Forsvunnet Filosofem is a Burzum tribute compilation organised by Marc Hoyland (Hoyland, Ethereal Forest, ...). release is planned for May 2012 in double cd format - one cd with ambient and the other with black metal songs (some original ambient songs will be recorded in bm style and vice versa).
this is the cover artwork for the next release. I have been working on completely new songs, meaning that the stuff I had talked about previously is again postponed...I just wanted to create completely new tracks, the old ones won't run away anyway. I'm still working on the song for the upcoming release, one song is finished as far as music is concerned and one song still needs a second guitar and bass and both songs lack vocals and even lyrics have to be written yet. I'm inclined to put only those two songs on the release, because they are really long and the album will still have a reasonable length with only those tracks. nevertheless I will most likely record some intro or interlude in the vein of previous ambient or instrumental tracks and probably some short uptempo track to add some aspect to the music that is actually important to me but had no space in the project until now (most of all because I wasn't able to play faster on the guitar). tracklist will follow when the titles have been fixed. expect this to come this year, but not too early...missing lyrics mean that I have to wait until I get some inspiration and i have no idea if that is before everything else is finished or far later. I'd go for a release in autumn/winter though.
Denied Sanctuary Xthe first album "Of Shattered Dreams..." will be sold by INFERNAL WAR magazine starting in january 2010. orders can be sent to me too, especially in austria it would be better for the price of postage is less than if it were sent from switzerland. Garden of Grief is still without a label, but Infernal War helps me to reach fans in other countries easier...
well, I have not posted any news for some time - because there actually were none. now I'm about to finish the lyrics for the last song for the 2nd release "The Last Days of the Sun" which will problably be ready early in 2010 depending on some things such as the decision to produce it myself again or to look for a label, the time it takes to get the booklet finished, getting the new logo ready and maybe producing some shirts or stuff...I'd better get everything in order before releasing the next album.
as I have said, the recording of the next album is nearly finished, so at the moment I'm working on new stuff again - songs for a possible 3rd release maybe later in 2010, possible splits with other bands and so on...the overall sound of GoG has already changed from the dark dry underproduced sound of the first album to a more natural guitar sound on the second album and will be developed to a more sophisticated darker sound in the future - thats what I'm currently working on. for future recordings I'll be switching between D# and A# tuning, which, in combination with major differences concerning effects and equalisation, provides a rather raw "typical" black metal sound and a wierd powerful sound. these differences lead to differences in composition, meaning that the overall style will change according to which sound I use for the songs. I'm looking forward to the writing process in the near future.
I have recently made a myspace profile:
I'm also looking for a band to release a split with! I have only the vocals left to record for my next album, and some other songs halfway finished too...there will be new material soon.
today I have finished the work on my latest song called "The Eternal Path of Sorrow". The lyrics are still missing, but I am currently working on that. I have uploaded the song without vocals here:
as you will notice, the soud of my new amp is extremely different...I didn't add any effects after recording and still it sounds as I think it should. This makes recording a lot easier for me and therefore I think I will be able to record my songs faster than before!
...I have recently noticed, that my amp - which I got together with my guitar from an aquaintance of mine - is in fact made for bass and not for guitar xDDD I would have never thought of that but now when you are aware of this fact, some previous difficulties in getting a sound without such dominant bass in it could have found their explanation...however, I will certainly keep this one for the really nice dry and powerful sound it produces. but in addition to that I will look for some real guitar amp this week because the inability to get some reverb or delay before recording has definitely pissed me off every once in a while. how these changes will have an effect on the upcoming recording process I don't know yet. I have thought of recording with a split-up cable, playing simultaneously with 2 amps, to get 2 identical guitar tracks which just have different sounds...but first of all I need to get some new stuff, technical aspects will be dealt with later
finally the release of the first GoG album "Of Shattered Dreams and Nostalgic Melancholy" has been possible. It's limited to 200 copies, all numbered by hand. total playing time is over 53min - 10 tracks.
for orders contact me: boronian@gmx.net (10€, shipping not included)
I'm currently on vacation in france and have nothing with me I could probably use for making music except a flute, ocarina and my laptop. so given to these limitations I have recorded two new songs. one will be the title track of the 2nd album, and the other one will also be part of that one, but also prepared the way for a new idea...the experimental style of that song actually fits in the concept of the last days of the sun album, yet, if I kept on making such stuff (which is likely for I am inclined to produce more fine songs like that one) the overall concept of GoG would not permit much more of this style to be released on future albums. after all GoG should still be depressive black metal, progressive if I am able to learn the songs I wanted to record for this project when i first had the idea, and raw and atmospheric until I can play them myself. well actually it will still be atmospheric then, and the sound will still be recogniseable as homerecordingfor sure, I'm just talking about my guitar playing skills...
so with this in mind I will do it as it was with Winterblast and GoG when there is one idea too much for a single project...I make two out of one!
in order to keep the style of GoG as depressive bm, I have to put the songs with this other, different style into a new project. as if I had wanted to prove the truth of a sterotype the idea for this all sprang to my mind when walking in the bois d'amour, a small glade not far away from here...neither grim nor cold it was there, it was just the time not doing anything else but walking that gave the impulse^^ my new project will be named "Kahvorahn" and I would probably call the overall style electronic black metal if you like. at least its based mainly on synths and percussion, drums and vocals. I won't use guitars, or at least I won't use them often, so the sound will be somehow synthetic, yet with an aggressive edge to it. When I accidentially hear some techno music oder something the like I always have the urge to remove that awful synth beat and lay some doublebass and blasts under the whole keyboard stuff and add some shirieking vocals after that. in fact I think if you did that to all music of that kind, then you could actually listen to most of it. it's indeed not far from symphonic black metal what I will create...it's just that I won't make black metal with classic instruments and then add synths to make it sound more epic but instead I make a song which you could listen to as it is then (if you are into dark electronic music), and then add the drums and vocals to make it sound more black metal. you will hear of that soon...
