Hey all,
Chad Nottingham here. Just a quick update: the tracking for Hate Asylum has been finished! There are 4 songs on the EP, which totals 16.5 minutes. The songs are, in order: To Wander Forever Amongst Dreams of Nightmares, Blood War, Hate Asylum, and The Release of Chaos. The main lyrical themes of the album are loss of love, insanity, September 11th (Blood War), and of course, hate. The album artwork is in progress now, so that will determine when the release date is. There will be 2 versions: a low quality (128 kbps) free download available via my myspace, and a $5 hard copy high quality version, available through me, though the last one depends on interest, because I can only order 10/25 at a time. So help a struggling musician out.
Chad
Friday, September 17, 2010
Wednesday, September 15, 2010
Projects and What's Going On
Hey all,
Chad here again. I figured I'd talk about some of the projects I have, what's going on with them, and what all is going on with me. As many of you know, I am a die hard metalhead, so all of my musical projects revolve around a central core of metal. The instrumentation, however, is a different story altogether, and I will explain how.
The most fitting place to begin is the musical project with perhaps the most history: The Fall of the Heretic. The name is a reference to Lucifer, the greatest heretic. I started TFOTH off with a very metalcore sound, with a raw guitar sound and a terrible drum program. Eventually, however, I started to evolve my sound to where it was before I put Heretic on hold, which was a technical metal sound inspired by Meshuggah. When another of my projects started to interfere with Heretic, I placed it on hold until I could get some of the other rigamarole off of my plate. Recently, I have brought TFOTH back to life, and the style of Heretic has changed, revolving around a heavy groove. The official genre of Heretic is experimental metal. A logo was recently drawn for me, and it is shown below.
The next project I am going to talk about is not going to be Decaying My Youth. If you want to read about that one, you can browse my posts below. Skyfallen is the next project on my docket. The name was influenced by Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell, in which they have a code called "Skyfall", which means escape and extraction mode. The name is talking about being on the run from something. The sound is very Gothenburg, with a twist. The first song that will be coming out for Skyfallen will be entitled "Core Creation", and it is part of a 2 song demo that will be released whenever it is ready. I do not have a logo for this band at the moment.
The last project I have to talk about is different than anything I've done in the past: Damnum Animus. The name is Latin, meaning loss of soul, which is fitting, because the music is DBM, or depressive black metal. The song style is often very slow, with thick keyboard lines and clean and distorted guitars overlapped. The drums are very spacey, and the vocals sound like they are in a stairwell, with lots of reverb. The album progress has been stalled because of lack of inspiration, but sometime in the future, a 3 song demo entitled "Sanity: The Lies of the Father" will be released, with songs such as "The Lies of the Father" and "The Last of My Kind".
What's going on in my life? Well, school has started back up, unfortunately. I am taking Latin, so those of you who know my music well can expect a lot more Latin snippets in the lyrics. I do expect to release a physical copy of "Hate Asylum", the new album for Heretic, within the next few months. There will be strictly 10 copies in existence, unless there is a sudden burst in interest.
That's all for this time I think.
Until next time, stay metal,
Chad
Chad here again. I figured I'd talk about some of the projects I have, what's going on with them, and what all is going on with me. As many of you know, I am a die hard metalhead, so all of my musical projects revolve around a central core of metal. The instrumentation, however, is a different story altogether, and I will explain how.
The most fitting place to begin is the musical project with perhaps the most history: The Fall of the Heretic. The name is a reference to Lucifer, the greatest heretic. I started TFOTH off with a very metalcore sound, with a raw guitar sound and a terrible drum program. Eventually, however, I started to evolve my sound to where it was before I put Heretic on hold, which was a technical metal sound inspired by Meshuggah. When another of my projects started to interfere with Heretic, I placed it on hold until I could get some of the other rigamarole off of my plate. Recently, I have brought TFOTH back to life, and the style of Heretic has changed, revolving around a heavy groove. The official genre of Heretic is experimental metal. A logo was recently drawn for me, and it is shown below.
The next project I am going to talk about is not going to be Decaying My Youth. If you want to read about that one, you can browse my posts below. Skyfallen is the next project on my docket. The name was influenced by Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell, in which they have a code called "Skyfall", which means escape and extraction mode. The name is talking about being on the run from something. The sound is very Gothenburg, with a twist. The first song that will be coming out for Skyfallen will be entitled "Core Creation", and it is part of a 2 song demo that will be released whenever it is ready. I do not have a logo for this band at the moment.
