrock version of "Forever Trapped in a Broken Mirror 2002/2003" with many short songs. Favourite song: "Tones 3". Tags: mathrock, prog, jazz, guitar, drums

2011-11-01

Moments in Time
CORA CANNING
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2:13:55 (89 songs) -- We recorded this entire album live in one day and everything was completely improvised. Seven songs were recorded in the afternoon and eight songs were recorded at night. Then I split the songs into 89 parts and arranged the tracklist based on my favourites first. Favourite song: "(12-01) Mystery Novel". Tags: improv, rock, jazz, metal, prog, guitar, drums

2011-10-13

It's a Trap
TIME OF DEATH
★★★☆☆
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24:18 (12 songs) -- This was the final Time of Death album before I changed the name to Nostril Caverns. For this one I went back to my death metal roots. The intention was to record drums and vocals as well, but I lost interest and only recorded drums for one song (the rest of the songs have programmed drums). I deducted two stars because of the programmed drums. Favourite song: "Killing". Tags: death metal, brutal death, guitar, drums, drum programming

2011-07-15

playdoh
TIME OF DEATH
★★★★☆
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19:35 (3 songs) -- These were the most complex songs I had written up to that point. They were written for Cora Canning but we never ended up recording them so I recorded them myself. I deducted one star because some of the riffs don't hold up. Favourite song: "I Put Playdoh in Your Pocket". Tags: mathrock, prog, guitar, drums

2011-05-25

Cora
CORA CANNING
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19:13 (8 songs) -- Dave and I had been playing together since high school in the 90's, but it wasn't until this album that we "officially" released something. I had moved away several years earlier, but we still kept in touch and decided to write some songs together. We each wrote guitar for a few songs in Power Tab and sent each other the files to learn, then we would meet up for a couple days to practise and record them live. Favourite song: "Nostril Caverns". Tags: rock, prog, mathrock, metal, guitar, drums

2010-03-12

blackprog
TIME OF DEATH
★★★★☆
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8:26 (5 songs) -- Sometime after recording track 1, I stabbed a hole through my snare and tom heads for some reason. So, I put the bottom tom heads on the top and used that old junk snare drum with only a top head and no snare wires from "Impaled by Christ's Erection" to record the rest of the songs (notice the horrible drum sound). A year or two later, we played a much longer version of track 3 during one of Cora Canning's rare live sets. I deducted one star because "Too Much Bowling" is way too bubblegummy. Favourite song: "2010 - Girls". Tags: mathrock, prog, black metal, guitar, drums

2009-10-23

Handsome Bank Teller
TIME OF DEATH
★★★★★
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2:24 (1 song) -- This song started from a melody I was whistling and converted to guitar, then continued writing the song from there. And no, I'm not gay. Tags: mathrock, death metal, guitar, drums

2009-05-14

Lemonade Breath
TIME OF DEATH
★★★★☆
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12:35 (2 songs) -- I recorded a live video of this song and put it on yahoo video until that service ended a few years later. It was the first split screen video I ever made and unfortunately I lost a copy of it. I deducted one star because some riffs don't quite hold up. Tags: mathrock, prog, death metal, guitar, drums

2008-04-20

The Classic Fountain Pen
TIME OF DEATH
★★★★★
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5:45 (1 song) -- On this song I was really trying to push myself to make more interesting compositions while also making sure my drumming could keep up. Since I pretty much never play live, I started becoming more strict with how I recorded music and played the guitar and drum parts in a full take with no overdubs. The song was written on a classical guitar, but instead of recording it with electric guitar I used the classical guitar for fun. I also turned off my snare wires to make the song truly unplugged. The samples are from an unintentionally funny commercial that would air on tv during late night poker. Tags: mathrock, prog, death metal, acoustic guitar, guitar, drums, keyboard programming, samples

2007-05-24

Finkle Me This
TIME OF DEATH
★★★☆☆
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4:22 (1 song) -- This was the first song I wrote after finishing "Forever Trapped in a Broken Mirror" and it marked a noticeable change in style for future releases. I needed some room to grow as a musician, but especially as a drummer, so I started incorporating jazz and mathrock into my sound with the influence of Thoughtstreams and Hella. I programmed the synth intro in Power Tab and the drums are also programmed. I did write drum parts that I planned on playing, and I remember practising them back then, but I got sick of the song and never bothered recording them. Tags: jazz, metal, mathrock, black metal, guitar, drum programming, keyboard programming

2006-07-13

Forever Trapped in a Broken Mirror 2006
TIME OF DEATH
★★★★★
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58:22 (20 songs) -- This was the final recording session for "Forever Trapped in a Broken Mirror". Since I started playing the drums instead of programming them, I had to adapt my songwriting to be compatible with my limited drumming skills at the time, so the structures became less elaborate and songs became longer. Because I had written these songs on acoustic guitar, I used a lot of ringing melancholic notes and I like how that dissonance was exaggerated on the electric guitar. Favourite song: "Shard 34". Tags: death metal, black metal, brutal death, acoustic elements, experimental, guitar, drums, keyboards

