welcome home Demona.

Forgive my spelling error Deamona.

Hail
 

im from greece, island crete, i like mostly b-movies, not "splatter" movies though :)

splatter movies have their place

not so much of a fan, but they are ok :)

Seems like we have alot of Death/Black metal fans here. I wonder if there's a correlation at work here.

personaly im more into 80's rock and power metal - epic metal - and classic heavy metal, also i like manson and murderdolls.....

Art is dead
 

Hmph;
Most of today's music seems to all sound alike. It's like some group gets a neat idea, it sells pretty good, and from then on they just keep rewriting that same song in different keys with different lyrics. Very little creativity.
Then all you guys that form bands start out writing stuff that sounds just like your favorite song or artist, and it just starts all over again...again, too little creativity.
Of course, the music industry isn't in the business of promoting creativity, they just want to make money, so that accounts for much of it. If your new song doesn't sound a lot like something that's already been a hit, they probably won't give you much of a shot at recording, so you'll have to kinda sell out if you wanna get popular.

I write music, but it doesn't sound like much of anything that's out there (or has ever been). That probably means no one will ever pay me a quarter to hear any of it, but that's OK, I like things that are fresh and untried, and I just do it for my own pleasure. Of course, there are many influences on what I play and write, but I don't try to sound like any of them. I have a friend named John, who says, "I'm me, and I can't be you, the world doesn't need another me or you, it already has them." Same thing with musicians; we don't need another Alice in Chains...we already have one and they're real good. Let's hear something FRESH!

For real, like pop/punk these days. Almost every local band ive heard can easily be classified as emo/poppunk or hardcore(deftones ripoff), no body tries to make original sounds anymore and true the record companies dont push for it either.

I personally like the idea of every one of my songs sounding so completely different that people cant tell its me. Im not that sucessfull at it yet tho. I still have alot of crutches i use when writing, i still have alot to learn as a songwriter. But everyday you can say your a better musician than the day before is a sucess right?

Absolutely right! Every song is a learning experience itself, and it adds something to the next one you write (if you let it, and resist the temptation to stagnate).

I guess I shouldn't be too hard on those who don't care and just want to make money, but I like to be able to feel something in a song that I have never felt, either melodically, harmonically, rhytmically, or any or all of those. If it's just the same elements that every other popular band is doing at the time, it's kind of like eating a plate of spaghetti versus a bowl of spaghettios; same stuff, just packaged and shaped differently.

That's why I tend to prefer older music. Seems like in the 60s, 70s and part of the 80s, musicians were really creative (even if I didn't necessarily like a song I could still admire its creativity). Somewhere in the mid eighties, it just kinda died.

Well said

Exactly, i dont know, i dont think we're hard enough on them ya know. If more people actually thought about what cds they buy and what artist they support instead of just buying whatever MTV tells them i think we wouldnt be in this musical shithole the last 10 years have been. Wed actually have some creativity.

If i havent said so already welcome to the board Lycanthe, your signiture rocks. If more people heeded advice like that the world would be a much brighter place.

Have to agree with that
 

Yeah, you have a good point there. It's kind of screwy paying ten or fifteen bucks for a "new" CD that's really just the same old stuff rehashed. I could waste my money on better stuff than that.

And thanks for the welcome. I was digging around for some stuff about "The Ring" when I found it, and so far I think it's a gem.

Hey im my audio 2 class we were talkin about what the new media will be after cds. And apperently they are developing a new cd called a SACD (super audio cd) that will sample about 1,000,000 times per second over the current cds 44.1 times per secound. On top of that it will also have a 44.1 layer so it will be backwards compatible with your old cd players. Sounds pretty crazy.

Evening all I write lyrics. Im not really great with the tuning but i write the lyrics and a few close friends of mine in my amateur band-FakeReality kinda work on it ourselves. May I ask Arioch, what was it that drew you to Manson's earlier works? I am more metal myself. i tend to stick to the classics though, Aerosmith, AC/DC, metallica, slayer Cannibal corpse. the old rock and metal stuff ya know?

Sure man, i think Scott Putesky's guitar work is fucking amazing on that album. From the feedback to the insane harmonics he puts in while playing a normal blues riff. Just really inspires me to develop my own style ya know. Im an old school Cannibal Corpse fan aswell, long live "the bleeding" that album still fucking owns.

I write and sing songs in a group

I set up an ongoing thread for all our music projects in the music section. I figured since this one got so many responses and was in the New Members Section we should have a place in the music forum for us. Check it out if you havent already.

Since this thread is really all about our music projects, heres a plug of my bands new instrumentalNeverAgain(instr.)

What kind of band is it?

Its a dark rock band and really thats the only way i can classify it. Our whole theme is chaos and the ability to go in any direction, so sometimes well have jazz in a song, or old blues with a gospel feal, or metallic rock, or grundge, or slow piano and gothic classical sounds. We slam it all together but the only thing in common is a dark almost horror spin on it all, but we're not comedic, we're all about emotion. Its sounds confusing but it really works out thats y its hard for people to classify us.


Thx for the intrest hannibelle, the ONLY thing that makes a band anything are its fans. Thats the biggest thing with us.

Sounds WICKED to me ....

