July 3, 2024
“Ring ring ring! Ring ring ring! Phone call! Phone call!” (Major nerd props if you know what TV show that comes from lol)… “When the devil Calls” is the track I finished THIS WEEK! You can download it on its lore page here.
I started this post with the nerdy phrase from Pokemon (did you guess that already? Ya NERD! Jk…) I’m a poke-nerd myself so no judgement ;) The reason I started out that way though was because I decided to add an old rotary phone telephone sound bite in the devil calls song.
It’s heard after the first chorus and then if you don’t skip the song right at the end, you’ll hear it come back and then the call gets ANSWERED and an echoey breath is heard.
This song is going to lead right into the song “The Reckoning” with the line “I’m the lore, I’m the myth, I’m a force to be reckoned with” is heard at the beginning of that song. The idea being that whoever answered the call at the end of “When the devil Calls” is supposed to be saying that first line in “The Reckoning”.
Is it the devil that answers? Is it someone or something else? That’s up to YOU the listener :) I like to try to leave things open to interpretation so the song can bring the listener whatever it is they’re looking for.
Today I spoke with James my friend in LA who is re-recording his vocals for Shadow Light. As soon as I receive those I can drop them into the song, record Sarah’s line, then maybe mix some vocal doubles of my own voice throughout and that one is done!
On Saturday, Rose Reed will be coming in to sing her parts on The Reckoning, then I’ll just re-mix what I have and that one will be done too!
Lastly with this last month and a week I’ll be focusing on the three movement finale song at the end of the record. All of it is sketched out already and part III is basically done. All together it’s about 10+ mins of one fluid song that is divided up in three parts so hoping it will be simple enough to finish in time for my self-imposed birthday deadline. It’s stressful yet nice to have a deadline at the same time because without one I sit on songs for two long before they feel ready enough to my standards to let loose in the wild lol. A lot of the songs on this album have sat on the back burner long enough though so I’m really looking forward to having them out there.
Anyway that’s all I have for this week! By this time next week hopefully you’ll have two more songs from the album buzzing in your ear drums 🤘🏻