Today I listened to Klangverschmutzung again. Yes, I listened to my own Album. Some call this artistic masturbation like it’s a bad thing, but I jack it all the time and never once felt bad about it so I don’t see how it’s a bad thing to go back once in a while to reflect on one’s past. Heck, now that I think of it, isn’t remembering something nice basically mental masturbation? Never occurred to me till now.
Anyway, now I feel like writing a little to kill some time. Back when I finally uploaded Cacophonous Event Horizon to Bandcamp I wrote a little bit about every song and the album as a whole. Guess what this is gonna be! Listen to the entire thing here or just use the players below. Or just don’t. Up to you.
While Cacophonous Event Horizon was a very transitional album Klangverschmutzung was more a try to crystallize that a little. In the end I experimented a little more, else making it would have been boring. But I like the result.
In fact, the very first track implies a new direction. So far Krachfabrik was more violent and abrasive but Erinnerungen eines Toten is slow, quiet and melancholic. It’s also the so far latest installment in the great Zombie Knigge saga. This song is about how he remembers witnessing his first funeral during his second one (a fully conscious zombie who just wants to rest again can do that). In the end he just bursts out of the grave again (Which is the story of this song) and presumably goes to a disco and parties afterwards. By the way, my personal favorite part is how the distortion fades in at the end.
Originally this was called Giygas, but then I decided that was a boring song title and renamed it. While it is inspired by Earthbound’s main villain it is more of an alternate interpretation which I just found fun to contemplate for a second there. I said Krachfabrik used to be more violent and abrasive. Well. This is that pumped up to eleven. Supposed to sound like what the inside of the head of a traumatized rape victim might be. Not a nice sound, mind you. Originally I wanted to reverse the midi convert it to wav and play it backwards to create a more creepy sound. But I could not do that back then. All the vocals, though, are my amplified, distorted, reversed backwards whispers. That’s how I would record Chthulu.
The Rainbow was Paul leaves the realms of most horrible sounds again. I called it a Rock song only with a piano instead of guitars. It still has a guitar, though. Wonder how accurate of a description that is. After the previous song I simply wanted make something that creates a more positive mood. I may have succeeded or not.
This one… what the hell Mr. Krachfabrik?! I like this one. It’s one of my personal favorites, even though I would try make the vocals a little better by now. But their mediocrity was kinda the point. I never wanted full blown death growls, just this half-assed shit here. Though, I’d like to know how it sounds if done proper. I don’t have the vocal talent myself, though. It’s kind of a mockery of abstract art. Do not get me wrong, I LOVE the abstract. I’m an abstract thinker after all. I just don’t like seeing it as an excuse to be bad unless a certain level of badness/lack of polish is the point for some reason.
One day I sat in my dark and cold room and was really angry at some random, probably rather minor, act of censorship in entertainment I found. So I made this. I said older Krachfabrik was violent and abrasive. Well, it was also just constantly building tension ever two or three measures. This is kind of like that. It’s a constant build up towards awesome pay-off. Only the pay-off is censoredWHAT!!??? What did I just say about abstract art? Anyway. It was easier to write this way. The vocals are german for stuff like “banned”, “de-sensitizing” and “immoral”.
Zerstören means to Destroy. While there’s plenty of “omigosh the world is on fire and what the fuck why did bob ross do it” in this song it’s… well okay. Theres not much more to it. Melodically probably the best song I made so far (How To Overdose On Sanity may be better or close). At first I wanted the harp to remain the sole instrument. But I couldn’t resist adding in other stuff. In the end I just decided to metal it up. I also made a new version. I like the original better, though.
Loopable music that might fit into a video game. For a grassy field maybe or a mountain trek. Something like that. Want a midi? Find a way to contact me and you’re go. Of course you can also just cut the MP3 or whichever format you download from Bandcamp a little to make it loop seamlessly.
Translucent is an abandoned thought. No, the song is finished. It’s the thought that’s not. And the thought is the song but… oh fuck. Okay. Just think about that for a second. It’s one of my best I think. Originally I wanted to create a deliberately monotonous experience, I mean. I managed to do it before, just not on purpose. And but I failed. Oh, I failed so horribly. Shame on me. Listen to it.
The world is dead and everything in it is dead. There are only two people left and no matter what happens one is going to kill the other. And, no matter what happens, the survivor will be the same. Based on a story I once… started writing but my hard drive exploded and took it with it. This made me sad. Here’s at least some of it in the form of music.
Some time last year the german job office put me into some seminar that didn’t make any sense for me to attend. To get there I had to walk the most confusing streets ever. I got there. And I found my way home. And I will never go there again. I hope.
Out of all the songs on this album, that one may create the darkest mood. The title is not necessarily related to the music, it’s simply the observation that often lies can be perceived as the truth as long as enough people believe in them. I’d like to say something clever, like it’s about 1984 or something, but it isn’t.
I wanted to create a song about Homestuck for a while when I made this. But I didn’t want to make a song that sounds just like music from Homestuck, I wanted it to be something of my own. The title is a line from a programming language in Homestuck and it’s supposedly used to terminate a program. It’s also 4:13 long. 413 is a a pretty important number in Homestuck. It started on 4/13 (which to the civilized world is 13.04) but that’s not all. 413 shows up in various forms throughout the story.
And that’s basically it. My sixth and so far best album. But why not take a look ahead and listen to my seventh album? Or at least the six tracks that are out so far. Do it! DOOO EEEET! CLICK THE SHIT OUT OF THIS SHIT!
