Finally decided to upload my Doom 2 Variations album from way back in 2009!  Yep, it's my re-recording of Robert Prince's original soundtrack to the video game, Doom II. Remember, with was done 14 years ago, and the guitars were recorded with a Line 6 POD XTLive.  It still sounds pretty good for digital recording tech from way back then.

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 ...

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 ...

11012020 - The Final Drone

 11012020 The Final Drone by Dimaension X This is (probably) the last of the drone series I've been working on this past year, and could be one of the last pieces of music I complete this year. It was recorded with my SX VTG Furrian Telecaster copy (all stock, single coil pickups) thru my Line 6 POD Go, with a little help from my Digitech FreQout pedal, and An Earthquaker Devices Avalanche Run and Transmisser. Time for a bit of a break, and then time to start working on some new music. 

UthrWurld Pt 5

Part 5 of the new UthrWurld series.

Performed by Dimaension X.
Recorded & produced by Dave Lanciani.

All pictures taken and edited by Dave Lanciani.

UthrWurld Pt 4

UthrWurld 4 by Dimaension X Part 4 of the new UthrWurld series. Performed by Dimaension X. Recorded & produced by Dave Lanciani. All pictures created by Dave Lanciani. Yep, I created all the star-scapes in Photoshop myself, along with the album cover.

  

 

And yes the intro text says "UthrWurld 3".  I know ...

UthrWurld 2

 UthrWurld 2 by Dimaension X Part 2 of the new UthrWurld series. Experimental minimal drone-doom. I played more "live" drums on this one, with my AKAI MPD218, to get a much more "real" feel in the percussion. Also using the SSD5 drum sampler (Steven Slate drums - it's a FREE download!), which sounds great. Performed by Dimaension X. Recorded & produced by Dave Lanciani.

UthrWurld

 Uthrwurld, ... a new minimal doom-metal drone from Dimaension X ... 

Composed using my old "Word-Phrase" method ... some new video editing techniques used to make the images follow the music a bit more ... 

A World Beyond Fear, Pt 6

 The latest in my ongoing series ... this one is actually TWO cover tunes slapped together, ... 

The first part is my version of parts of the song "Terrallende" by Andrey Klimkovsky, and the second part is my version of the song "Synth Freak" by Jampy Keys.  See the video description for more details on these folks. Please note that my versions are NOT "monetized" - I would never accept any money for performances of these two artists.  Please support the original artists!

A World Beyond Fear, Pts 3, 4, & 5

 Two new videos now available in my A World Beyond Fear series.

Pts 3, 4, & 5

All projects on hold...

Well, all of my music projects are on hold for now - I have developed a ganglion cyst on my left wrist where the thumb meets the wrist joint. Not fun. Painful. Well, at least it is NOT carpal tunnel syndrome.

I will be seeing an orthopedic specialist later this month, so hopefully it will be taken care of soon.

Meanwhile, playing guitar will be a bit painful, and my fingers are a bit weak. I'll probably have to wait until the cyst is fully drained or surgically removed before I can actually play guitar to the best of my ability.

I will keep working on the basic audio tracks for the Doom 2 Variations, so I'll have everything ready for when I can play again. I'll keep everyone apprised as things progress.

ThanX.

Ugotllathath - The Daevel Drone Suite

Latest updates on the new, very experimental project from Dimaension X:

Please pardon the potential long-windedness of this post - I guess I just have a lot to say about the ongoings of this current project, which I managed to get started on recording the guitars this past Saturday. Here is some more in-depth info about this project. Keep in mind, that this one is an “experimental” project, and may not be like any of my other music. Or it might be EXACTLY like my other music.

This particular project is a combination of approaches:
Combines the sustaining doom-drone of “Leprosia Doom” with the improvisational nature of “Aetherial Art of Decay”. Instead of all the music being completely random, I decided to have some Chord Progressions created from my usual Word/Phrase technique, but the chords are from an entirely different set of song titles. I had come up with a series of song titles from the random black metal song title generator on the internet (search around, you’ll find it) and created chord progressions from these titles. And then got bored with the project in general.

I needed to do something a bit different to distinguish this project as its own manifestation. The original songs had about 3 sets of chords each, but I was finding this to be too complex for its own good, and wanted something far more simple. I had also just discovered “Pentemple”, the latest recording from Sunn O))), which I found fascinating. They had once again decided to visit the realm of black metal combined with their usual doom-drone. But this time around, they have Sin Nanna (of Striborg) on drums, providing wild blast beats and other improvised percussive chaos. His drumming adds such a unique feature to the already odd music, bringing Sunn O))) to a whole new level of extremity-en-musique.

So thus I began to deconstruct the current project, and re-focus once again on my own version of doom-drone, but this time with blast beats instead of ultra-slow drums. Even though blast beats are themselves very fast, I find they often provide almost the opposite feel, almost a hypnotic “floating” sound in the background - listen to Darkthrone’s “Transylvanian Hunger”, for example. Here we have 8 songs that are all almost the exact same song, with simple, repetitive chord progressions over blast beats, almost all the same tempo. But this recording is hailed in the underground metal scene as an absolute classic, and I heartily agree.

So, … as I re-approached the project, I decided to use far fewer chords, opting to use only the first page of the FOUR pages of chords I had originally composed, leaving only nine sets of chord progressions. Nine songs.
The chords would be similar to “Leprosia Doom”, in that I would write long, sustaining passages of these chords, holding them over two, or more measures. Once again, I would use “dirty” sounding synths as a backdrop, providing and almost guitar-like sound to start. I also began creating the blast beats under these synths, practically independent of any time signature or tempo in mind at all. But blast beats alone do not make an interesting song cycle, so as I went along, I decided to create some more “normal” beats, fills, percussive patterns, etc.

I actually had no idea of what the guitar parts themselves would be like, other than holding these sustaining chords. This would be the “improvisational” aspect that would occur at the actual recording stage. No real idea what the heck I would do until I actually did it. And then try to add a second or third layer as I go along.

That’s the idea, anyway. So when I decided on a whim to go ahead and actually start recording yesterday, I made a few decisions: Just play whatever comes to mind, don’t worry too much about it, and just play whatever comes to mind. Whether I feel like adding a solo, some slide guitar, some clean, some out-of-tune, some super-distorted, some slightly overdriven, … whatever. It all doesn’t even have to be “heavy”. After all, I’m Dimaension X, not Sunn O))), right? The whole point is to create my own thing, not copy someone else’s.

I got about 7 songs done, or at least I can say I recorded guitar parts for 7 of the songs. I really didn’t put too much though into the parts, just picked a guitar tone, listened to the track a bit, and just played along. This isn’t going to be a very “technical” or “melodic” project. It is an experiment in sound and atmosphere.

Nothing more or less.