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.

 

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).

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. 

More is new, less is better, huh? - and ... Pentemple!!

Well, I got bored with the "1st iZ lazt" project - I'll get back to it very soon, - actually, I just hate playing guitar in hot weather - it's been 90+ and humid.

Started fiddling with programming some more ambient ideas again after listening to Sunn O))) "Presents ... Pentemple Live" - a beast of a live improvised recording from the Sunn O))) boys (Stephen O'Malley Gred Anderson, with Oren Ambarchi) with the insane Attila Csihar on vokillz once again, and this time around, Sin Nanna (of Australian solo lo-fi black metal project Striborg) on drums and vocals.

Similar to "The Black One" and "Altar", we've got incredibly loud sustaining down-tuned guitars, and bass just basically holding one chord and feeding back for about 40 minutes, Attila and Sin doing eerie chants and indecipherable screeches, and Sin providing some improvised blast-beats and other various drumming that may or may not have any particular tempo at any given time. Imagine Darkthrone jamming with Last Exit on LSD wearing Monks robes. But louder. A lot louder.

Actually, if you liked "The Black One", you may like this even better. A real amalgamation of drone-doom, free improvisation and black metal.

Which is why I started working on a new, kind of experimental project. Going back to my Leprosia Doom idea, but slowing it down, make it more repetitive and even darker (sometimes not, though). Simple blast-beats under droning, repetitive synths and sustaining guitars is the theme. Maybe. I got seven songs basically laid out with synths and drums. That's all I want. The rest will be live guitars and bass added afterward. This is really almost a combination of "Leprosia Doom" and "Aetherial Art of Decay". A return to improvisation and experimentation.

I will probably also do some separate orchestral snippets to use as segues between the drones, like "AAOD". Maybe some guitar solos, too.

Who knows. I may go back and make it "noisier". Some of the synth parts might even be too "melodic". We shall see, ...