Today I decided to break up Rancid Abomination for good. I had good reasons. I was sick and tired of all the stress involved with A) Writing the music for the project B) Mixing the music properly C) Doing good vocals and mixing them properly and D) Marketing the music online. The stress has become unbearable for the last few months, so I decided to quit permanently. This time all of my projects/bands are no longer going to come back, this covers all of them, Unleashing Vengeance, Homicidal Hammerfist, you name it... I won't be writing metal anymore, the response lately has been lacking and it doesn't seem to be worth it now..
So after all these new cd's and the reunion and all, Rancid Abomination is finally shutting down... I simply cannot do it anymore... Don't get me wrong... I LOVE Rancid Abomination, like no other band, because it's my first serious band/project and I really enjoyed writing music for it.. But I cannot continue anymore. It's a hard decision.. To continue or to quit. Is continuing even worth it? Hard decision to make.
So, without any more stuff to do, what will I do from now on... I know that I won't be doing anymore albums, that is for sure... But the fan reception needs work.. So I am not quitting the marketing of the band just yet. Everything else will be off the table so I can focus on doing various things to get it out there for one final push... I will be filming documentaries for Rancid Abomination and Unleashing Vengeance tonight, complete music samples being played for different parts of the documentaries... I will split up the documentary into sections to make it easier to film. I will have to make it 15 minutes or smaller to fit it on my youtube but that shouldn't be a big issue I think. The detail I go into into the documentaries will be limited for the UV one I will be doing as well so I need to focus on Rancid Abomination first..
It's a lot of work to try to get your solo artist or band out there in the metal scene because A) Metal isn't popular, B) A lot of music upload sites suck and C) Metal fans are fickle as hell. They ditch bands for stupid reasons like changes in band's sound, lack of complexity in later releases and stupider things than that. I found out that it was really hard to even get my stuff on a good site to get plays, It took me years of using crappy sites and then giving up to finally find a good site, 5+ years later! It was almost not worth it in the first place... So retiring seems to be a good move now..
I will still listen to Rancid Abomination. It may have very little fans now, but it did get a boost recently A russian site called World Metal bands linked to a music video I did for a song called "Black Eyes" and it got 2300 likes... That is .... SICK! But everything else has been ignored a lot. My youtube channel isn't getting good views now and it sucks... I will keep putting stuff on it till tonight and then quit there. The youtube thing is failing so bad.. I mean I will keep it up but I don't expect it to work well in the near future at least. My one good bit of news on the plays department is that Jamendo has gotten me 1300+ plays for Rancid Abomination, which is great..
Hell without Jamendo I would not be here talking about Rancid Abomination in this blog post series. Jamendo saved the day. But this is the end... I can't keep writing new material, it is too hard to do for me to keep doing it from now on. I will try to market old stuff but I can't guarantee much from now on...
I wish Rancid Abomination made an impact on the black metal scene to a better extent. It did not.. 2300 likes on some Russian site isn't really that good.. Jamendo likes it but that's a tiny site that is barely used... No one favors it. A couple of people have put RA on lists which is GREAT but it isn't enough... RA is still KVLT as ever... Hell it still hasn't gotten well known enough to break the stigma of it being the most underrated black metal project out there.. That's bad... 2 years have gone by and I expected some better results but they didn't happen. I guess it will fade into obscurity bad... See... I don't want RA to Be KVLT! I want to be better known then it is... It's a disappointment...
RIP Rancid Abomination 2001-2006,2016-2017
Monday, September 18, 2017
Sunday, September 17, 2017
Chapter 14 : Rancid Abomination goes oldschool and it did not DooM the project!
So I was working on a brutally heavy rancid abomination cd inspired by oldschool riffs like those found on Abhorrence and Disgust and The Stench of Despair. I wanted something that sounded like something done a long time ago. Reverberating the guitars was a brilliant idea, it helped a lot. But I had to write good music to make this work. By good music I mean I had to write stuff that felt like it could be used... Something like staring would not work... I needed to ditch the symphonic, sognametal and slight Oriental touches of Staring and go back to a brutally heavy sound again for the new cd which I was calling "Epitaph of Nirn"... I was making it a concept album based on the story of the Elder Scrolls III : Morrowind... I like the game alot and I played it a bunch but the sound I was creating was way too evil sounding for morrowind as it turned out. I even had lyrics written for it and they were great... But at the last moment I scrapped the theme, and concept and decided to go for a different more primal, messed up concept.
See I've always wanted to do a concept album based on the story of the game Doom. The thing is that morrowind's story was all about evil elven gods and their evil plans and stuff. It wasn't really evil enough to warrant this sound I was creating.... But doom was! In it you fight the forces of hell itself. You kill literal demons and devils right and left... But to make it really evil I had to go crazy with the story and make lyrics that take the point of view of both the doom marine and the demons. I wanted to tell both sides... And I knew the oldschool evil Satanic Rancid Abomination vibe would come back if I ever wanted to take the side of hellspawn, which I promptly did... I wrote disgusting lyrics about demons eating people again and this time It made sense because in doom they do that shit right and left and you see the results of it all the time... So this actually fit the music I wrote way better than morrowind ever could.
