GoG on myspace

I have recently made a myspace profile:

check it out!

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.

Walking the Eternal Path of Sorrow...

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:

The Eternal Path of Sorrow

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!

new amp & recording

fortunately I was able to get a new amp, small but enough for my purpose. I have now finished a new song - yet untitled and without lyrics - and finished the recording of drums. the track is now about 22min long which means that recording the guitars could take some time. I will probably start recording the first guitar tomorrow and try to get as far as possible without making any mistakes I can't deal with when mastering the song later.  when I have finished the work on this track I will have to decide what to do with it. either it will be put on the next album, replacing another shorter track (which would make the whole album complete), or I could also try to find some band to release a split with and put either that track on it or - in case of using it for the next album - the shorter one that I could replace with this long song. hard to describe because I have not been able to think of some titles for the last 2 or 3 songs that I had made...damn it, just too much music and no lyrics in my mind at the moment...

LOL!

...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

another day of recording

after managing some major problems with the sound of the second guitar the new song is eventually finished. yet there are lyrics and title missing...I shall put my mind on that task soon. I'm a bit concerned about the fact that I don't even have the slightest idea of what the lyrics could be about or how to name that track. I will listen to it some times and hope that I find words for the atmosphere created by the music...

motivation!

today I've started recording another track for the next album. there is still no title as well as there are no lyrics for that song but the recording of the guitars should be finished by tomorrow evening. maybe I try some synths too, but I think the song would also be good enough without. just a difference in style after all - I shall decide that when the vocals are finally done...i should probably go to bed now (after messing around with the winterblast homepage - took me some time to make it actually work the way I wanted it to) in order to have a chance of waking up near midday or so...I bid you all good night, hails!

...thoughts

a day like many others, yet different - a weird sense of perfection finally establishes itsself within the dephts of my mind...still there is a shadow of doubt constantly nagging at the border of the conscious mind, a constant fear of nameless tragedies that might come and go, leaving the world behind shattered and broken, all dreams burnt to the ground. there is no way to escape the future other than waiting for all answers, manipulating the course of events as best as you are able to. I think I will problably go to bed soon - no sense in pondering all night long for there's a new day on the rise, new tasks and wonders, adventures and risks. after all I wonder how things were if everything was as it should be. no more hope that it can get any better then? or would it just be a state of mind where you say well that could last forever and be happy with that? In fact I tend to believe that it's more the second choice after all yet I can't imagine where all the inspiration would come from if not from even the least suffering...in times of utter happyness I can always feel most ideas drained from me...however, it's best to always have a plan but never rely on it. according to that I'm well prepared for anything that might happen within the next few days, maybe weeks. with Blutklinge's "Ghost II" my playlist for today comes to an end and in a few minutes time I will then really go to bed, looking forward to the upcoming events, hoping for a twist in fate without losing my inspiration for further lyrical pleasures. in the end it will have to be that way that you can still feel the gloom of the past when necessary for creating the atmosphere needed for my songs in the future. after all the foreordained path leads out of the darkness, probably not into the light, at least not in what most people would say that "light" has to be like. after all the person will remain unchanged to the eye yet the state of mind of the subject is a different one. after all there is still a perfect life in this world of despair...a new era begins

Of Shattered Dreams...OUT NOW!!!

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)

another part for the album

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...

...till the bitter end!

recording goes on, and the next album is coming soon.
"The last Days of the Sun" will contain at least two songs different in style from what can be heard on the first release. I think I will be able to finish the work on this album until autumn and start to work on a third album for 2009 afterwards.

there is also the idea for a split with lunar mystique, yet there has to be some new records which I will participate in on the drums once again. when this will take place is not fixed yet.

orders for "Of Shattered Dreams and Nostalgic Melancholy" can be sent to boronian@gmx.net
I will try to get some shirts soon, so if anyone is already intresded in such stuff I will keep you requests in mind!

Of Shattered Dreams and Nostalgic Melancholy

I have finally finished the work on my album...
it is called "Of Shattered Dreams and Nostalgic Melancholy" and will contain the tracks:

1. The Spirit of the Wasteland - Introduction to a Shattered Dream
2. Shadows of Doubt
3. Emotional Void
4. Into the vale of Dreams (Denied Snactuary part I)
5. Traum ohne Hoffnung
6. The Nebulous Entity of Love (Denied Sanctuary part II)
7. The Bitter End

and 3 alternative versions of some songs
I have already finished the artwork and soon the CD will be available

hails!

and another part is released

ok today I recorded all vocals for my new song...here comes:

The Nebulous Entity of Love (Denied Sanctuary part II)

so enjoy listening...hails!

thinking of nothing at all...

