Back in July 2016 Unleashing Vengeance was thrown out the window and disbanded. Not a good sign. All my other bands were gone. So I formed a new one. This one was actually quite good. I called homicidal hammerfist. It was a real band like Unleashing Vengeance, hell it had the same members. And it did instrumental only metal, not just Instrumental only metal though, it did Instrumental only Blackened Power Metal. Quite a huge change to my sound I was doing.
Blackened Power metal.... Hard as hell to do. But it was challenging to pull off. Mixing the two is a lot of hard work. I chose to take evil keyboards from Symphonic Black Metal and lay that over power metal styled riffage with Delayed Harmonies over it. That made it sound almost like Rancid Abomination without vocals, but it was noticeably less evil. The sound did change a lot. Some cd's were way more evil sounding than others... 6 cd's were done. The first was not blackened power metal but blackened melodeth. The rest are blackened power metal though.. Pretty much all of these cd's are good to listen to if you like power metal. Sounds a bit different but still it's still power metal.
So now you can add Power metal to the list of metal subgenres I've written! Hell I wrote power metal in 2001 for Rancid Abomination and it came out fine. This was no different but it was cool...
But the next sideproject I did was in September 2016. It was a two man band named Dismembered September. It was not blackened power metal but Blackened Thrash. It was quite brutal at first, being so heavy it destroys all I've ever done in the heaviness department. It was inspired by the blackened thrash Unleashing Vengeance did in 2002 which was good. It was also quite short lived, only doing things in September 2016. Later on it went atmospheric black metal for one cd...
That one cd was a concept album about the Heretic and Hexen Games. I had to shift the music around for this, doing blackened thrash for it didn't make much sense.. So Instead I did Summoning inspired Atmospheric Black metal with medieval elements thrown in. That fit Heretic and hexen to a tee. It didn't really do great but it was cool..
So now you can add Atmospheric Black metal to the list of subgenres I've written!
These 2 sideprojects were quite short lived, only existing for 1 year or less. They are both broken up now... But they're sound sounds a lot like Rancid Abomination, so doing them made me want to bring RA back bad... I did later. But for now 2016 will be remembered as the year of Homicidal Hammerfist because that music was the best I've written in years... Both had pretty good sound but the production for Dismembered September sucked... It got a little bit better in 2017 when I did 2 albums then but not great...
