The Book of the Dead

Here's the most recent project I've been slowly working on, a series of music videos based on George H.Boker's poem, "The Book of the Dead," written and published in 1882. It's mostly done in a style best described as blackened drone doom metal.  Each video features lyrics, taken directly from the poem. Here's the first video, and the others are available at my YouTube page.  This first video features the introduction and parts 1 through 3, and the next videos will each feature one part each.

 

A Doom Metal Tutorial

Hi folks,

I have not been keeping up with posts lately, and my discography page needs some serious updates, but I did recently create a YouTube video "tutorial", very quickly documenting my process of creating my particualr brand of Doom Metal.

It's probably very incomplete, but I wanted to show the bare minimum basics of what I do to create music in this particular genre ("blackened drone doom" ???).

Here's the video:

The Pastafarian Prayer Book, Pt 1

 Here is is, kids, the Pastafarian Prayer Book, Pt 1, performed by Dimaension X.

New Music - "In 3 Days"

 This is some new music, featuring a few new ideas, tunings, toys, etc.

 

It's a new song, which basically a test for a few things ... New Tunings - C,G,C,G,C,D#, New Standard Tuning (C,G,D,A,E,G), or Drop-C. Revv 120 Purple Channel (Line 6 POD Go preset) Ugritone Kvlt Drums 2 with Vintage Doom Expansion Vocal Samples (don't remember where I got them from ... )

 

I'm also working on some other new music which is probably going to be in the genre of "doomgaze."

 

Yes, "Doomgaze" - a sort-of sub-genre mash-up of doom and shoegaze. Although, it's probably closer to a more traditional, blackened doom metal. 

 

But for now, here's a new song performed with some new as listed above ... 

 

As At the Beginning, So At the End

 2nd song from the upcoming Dimaension X album, "Mork Borg - 1st Apokalypse."

You may have noticed that the Discography page needs updating ... I promise I'll get around to it, and make sure links to the latest albums and music are there.  Meanwhile, here's the video of the new song ...

The City Shall Be Made Hollow

The City Shall Be Made Hollow by Dimaension X A preview of my upcoming drone-doom metal project - the music is inspired by the RPG Mork Borg (which is described as "a doom metal album of a game).

03272021DST (Decent Sampler Demo)

 Here's a demo I made using instruments from Pianobook (www.pianobook.co.uk) and Decent Sampler (www.decentsamples.com).  The only instrument that was NOT done thru Decent Sampler was the bass, which is 4Front Bass (http://www.yohng.com/software/bass.html).

03062021 Ambient Duum Vol. 2

 03062021 Ambient Duum Vol. 2 - 

Minimal Atmospheric Ambient Doom Metal. 

01312021 - Ambient Jazz by Dimaension X

 01312021 - Ambient Jazz by Dimaension X

Osoz by Dimaension X. Minimal Drone Doom Metal.

 Osoz by Dimaension X.  Minimal Drone Doom Metal.

Play it loud.  Maximum volume for best results.

 

Audio MP3 downloads available soon.  Stay tuned ...

Obsidian Hound

 Obsidian Hound - by Dimaension X Diving back into the world of atmospheric doom metal ... this is the first of a new series. A new album, maybe, tentatively titled "Osoz."  

 

The 2021 Suite by Dimaension X

 A "Zappa-inspired" suite of music, i.e., it's progressive rock music with horns, marimba, extended improvised guitar solos, time changes, and other stuff, too. Just one long song, divided into several parts. I figured it's time to visit my roots and go back to some more "fun" sounding music, instead of trying to drag out more doom and drone music. And of course I started listening to Frank Zappa again, so voila. I also listened to the very first Devo album all the way through, and decided I needed some short snippets of Devo in my new music, too. So the segues between the 5 parts are short spurts of Devo songs. Performed by Dimaension X. Recorded & produced by Dave Lanciani. Music composed by Dave Lanciani/Dimaension X. Extra bits and pieces of music by Mark Mothersbaugh, Bob Mothersbaugh, Gerald Casale. There's also a not-so-hidden snippet of Aldo Nova's song "Fantasy". See if you can find it. Dedicated to Frank Zappa and Eddie Van Halen. BTW, all the images were created by me, using Photoshop.