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...
