Recent content by SubjectRuin

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    Visual Song Structures

    You're right, I definitely got carried away with the visual/artistic aspect of the thing, but it was really designed more for inspiration and general ideas rather than strict musical notation.
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    Visual Song Structures

    A while back I experimented with a way to represent music visually, as opposed to traditional music notation. For my recent concept album project, I tried to re-work this idea into a more usable form and came up with some interesting structures. They're basically schematics that outline the song...
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    The Dreamer's Paradox - A Free Prog Album

    The Dreamer's Paradox is a free Progressive Metal I recently completed. It is an instrumental concept album combining the subjects of dreams with the colission of fantasy and reality. It starts off with an overture that summarizes the musical themes of the album and then explores them...
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    Chronological Experiments in Audiology - A Good Idea?

    Why don't you visit my website and download my full-length album for free, or sign up for the newsletter for my upcomming album before you go around throwing wildly unbased accusations at me about not writing "proper songs". You remind me of some kind of conservative fundamentalist: "The...
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    Chronological Experiments in Audiology - A Good Idea?

    I'm thinking about starting a project (dare I call it... a BLOG?!) where every new update would be a short, experimental mini-song. I'm talking like a 30 second forray into the world of experimental audio, each one trying out a new style or innovative concept. Some would be very musical and...
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    Crossing the Threshold

    This is an instrumental version of a song from my upcomming album, The Dreamer's Paradox. I'm trying to fine tune it before I begin recording vocals, so I could use some critiques. I think you'll all enjoy the style of this piece. Give it a listen and tell me what you think! More music can be...
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    special life moments and Symphony X

    I lost my virginity with Communion and the Oracle playing softly in the background.
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    Anomalous Material - Free Prog Album

    Thanks for checking it out, glad you guys liked it. Elaborate?
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    Anomalous Material - Free Prog Album

    Any prog fans will probably appreciate this. I posed one of these songs on this board a while back and got some interested listeners. You can download the entire album for free now, sixteen songs including one 15-minute epic. I reccomend The Arist, The Sage, and The Jester but Exordium is...
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    Anomalous Material

    Any prog fans will probably appreciate this. You can download the entire album for free, sixteen songs including one 15-minute epic. I reccomend The Arist, The Sage, and The Jester but its a huge file. http://www.subjectruin.net/Music.htm
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    Anomalous Material - Creative Commons

    I've recently written and produced an entire album of progressive metal and released it under a Creative Commons License. This basically means that my entire album is up to download for free off my website and might interest progressive fans who listen to bands such as Dream Theater and Symphony...
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    15 Minute Prog Epic

    Thanks a lot for the positive reviews and helpful criticism, I definately appreciate it. Arglebargle, here is the hig quality version of the song as it appears on the album: http://s21.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=22GE6FK2GQKPS2GEUHJG5SQK05 !Aviso! I'll fire off an e-mail to you in a bit, as I have...
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    NEW Cryptopsy...

    satanicnugz, that is the craziest fucking sig i've ever seen
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    Happy Birthday, MetalChick!!!

    This is perhaps the lamest thing I ever saw in a HEAVY FUCKIN' METAL internet thingie.
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    15 Minute Progressive Epic

    Haha, bloody righteous.