Plus there is another problem with morrowind. It's based on elven fantasy that borrows heavily from Middle Eastern themes. I would have to write melechesh like stuff for it to make sense... I was nowhee near good enough to do that so I decided to ditch the morrowind theme and go to a doom theme instead... Hence the album "The Wrath of Hell" was born...
The wrath of hell came out amazing. It had a dark sound to it and had creepy reverberated guitars and no heavy distortion like older cd's. It also completely lacked the Staring changes completely like Windir like Melodies, more varied drum beats and epic keyboards. Instead it was very thrashy yet eerie sounding due to the reverberated guitars... I like the way it came out..
I wrote several songs... The first "Gateways" is about the demons realizing the humans in the doom story are teleporting through hell gates to get from phobos to deimos, so the demons decide to attack and possess them... Track 2 "Hell Invades mars" is about the space marines sending the marines to the base on phobos after they lose contact with everyone there. Track 3 "Into the pits" is about the doom marine killing his way through phobos and deimos in episode 1 and 2.. Track 4 "Satanic Vengeance" is about the Cyberdemon in Tower of babel taunting the Doom Marine before trying to kill him. It takes the point of view of that cyberdemon. Track 5 is about When the marine is going through hell and goes through mount erebus and dis and fights the spider mastermind. Track 6 is about how the demons invade earth in Doom 2.
I think this cd came out amazing. I love it so far. I've listened to it 100+ times on last.fm in one day. I could not stop listening to it. It actually sounded like Rancid Abomination's old stuff in 2005 and I love that too. But the whole theme is huge. Doom and Rancid Abomination's old satanic lyrics go well together. This goes super well with doom as well...
See I've always wanted to do a concept album based on the story of the game Doom. The thing is that morrowind's story was all about evil elven gods and their evil plans and stuff. It wasn't really evil enough to warrant this sound I was creating.... But doom was! In it you fight the forces of hell itself. You kill literal demons and devils right and left... But to make it really evil I had to go crazy with the story and make lyrics that take the point of view of both the doom marine and the demons. I wanted to tell both sides... And I knew the oldschool evil Satanic Rancid Abomination vibe would come back if I ever wanted to take the side of hellspawn, which I promptly did... I wrote disgusting lyrics about demons eating people again and this time It made sense because in doom they do that shit right and left and you see the results of it all the time... So this actually fit the music I wrote way better than morrowind ever could.
Plus there is another problem with morrowind. It's based on elven fantasy that borrows heavily from Middle Eastern themes. I would have to write melechesh like stuff for it to make sense... I was nowhee near good enough to do that so I decided to ditch the morrowind theme and go to a doom theme instead... Hence the album "The Wrath of Hell" was born...
The wrath of hell came out amazing. It had a dark sound to it and had creepy reverberated guitars and no heavy distortion like older cd's. It also completely lacked the Staring changes completely like Windir like Melodies, more varied drum beats and epic keyboards. Instead it was very thrashy yet eerie sounding due to the reverberated guitars... I like the way it came out..
I wrote several songs... The first "Gateways" is about the demons realizing the humans in the doom story are teleporting through hell gates to get from phobos to deimos, so the demons decide to attack and possess them... Track 2 "Hell Invades mars" is about the space marines sending the marines to the base on phobos after they lose contact with everyone there. Track 3 "Into the pits" is about the doom marine killing his way through phobos and deimos in episode 1 and 2.. Track 4 "Satanic Vengeance" is about the Cyberdemon in Tower of babel taunting the Doom Marine before trying to kill him. It takes the point of view of that cyberdemon. Track 5 is about When the marine is going through hell and goes through mount erebus and dis and fights the spider mastermind. Track 6 is about how the demons invade earth in Doom 2.
I think this cd came out amazing. I love it so far. I've listened to it 100+ times on last.fm in one day. I could not stop listening to it. It actually sounded like Rancid Abomination's old stuff in 2005 and I love that too. But the whole theme is huge. Doom and Rancid Abomination's old satanic lyrics go well together. This goes super well with doom as well...
Chapter 13 : I didn't know what the hell I was doing!
In August 2017 sometime, I started to relisten to Finality, an early 2017 remake cd containing old Rancid Abomination songs from 2001-2006 redone.. I noticed the sound differences compared to newer Rancid Abomination like staring into the eyes of madness and Immediately regretted doing that change on that cd. I didn't like the change suddenly, and I don't understand why... I wanted to bring back the OLD sound of Rancid Abomination. And that's when it hit me....
I never have actually done a cd that feels like a classic cd from 2001-2006 in 2016 or 2017!
Production changes ruined the atmosphere of these new cd's.. They didn't have they creepy vibe the old ones did... Not just that but the whole change thing on Staring really ruined the sound to me... It no longer sounded like what Rancid Abomination was supposed to sound like... The more influences you add from other bands, the more the uniqueness of your musical project destroys itself.. I had done that on staring. It may have been a great cd, and I still think it's the best ever, but I had to destroy the sound of Rancid Abomination to do it... Delayed harmonies were used less. That's the core of Rancid Abomination. But so is lots of blastbeats and thrash riffs. Blastbeats were used less on staring, and thrashy riffs were gone completely. It pissed me off.
