I finally got around to uploading Cacophonous Event Horizon to my Bandcamp. That is my fifth album, the one before the last one. So it’s been a while. Cacophonous Event Horizon has been on Jamendo for quite some time now, in fact it was the first album I uploaded there. So I guess it’s about time this album is made available on Bandcamp.
Cacophonous Event Horizon was a pretty transitional album for me. You could say I crossed the Event Horizon, which way and what that even means is completely up to you. It was the first time I went away from the mostly horrible metal-style songs in Midi and I was kinda trying to find a style of my own and I actually still am but this, and especially the first song influenced everything that came after to a great degree even though it is still as mean as the older stuffs. This album is also the precise point where I don’t think of my music as bad anymore.
I mean, the first track is actually called I Think I Finally Snapped (The Rainbow’s Neck). And that’s true in a way, you know. Before that I kinda tried to get somewhat of a metal or rock sound, not anymore here. This track is a complete subversion of that. And the last track of the album is a complete subversion of this one even though it’s pretty much the same song.
In A World Of Black And White is based on the melody of Requiem for TheJunner, which I also wrote. Requiem for TheJunner was the first song I got praise for, even though it was released way back during my intentionally lo-fi times. You could say this is a remix, a remake or just a song using similar melodies.
The one song that’s pretty much like old Krachfabrik but sounds somewhat better because It’s not a Midi is The Crazy Old Man Attacks.
After writing that it took me about two or three months before I made something again, and I think you can hear that I was in a different state of mind when I wrote Untot Begraben (Fauxpas II). Once again, I reuse melodies. This time even older ones, from my second album (Defiler Of Knigge Part II – Fauxpas beim anstoßen /Defiler Of Knigge Part III – Gesundheit!).
Most People Think Showing Emotions Means To Be Happy followed soon after and was received rather well. For some reason Decaying Organic Matter / Near-Life Experience is the most played and thus most popular song I made.
Also on the album is Vittu Saatana Perkele. Goddamn, Vittu Saatana Perkele. It’s glossolalia finnish for… I don’t even know what it’s supposed to mean, I only know it’s something very mean to say. And oh hey, on this one I pretended to sing. The voice clip that can be heard in the beginning and throughout (basically holds the song together) is my brother, though.
Crimson Conductor‘s name is inspired by the anime Baccano, in which one character basically becomes this. Originally this was not the plan, but if you listen closely the rhythm almost sounds like a train later on in the song.
Requiem For A Dream, named after the most depressing movie I’ve ever seen (I didn’t even like it much) because this was at the time the most depressing sounding song I had written. I like it because Its climax, for me, is exactly the point in the song at which only one instrument plays. I decided it’s about suicidal depression.
Blue Sky And Laundry From Beyond The Grave has a very special story. Halfway through making that song I asked publicly what I should do with it, as I had hit a “brick wall” (I do that often). The response was to add a breakdown. I decided to add my own kind of breakdown (which you can still hear at the end of the song) and in addition broke down the whole song about 50 semitones which deleted two thirds of all notes. I basically finished writing the song and was going to call it Blue Sky And Laundry. Then I noticed I accidentally toned the whole song so far down the program I used could not play them back anymore, to make it worse, I saved immediately before I noticed. The song was pretty much lost forever. Only not forever. I decided to reconstruct it from what little was left as long as it was still fresh in my brain. And that’s what I did, so yeah. The name of the song was inspired by Gungrave, the sound and voice clips are from that anime too.
After that experience I wanted to write something a little more positive, the result was Upward Spiral.
The last song, though, forgets all about this positive thingie going on in the song before. Am entweihten Grab des Regenbogens (Letzte Sicherung) (in English: At the desecrated grave of the rainbow (last fuse)) was originally supposed to be called Krachfabrik, because it basically sounded like what I would imagine if I heard the word Krachfabrik. Instead I decided to gave it a long German title to make sure as few people as possible would be able to pronounce it. Yeah, I’m an ass like that. At least that way people had a chance to understand that it belongs to the first song. Which becomes rather obvious if you listen to it anyway. But so few people did.
But now YOU can listen too. Isn’t that just great? By the way, could someone tell me how to label my music for the people who need a label to listen to stuff? It would be easier to just tell someone that I have this Electrometalambientcore thing going on, (even though I have no idea what that means). Instead of going all “Yo, peeps. I made music, check it out, it has sound.”
On second thought, that latter option seems so much better now that I wrote it down.
Note: I don’t think I’ll be uploading older releases. They were originally released as 128kbps mp3s. Hate me for that. But really, it’s not like that hurt the music or anything.
