2010 album recording part 2

i've been recording at home and capturing some parts on camera. Here is part two featuring some random videos i have taken of brian and i (i sit next to him at work) and unfinished parts of two new songs i'm happy with right now (the rest are close, but I want to do more with them):

still recording

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recording 2010 part 1

Finally have some time to post something, i put together this video of our recording so far:

First part was all done at Thomas's Parents house while they went to Europe, this was for Thomas's guitars and Robs Drums:

We have spent a lot of time making this album flow from one song to another, but in a totally fucked up hard to actually pull off way. We don't use studios, we don't have money or get money to do this, so it's all trying to see how things work. In the video you see acoustic parts and hear weird noises, these were created for the album and we are trying to record these parts in odd places like in the parking garage stairwell and the woods. We plan to try and continue this as much as possible and hope to have some more updates soon.

Till then, buy our last album: http://sentientrecordings.com/

Then maybe we can release this one sooner!

visitor

After band practice tonight i opened my garage to find this guy trying to get in. I'm glad I didn't step on him by accident cause those things are pretty big and it would leave quite a mess. This is the first time I saw one alive. It scurried away when i pushed it with an aluminum bat.

the swans

I've been into the swans for a bit now, it all started after getting the first sonic youth album (sonic death, not sure it's a first release, but it's live recordings around the beginning of the band and it's way good if you like them). At the end of the Sonic Death album they mentioned 'do you want to hear a sonic youth Swans jam fest?' then the CD ends to my disappointment.

After this we searched, my buddy in music exploration and I. At one point I stumbled onto Soundtracks for the Blind and made anyone within my life listen to it. It's dark, full of halloween prop type sounds and full of interviews with people featuring different ailments in life. The music throughout is completely hypnotic. The atmosphere is dense, brooding and punishing. However, I wouldn't call them metal.

All this from a band's last album, till now. They are releasing a new album, and they even moved the date from September 27th to September 21st out of nowhere.

The album is streaming here:
http://www.thefader.com/2010/09/20/stream-swans-album-my-father-will-guide-me-up-a-rope-to-the-sky/

check it out

soylant green

Whether the public will have an appetite for it is another matter. Genetic engineering is already widely used for crops, but the government until now has not considered allowing the consumption of modified animals. Although the potential benefits — and profits — are huge, many individuals have qualms about manipulating the genetic code of other living creatures.

Part of the two-day hearing will focus on labeling of the fish. It is possible that if the modified salmon is approved, consumers would not even know they were eating it. Current FDA regulations only require modified foods to be labeled as such if the food is substantially different than the conventional version, and the agency has said that the modified salmon is essentially the same as the Atlantic Salmon.

Approval of the salmon would open the door for a variety of other genetically engineered animals, including an environmentally friendly pig that is being developed in Canada or cattle that are resistant to mad cow disease.

I can't wait to start eating genetically altered humans.

press record then delete your mind

We are about to start recording our followup to our first album that only just came out.

I don't want to promise anything because how can an album be more heavy then led zepplin, catchier then the beatles, noisier then sonic youth, more atmospheric then the swans, etc. We only know that we are very happy with our progress as a band and can't wait to hear some of these songs completed, let alone share them with you.

If there is anything worth sharing I'll put it up while we are recording, till then go buy our last album here: http://www.sentientrecordings.com/
or track us down.

This could be one of the last shows of the year, before we record our second album and people have kids and someone dies from a drug overdose or gets a divorce to marry one of their daughters friends and drive a Porsche too fast off the side of a cliff after sipping wine on the beach, so come out and visualize how we will die before 2011.

This means that this terrible driver ran over all these people but was proud and stamped their car showing their happiness at killing people

Music Video Released

idiot reality

if reality tv didn't have stupid millionaires and stupid people trying to be with stupid millionaires it wouldn't even be watched

video coming soon

we are a band, a band that doesn't give a fuck. I always wanted to make a music video in a band so i did. I can't thank brian enough for coming out and helping me complete it.

It's crazy how life works, i had no idea that i would find people that i connected with so much after completely abandoning the idea. I was always really good friends with ryan, but he was always so busy and i hardly ever got to actually hang out with him after i got really busy. meeting brian was probably the best thing ever, not only did he help fill out the band with me, but i feel like i found a friend for this phase of my life that i feel should have been a friend for far longer.

here are some still pictures from the gore we were working with last night:

fake blood created after reading some tips from evil dead:

Brian posing for positioning and helping me actually try to figure out what i'm doing...

I bet this was an awesome sight for someone in my apartment complex trying to throw trash away:

too smart

smart? CD music sponsored by Disney, great advertising.

sewer world

here you go

why listen to shit music when you can be listening to what this top list says is the best music out right now?

http://www.billboard.com/charts/hot-100#/charts/hot-100?begin=1&order=position

i hope you choke on it

Fields

Pretty sure maybe one person reads this blog, but for that one or two people, go here:
www.myspace.com/fieldsdrone

You can get the full recording of Fields which is a side project created and inspired by Daniel Kraus. Daniel wrote music not only for this but for Admiral Angry and after leaving this world last year wrote the untitled track. The other tracks were inspired by the untitled track and written for Daniel.

If you like heavy and atmosphere, then stop reading this and go get it. The recording was done by Brian Etheridge whom is the bass player in this snakes alive band. The recordings sound really good and I feel that Brian is really getting good at this recording stuff.

Go now

our next show

music is all there is, except bills and having to eat and all that other stuff that goes on before 8pm at the relax bar on friday and saturday nights

the other day i took my 5 year old to the mall so he could play while the wife went around wandering. i find it crazy that at that age, a kid can play with another kid even if they don't speak the same language, look the same, believe in the same things or anything. they want to climb then jump off stuff together, period. that's what's fun. then you grow up and everythings a waste of time. mind games (acceptance/barriers/success), trouble, stress, feeble importance,,,

oh well, i have my 5 year old for conversation and the barbaric pounding of a musical instrument for now

i am a cow

in line to get slaughtered

please make it painful and drag it out so i have something to share

another dumb ad near my work...

Not really a perfectionist, i don't have OCD or anything and normally i just don't care, but come on, no one could tell the guy he's holding the guitar completely wrong?

First Show of the Year and Album Cometh

Come out and watch us play some new songs and old ones. It's 6 bucks and we've been having fun live lately.

Not only are we playing live for the first time this year, we are also releasing our first full album soon. We should have a confirmed date soon, but all has been said and done. To stay on top of the release of the album check this site:
http://www.sentientrecordings.com/

Or you can sign up to the mailing list to get updates from awesome bands like Wire Werewolves, Bacteria Cult and Circuit Wound:
The_Faceless_Swarm-subscribe@yahoogroups.com

See you soon.