I LISTENED TO THAT MUSIC FROM THELINK ON THE OTHER POST THAT WAS WICKED ..... YOU''LL MAKE BIG BUCKS

Thanx alot. Seriously we are ALL about our fans, when we get a website for the NEW band we will post poetry, art, lyrics, AND pictures of our fans. Along with a message board and constant feedback. I want the fans to be a member of the band, and not in some clitched sense of hometown glory, i want them integrated from the begining to the very end. Im just really passionate about that, i hate seeing bands that get huge and then piss all over their fans (and their fans love them anyway).

Perfect example of this is TOOL, i fucking cant STAND it when manard plays with his back to the crowd, then he blows off fans, wont even talk to you if you go back stage they just act so high and mighty and they wouldnt be ANYWHERE if it wasnt for their fans, thats complete ignorance to me.

I have felt what it is like when you stand in front of a crowd and sing your heart and soul out, your full emotions, praying to GOD your not rejected......and then.......you hear the crowd singing. You hear them singing YOUR lyrics. Lyrics you wrote for your own reasons and they know them, they feal them. They identify with them enough to know every word. That is better than any drug, that is godlike power, and soooo many bands take it for granted.

Sonds cool to me!

Any of you new members songwriters? Im seein alot of new faces around here since the freddyfan incident.

hey everyone! i'm new to this forum so i don't know if i'm using it correctly. i'm not used to this forum setup. anyway, i see there is a lot of musicians and music lovers on this forum. i'm in a heavy metal band and our sound is kind of like a combo of pantera, killswitch engage, and old metallica. anyway, if anyone has a question or a reply to this message, just write back! thanks

Hey im interested fanatic. You got any mp3's online or any way for us to hear some of your shit? sounds like a pretty nice combination of influences.

not yet man, sorry. but i will tell you this, after we get mp3's, my cousin(the other guitar player in the band) are going to post on all of the forums that we visit, and post a time and place where everyone can hear a couple of our songs. we thought the world needs a an amazing shock every once in a while. i will keep everyone up to date when the time gets near. thanks!

Songwriting, you mean the art or the craft?
 

Let's see, influences. I think most music today is about as mindless and copy-catted as a pile of dead leaves.

My main influences are the result of listening to (and enjoying) ALL music. I know a lot of people say that, but most really only listen to a very narrow slice of what's out there.

What I write is in some part influenced by the following bands/artists...

Earth, Wind & Fire, Led Zeppelin, Three Dog Night, the Beatles, Stevie Wonder, Hank Williams, Jr., Alice in Chains, Prince, Metallica, Beethoven, Duke Ellington, Alabama, George Clinton, Styx, Rush, Dave Brubeck, Stanley Clark, whoever wrote Amazing Grace, Andrew Lloyd Weber, Clint Black, Cab Calloway, Aretha Franklin...and those are just the ones I could come up with off the top of my head.

The point is, everything I have ever heard and really enjoyed gives me a certain amount of inspiration that goes, along with a HEALTHY dose of my own imagination, into every composition I put together. So, while what I write may be influenced by many others, it probably doesn't sound anything like any of them...and that's a good thing. We already have a Metallica, so why did we need a Godsmack??? We already had Prince, so why did we need "Ready for the World"??? I get sick of bands working their tails off trying to do no more than sound like some other band. :mad: What's the point? Give us something really NEW!!!

Oh, well, that's my soapbox speech for the week. BTW, don't have any MP3's yet, but maybe I'll put a few together in the near future.

for real on the bands all sounding the same these days. Look at "EMO" and all this pop punk bullshit like Trapt, Goodcharlotte, Save the day, its all the fucking same. I cant fucking stand the lack of inspiration and creativity put into music these days.

But I guess its our job to change that right?

Right you are
 

Absolutely! Although if we change it TOO much we'll have to do a Frank Zappa and release it on our own labels. The Record Companies won't touch us! :D

LMAO record companies wont touch me anyway:D

Hey guys, just wanted to let you know that Bunn100's movie is really coming along.

We have a writer working on the script and i have just finished the opening credits' music. I dont have the software to make it a mp3 on my parents shitty comp but when i get back home ill post it so everyone can hear.

Thanks 4 the suggestion Arioch.... just getting the word out about a friends band, Australia based industrial/dark metal outfit called NewProject....they seriously rock baby...go have a look at their site, all of ya : www.newprojectonline.com and have a look and listen...

Hey this is a song i just put together for bloodrayne since she is feeling down:( I just kinda put it together fast since i was inspired and fucking around with the ol' guitar, so dont rip on me too bad for the compression and mix, i just wanted to get it on here.

Tell me what you guys think.

Silk & Stringwebs

Sorry I came a little late on this thread.

I have written so much shit. Not only for guitar, but lyric wise too...especially lyrically.

Influences
Opeth, Cradle Of Filth, Arch Enemy and Meshuggah.

i dont write lyrics, but i am in a band and i do write music, our main influences are metallica, pantera, berzerker, things like that.

Nice influences guys, Im a HUGE pantera fan, and just recently got onto Opeth who definitly own too.

I have heard cradle of filth, theyr alright, a little to gothic for me. I like my death metal a little more raw (cannibal corpse, six feet under, etc.)

Nice to see more songwriters/ Lyricists on the board.

When drunk friends vomit....I laugh at them....

And then theres that....:confused: