two new doom tracks from HAMMER[SCAPE]

[Shane Sanders]

http://www.hammerscape.com/mp3/catacombs.mp3
http://www.hammerscape.com/mp3/warrior.mp3

"Catacombs of Alien Gods" and "Warrior Among the Fallen" are the full titles. The first one is hard to categorize, but it is fairly dynamic with a gobsmacking brutal riff surrounded by some eerie beauty. The second one will be an intro to a tune I'm not nearly finished with yet.

Should I leave "Catacombs" as is? I'm torn about adding death vocals to it. Can't decide what to do. I'm thinking of asking a much better player to work out some melodies over the vamp at the end. Can't decide about that either. I'm too close to it now and need to just forget about it a while and get some compositional perspective.

[xtp]

Well I liked catacombs just fine. Cool as.

[metalifuxx]

Even though it doesn't live up to the true death metal standard, I prefer clean vocals on most death metal tracks with death metal scream/growls as only a backup or minority part of the song or only in certain sections. Like the last couple Opeth albums, and also Katatonia and Amorphis. Maybe this really isn't death/doom metal if the vocals are clean, and as some people might say they sold out or got soft. But if you have a singer who can really sing good, then why hold back. I think Mikeal Akerfeldt from Opeth does some of the most dynamic vocal parts in the metal genre (not power metal lol) because he can actually sing and does growly death vox too.