I wanted something that sounded like something I would do in 2004-2005... I never have done that in these last 2 years of the band. I did a lot of albums that sounded like 2004-2005 mixed with 2001 (first 2 cd's in 2016), 2004 mixed with 2003 (the devouring) and improved technical black metal with Windir and other elements thrown in (last 2). I had yet to do something in the vein of Old Rancid Abomination... I needed to bad.
All the old 2004-2005 cd's have a lot of things in common. They don't have happy melodies much, they have bad production but they have eerie vocals and scary lyrics. They don't have super distorted guitars and they have no really epic symphonic elements thrown in. 2004-2005 stuff was not symphonic at all, it was aggressive and dark, without being creepy in a symphonic way like staring. it used lead guitars and sinister sounding chord structures to make the music sound scary. It never used epic keyboards, sognametal melodies much and never dabbled with (slight) elements of Oriental Black Metal... Instead it was brutal, filled with blast beats, and had evil sounding guitar harmonies everywhere... It was a completely different animal... It wasn't a big ripoff! What I had done on Staring sounded to me like a Ripoff! I wanted to throw that out the window and go back to what it used to be like!
I needed to do something completely different. Something eerie. Then it hit me... I needed to stop using distortion on the guitars. I needed to do Reverb instead to add the eerieness back in... I got this Epiphany from listening to Dissection one night, and noticed their reverberated production. It became an influence immediately... I also needed to write something fast, heavy, brutal and dark... Something with delayed harmonies and thrashy riffs, but used darker melodies that were more sinister sounding like 2004-2005 stuff, like in the old days. All of the newer Rancid Abomination were newer renditions of the old sound with changes to the sound that didn't sound oldschool enough. I needed to go back in time... And I just did that this month...
I started working on what I originally wanted to be a concept album based on the epic yet dark story of the video game "The Elder Scrolls III : Morrowind".. I wrote music for the concept album that sounded eerie and fit the mood of the older 2004-2005 material perfectly. This album's creation is for the second to last chapter, Chapter 14...
I never have actually done a cd that feels like a classic cd from 2001-2006 in 2016 or 2017!
Production changes ruined the atmosphere of these new cd's.. They didn't have they creepy vibe the old ones did... Not just that but the whole change thing on Staring really ruined the sound to me... It no longer sounded like what Rancid Abomination was supposed to sound like... The more influences you add from other bands, the more the uniqueness of your musical project destroys itself.. I had done that on staring. It may have been a great cd, and I still think it's the best ever, but I had to destroy the sound of Rancid Abomination to do it... Delayed harmonies were used less. That's the core of Rancid Abomination. But so is lots of blastbeats and thrash riffs. Blastbeats were used less on staring, and thrashy riffs were gone completely. It pissed me off.
I wanted something that sounded like something I would do in 2004-2005... I never have done that in these last 2 years of the band. I did a lot of albums that sounded like 2004-2005 mixed with 2001 (first 2 cd's in 2016), 2004 mixed with 2003 (the devouring) and improved technical black metal with Windir and other elements thrown in (last 2). I had yet to do something in the vein of Old Rancid Abomination... I needed to bad.
All the old 2004-2005 cd's have a lot of things in common. They don't have happy melodies much, they have bad production but they have eerie vocals and scary lyrics. They don't have super distorted guitars and they have no really epic symphonic elements thrown in. 2004-2005 stuff was not symphonic at all, it was aggressive and dark, without being creepy in a symphonic way like staring. it used lead guitars and sinister sounding chord structures to make the music sound scary. It never used epic keyboards, sognametal melodies much and never dabbled with (slight) elements of Oriental Black Metal... Instead it was brutal, filled with blast beats, and had evil sounding guitar harmonies everywhere... It was a completely different animal... It wasn't a big ripoff! What I had done on Staring sounded to me like a Ripoff! I wanted to throw that out the window and go back to what it used to be like!
I needed to do something completely different. Something eerie. Then it hit me... I needed to stop using distortion on the guitars. I needed to do Reverb instead to add the eerieness back in... I got this Epiphany from listening to Dissection one night, and noticed their reverberated production. It became an influence immediately... I also needed to write something fast, heavy, brutal and dark... Something with delayed harmonies and thrashy riffs, but used darker melodies that were more sinister sounding like 2004-2005 stuff, like in the old days. All of the newer Rancid Abomination were newer renditions of the old sound with changes to the sound that didn't sound oldschool enough. I needed to go back in time... And I just did that this month...
I started working on what I originally wanted to be a concept album based on the epic yet dark story of the video game "The Elder Scrolls III : Morrowind".. I wrote music for the concept album that sounded eerie and fit the mood of the older 2004-2005 material perfectly. This album's creation is for the second to last chapter, Chapter 14...
Chapter 12 : Staring into the Eyes of Madness and Metaphysical Torment
In April 2017 I came back to Rancid Abomination. By the end of December the previous year I had folded RA Permanently. But I wanted to return to it, with a major change to it's sound as well... I was sick and tired of the disgusting evil lyrics it had and wanted to write about something completely different, something scary... So I chose Paranormal Phenomena this time. I was no stranger to it, being a UFO investigator for over 5 years before the change was decided on, and Rancid Abomination was no stranger to it as well, doing paranormal themed albums several times in it's career from 2001-2006 as well.