The last project I have to talk about is different than anything I've done in the past: Damnum Animus. The name is Latin, meaning loss of soul, which is fitting, because the music is DBM, or depressive black metal. The song style is often very slow, with thick keyboard lines and clean and distorted guitars overlapped. The drums are very spacey, and the vocals sound like they are in a stairwell, with lots of reverb. The album progress has been stalled because of lack of inspiration, but sometime in the future, a 3 song demo entitled "Sanity: The Lies of the Father" will be released, with songs such as "The Lies of the Father" and "The Last of My Kind".
What's going on in my life? Well, school has started back up, unfortunately. I am taking Latin, so those of you who know my music well can expect a lot more Latin snippets in the lyrics. I do expect to release a physical copy of "Hate Asylum", the new album for Heretic, within the next few months. There will be strictly 10 copies in existence, unless there is a sudden burst in interest.
That's all for this time I think.
Until next time, stay metal,
Chad
Monday, July 19, 2010
"Hope Bleeds Eternal"; The Story Behind The Lyrics
In my last blog post, I told the story of the history of Decaying My Youth. For this post, I will be telling the story behind each song on the EP, entitled, "Hope Bleeds Eternal". As some of you may know, "Hope Bleeds Eternal" is a reference to the old saying, "hope springs eternal". However, the title is stating the fact that hope is always there, but you have to suffer (bleed) for it.
The first song on the EP is entitled, "Into The Eye of Oblivion". The title to this song was inspired by one of my favorite Canadian bands, Oblivion's Eye. The lyrics were written on a whim, while I was listening to one of my favorite CDs, Symphony X's "Paradise Lost". One of the lines stood out to me; "Looking down from ethereal skies, silent crystalline tears I cry." Out of this, I pulled the first line of the song, which is, "On crystalline shards my thoughts drift". The lyrics are about trying to find who you really are in a world that betrays you and puts up many false visions of yourself.
The second song on the EP is the first song that I really recorded for Decaying My Youth, which is "Shadowed Pt. 1 - Trial". Focusing around a central theme of sorrow, the lyrics depict me in a hellish place, walking through it and trying to find who I am. The lyrics were written on the fly late one night, when I was experiencing a severe bout of depression.
The third song on the EP is the second part of Shadowed, "Shadowed Pt. 2 - Tribulation". This is the only song on the album that was originally a creation of someone else; in this case, my friend Amber wrote it as a poem originally, then she gave it to me. I changed very little of it in my creation of this song.The overall meaning is having two sides, one being sacrificed for another's life.
The fourth song on the EP is the title track, "Hope Bleeds Eternal". As I have explained, it is a play on the phrase "hope springs eternal", and this song shows how that is relevant. The main focus is on one man, who is nameless. He is telling his story from a post-apocalyptic world. We learn from the lyrics that the world was destroyed by a nuclear war, and he is one of a few lone survivors. He suffers to survive and repeats to himself the title of the song. Eventually, he writes his whole story down (the song) before committing suicide.
The fifth and final lyrical song on the album is entitled, "Nebulous By Design". The title was created when listening to another one of my favorite bands, Meshuggah. They have a song called "Nebulous", and the word itself means "hazy, uncertain, or unclear". The lyrics are about how we begin with no idea who we are or what we'll be, and how it's a journey through life to find out who we really are.
In my next blog, I don't exactly know what I'll be discussing.
The first song on the EP is entitled, "Into The Eye of Oblivion". The title to this song was inspired by one of my favorite Canadian bands, Oblivion's Eye. The lyrics were written on a whim, while I was listening to one of my favorite CDs, Symphony X's "Paradise Lost". One of the lines stood out to me; "Looking down from ethereal skies, silent crystalline tears I cry." Out of this, I pulled the first line of the song, which is, "On crystalline shards my thoughts drift". The lyrics are about trying to find who you really are in a world that betrays you and puts up many false visions of yourself.
The second song on the EP is the first song that I really recorded for Decaying My Youth, which is "Shadowed Pt. 1 - Trial". Focusing around a central theme of sorrow, the lyrics depict me in a hellish place, walking through it and trying to find who I am. The lyrics were written on the fly late one night, when I was experiencing a severe bout of depression.
