Oh man the project is so different from my usual music and how I compose nowadays (acoustic, electro, classical, hip-hop and I find myself liking fusion jazz quite a lot). I'm pretty always playing and improvising (not improving!) instead of composing now. Anyway, I'd say the the core of the project was composed between the end of 2006 and early 2008, then worked on assembling stuff like Legos, borrowing riffs or solos from other Guitar Pro files (I made nearly a thousand between 2002 and 2008). And that's funny cause since then, I barely work with that at all anymore, and just compose straight in the DAW (or try to). Take "Slayer of Sin" for instance, the first 3 mintues were composed in 2005 in a 8 track machine then finished it 2 years later with Guitar Pro. I tabbed the first 3 minutes in Guitar Pro like 5 years later lol
But yeah, those are the tunes that I felt had a comon focus. Honestly I couldn't compose like that anymore either, especially now with responsabilities..kid/wife/house/job/school. I wanted to put it out at least, and try to leave it intact as it was composed back then. I used to say that I would quit playing metal after lol but of course it's not true.
Sorry for the long post ! Why didn't I record the tunes in 2008 ? Well back then I was still recording in "Windows XP Recorder", had MIDI instruments from Guitar Pro, didn't anything about mixing or a DAW. Tried a few/slowly learned then settled with Reason in 2010 and Reaper in 2012 (I use both). Then I tried many different ways of working on the album, tried to be organized but failed lol... until recently when I decided to record everything into a single session in the DAWs. Is it a fail, I dunno.. a damn loss of time I'd say. But I'll be geared for my next projects with mistakes not to repeat (that would be another long post if I had to devellop haha).
I listened to your stuff man and it is quite awesome/varied. I can see what you mean by trying differant things
I bookmarked your soundcloud
