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. 

Eklipss

Here it is folks, ... EKLIPSS

Some new experimental Drone Doom Metal from Dimaension X created and inspired by the upcoming Solar Eclipse on 08/21/2017.  Once again, I've been listening to SunnO))), Monarch, Olde, Thorr's Hammer, Khanate, Nadja, and other Droney Doom bands, and using the number Pi (π) as "tablature" for the notes.

1.  Umbra

2.  Penumbra

3.  Antumbra

4.  Abandonment

5.  Downfall

6.  Darkening of the Heavenly Body

7.  To Cease to Exist.

Composed and performed by Dimaension X.
Recorded and produced by Dave Lanciani at Dimaex Studios

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Click HERE directly download a ZIP file for the whole album, art, etc. 



Recorded almost exclusively with an SX Furrian Telecaster-copy (just to prove that it can be done with stock single pickups); the first album half using a Joyo Ultimate Drive for the main tone, and an Earthquaker Devices Acapulco Gold for the second album half.  I used my Yamaha THR-10 as my recording interface, with the Lead Setting (Low Gain British- EL34) as my clean tone.  I also threw in an EQD Transmisser for some of the weird modulated tones.

Abjuration of the Black Goddess Suite

Finally completed a project that I started last year around September.

Abjuration of the Black Goddess Suite.


This is a long, conceptual piece of music.  Originally my guitar was tuned to Open C, then eventually morphed into Drop-C.  And I think I did a few parts in Drop-D, but transposed the audio tracks down a whole step.  Bass guitar is either Cakewalk Studio Instruments VSTi Bass, 4Front VSTi Bass, or regular electric guitar transposed down an Octave. 
The Ambient, atmospheric synth sounds are all guitar.  No Synths used.  In fact, this part is just my piece I just posted on YouTube entitled "Dark Drone 1" chopped up into pieces and distributed between the metal bits.

Then I added the spoken word bits after this.  The words are from a section of the ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead

An MP3 file is now downloadable ... go HERE to stream or choose your download options, or glick HERE to download a ZIP file directly.

This may be my last "metal" piece for a while.  I'm beginning to find metal a bit "limited" in scope, so I'll be exploring some more alternate genres of rock and instrumental music, maybe some avant-garde improvisation, more of the "gentler" side of ambient guitar (Chords of Orion is a big influence in this area - makes really expansive, beautiful sounding ambient washes of sound, all generated by guitar), and who knows what else I'll try