What made the album I was about to do different was more involved though. I didn't want this cd to sound anything like older Rancid Abomination, so for the album (Which I would call "Staring into the Eyes of Madness"), I would ditch the thrashy riffs for black metal chords being used like normal black metal and in power thrash type riffs (think old iced earth), add elements of symphonic black metal back into the band's sound for the first time since 2003, throw in some fill ins and drum beats eerily reminiscent of drum beats done by the Band Melechesh, and on top of that, fuse in Windir Like Melodies at times... I even did an atmospheric Black Metal song too, very similar to Summoning. There were a few songs that didn't do any of this though, or very little and that was interesting as well. Overall the drumming was much more technical on this cd then any other RA one before, and it made it far better musically. And the music was even better as well, because of the symphonic elements and the Windir-like melodies thrown in. You see influences creep in from what you listen to a lot and this was no different.
Due to these changes this album has a really cool unique sound to it and doesn't really sound like Classsic Rancid Abomination at all. It completely ditches oldschool Rancid Abomination sound and adds so many new things to the table. I like it, it's fun to listen to. In fact I think this is the best Rancid Abomination cd ever. It still had that Rancid Abomination touch on it (delayed harmonies) but they were hard to hear on this so they were far less noticeable.
The whole album was a massive concept album about Paranormal stuff, including Alien Abductions (Track 1), Bigfoot Cloaking (Track 2), Alien Contactees (Track 3), Black Eyed Kids (Track 4), Spring Heeled Jack (Track 5), Hauntings where deer-man hybrid ghost appear (Track 6), Appearances of beings from Native American Folklore being seen in real life (Track 7), and Mothman (Track 8).
I would follow up this album with a Wintersun Style Documentary on the creation of the cd. It wasn't nearly as good as the Forest Seasons documentary but It described the sound well at least. Never really got viewed...
I would follow up this cd with it's sequel album "Metaphysical torment" which was also another concept album on Paranormal stuff. It unlike staring, was a little bit less power metal riffage oriented and had more black metal chords than staring. And the feeling of this cd was a lot darker, being a lot more sinister sounding overall, Staring sounded epic, this sounded dreadful. But besides that the album was very similar to staring in a lot of ways. It was produced better and had easier to hear delayed harmonies.
The songs were about different paranormal stories this time, a lot came from an interview I watched on youtube with an author named Stephanie Young, who is a British Paranormal Researcher. The songs were about the following things... Horrible screams coming from a place where there was nothing around (Track 1), A man from New york city who vanished in Wyoming and was missing for a while, a suspected Alien Abduction (Track 2), A case of a phantom that appeared but could not be seen but it moving through forests could be seen due to trees moving (Track 3), a cult abduction which I will get into later (Track 4), The disappearance of a Minnesota Selectman and moans recorded on his cell phone (Track 5), An appearance of a weird white ghost in a lake in Arkansas (track 6), a cat that walked backwards like a man in an account I read on a paranormal board (track 7) and a ghost story that scared the crap out of me, someone seing a floating tentacled woman with black eyes (Track 8).
The cult abduction song was the star of the show here. The song was creepy and depressing, a lot like classic Caustic Euphony Material. The song was written about two friends who went driving to texas and they kept on complaining about themselves being followed by a convoy of different cars. They tried to talk to several sherrifs, but all of them wrote the kids off as druggies. They ended up eventually abandoning their car. They split up. One stayed behind and got rescued. The other swam several miles and ended up being captured to be sacrificed at this sick church of demonic cultists that had dead animals with blood everywhere. He escaped. He found a town and started eating because he was starving, but he was eating out of a fridge of a cop. He attacked the cop because he thought all of the cops were in on it. He went to a mental institution later and never changed his story... It's a fucked up story...
Overall, I like Metaphysical torment. But the only track on it I think is great is the cult one.. Every other one is good but not great. I think this cd was a disappointment compared to Staring...
What made the album I was about to do different was more involved though. I didn't want this cd to sound anything like older Rancid Abomination, so for the album (Which I would call "Staring into the Eyes of Madness"), I would ditch the thrashy riffs for black metal chords being used like normal black metal and in power thrash type riffs (think old iced earth), add elements of symphonic black metal back into the band's sound for the first time since 2003, throw in some fill ins and drum beats eerily reminiscent of drum beats done by the Band Melechesh, and on top of that, fuse in Windir Like Melodies at times... I even did an atmospheric Black Metal song too, very similar to Summoning. There were a few songs that didn't do any of this though, or very little and that was interesting as well. Overall the drumming was much more technical on this cd then any other RA one before, and it made it far better musically. And the music was even better as well, because of the symphonic elements and the Windir-like melodies thrown in. You see influences creep in from what you listen to a lot and this was no different.
Due to these changes this album has a really cool unique sound to it and doesn't really sound like Classsic Rancid Abomination at all. It completely ditches oldschool Rancid Abomination sound and adds so many new things to the table. I like it, it's fun to listen to. In fact I think this is the best Rancid Abomination cd ever. It still had that Rancid Abomination touch on it (delayed harmonies) but they were hard to hear on this so they were far less noticeable.