2006-01-31

Forever Trapped in a Broken Mirror Extras
TIME OF DEATH
★★★★★
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31:52 (15 songs) -- Rejects and demo versions of songs from the various "Forever Trapped in a Broken Mirror" recording sessions from 2001-2006. Favourite song: "Part 23 (2006)". Tags: death metal, black metal, grindcore, guitar, drums, keyboards

2004-03-01

Acoustic Despair
TIME OF DEATH
★★★★★
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28:16 (12 songs) -- Later in 2003, I suddenly stopped playing electric guitar and only played acoustic guitar for some reason, yet continued writing "Forever Trapped in a Broken Mirror" on acoustic guitar with the intention of recording the acoustic songs with electric guitar and drums. These are the original acoustic versions of some songs from Shard 18-37 on "Forever Trapped in a Broken Mirror 2006", including 4 songs that were never re-recorded for that album. Favourite song: "Abandoned by the Spirits". Tags: acoustic guitar, death metal, black metal, guitar

2003-05-10

Forever Trapped in a Broken Mirror 2003
TIME OF DEATH
★★★★★
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7:47 (8 songs) -- This was the second batch of "Shards" for "Forever Trapped in a Broken Mirror". I was really pushing myself on these songs with the constant technical riff changes and obsessive drum programming. I really had something to prove. I never was able to play track 2 all the way through on guitar, which is funny, but I'm really proud of these songs. The last two songs are where I ditched the drum programming and started playing drums myself. I had a much easier time improvising on the drums than playing along to written guitar, so I improvised the drums and wrote the guitar after. Favourite song: "Shard 13". Tags: death metal, tech death, brutal death, grindcore, black metal, experimental, guitar, drums, drum programming, keyboard programming

2002-11-01

Impaled by Christ's Erection
TIME OF DEATH
★★★★★
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2:07 (3 songs) -- The drums on this are from my junk kit with the two broken cymbals, half snare, and cardboard box bass drum. I recorded my hands first and then added in samples of the bass drum in post. My hands were also sped up on track 3. I had written more songs for this album but never ended up recording them. Favourite song: "Urethra Blood Clog". Tags: death metal, grindcore, black metal, guitar, drums, drum programming, vocals

2002-07-04

Forever Trapped in a Broken Mirror 2002
TIME OF DEATH
★★★★☆
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14:12 (18 songs) -- This is the first batch of songs for "Forever Trapped in a Broken Mirror", which was intended to be a big album with lots of songs. Here I really started to compress my song structures and speed things up, and improve my drum programming (especially on the last 4 songs). I played drums on three songs (and sped them up in post) when Dave lent me his kit. Favourite song: "Shard 3". Tags: death metal, brutal death, tech death, grindcore, guitar, drum programming, vocals, samples

2002-05-02

Bagless
TIME OF DEATH
★★★☆☆
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6:52 (4 songs) -- These songs were written for Dave's death metal joke band called Bagless. He wrote a song for it and we recorded it with him on drums and me on guitar. Then I wrote these songs for the band but we never recorded them. Favourite song: "Rectally Yours". Tags: death metal, joke, guitar, drum programming, samples

2001-08-25

The Last Breath of the Dying
TIME OF DEATH
★★★☆☆
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45:52 (12 songs) -- My first full album that I finished at 18 years old. By the time it was done, I was already sick of my songwriting style and began working on "Forever Trapped in a Broken Mirror". The vocals on track 2 were recorded in 2004. Favourite song: "The Last Breath of the Dying". Tags: atmospheric death metal, black metal, ambient/noise elements, acoustic elements, experimental, guitar, drum programming, keyboards, vocals, samples

2000-08-01

Ancient Tales from the Forest of Death
TIME OF DEATH
★★★☆☆
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10:12 (2 songs) -- The first TOD songs with drums. Ken showed me how to program drums and record music on the computer. "Eternal Slumber" was my anthem in high school but by the time I was ready to record "The Last Breath of the Dying", I was sick of the song and didn't even bother adding it to the album. Favourite song: "2000 - The Lost Valley of Dissection". Tags: atmospheric death metal, guitar, drum programming, samples

1997-2000

Cassette Jams
CRIPPLER
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1:47:59 (26 songs) -- Cassette recordings from high school while jamming with friends. We mostly played covers, but these are all the original songs we did and many of the parts were improvised. Favourite song: "donkey kong country bass acoustic". Tags: rock, metal, improv, guitar, drums, bass, vocals