Argh!

Writing for other people's characters is bloody hard work for little moi. Work on the outline for 'Cries of the Fallen', my first episode in the CD series 'The Agents of Psyence' is progressing slowly. The knowledge that the CD will end up for sale in a good few SF shops is making me work extra hard to get the characters right. Mind you, not knowing where the series is eventually heading is a bit of a problem. Thats how secret it is- they don't even tell the writers!

Further Rumblings

I've settled on the first track from my goth project that will be demoed in the coming week. 'Blessed are the Severed' Will end up as the title track, and I still dunno what name to do it under. Hmmm...any suggestions?Sound wise it will pick up where my earlier attempt at something different left off. When I recorded 'Prey For Me' based on the script I'd written for the now defunct karnstein productions, I'd started to meddle with different sounds and structures, and I'd like to use P4M's sound as the basic blueprint for the new stuff, so that'll be a dancey beat, synthesized bass, keyboard whacked through guitar fx, and a chunky guitar stabbing at the choruses and bridge. Vocals? Hmm.... not decided yet. Instinct says my regular mid-range tone with deeper b/vox, but seeing as this project is pretty much an experiment, maybe I should try a new style...hmmm....I'd like to use this demo track to finally lay the ghosts of my old musical mistakes to rest. I'm also trying to move away from the songs featuring too much guitar. I'm feeling a little restrained by my six strings. I stil want a certain crunch to proceedings. Time to fiddle around again!More news, lyrics and other gubbins soon.

Rumblings...

A few song titles from the album I am currently writing (This is a different one to the CD I will be recording with Steve and Starshine Lane this spring- these are for my goth/industrial project)-Fantasized Reality-Waking From a Nightmare-Blessed are the Severed-I am The Disease-Blissfully SickAnother 5 will accompany these. As with my old demos, I'll do all the vocals and guitars, but I'm gonna start looking for a suitable programmer to do the big-arse beats once it's been written fully.Steve is also working on a prog-metal project with another guy. Coupled with my gothy project, this may spell the end of our 6 year partnership. Then again, maybe not.More soon.

Moi today

I haven't put a 'current stuff' list on my site in a while. here's one:Current listening:Intra-venus- Pray Silence! (Goth/darkbeat. Fave track- Feature Length)Old Man's Child- In Defiance of Existence (symphonic black metal)Nekromantik- Fairy catcher (Goth/Industrial)Arcturus- The Sham Mirror (avant-garde black metal weirdness)NIN- Things Falling Apart (Noize!!!)Opeth- Deliverance (progressive death metal)Kaleidoscope issue 13 CD (fave tunes- Theatre of Tragedy- let you down, Diary of Dreams- Play God, Beautiful Deadly Children- Every night is Halloween)Faithful Dawn- Temperance (haven't listened to it in a while- nice trip down memory lane)New demos (only in my head so far. Riffs, lyrics and beat ideas are building slowly but surely)Yeah, I'm listening to a lot of metal at the mo. I'm in a bit of a mood. :PCurrent reading: Lords of Chaos- The rise of the Satanic Metal Underground, the complete works of Lord Byron, Gloom Cookie Volume 1, Star Wars- new jedi Order: Agents of Chaos IICurrent mood: Dazed. A creative renaissance is bubbling under the surface, ready to burst apart. It's only a matter of time. A state of melancholy the likes of which I haven't felt since 18 has washed over me. I'm a miserable git.Current film addictions: Sleepy Hollow, Ring (japanese version), Vampire flicks, BubbleGum Crisis 2040, old Brit sitcoms. (no change there then eh?)Current drink: Irn Bru :)Current food: Noodles, as ever.Current fave relaxation: writing, drawing or reading, accompoanied by goth choonz.Current hate: getting up for work.Current projects: Novella based on the Prey For Me script, which will hopefully form the basis of a series of novellas set around the Bloodkin Equilibrium, the mythos in which all the 'Bonded by Blood' scripts were written for. Watch this space. Also, plotting and notes for 'Cries of the Fallen' and 'Heretic', the two stories FineLine productions want off me for their 'Agents of Psyence' series.This is me, right here and now. ttfnAndy