The whole album was a massive concept album about Paranormal stuff, including Alien Abductions (Track 1), Bigfoot Cloaking (Track 2), Alien Contactees (Track 3), Black Eyed Kids (Track 4), Spring Heeled Jack (Track 5), Hauntings where deer-man hybrid ghost appear (Track 6), Appearances of beings from Native American Folklore being seen in real life (Track 7), and Mothman (Track 8).
I would follow up this album with a Wintersun Style Documentary on the creation of the cd. It wasn't nearly as good as the Forest Seasons documentary but It described the sound well at least. Never really got viewed...
I would follow up this cd with it's sequel album "Metaphysical torment" which was also another concept album on Paranormal stuff. It unlike staring, was a little bit less power metal riffage oriented and had more black metal chords than staring. And the feeling of this cd was a lot darker, being a lot more sinister sounding overall, Staring sounded epic, this sounded dreadful. But besides that the album was very similar to staring in a lot of ways. It was produced better and had easier to hear delayed harmonies.
The songs were about different paranormal stories this time, a lot came from an interview I watched on youtube with an author named Stephanie Young, who is a British Paranormal Researcher. The songs were about the following things... Horrible screams coming from a place where there was nothing around (Track 1), A man from New york city who vanished in Wyoming and was missing for a while, a suspected Alien Abduction (Track 2), A case of a phantom that appeared but could not be seen but it moving through forests could be seen due to trees moving (Track 3), a cult abduction which I will get into later (Track 4), The disappearance of a Minnesota Selectman and moans recorded on his cell phone (Track 5), An appearance of a weird white ghost in a lake in Arkansas (track 6), a cat that walked backwards like a man in an account I read on a paranormal board (track 7) and a ghost story that scared the crap out of me, someone seing a floating tentacled woman with black eyes (Track 8).
The cult abduction song was the star of the show here. The song was creepy and depressing, a lot like classic Caustic Euphony Material. The song was written about two friends who went driving to texas and they kept on complaining about themselves being followed by a convoy of different cars. They tried to talk to several sherrifs, but all of them wrote the kids off as druggies. They ended up eventually abandoning their car. They split up. One stayed behind and got rescued. The other swam several miles and ended up being captured to be sacrificed at this sick church of demonic cultists that had dead animals with blood everywhere. He escaped. He found a town and started eating because he was starving, but he was eating out of a fridge of a cop. He attacked the cop because he thought all of the cops were in on it. He went to a mental institution later and never changed his story... It's a fucked up story...
Overall, I like Metaphysical torment. But the only track on it I think is great is the cult one.. Every other one is good but not great. I think this cd was a disappointment compared to Staring...
Chapter 11 : The Craptarding Incident and the Devouring
Rancid Abomination was about to go through a serious issue. During the time period of Late December 2016 there was an influx of stupidity surrounding it's twitter page and soundcloud site.. I was using hasthags to market it, hashtags like #indieartist #newmusic and #unsignedartist.. Stupid decision because all of these hashtags are used by rappers... It's dumb.. But I didn't know that did i?:
Of course that got some stupid raptards to say that Rancid Abomination, MY black metal solo artist was rap. They even listed it as rap group on a rap list on twitter. So you know what I did, I fought back... I started trolling them to death.
I kept on getting UNWANTED Rap promoters, DJ's, Radio stations Bugging Rancid Abomination, which had a limited presence online at the time. They would not leave me alone. And every time I talked about Rancid Abomination, I got liked by rap fans. It was getting out of control....
I DIDN'T WANT THESE MORONS AS FANS!
They didn't know what good music is, and if rap fans started liking a Metal band it could be disastrous for keeping METAL fans to stay fans of the band. I didn't want people mixing Rancid Abomination's Far Superior to rap music with rap crap. It gives off the wrong message. So I fought back and declared Rap the enemy of Rancid Abomination. I set up moments to bash rap horribly. I kept on saying Rap is 10000000000000000000000000000000 times worse than what Rancid Abomination Writes, I trashed the people who followed RA thinking it was rap or otherwise, after I blocked them. I ended up with a huge ass blocklist after this... here it is for you people to see:
That was just the beginning. I had hundreds of accounts blocked due to this. I would eventually block them all on all my bands twitters as well. But it didn't really help. No matter how much trolling and blocking I did they just kept on coming. So I tried something really extreme and changed Rancid Abomination's Twitter User Image to this:
It didn't really help. So I ditched the twitter and shut it down for over a month.. I deleted it. It was gone. It pissed me off. Whatever following we had was gone thanks to these idiots... So you know what I did? I wrote an album to piss them off called the Devouring.
