Hello, all. I finished this one late last year and "mastered" it in february. Just haven't got around to posting until now. It's the first song I tracked in Sonar (back in the X1 days). I rerecorded all the guits and bass and used a bunch of the mixing techniques I've learned around here (thanks muchly).
 
Warning... this is very LOUD and thrashy metal so you may want to turn your speaker/headphones down at first.
 
https://soundcloud.com/user432042324/march-of-the-bees-beepster-metal-revisted
 
Soundcloud seems to have added a bit of extra shrillness to it which is unfortunate because it was right on the edge already. I might try exporting a -0.3db version but this be it for now.
 
Hope you enjoy it.
 
Cheers.

Hi Beepster, those bees sure sound angry. Maybe a bit of melody would calm them down ; )
 
Rik

Rikkie
Hi Beepster, those bees sure sound angry. Maybe a bit of melody would calm them down ; )
 
Rik

Indeed. This was written in an odd way. I wrote it around a series of beats I programmed into BFD Eco standalone and exported to audio so I was unable to edit it at all. It was basically just a test of BFD after I first installed it and I didn't know what I was doing back then. So I was restricted in what I could do.
 
However I do think there is still quite a bit of "melody" in there. It's just the lines between melody and harmony tend to get blurred with this type of music.
 
I did actually write and track some vocals to this as an experiment when I did this revisit but they are mostly monotone grunter/growler vocals so they probably wouldn't add much of a "melody". I was mostly just seeing what I could get away with in my apartment so I might be able to move on to writing an album of similarly agressive music. Basically ultra extreme technical metal.
 
Anyhoo... thanks for listening.

Wow Beepster, that's some high energy music you have there. Great guitar chops. This would make a cool backing track to a video of those guys jumping from mountains in flying suits!

Starise
Wow Beepster, that's some high energy music you have there. Great guitar chops. This would make a cool backing track to a video of those guys jumping from mountains in flying suits!

Thanks, buddy. Yeah... I could see that. My old band used to have a big skater/extreme sports enthusiast following. Addicted to velocity those kids are... as am I. At least musical velocity. Physically I don't move too fast these days. lol
 
Thanks for listening. Cheers!!!

Great experiment Beeps.
 
Mix fits the genre.

Right on, Baps. You probably even remember the original version of this one when I first popped out of the Sonar womb squealing and covered in goop. I think it was even before we did "She's a Monkey". lol
 
I actually left that version up on my Soundcloud page as well as my "5 minute Remix" of the original tracks I did before redoing the song from the ground up.
 
Cheers, dood.
 
:-)

Beepster
Hello, all. I finished this one late last year and "mastered" it in february. Just haven't got around to posting until now. It's the first song I tracked in Sonar (back in the X1 days). I rerecorded all the guits and bass and used a bunch of the mixing techniques I've learned around here (thanks muchly).
 
Warning... this is very LOUD and thrashy metal so you may want to turn your speaker/headphones down at first.
 

 
Soundcloud seems to have added a bit of extra shrillness to it which is unfortunate because it was right on the edge already. I might try exporting a -0.3db version but this be it for now.
 
Hope you enjoy it.
 
Cheers.

Wow what a rush !!! Had to strap on my bee helmet for this one , good one for hard rock in heavy metal fans !

Thanks, JS. I do likes me some thrashin'. ;-)
 
Also, welcome to the forum.

wow Beepster - this is full on right from the starting whistle. Great playing and mix seems spot on for the genre