Andy Sneap
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I have no desire to be sat in a room for 12 - 14 hrs aday listening to something I don't get / enjoy / relate too.
Why does'nt Andy due Deathmetal?
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RemoWilliams
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Better yet, how often do you get bands of the death metal, deathcore, or techy death metal persuasion asking you to mix and or master their albums, aside from what we have heard done with Job for a Cowboy and Despised Icon? Heck, I often wonder if a progressive metal band has ever asked you to lend a hand in either just cleaning up some stuff or mixing something.
Its good to hear you'd rather put forth your effort into projects you enjoy and feel rather then not really getting into the bands music and just going thru the motions of recording them.
Chryst Krispies
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Andy Sneap
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Ive had alot of bands ask me to work with them that I havent, either due to schedule or taste. You'd be surprised but I'm not going to start listing bands.
Youpimatin
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He does what he likes, that's it !
And yes, Arch Enemy has a pop songwrting (mostly in the structures) with a Death metal sound and/or feeling...
And yes, Arch Enemy has a pop songwrting (mostly in the structures) with a Death metal sound and/or feeling...
kaomao
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seriously andy, do you work 12-14 hours a day?
oh god my eyes would be bleeding.
Working as a computer programmer for 8 years now and my eyes are kinda weak compared to years ago.
I don't imagine how could it be working in front of a monitor for 12-14 hours a day..
kaomao
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That's not pop songwriting, that's just how a song should be written.
Most of extreme bands just glue together a thousand riffs in a non-sense logic to prove they're not "pop" and then the result is pure shit....
LSD-Studio
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I think 12-14hrs a day is pretty common in this business (I'm doing the same...yesterday I tracked for 17hrs straight, it's a minimum of 10hrs a day).
engineers/producers just get fucking raped.....deadlines, clients, labels.....
engineers/producers just get fucking raped.....deadlines, clients, labels.....
I'd agree with you, but around here a "verse/chorus/verse/chorus/bridge, etc." song is considered "pop" structure, as in popular rock music.
I live it, I love it. I've never had a problem telling people who ask about my band how we write songs. I tell them my goal is to write a metal pop song. If people laugh at this, I don't care. Refining structure and getting a handle on it - to me - is as much an art as any other process in writing music, and I think a lot of metal bands concentrate so much on riffs that the concept of structure is of no concern...Or they purposefully avoid structure in the manner you describe (to prove their non-poppness, lol). I grew up on pop song structure, and that's what I like and others can identify with.
But, I digress.
Andy, you should do death and black metal!!!!!!! :Smug:
Skinny Viking
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Yes thats how we all do it. I rarely go over 14 hours unless its some crazy crunch time. The creativity and quality of work suffers on most hours over 12 in my opinion.
Raped is actually a light word for the hours we work haha. Usually 7 days a week for 4 weeks or more as well.
Machinated
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Yeah, at 12 hours I start to lose the plot a bit (as does everyone else), but as the musicians change round every couple of hours its a little easier on them. Working everyday of the week can be really savage too on everyone, just as you are surrounded by the same people 24/7. Sometimes I like to get bands up and running with things, so we can take breaks if you need to at some point in the week, and then tidy stuff up later. In a 12 hour day I'll usually take 1 hour off for lunch and thats it.
Thanks for answering the question Andy, I still think it would kickass to hear Nile with your style
Youpimatin
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Andy has done the 1st album of Hecate Enthroned (BM).
Kaomao, just listen to Death (or Arsis or Decrepit Birth or Daath or "666 international" by Dodheimsgard) and tell me if it's pure shit...
Kaomao, just listen to Death (or Arsis or Decrepit Birth or Daath or "666 international" by Dodheimsgard) and tell me if it's pure shit...
Djabthrash
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good death metal bands with good drummers do not require much blastbeat fixing.
Black neon bob
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True.. i had one band that have a drummer who will do it right almost straight in the studio.. pretty cool like.
But bands who have drummers who really cant do blastbeats THAT well seem to be growing fast.
i spend 8 hrs at work in front of a computer, then at least 4 at home working on productions and such afterwards. then i beat off to porn!!!!! thats another solid 15 mins of concentration on a computer screen!!!
Djabthrash
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Sure, especially in those times of "i want our band to do sound like All Shall Perish /The Black Dahlia Murder / Suicide Silence / Whitechapel".
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