The devouring maybe the most evil cd done last year and in the last 2 years Rancid Abomination was around, thanks to lyrics like this:
"Succumb to the Filth
Wickedness implode thy brain
make thou suffer in eternal pain
Sick and disgusting thy flesh will rot
while thou burn in hell's fat pot
thy putrid flesh will boil and die
thy liver will be feasted on by flies
thy rectum will be filled with spikes
thy soul will be eaten alive
Succumb to the Filth
thy stupid gangsta filth of death
will be eaten till nothing is left
the clock on your chest
will implode inside leaving you dead
thy putrid flesh will boil and die
thy liver will be feasted on by flies
thy rectum will be filled with spikes
thy soul will be eaten alive
Succumb to the Filth
eatin' thy corpse
Thy spleen will burst
thy eyes will pop
thou thinks micheal jackson
is the king of pop
but it is iron maiden
so thou will die
thy guts will fly
thy brains will be feasted on by some guy in turkey
eatin' thy corpse
eatin' thy corpse
Thy liver will be ripped
thy hole will be sipped
thy cornhole shalt be excoriated
by a 1000 1000 windir fanatics
thy soul shalt die
thy musical tastes are awry
thy stupid nature
thy fucking faggotry
eatin' thy corpse
eatin' thy corpse"
Yeah... It's bad... But it wasn't really that serious of a cd.. But I had to write it... They pissed ME off... Musically it was really interesting..
I took old tracks of songs that I had leftover from that backup that I mentioned in the last chapter and found ones with no lyrics and used them to construct the new album. I then layered new synth and lead guitar tracks over them and improved the guitar. It was quite good when it came out.
The sound was quite evil sounding... Great melodies and keyboards... It was actually the most creepy cd ever recorded by Rancid Abomination till this point, and that includes 2001-2006 stuff as well.. I really liked the way it came out, it was well worth listening to... It had that evil vibe to it... Drums however sounded like complete crap...
Of course that got some stupid raptards to say that Rancid Abomination, MY black metal solo artist was rap. They even listed it as rap group on a rap list on twitter. So you know what I did, I fought back... I started trolling them to death.
I kept on getting UNWANTED Rap promoters, DJ's, Radio stations Bugging Rancid Abomination, which had a limited presence online at the time. They would not leave me alone. And every time I talked about Rancid Abomination, I got liked by rap fans. It was getting out of control....
I DIDN'T WANT THESE MORONS AS FANS!
They didn't know what good music is, and if rap fans started liking a Metal band it could be disastrous for keeping METAL fans to stay fans of the band. I didn't want people mixing Rancid Abomination's Far Superior to rap music with rap crap. It gives off the wrong message. So I fought back and declared Rap the enemy of Rancid Abomination. I set up moments to bash rap horribly. I kept on saying Rap is 10000000000000000000000000000000 times worse than what Rancid Abomination Writes, I trashed the people who followed RA thinking it was rap or otherwise, after I blocked them. I ended up with a huge ass blocklist after this... here it is for you people to see:
The devouring maybe the most evil cd done last year and in the last 2 years Rancid Abomination was around, thanks to lyrics like this:
"Succumb to the Filth
Wickedness implode thy brain
make thou suffer in eternal pain
Sick and disgusting thy flesh will rot
while thou burn in hell's fat pot
thy putrid flesh will boil and die
thy liver will be feasted on by flies
thy rectum will be filled with spikes
thy soul will be eaten alive
Succumb to the Filth
thy stupid gangsta filth of death
will be eaten till nothing is left
the clock on your chest
will implode inside leaving you dead
thy putrid flesh will boil and die
thy liver will be feasted on by flies
thy rectum will be filled with spikes
thy soul will be eaten alive
Succumb to the Filth
eatin' thy corpse
Thy spleen will burst
thy eyes will pop
thou thinks micheal jackson
is the king of pop
but it is iron maiden
so thou will die
thy guts will fly
thy brains will be feasted on by some guy in turkey
eatin' thy corpse
eatin' thy corpse
Thy liver will be ripped
thy hole will be sipped
thy cornhole shalt be excoriated
by a 1000 1000 windir fanatics
thy soul shalt die
thy musical tastes are awry
thy stupid nature
thy fucking faggotry
eatin' thy corpse
eatin' thy corpse"
Yeah... It's bad... But it wasn't really that serious of a cd.. But I had to write it... They pissed ME off... Musically it was really interesting..
I took old tracks of songs that I had leftover from that backup that I mentioned in the last chapter and found ones with no lyrics and used them to construct the new album. I then layered new synth and lead guitar tracks over them and improved the guitar. It was quite good when it came out.
The sound was quite evil sounding... Great melodies and keyboards... It was actually the most creepy cd ever recorded by Rancid Abomination till this point, and that includes 2001-2006 stuff as well.. I really liked the way it came out, it was well worth listening to... It had that evil vibe to it... Drums however sounded like complete crap...
Chapter 10 : Into hell and the Exploding Death of Christmas
Rancid Abomination would record it's 23'rd cd "Into Hell" in September 2016, approx. 10 years after it split up in 2006. This one was a lot different than old Rancid Abomination... Number 1, the sound was a lot less dark sounding. It sounded more like later Rancid Abomination stuff like CD 5 than the stuff done in 2003-2004. The delayed harmonies were all over it and they sounded great. But the added boost of finally doing a well produced Black Metal album was great too.. Over the years between Slaughtering Hypocrisy and this, my knowledge of Mixing Software and Effect plugins increased by 50x. I had a great guitar sound I could use thanks to Unleashing Vengeance work in 2013-2015, which all used Cortex Stack for the guitars. Cortex stack is brilliant. It's a virtual amp. Very customize able, even has a cabinet built in to improve the sound. The sound I used in cortex stack was highly overdriven and I loved it. Putting it into Rancid Abomination made it more of a melodeth styled thing but it worked...
