THE BIG UPDATE!

The Fairly Secret Army - "We miss the cold war" - four songs finished, one song with drums and guitars...and one partial idea of a song.

Waves of Mercury - "The Great Darkness" - just need to make copies and post on bandcamp.

Waves of Mercury - "The Letters" - two songs need vocals, one needs lyrics and then a final mix.

Post-Black Metal emo shoegazer project #1 - this is with Jeff Philips, we have two songs mostly arranged and he's coming up with ideas all the time. We'll probably both sing one this project.

Post-Black Metal emo shoegazer project #2 - I have one song finished, except for how I want the bridge section. I'm playing guitar, bass and drums on this one...yep, that's right, GUITAR! I think Cory might do vocals, but I'll have to hear first if he does them like I want.


Tragedy struck last week in the form of a recorder that doesn't have a line out that works, a sound card that records louder on the left side and to top it all off, none of it needed to happen, I was just too anal about extra noise while recording bass! You wouldn't have even heard the minimal noise, because it was practically non-existent!

So an update of the recording process will be happening soon, but who knows when?

until my next life...?

The Letters

I added reverb to all the drums and added some vocal harmonies to a couple of songs yesterday.

I have to do vocals to two songs, maybe re-record the drums on "December" and then do a final check on the mixes.

...and then it's done!

Then we move onto the artwork, making copies and putting it on bandcamp.com



until monday...?

May 16th? Will TFSA march again?

Greg will be back from Spain on Sunday...but I doubt he'll want to play on Monday.

After a grueling 3 week vacation, he'll have to unpack...oh the horror!

Anyway, I'm excited about getting started again. I slacked off during the break. I should have been mixing and singing more, but I didn't ...I suck.

until next, time?

TFSA takes a break.

Greg is in Spain until May 15th, so I will possibly do a song or two on my own...but, that could be lame.

Accckkk!


Hmmm?


until May....?

Waves of Mercury "The Letters" Update.

Ok, so some of you, of the nine of you, of the two maybe that read this may be wondering what is Waves of Mercury?

Waves of Mercury is our other project. It started out as a metal project called "A Thousand Suns" that had roots in bands like : My Dying Bride, Opeth, The 3rd And the Mortal, and that kind of European metal sound. We released a self titled cd under that name.

We then added another guitar player (Brandon), changed the name, and added Enslaved, King Crimson and a few others to our influences. That lineup created the album "The Great Darkness" ,which will soon be printed in a limited 25 print run with full color artwork. It will also be posted on bandcamp.com for people to download too.

Then Brandon left, and we decided to finally do an album that has very little distorted guitars.
This is basically our "Damnation" album, it's called "The Letters"

I just finished two of the last four songs without vocals tonight. I'm not sure about those last two songs, because they are kind of hard to put vocals to. They may need to wait, be tossed out, have new lyrics written or just deleted.
With them, the album is at 56 minutes, which I think is kinda long. I think it would be 45 minutes if we took them off.
We'll have to see what I can do with them.

Most of the Fairly Secret Army will be gone from mid April to mid May, so I'll have time to record more vocals or hopefully get new lyrics.

This cd will also have limited run of 25 copies with color art, and will also be put up on bandcamp.

well, until the mixing begins...

TFSA 2 - Worms of the Earth...and?

We finished the bass on "Worms of the Earth" ...it's a really cool bass line. There are some really tasty sections!

And we started working on "Return of the Smooth Operator"
It's gonna have so much energy, and it sounds (in my head) like a cool ALL type of song.






until next week...

TFSA 2 update

So yesterday I worked on vocals for the second & third songs.

I worked on "Worms of the Earth" which has lyrics that were written by my friend Ben, they are based on the Robert E. Howard story of the same name.
There are some cool harmonies at the beginning and death metal vocals in the later part of the song.
The death vocals were the only thing that fit...so too bad if you don't like them.

The second song (which was written before "Worms") is called "We miss the Cold War"
It's pretty funny, yet so true.
I usually don't write political lyrics, and these are more tongue in cheek, but it does have something to say...even if nobody is listening anyway.

Tonight we are finishing the bass on "Worms" and then starting a new song...
"Return of the Smooth Operator"

Until tonight....by the way...who is the "Fairly Secret Follower?"