And Christ Wept -Car Bomb
This song started its life out as a song called Hate Factory. After our first cd came out we got some interest from a label that wanted to put out something new. I cannot remember the lable, but they went under fairly quickly after we started to deal with them. Songs like Hate Factory, Drain, Collapse, Terror Shock Treatment, Resistance Weakens, Feed the Circuitry, Medical, an early version of Negative Reinforcement, would have made up the cd. I call this the bridge time in the band. Hate Factory and Negative Reniforcement were rewritten, Collapse was rewritten and called Of the Mourning Star then reworked for Fockewolf as Dead Romance. Terror Shock Treatment, Resistance Weakens, Medical were released as an EP.
After the deal disappeared we took a look at this song and realized it was just a continuation of ideas that we played out on the first cd, so we dropped it. I liked the chord progression and the samples so later on I reworked it.
The bass is from the Yamaha TX81Z that I so loved to use at this time. The synth is the overplayed orchestral stab, this is the last time I ever used it a song. Drums from the alesis DM5. A bunch of samples from all over the place, explosions, sirens a robot saying Destroy.
The song is kinda simple and straight forward, an intro, intro pt2 verse,bridge, chours,and repeat. The song is on four or five cords that are rearranged for the different parts. One thing I like is in the verse the guitar and bass are playing different lines, the guitar and synth are matching. The drum programming was a bit more complex than in the past, they are a bit more layered. This is due to using the DM5 which is a module and not a drum machine. The SR16 was not the best thing to program and would crap out if the memory got too full.
This was recorded at the same time as negative reinforcement and the production is really good. The only thing that I would change is the guitar tone is a bit muddy and could be a bit brighter to read through. As it is every element in the song reads through. I think we learned to try to place things so they could be heard. When we recorded this song it was a big change for the project, better gear, better writing, better production and Chris was starting to sing. Too bad we didn't have this guy recored all the other track, well we didn't know him at the time but I still wonder what would have happened if we got to release those bunch of songs as their were a bunch of good ideas trying to escape.
After the deal disappeared we took a look at this song and realized it was just a continuation of ideas that we played out on the first cd, so we dropped it. I liked the chord progression and the samples so later on I reworked it.
The bass is from the Yamaha TX81Z that I so loved to use at this time. The synth is the overplayed orchestral stab, this is the last time I ever used it a song. Drums from the alesis DM5. A bunch of samples from all over the place, explosions, sirens a robot saying Destroy.
The song is kinda simple and straight forward, an intro, intro pt2 verse,bridge, chours,and repeat. The song is on four or five cords that are rearranged for the different parts. One thing I like is in the verse the guitar and bass are playing different lines, the guitar and synth are matching. The drum programming was a bit more complex than in the past, they are a bit more layered. This is due to using the DM5 which is a module and not a drum machine. The SR16 was not the best thing to program and would crap out if the memory got too full.
This was recorded at the same time as negative reinforcement and the production is really good. The only thing that I would change is the guitar tone is a bit muddy and could be a bit brighter to read through. As it is every element in the song reads through. I think we learned to try to place things so they could be heard. When we recorded this song it was a big change for the project, better gear, better writing, better production and Chris was starting to sing. Too bad we didn't have this guy recored all the other track, well we didn't know him at the time but I still wonder what would have happened if we got to release those bunch of songs as their were a bunch of good ideas trying to escape.