wow...again it's deep in the night and I'm wide awake, at least I didn't recognize that time was passing by that fast this evening...first I had been occupied with cutting and mixing the 2nd guitar recorded today, then I had been busy listening to the outcome of the last 2 days work, and finally I had spotted some part needing additional mastering. Inbetween establishing and keeping up some social contacts via the internet, had taken that much time that finally this site of mine got again too little attention. well now I have already started writing yet don't quite know what I wanted to say...indeed I had no major reason to start writing anyway. as well as there is no major reason to do many other things which are done despite of the fact that they are lacking a reason. I notice that finally the incense stick has burned down completely, leaving a unnoticable smoke only to be recognized when someone would enter the room from the fresh air on the other side of the door. Abyssic Hate sounds out of my headphones completing the laid-back atmosphere and a glance at my mobile phone assures me of the fact that none has showed interest in my presence lately - a fact both reassuring and distractive. distractive because my mind drifts away as soon as I start thinking about whom I would have expected to do so at nearly 5 am on a night between thursday and friday...who the fuck should actually have called me or wrote a message to me in the last hours? I find myself thinking about whose message I probably had wanted to see, yet dismissing the idea before it can drive me in some sort of useless depression commonly resulting out of silly "could be", "should be", "will be" ideas at 5:00 in the morning. I'm reading again what I have already written by now, not sure if it was better to just stop it and get some sleep at last, or continuing writing until I come to a conclusion about whatever...I wonder if it is fatigue that's overwhelming me or some unconcious fear of what any "conclusion" might be about or look like, but I'm more inclined to go to bed instead of proceeding the whole thinkery. highly emotional brain masturbation you could call it...or just the daily madness inflicted on us, the thinking about possibilities and plans, making new plans which will probably be thrown away soon afterwards, dismissing old plans and concepts and stuff like that. it will be a fine day tomorrow...or today, depending on how you see it. to me it's always tomorrow when I go to bed inbetween. that takes away the recognition of the fact that you sleep half of the next day and it lets you keep the illusion of having a regular succession of being awake and sleeping. tomorrow is the right time. there is a text left to be written...

demo part I

here comes the first part of my coming demo...I have re-recorded Spirit of the Wastelands as well as Shadows of Doubt. Into the Vale of Dreams will be the 3rd song for this release, part II will come soon afterwards. At the moment I have little time to proceed in recording, at least there is no time at all to start one of the really long songs I had planned for my first full lenght album...

so here are the next songs for the demo:

The Spirit of the Wastelands

Shadows of Doubt

as soon as I have finished the next songs, you can find them either here, or on Garden of Grief's lastfm site

again...recording

recording continues...

this wednesday I will again re-record some of the songs, this time more professional and hopefully with a better sound quality. I have recorded a little introduction maybe to be extended in the next recording session:

The Spirit of the Wastelands - Introduction to a Shattered Dream

its a song without vocals by now, but maybe there will be some singing on a probably longer version by the end of the week. also within this week the drum recording for Lunar Mystique should take place. this will be almost the last step towards the release of our split cd...

the next step forward

another song goes online...you can now download "Into the Vale of Dreams" here:

Into the Vale of Dreams (Denied Sanctuary part I)

I actually think that I could make the flute a somewhat constant part of garden of grief. by now it has proved to be a nice addition to the atmosphere so it will appear on some further records for sure. enjoy listening and don't kill yourselves before you have bought a cd, a shirt and in addition to that have at least 10 other people told to do so ;)

Re-Recording

Today I spent some time in re-recording Emotional Void. I added synths and flute as well as an introduction to the song.

here you can download the new version of the song:
Emotional Void

art!

finally...neither planned nor professional, but indeed a recording...I had been waiting for some inspiration for quite a long time, never being able to get into the right mood for making authentic lyrics or music for garden of grief but today I just took the guitar and started recording about 2 hours and here it is, the first demo of garden of grief:

Emotional Void

enjoy listening to the first output of my new project...it may lack skill, but its an deeply emotional song, just something I had to do because of a sudden change of my state of mind yu might say...

the high art of negativity

after some time organizing and writing music as well as lyrics for my band winterblast, I have already a few ideas which do not fit in the concept of the band. either because of the instruments used or just according to the overall style. as I am the vocalist on stage with winterblast I would also prefer playing no songs with my band where there are minutes of no singing at all in them. after all I have chosen to put all those ideas in another project: Garden of Grief

first of all I improve my playing the guitar in order to manage the recording of some songs without major help from others. I will be responsible for all vocals, drums and synths and some parts of the guitars - there will be someone to play the bass, as well as some guest musicians for occasional live shows that might be coming up in the future.

but what is Garden of Grief all about? technically speaking the songs are all depressive suicidal black metal in some way, yet with a progressive edge. I have not yet decided about how to sing on these tracks but it will definitely be somewhat different from my screaming in the band. the first set of songs are finished by now and will be recorded as soon as possible, meaning when I am able to play them. these tracks are:
    1. Volunteer...(for Euthanasia)
    2. Across the Plains of D'ara-Khun
    3. Mourning the Fallen
    4. Return to Na'Thaar Keep
    5. The Horizon of my Dreams
tracks 1 and 5 won't be part of any story, but 2-3 refer to the upcoming winterblast album "arcane inferno". they are set a long time after the plot of the album, having a darker atmosphere than arcane inferno by far. although these songs are related to a big story, the most important aspect is still the emotional crisis, not the plot itsself. Garden of Grief is about the meaning of life and death in different situations, the worth of those two entities, ways to escape and reasons for not doing such. It's about dead ends in life, also from a 3rd person's point of view (as it is in the 1st track "Volunteer...") which is a strange contrast to the firsthand expieriences of depression that might come up in other songs sometimes. with Garden of Grief I will definitely try to advance futher in that topic first introduced in the songs of "arcane inferno". the power out of negativity is an idea that evolved over the last 2 years, being the product of some nights' research within the depths of my mind combined with the common madness inflicted on us by life itsself. the more aggressive atmosphere of Winterblast won't allow me to concentrate on the negative emotional part of this idea, but that is exactly the gap that Garden of Grief is supposed to fill. it is the epic vision of the void within ourselves when lost in despair yet also a strange delight resulting out of that. Winterblast represents the power resulting out of the acceptance and enjoyment of this void...I personally think that this was the shortest explanation of the meaning of my two projects without a major lack of accuracy that I'm able to give at the moment.

there are still some lyrics to be finished...by now I can't tell much about intentions behind the songs or something. in the following I would rather post whenever there are some news according the overall progress of Garden of Grief.