15/06/16

Black Metal Army of the Seven Nations

Black Metal Army of the Seven Nations

This got started sometime in fall last year, can't remember exactly when. I had the base of the sound done beforehand because I was working on another black metal song.
The initial sound isn't so kvlt, but I liked it, so I worked some (black) magic in Podium.

The sound you hear is the result of shitloads of VSTs. There's first Grease Tube on the guitars and bass. Guitars are "tight and compressed" as the settings say in the plugin. The bass is complete opposite, being "open and crisp" with "far" mic placement that gives it depth and even more bass.
Drums are layered with my presets in 50rcery, which I've come to conclusion, is a compressive multiband EQ. :D
Then in Podium I put some more compression on the drums and EQ on the bassdrum. For the EQ I Boosted 60Hz, 500Hz and 2kHz.
But the real black magic came from the 50rcery in the master channel with most boost on low-mids and treble.

Mostly this is just me trying to remember what I did as most of the parts of the song were already made last year. Today I mostly just made some re-arranging and re-working the parts already done. The only new thing from scratch was the solo. At first I had no idea what to do with it, but after a while I got the idea of using bass on it. But the bass I used on the song already didn't work on that, so I got the other sample set I usually use in my songs.
Then it was just decision of what to do with the sound. But that wasn't a big problem, because the answer to life and everything in the universe if FUZZ! I just put Face Bender on it, tweaked it to perfection and went with it. At first I thought to follow the original solo, but then again since I don't do it with the riffs either I just intrepreted it. It sounded wicked in the tracker already and propably not in a good way, but I wanted to make it just outrageous so I put some phaser and reverb on it in Podium and the rest is history. :D

I finished the song after the solo because I felt like it had nothing more to offer. So here you go, a quick and dirty explanation of a quick and dirty raped song.