Updates
Well I have a few updates regarding my life and musical activities. The band that I had blogged about earlier is still in the process of writing music. We did suffer a huge set back last week as our drummer decided to abandon ship and rejoin his old band, Cult of the Undead. We are now currently in search of a drummer in addition to a bassist. Aaron and I have decided that we will continue to write music and search out musicians to fill the band line-up. As of right now I do not expect much progress to be made until early January at the earliest. We still hope to have the group fully functioning and performing live before the end of this coming summer. Things are moving slowly but it should eventually pick up.
Lately I have been very busy composing music to possibly start my own doom metal band. I am currently working on four songs, two of which are near completion. I want to try and write 8-10 songs and then assemble a band to perform with. This band would happen concurrently with the other band I am working on with Aaron. My goal is to have two active bands that will keep me busy as a songwriter, performer, and multi-instrumentalist. Besides, I have the need to get some of my own original material out in the clubs. This area could use a good doom metal act anyways. Look for future posts regarding this doom metal project in the next few months. As soon as I have some tracks recorded from either of these projects I will post them on here for you all to listen to and comment on.
In other music related news pertaining to my life, I received an e-mail back from the folks at doom-metal.com and I have made it into the final round of selection. I probably will not know if I got the job or not for at least two or three weeks if not more. I will make another post as soon as I hear something about that position. I hope I get it!
On a non-musical side note, I went to the Science Museum of Minnesota with my family and girlfriend today to see the Body Worlds exhibit. This is an exhibit featuring real human cadavers dissected to show the different tissues, organs, nerves, vessels, and bones of the human body. It was an interesting exhibit. The downside was that there were 500 people in the exhibit at the same time so it was hard to see each specimen. The large number of people made it difficult to read the side notes to each part of the exhibit and the lines were ridiculously long. I think that the exhibition in and of itself was very cool and I probably would have enjoyed it more if there would have been only 50 people there rather than 500.
We are right around the bend and there are only a few weeks left in the semester. I will continue composing and working on my heavy metal projects throughout the next couple weeks before finals start and I have to focus my time and energy on that. I will also be performing The Nutcracker Suite on Saturday, December 2, with the university Orchestra as principal trombonist. This concert is happening a mere two and a half weeks after our November 18 concert in which we performed the Jupiter movement from Gustav Holst's The Planets. We have a very active schedule and we are playing fun music. A week later I will be performing Christmas carols as a euphonium player in Merry Tuba Christmas. My performing schedule is getting a little more active. Hopefully I can maintain this pace until I get a fully functioning band. I will post more updates as soon as things start developing. Wish me luck!
Lately I have been very busy composing music to possibly start my own doom metal band. I am currently working on four songs, two of which are near completion. I want to try and write 8-10 songs and then assemble a band to perform with. This band would happen concurrently with the other band I am working on with Aaron. My goal is to have two active bands that will keep me busy as a songwriter, performer, and multi-instrumentalist. Besides, I have the need to get some of my own original material out in the clubs. This area could use a good doom metal act anyways. Look for future posts regarding this doom metal project in the next few months. As soon as I have some tracks recorded from either of these projects I will post them on here for you all to listen to and comment on.
In other music related news pertaining to my life, I received an e-mail back from the folks at doom-metal.com and I have made it into the final round of selection. I probably will not know if I got the job or not for at least two or three weeks if not more. I will make another post as soon as I hear something about that position. I hope I get it!
On a non-musical side note, I went to the Science Museum of Minnesota with my family and girlfriend today to see the Body Worlds exhibit. This is an exhibit featuring real human cadavers dissected to show the different tissues, organs, nerves, vessels, and bones of the human body. It was an interesting exhibit. The downside was that there were 500 people in the exhibit at the same time so it was hard to see each specimen. The large number of people made it difficult to read the side notes to each part of the exhibit and the lines were ridiculously long. I think that the exhibition in and of itself was very cool and I probably would have enjoyed it more if there would have been only 50 people there rather than 500.
We are right around the bend and there are only a few weeks left in the semester. I will continue composing and working on my heavy metal projects throughout the next couple weeks before finals start and I have to focus my time and energy on that. I will also be performing The Nutcracker Suite on Saturday, December 2, with the university Orchestra as principal trombonist. This concert is happening a mere two and a half weeks after our November 18 concert in which we performed the Jupiter movement from Gustav Holst's The Planets. We have a very active schedule and we are playing fun music. A week later I will be performing Christmas carols as a euphonium player in Merry Tuba Christmas. My performing schedule is getting a little more active. Hopefully I can maintain this pace until I get a fully functioning band. I will post more updates as soon as things start developing. Wish me luck!
posted by Child of Darkness at 10:29 PM
2 Comments:
You sound really busy. What other instruments do you play?
Good luck with the bands. What sort of doom are we talking?
I play trombone, keyboards/piano, drums, bass (somewhat adequately), euphonium/baritone, and a limited amount of guitar. I would say that I am best at trombone and euphonium which are my primary instruments, keyboards, which I would consider my secondary instrument, and drums if you want to play anything doomy or in a classic rock style. I am not much of a double bass drum player. Mostly single kick 1970s style metal and hard rock.
The songs I am writing are pretty varied. A vast majority of it is somehwere in between extremely dark death/doom and old school traditional and proto doom. There are of course progressive rock elements in the music that pay tribute to bands like Uriah Heep, ELP, Rush, and Yes. I guess if I were to classify it I would say that it is progressive death/doom. I will try my damnedest to put tracks up on my blog account as soon as I assemble a band and do some recording.
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