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Lamentations

by Muggle Death Camp

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Here's my first dabbling into Depressive Suicidal Black Metal. I have a lot of admiration for guys that put that sort of music together: Depressive Years, Xasthur, Happy Days, Make a Change: Kill Yourself, The Hanging Garden, End... the list goes on and on of great artists in the genre. I see this as more of tribute than actually being indicative of the style.

The lyrics are what they are. They're more personal than what I typically put on MDC material.

(Nerdy shit ahead!) I knew going in that I wasn't going to nail that DSBM aura, so I was liberal with adding my own twists. For one thing, I love that wailing vocal sound, but I just can't pull that off, so this is more of a traditional black metal vocal with a lot of reverb to make it sound like it was recorded in a well. I also busted out the 8-string for this. As much as I love down-tuned music, I don't like going too low down on the F# string, so my way around this is tune it down to E so it's an octave below what is normally the lowest string on a six-string. I stole the idea from Tosin Abasi. This sort of harmonization means that in avoiding using the low-end too much, it forces me out of my comfort zone with the rhythmic drop-tuned bar chords and makes writing more melodically the only logical solution. This tuning is also why there's such a djenty-style break toward the end. The bass remained in standard tuning this time around so that when the guitar does dip into that low-E string, the bass works in the same octave Meshuggah-style.

A lot of the same gear from the last album was used for this single. As with "Seven Murders", I was going for an intentionally lo-fi sound.
Alesis DM10 for drums
Akai MPC1000 for sequencing, composing, tracking guitars, and playing the synth parts
Schecter Damien Elite 8
Schecter Raiden 5 (I fucking love those split-coil pickups)
Marshall VS100 (painfully underrated hybrid amp with a tube preamp)
Carvin R600 for bass (love this amp, but rarely use it in a track, so that was nice.)
Zoom 505 and 506 processors for boosting guitar and bass amps respectively.
Zoom 9150 as a mic preamp
Behringer microphone.
Roland VS890 for recording, additional reverb, and mastering effects

The image I threw on this is a piece of fan art someone online did for the band. It made me giggle so I used it.

Thanks for reading this far! Another MDC album is projected sometime within the next year or two!

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*CENSORED*

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released December 19, 2015
Jim Wicked - He does the thing.

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