Pure madness. This is a wild one to play through start to finish. The album was originally going to be called Epilogue but I felt that as the other tracks came together that name didn't correspond with the overall feel of the album.
I love the arpeggio combo and all the reverb in this one. I had to sadly cut a great piano part that sounded awesome in isolation but in the end didn't work for the track. I might try and find a way to sneak it into something else one day in the future.
I wrote this track a long time ago and never really did anything with it, and it didn't even have a name. I came back to it recently and it filled me with so much nostalgia for the time in which I wrote it; hence the name Daydream.
A bit of a departure from my usual style, but I am branching out into stuff that is perhaps less metal and more melodic, even poppy. I am trying to be less judgemental about my writing and let whatever happens happen.
Classic symphonic speed metal for this one. I love playing it. The first 'riff' gives me mega spoopy vibes hence the name. The slippery slidey arpeggios are hard as balls.
I wrote the intro, which was very inspired by the music of the videogame Hollow Knight... and then got stuck for several months. One day while noodling over the piano loop the main riff came to me and it went from there. I really like the outro.
I wrote this on guitar but could never be bothered properly learning it so I chucked it on a ton of synths and I think it ended up way better that way.
-Sunrise-
Another track I wrote many years ago (maybe 2013?), and now makes me feel very nostalgic. It was called Clean Compressed Picking on my computer for so long that I'm not sure the name Sunrise will ever fully stick with me.
I'm a guitar tutor and I do this weird chord exercise with my students to help them learn barre chord shapes and the note names on the fretboard. Believe it or not this entire track kind of evolved from that. I think the ending is epic.
I wrote this spooky little line and didn't really know what to do with it. So I just chucked it in here as a cheesy tongue-in-cheek album finisher. I think it's fun.
-Ionian Odyssey-
Emma and I went to the Greek Ionian Islands in May 2019. We are both keen photog/videographers and love making videos of the places we travel to, and I write music for them.