Hey all! I hope you’ve all been enjoying the new release “Alacrity” I did with my good buddies in Morke and Meadows of Melancholy. Their tracks are so sick and we had been working on this release since July of 2020. I would probably say these songs actually came together in the last year or so, but you know how it goes. You write some shit, then you hate it, then you listen again when you’re in a different headspace and all of a sudden it sucks more (or less!). Do this for a few years, then you release some music and then you get to do it again!
But for real, the two tracks I put on here are some of my favorite and I really had to push myself specifically for "Sirius the Hunter” which actually began life as “Hyperdrive”, which was just a Devin Townsend reference. I’ve been working on a bunch of other songs too for the next Grand Myth record (and technically the first real full length, but The Cabin clocks in at 27 minutes, a very fair length for some bands today!). Patience had been sitting on my hard drive for a while and really the whole thing was already written during Covid besides the vocals. I got the chorus in when I was still living in Connecticut and I originally had no intentions of rerecording the vocals that were already on the track, but I couldn’t help myself since I’ve grown quite a bit as a vocalist since those days. The vocals for Patience really came together in September over a single recording session. It was one of those times where I just needed to challenge myself to get it fucking done and I did.
Hyperdrive though, thats a whole different beast. Originally it wasn’t going to be this heavy or fast of a song. I’ve always wanted to do a post-rock song for The Grand Myth and I named the song Hyperdrive after the Devin Townsend track as a way to kind of push myself in that direction. At the same time, I had been really working up my speed again and was having a lot of success playing even more intricate stuff than usual and I also wanted to try some more interesting writing and production techniques, so I decided to just set the tempo in my DAW to 206 and see what happened. The song started coming together really fast, and I did make changes up until the very end of the recording process, but I left the solo section open for me to do something really cool with once I was ready. The guiding star for this song turned from a post-rock Devin Townsend rip off into my version of Coheed-meets-Black Dahlia Murder and I think I nailed that vibe really well. Another fun little thing is that during the bridge I make a reference to the first song I ever really learned on guitar, The Hell Song. The lyric “Now I realize” is my very small little nod to that song. I remember being so young and fucking up that solo so bad cause I didn’t even know how to play in time and it felt like a nice way to acknowledge the success of pushing myself so hard into writing what I think is the current definitive sound of The Grand Myth. As a last little aside, that run at the end of the solo was a lick I had been working on as a warm up and I just wanted to see if I could nail it at this speed, and I did!
I would love to hear what y’all think of the new songs and if this writing process is something you all would like to hear more about!
