Originally posted by Ghost Tears
Also the other song "Empire Torn" reminds of the lyrics in one of Emperors songs dont remember the name though but he sings " an empire torn apart" Do you have any influences by Emperor at all?
hehehehehe, I guess maybe Emperor influence me slightly.
The song with the lyric you speak of comes from an amazing song called "The Erruption" from my fave album of all time.... "Prometheus the Discipline Of Fire and Demise".
I originally wanted to call the song "The Empire Torn", the other guys said they like the way "An Empire Torn" sounded off the tongue.
I didn't mention that alternative, it was them..... and this was at a stage where I was basically the only one who knew Prometheus.
But still, even with my original title... "The Empire Torn", it was a title that could easily be worked into the lyrical concepts that we deal with, while at the same time allow me to pay homage and say goodbye to my favourite band.
Now, a couple of notes.
In regards to the comments about the vocals I thought it only fair I explain a bit more about how they were done, and what our aims were with them.
Unthroned has experienced a lot of turmoil getting to this point over the course of the last 3 and a half years or more.
I have only just completed my line up not quite a year ago. And many of the original songs got scrapped and we started from scratch as this new band, with the new line up, with a new team of creative writers. Not just me and me alone! Which is what I wanted.
Now because there was so much change going on, it made it virtually impossible for Luke(our singer) to keep coming to rehearsals and keep up with all the change going on around him.
So he basically had about a 2 year stint where he didn't sing at all, and we worked our asses off trying to complete material for us to be able to bring him back and get him singing again.
Now, these demo's have only been recorded for the sole purpose of having a good document for another recent member of the band to learn the material by. And also so we can play around and experiment so we know exactly what we want to do come album time.
They have all been done very quickly, the guitars sound flabby cause it's all still direct recorded onto a $40 soundcard, even though there was some better gear being used this time round in terms of distortion and effects e.t.c.
Now, Luke has only basically been back in the rehearsal room with us each sunday for about the last 3 months or so. Definately no longer than that.
All his lyrics are in very rough first draught stages, and very much incomplete.
What you hear on this demo recording is Luke laying down vocals after drinking about 3/4 of a bottle of home distilled scotch(that was my fault) and just having fun with the songs experimenting around getting ideas, and finding his voice again.
Only a small portion of what you hear on the song is actual lyrical content. The rest of it is basically all random phrasing having fun and giving us an idea of what we want vocal wise on the end result.
Two vocal tracks were recorded, one more low, one more high which is where you would hear a little bit of that crazy demonic sounding vocal style. It's the 2 tracks colliding with one another.
We wanted to document both vocal styles so we could see which we prefer for which bit of the song, and also if we might like a low and high at the same time in some bits of the song.
But basically, as with all our demo's. It was just for the purposes of documentation, learning, and experimentation.
So I guess what I'm saying is, on the album the vocals could be completely different again. We just don't have a firm plan yet. It's still to early.
Also keep in mind that it wasn't just us that Luke had not done singing with for 2 years. It was no siging at all for that period. So it's only just all started up again for him recently.
Thank you again to everyone who has taken the time to download the song.
It's interesting for both me and Dave and probably everyone else in the band that everyone seems to prefer "An Empire Torn", as we all feel Tortured is a bit stronger.
But at the same time, when I think about the whole idea of "An Empire Torn" being the catchy pop song on the album then I guess it's a matter of the original plan to make it a bit infectious, or memorable is working.
I also think though, that maybe when the album comes out if any of you decide to buy the album a song like "An Empire Torn" might be the first to become an early favourite, but will probably also be the first to loose it's novelty and lasting power as some on this forum might refer to it. Which is definately the way it is designed. That song and "Tortured Existence" are more kind of appetisers for the other songs. Designed to hopefully get people into them, but then hopefully make them more hungry for the other songs and what they have to offer.
But in my eyes, if someone likes just one Unthroned song it's a happy day for me. I love all our songs, so if somebody else likes just one I can't really ask more than that.
Anyway, I hope I have helped make a few more things clearer about the bands aims, and the aims of these demo's.
Thanx again, Trent.
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