THE EYES OF THE FORGOTTEN
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[3:38]
by AxeSlash
***DO NOT WATCH THE SCREEN WHILE LISTENING TO THIS***
part of your mind is devoted to the screen
- you need it totally devoted to the song.
This was written in a period of three days of almost total isolation from
the world. I did not leave my room until this piece was finished. Now I've
taken a break and let it mature for a few weeks, I've listened to it again
and come to the conclusion it's one of my better pieces. Strangely, I've
just read in a magazine that Emperor operate in a similar way when they
record their albums. It seems to work; everyone should try it.
As for the music itself, there are a lot of influences in there, I'll
leave you to figure them out. All I can say is that at the moment I'm
completely out of ideas, so don't expect any more releases in the near
future from me. There's a co-op cover of At The Gates' "Slaughter Of The
Soul" with ThunderHead on it's way, but I'm gonna take a bit of a break
soon - probably during the summer hols. If I get some more inspiration
I'll stockpile a few songs and unleash them onto the scene in autumn.
I did intend this for my upcoming MP3 disk...but I decided that instead of
spending about 3 months producing and perfecting this song like I have
with the first track, I would release it in it's current state as I've
been neglecting my actual tracking skills in favour of full guitar riffs,
and I guess I wanna show the scene that I can still do it :)
So sit back and enjoy the result (preferably in complete darkness @ 1:00
AM). There is a lot of meaning in this song.
No vox due to a) lack of inspiration, b) I can't write decent lyrics
when I'm taking the music too seriously for some strange reason, and c)
this doesn't need vocals. It would ruin the atmosphere of the song to have
anything other than satanic choir vocals, which I cannot do, so I stuck to
a choir sample.
Anyway, the theme of the song is something about souls who have been
refused entry to heaven or hell for the reason that they believe so much
in the non-existence of life after death that they have set up a sort of
fort in between against anyone else, still believing that they are alive.
When they combine the power of their thoughts, these souls (known as "the
forgotten" can basically haunt people back on earth and generally cause
mayhem in the lives of followers of any god/demon/whatever. I got this
idea from some book I read a looooooong time ago. Of course, I'm still a
complete atheist myself, but I just though that it was a cool idea. The
image that this song is supposed to show is a sort of bright but grey
fortress in the middle of a vast void just floating and sending attacks
skyward. If you managed to realise that before you read this, then I've
achieved what I set out to do.
I guess all that makes this the most "serious" song I have ever done.
Damn, I'm starting to sound artistic...like some painter who reads into
things FAR too deeply :) I'll probably end up collecting "fine art" now :)
Hehe; not fucking likely :)
I think I've returned to my normal state of seriousness now; I'm starting
to talk to people again :)
As always, all guitars by me
Drums collected from many places, EQ'd and reverb added by me.
Bass by the ever-pissed Thunderhead
Choir/FX by various ppl
Greetz/Thanx:
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All who have supported me in the past, notably AeuK, DnD, Warlord, Kosm,
Daoloth, and especially Corpse.
Thunderhead for the bass & the bike bits over the years
Zaph & Moles 4 Cthugha support
Helen F. (you know why)
Corpse again for sooooo much inspirational energy
Everyone else, I'm afraid you weren't worthy of greetz this time coz' I
wanna keep the list short and for those to whom I really MEAN it.
Until next time...
AXESLASH
axe@totaldeath.com
ftp://194.237.28.166/AxeSlash/ (+ index.html as well)
http://axe.outputto.com
