4. "Filler song", just one of the song you don't know where else to put.
Why put it there at all?
6 kickass songs >> 12 songs of which 6 are filler
Many times, I first consider which songs I feel that sound like album beginning material, then which songs sound like album ending material, and then that leaves the middle songs
Then I consider those three parts as "EPs", and make each really fitting. At this point, it could look like this:
1. Beginning song A
2. Beginning song B
3. Beginning song C
4. Middle song A
5. Middle song B
6. Middle song C
7. Ending song A
8. Ending song B
9. Ending song C
And for my own upcoming full length, the songs are divided like this:
1. Energetic, quite fast, with a catchy chorus, no slowdowns
2. Dark, driving, slightly slower, very low notes mostly, slightly experimental riffs, exploding end with buildup
3. Straight to a body moving 4/4 beat, dark melody, a couple of half-tempo interludes, mostly very forward-going
4. A different kind of mood, more keyboard-oriented, melodic chorus, hard-hitting industrial breakdown
5. Directly to an extremely intense black metal piece that barely lets you off, ice-cold with eerie dark melodies
6. Slightly slower black metal, more melodic chorus, modulates one semitone lower in the end, intensifies towards the end
7. Industrial D-beat, very different in mood, also somewhat fast, lots of orchestral swells to bring the haunt
Like driving through a thunderstorm that starts to break up near the end, and shows a bit of sunshine...
8. ...only to lead to the most depressing sounding song of the album
Very slow doom metal with a very dark mood, haunting and dynamic until the keyboard conclusion
9. Outro track, completely electronic, a mixture of dark ambient and electronica, dark and unnerving - whispers, haunting noises and experimental dark harmonies
