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Shane Sanders · Post by **Shane Sanders** » Sun Oct 15, 2006 7:35 pm

http://www.hammerscape.com/mp3/skullsonstaves.mp3

Well, I said I was gonna make a doom metal band, and so it's time to quit flirting with goth-fusion stuff on all the demos and finally do a proper doom track. Arrrgh! I suppose it fits somewhere between Sludge Doom and Funeral Doom as far as genre goes.

Visit HammerScape.com to hear other ideas.

Special thanks to xoxos for his plugs because it was the ability to have a tuned anvil that really got this track going for me. I love having percussion that serves the artist fully. Thanks!!!

runagate · Post by **runagate** » Sun Oct 15, 2006 7:38 pm

Grabbing now.

Amberience · Post by **Amberience** » Mon Oct 16, 2006 1:36 am

Nice atmosphere Shane, but I was kind of hoping for some nice distorted guitars and a bit more "doom" to it, although this does have a certain kind of "My Dying Bride" to it. Which I really like. Has some paralells to their more earthy and less chaotic stuff.

Watto · Post by **Watto** » Mon Oct 16, 2006 1:40 am

Is the link down for anyone else?

Shane Sanders · Post by **Shane Sanders** » Mon Oct 16, 2006 1:42 am

Just uploaded a better mix. Worked on the vocals a bit, not that it helps. Hehe.

@Amberience
Well this is my own take on a genre in a way, so I'm not looking to really plug directly into a scene and fit right in. The guitars sound heavy and doomed to me, at least funeral doomed. For me, it's the intervals that sink something into heaviness and the timbre is secondary to that, but definitely a big part of it.

Did it not feel heavy? How loud did you listen?

Shane Sanders · Post by **Shane Sanders** » Mon Oct 16, 2006 1:42 am

Watto wrote:Is the link down for anyone else?

You probably caught me re-upping. Try again, should be fine now.

Watto · Post by **Watto** » Mon Oct 16, 2006 1:47 am

Downloading now

Amberience · Post by **Amberience** » Mon Oct 16, 2006 1:49 am

Shane Sanders wrote: Did it not feel heavy? How loud did you listen?

Could've been a loudness issue, it was late when I listened.. listening again now on headphones, same thing for me.

But it does manage that doomish kind of "oppression" on the senses, so my comments weren't at all negative, just that you threw my expectations out the window a little - which like you just intimated, was your intent.

:10: · Post by **:10:** » Mon Oct 16, 2006 1:50 am

hey...didnt you used to make soundscapes? what happened to your web site? or am I thinking of someone else...

oooh...can i make samples for sample squad? looks interesting.

oh yes...the track. mix sounds good...cany say I cared for it though, not really ,my thing...but well executed!

Shane Sanders · Post by **Shane Sanders** » Mon Oct 16, 2006 2:00 am

:10: wrote:hey...didnt you used to make soundscapes? what happened to your web site? or am I thinking of someone else...

I still make soundscapes and all kinds of other styles of music. In fact, I posted a scape this week:

http://www.shanesanders.com/kvrtemp/nobrightdays.mp3

:10: wrote: oooh...can i make samples for sample squad? looks interesting.

If it's percussion oriented, I'm totally open to hearing what you have done and what you want to do for a pack. I'm hard to please, so don't take offense if I pass.

:10: wrote: oh yes...the track. mix sounds good...cany say I cared for it though, not really ,my thing...but well executed!

Yeah, it's a sub-genre of a sub-genre of a sub-genre... hardly anyone's bag at all. lol.

Amberience · Post by **Amberience** » Mon Oct 16, 2006 2:03 am

:10: has some some amazing stuff with percussive noises. I've heard some of his tracks over at the Auditorium (I need to hang out there more!) and it was really cool stuff.

I remember a track he did with a load of medieval looking objects - very cool song!

Shane Sanders · Post by **Shane Sanders** » Mon Oct 16, 2006 2:05 am

Amberience wrote::10: has some some amazing stuff with percussive noises. I've heard some of his tracks over at the Auditorium (I need to hang out there more!) and it was really cool stuff.

I remember a track he did with a load of medieval looking objects - very cool song!

Cool. The stranger the better.

Watto · Post by **Watto** » Mon Oct 16, 2006 2:22 am

I reckon it could have heavier guitar/bass sounds as well. Your singing is perfectly indicative of the style (well, what I know of it, anyway), so that wasn't the weak point for me, and your drum programming was great.

My debut as a vocalist has arrived. Buckle up...