The third song on the EP is the second part of Shadowed, "Shadowed Pt. 2 - Tribulation". This is the only song on the album that was originally a creation of someone else; in this case, my friend Amber wrote it as a poem originally, then she gave it to me. I changed very little of it in my creation of this song.The overall meaning is having two sides, one being sacrificed for another's life.
The fourth song on the EP is the title track, "Hope Bleeds Eternal". As I have explained, it is a play on the phrase "hope springs eternal", and this song shows how that is relevant. The main focus is on one man, who is nameless. He is telling his story from a post-apocalyptic world. We learn from the lyrics that the world was destroyed by a nuclear war, and he is one of a few lone survivors. He suffers to survive and repeats to himself the title of the song. Eventually, he writes his whole story down (the song) before committing suicide.
The fifth and final lyrical song on the album is entitled, "Nebulous By Design". The title was created when listening to another one of my favorite bands, Meshuggah. They have a song called "Nebulous", and the word itself means "hazy, uncertain, or unclear". The lyrics are about how we begin with no idea who we are or what we'll be, and how it's a journey through life to find out who we really are.
In my next blog, I don't exactly know what I'll be discussing.
Sunday, February 21, 2010
My Album and The Story Behind The Band
I'd like to tell the story behind my album, "Hope Bleeds Eternal", and also the story behind the band, Decaying My Youth. It started way back in the summer of 2009. Rory Fleming, who happens to be my manager, Dylan Fleming, who also happens to be in my project Skyfallen, and myself got together to make some music. It turned out to be a fusion of post-rock and metal, so we called it experimental metal. When the subject of names came up, I shot the name Decaying My Youth their way. I had asked my good friend Crystal Boland about album titles for my other project, The Fall of the Heretic (now on hold), namely those related to having a hatred for mankind. Decaying My Youth was one of them, and it had stuck, not only with me, but with my bandmates as well. However, after that summer, Rory departed for college, and Decaying My Youth died out. It didn't go away completely, for like the ashes of a fire that continue to smolder, the beast lived underneath my skin, until November of 2009. At this point, my life took a very difficult turn for me, as a severe bout of depression set in, with no warning or reason whatsoever. I began to write songs about depression, death, hatred, suicide, and hatred of man and God/gods. I knew these song lyrics would not fit in with the ones in The Fall of the Heretic, so the decision was made to revive Decaying My Youth. "The Killing Game", a song about religious struggles that was originally written in the first days of the band, was rerecorded, but after various takes, I scrapped the song, and took a more moody, dark toned approach. During another late night of writing, the true meaning of the band name hit me. I was dying inside for someone I could not have, and I knew at that moment, if I didn't let go, it would eat my life away (or decay my youth). Yet still, I continued to focus my time on that person. My lyrical themes continued to grow darker by the moment, including topics such as murder, darkness, Satanism, and the apocalypse. The album, which is currently in production, is entitled "Hope Bleeds Eternal", which is a reference to the saying "hope springs eternal". It is meant to show the fact that hope will always be there, but in order to realize that it is, you have to bleed (or suffer) for it.
In my next blog, I'll explain the meanings behind each song on the album.
Thanks,
Chad
In my next blog, I'll explain the meanings behind each song on the album.
Thanks,
Chad
Wednesday, February 10, 2010
The Gateway To Hell; Sickness
Now, as the title shows, I am feeling very under the weather. Hopefully this will go away soon. I'd prefer not to miss school, and more importantly, miss seeing my girlfriend. On a different note, Ov Hell's new album, The Underworld Regime, came out, and I'm truly digging it. It's everything good about black metal (the atmosphere, evil lyrics, diabolical sounding chords and riffing) without all the bad stuff (trash production, same lyrical themes over and over).
On another different note, I have not had any halfway-decent caffeine in three days, and it REALLY sucks. I'm a bit of an addict (caffeine is one of my vices) and going without isn't very fun at all, at all.
By the way, those who read this, check this out: www.myspace.com/decayingmyyouth
It's my new one man project, focused on atmospheric, doomy death metal. I think you'll like it.
Later,
Chad
Monday, February 8, 2010
Strange Day
I'm kinda new to this whole blogging thing, so my first few may be a bit rough. So, it's a Monday, which I totally expected to be terrible. I hate Mondays. But in Physics Honors (I love that class) I got to talking to my friend Kim about relationships and stuff. We got on the topic of if we dated each other, and I ended up asking her out, and she said yes. Kinda weird, no?
I'll see where this bloggery takes me.
Later,
Chad
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