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02-21-2009, 02:06 PM
A small number of you may remember, for some reason, that I was part of a band named Winter Moon around the turn of the year - in fact, one of my first posts, if not my first post, had the shoving of our music down your respective ears as its sole purpose. Winter Moon has, since, effectively, dissolved - there is little to no collaboration between myself and the former bassist and drummer of Winter Moon, thus I have decided to redefine my music under the new name "Moldern".
The criticisms made about Winter Moon (aside from the name) were that there were "too many different styles", "the intro [was] pointless", and "[good ideas were] not developed enough and they [were] a little too far apart". As a result of these criticisms, I have endeavored, to the best of my ability, to create less simplistic and more complex music, though the process of writing/recording is still the same - I create a drum pattern, come up with a good riff, and see if a good song comes out of it.
Furthermore, the overall sound has been worked on, so as to bring it closer to what I envisioned, at the beginning.
I have created a short medley of samples of songs, in chronological order, which can be located at http://moldern.wintermoon.co.uk/Medley.mp3
The track list, first by band, then by release, is as follows:
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Winter Moon:
0:00 - 0:27 In the Realms of Timeless Death - Odes to the Dead
0:28 - 0:55 Desecrate - Odes to the Dead
Winter Moon/Moldern:
0:56 - 1:22 Dreams of a Vagrant - Untitled (Frost Metal)
1:23 - 1:46 In Front of the Tomb - A Castle...
1:47 - 2:19 Observing the Night (bridge) - A Castle...
2:19 - 3:28 Observing the Night (duet) - A Castle... (I would just like to say: this was entirely improvised, excepting the ending. Both guitar parts were played on the spot, one after the other. These were the only takes I did.)
Moldern:
3:29 - 3:57 Dreamed, Darkling - Winter's Dying Breath
3:58 - 4:46 Battlements - Winter's Dying Breath
4:47 - 5:24 To Touch the Skies - Untitled (Emotion Recollected in Tranquility)
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The last song is the first of the release I am currently working on. I've resolved the "white noise" issues which were present throughout the "transition era" (i.e. post "Odes...")
I have tried very hard to make every instrument interesting, although I find the drums somewhat difficult, thus for the most part I use standard Black Metal drumming (the greatest display of drumming is on "Observing the Night")
The criticisms made about Winter Moon (aside from the name) were that there were "too many different styles", "the intro [was] pointless", and "[good ideas were] not developed enough and they [were] a little too far apart". As a result of these criticisms, I have endeavored, to the best of my ability, to create less simplistic and more complex music, though the process of writing/recording is still the same - I create a drum pattern, come up with a good riff, and see if a good song comes out of it.
Furthermore, the overall sound has been worked on, so as to bring it closer to what I envisioned, at the beginning.
I have created a short medley of samples of songs, in chronological order, which can be located at http://moldern.wintermoon.co.uk/Medley.mp3
The track list, first by band, then by release, is as follows:
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Winter Moon:
0:00 - 0:27 In the Realms of Timeless Death - Odes to the Dead
0:28 - 0:55 Desecrate - Odes to the Dead
Winter Moon/Moldern:
0:56 - 1:22 Dreams of a Vagrant - Untitled (Frost Metal)
1:23 - 1:46 In Front of the Tomb - A Castle...
1:47 - 2:19 Observing the Night (bridge) - A Castle...
2:19 - 3:28 Observing the Night (duet) - A Castle... (I would just like to say: this was entirely improvised, excepting the ending. Both guitar parts were played on the spot, one after the other. These were the only takes I did.)
Moldern:
3:29 - 3:57 Dreamed, Darkling - Winter's Dying Breath
3:58 - 4:46 Battlements - Winter's Dying Breath
4:47 - 5:24 To Touch the Skies - Untitled (Emotion Recollected in Tranquility)
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The last song is the first of the release I am currently working on. I've resolved the "white noise" issues which were present throughout the "transition era" (i.e. post "Odes...")
I have tried very hard to make every instrument interesting, although I find the drums somewhat difficult, thus for the most part I use standard Black Metal drumming (the greatest display of drumming is on "Observing the Night")