My vocals however, were not the same. They were done when no one was home one sunday and they sounded HORRIBLE. The cd came out bad due to this and this alone. Too bad the music was quite awesome on this cd. I loved the way I wrote it. GREAT melodies were being used. It brought back the classic feel of RA Perfectly. If only the vocals were better...
The lyrics were hilarious. They were just like oldschool 2003 era Rancid Abomination stuff.. Here is a small sample of the song "Smelly Hell".....
"Smelly hell
Hell doth smell
The truth it compell
Fat assholes
Smelly hell awaiteth thee
First your dog will die
infested by maggots that will eat the eyes
then your cat will go psycho
eat your wife
Then the maggots on the crib
devour the baby as he is ruptured whole
then comes the devouring
your soul will be eateth tonight
in smelly hell
in smelly hell
in smelly hell
in smelly hell
you will not survive
munch munch munch dead baby (4x)
to the maggots the meat is tasty
yummy and juicy
as the baby rots in pain
we will eat it and your brains"
I took a month off in October to rest my vocal chords and enjoy Into Hell a lot. I came back in November to write what would be one of RA's Funniest Cd's ever "The Exploding Death of Christmas". I thought one day in November, that a really bad parody "Christmas CD" is what Rancid Abomination should do for XMAS. I wanted to do a horrible Anti-XMAS Festivity cd targeting
A) XMAS Cartoons
B) XMAS Carols
C) XMAS Crap like decorating the tree and similar stuff..
I ended up going the full monty on this one hence the title and songs like:
"Slaughtered Santa Sausage"
"The Exploding death of Christmas : Die little drummer boy!"
"Yuletide Anusfart"
"Pissing on the Christmas Tree"
"Shove your Christmas Carols up your ass"
It was a blast to record. It's the longest cd I've ever done for Rancid Abomination in tracks as well due to the slew of song remakes included on it.. I think it's like 17 tracks long... Overall the remakes stole the show. The original songs were slightly worse. I still liked them but the album didn't really feel like what a Rancid Abomination Album should feel like. The remakes helped a lot though to bring back classic tracks from the dead. See I kept an old backup of guitar tracks, drum tracks, etc, and I found a lot of old songs and redid them. It was worth it... Classics like Lycanthropia, Terrible Wickedness. I redid a lot of songs from scratch as well. Overall this cd was great... I started doing dark night time music videos as well for the songs on this cd... It was fun as hell to do them.
I did a lot of videos. Like 12 or so on my youtube channel. I always wore a sweatshirt jacket with a hood on to make me look like a cultist. I thought that was a cool touch... The videos came out great. It was a ton of fun making them. I always did them at night with all the lights turned off...
Overall this cd was great.... But the next cd would dwarf it totally... In fact until the next one Rancid Abomination didn't really sound like classic RA at all....
Enter.... The Devouring...
My vocals however, were not the same. They were done when no one was home one sunday and they sounded HORRIBLE. The cd came out bad due to this and this alone. Too bad the music was quite awesome on this cd. I loved the way I wrote it. GREAT melodies were being used. It brought back the classic feel of RA Perfectly. If only the vocals were better...
The lyrics were hilarious. They were just like oldschool 2003 era Rancid Abomination stuff.. Here is a small sample of the song "Smelly Hell".....
"Smelly hell
Hell doth smell
The truth it compell
Fat assholes
Smelly hell awaiteth thee
First your dog will die
infested by maggots that will eat the eyes
then your cat will go psycho
eat your wife
Then the maggots on the crib
devour the baby as he is ruptured whole
then comes the devouring
your soul will be eateth tonight
in smelly hell
in smelly hell
in smelly hell
in smelly hell
you will not survive
munch munch munch dead baby (4x)
to the maggots the meat is tasty
yummy and juicy
as the baby rots in pain
we will eat it and your brains"
I took a month off in October to rest my vocal chords and enjoy Into Hell a lot. I came back in November to write what would be one of RA's Funniest Cd's ever "The Exploding Death of Christmas". I thought one day in November, that a really bad parody "Christmas CD" is what Rancid Abomination should do for XMAS. I wanted to do a horrible Anti-XMAS Festivity cd targeting
A) XMAS Cartoons
B) XMAS Carols
C) XMAS Crap like decorating the tree and similar stuff..
I ended up going the full monty on this one hence the title and songs like:
"Slaughtered Santa Sausage"
"The Exploding death of Christmas : Die little drummer boy!"
"Yuletide Anusfart"
"Pissing on the Christmas Tree"
"Shove your Christmas Carols up your ass"
It was a blast to record. It's the longest cd I've ever done for Rancid Abomination in tracks as well due to the slew of song remakes included on it.. I think it's like 17 tracks long... Overall the remakes stole the show. The original songs were slightly worse. I still liked them but the album didn't really feel like what a Rancid Abomination Album should feel like. The remakes helped a lot though to bring back classic tracks from the dead. See I kept an old backup of guitar tracks, drum tracks, etc, and I found a lot of old songs and redid them. It was worth it... Classics like Lycanthropia, Terrible Wickedness. I redid a lot of songs from scratch as well. Overall this cd was great... I started doing dark night time music videos as well for the songs on this cd... It was fun as hell to do them.
I did a lot of videos. Like 12 or so on my youtube channel. I always wore a sweatshirt jacket with a hood on to make me look like a cultist. I thought that was a cool touch... The videos came out great. It was a ton of fun making them. I always did them at night with all the lights turned off...
Overall this cd was great.... But the next cd would dwarf it totally... In fact until the next one Rancid Abomination didn't really sound like classic RA at all....
Enter.... The Devouring...
Saturday, September 16, 2017
Chapter 9 : Rediscovering Rancid Abomination Music
So what made me want to Reform Rancid Abomination in 2016?
Well for starters, the music itself...
I had found among other things, an actual copy of Eternal hate and pestilence in an old 2003 backup I still had. I tried it by chance, and I loved it. I kept listening to that and other songs by Rancid Abomination for weeks. I asked Hitman213 to see if he could find anymore Rancid Abomination for me to listen to... He let me keep whatever I found... All he found was the Bleeding... So All I had left now for Rancid Abomination Albums that I did were EHAP, The Bleeding and a compilation of old 2001 songs redone in 2003 with 2003 vocals. That's it. That's 3 out of 22 cd's I had. I had 19 that I could never get back... I was desperate.
I tried several different things to get back RA stuff...
A) Tried loading data recovery programs and looking at my Old Mp3 player's files through them to try to recover old Rancid Abomination Mp3 songs from it. Never panned out no matter how good the software was, it failed.
B) Tried searching on Mp3 hosting sites to find files. Found none but songs I uploaded to soundcloud recently.
C) Tried to find my old mp3.com site for the band and use the wayback machine to recover mp3 files. Couldn't do that either because the wayback machine never even bothered archiving MY MUSIC. Pissed me off to no end... Since I deleted it because no one liked the stuff it was not available to search for...
None of that worked.... So you know what I did...
I reformed it to make new cd's....
That was my answer, make better ones...
It payed off.... . BIG TIME!
Since that fateful day in September 2016, Rancid Abomination has recorded 7 new cd's and they are all good but one. That's amazing. The final one I recorded was a few nights ago and it came out amazing. The quality of the newly written material was insane. So Insane that I think it's better than the old stuff..
But the amount of times I listened to RA Stuff I found in backups or in stuff given back by hitman213 was astonishing. I had over 1000+ plays by 1 month in of Rancid Abomination. It became my favorite band to listen to on last.fm in only 1 month! It dwarfed even Windir and that was amazing. Making new cd's helped a lot.
It was important that I reformed Rancid Abomination and got it back to normal. I had uploaded some of it to soundcloud but it never would do good there. In fact it would do pitiful there till I got it on Jamendo later. But getting back into it made me realize it was the best solo artist/band I have ever worked on. The melodies were insane. I also realized that it's style is unique among black metal bands which is cool...
I had to write new cd's for this. The music was amazing... Almost as amazing as what I would do in 2016 in September. That is for the next Chapter....
Well for starters, the music itself...
I had found among other things, an actual copy of Eternal hate and pestilence in an old 2003 backup I still had. I tried it by chance, and I loved it. I kept listening to that and other songs by Rancid Abomination for weeks. I asked Hitman213 to see if he could find anymore Rancid Abomination for me to listen to... He let me keep whatever I found... All he found was the Bleeding... So All I had left now for Rancid Abomination Albums that I did were EHAP, The Bleeding and a compilation of old 2001 songs redone in 2003 with 2003 vocals. That's it. That's 3 out of 22 cd's I had. I had 19 that I could never get back... I was desperate.
I tried several different things to get back RA stuff...
A) Tried loading data recovery programs and looking at my Old Mp3 player's files through them to try to recover old Rancid Abomination Mp3 songs from it. Never panned out no matter how good the software was, it failed.
B) Tried searching on Mp3 hosting sites to find files. Found none but songs I uploaded to soundcloud recently.
C) Tried to find my old mp3.com site for the band and use the wayback machine to recover mp3 files. Couldn't do that either because the wayback machine never even bothered archiving MY MUSIC. Pissed me off to no end... Since I deleted it because no one liked the stuff it was not available to search for...
None of that worked.... So you know what I did...
I reformed it to make new cd's....
That was my answer, make better ones...
It payed off.... . BIG TIME!
Since that fateful day in September 2016, Rancid Abomination has recorded 7 new cd's and they are all good but one. That's amazing. The final one I recorded was a few nights ago and it came out amazing. The quality of the newly written material was insane. So Insane that I think it's better than the old stuff..
But the amount of times I listened to RA Stuff I found in backups or in stuff given back by hitman213 was astonishing. I had over 1000+ plays by 1 month in of Rancid Abomination. It became my favorite band to listen to on last.fm in only 1 month! It dwarfed even Windir and that was amazing. Making new cd's helped a lot.
It was important that I reformed Rancid Abomination and got it back to normal. I had uploaded some of it to soundcloud but it never would do good there. In fact it would do pitiful there till I got it on Jamendo later. But getting back into it made me realize it was the best solo artist/band I have ever worked on. The melodies were insane. I also realized that it's style is unique among black metal bands which is cool...
I had to write new cd's for this. The music was amazing... Almost as amazing as what I would do in 2016 in September. That is for the next Chapter....
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