I love the sound of Strat and Tele neck pickups. The single coil tucked way up
where the 24th fret would be produces such a glorious tone,
which is unfortunately rare in today’s metal music.
When I first got my Agile Sentinel 7-string Strat way back in 2010 or something,
I immediately started playing stuff that sort of sounded like Rage Against the
Machine and Soundgarden.
I then started toying around with the idea of covering Meshuggah’s
“Straws Pulled at Random” since it struck me how
such a moving rhythm can take on a different
character with a different guitar tone.
It took a few years, and I only recorded
the end section, but here we are.
This is somewhat of a preview for some of the aesthetics I hope to achieve with
the 6th track on Synchronized Seasoning,
i.e., a 22-fret single coil neck pickup tuned to drop-G#, not palm-muted.
That tune should be out before the end of the decade.
Art, entertainment, cultural cohesion, cutting rugs,
radical prehistoric themes, sex, drugs, and wannabe jazz;
the third track from
from Synchronized Seasoning,
“Cliff Walker” has it all.
It’s obviously a bit of a sequel to
“Cliff Driver”,
but from a different (perhaps more mature) perspective.
Following what seems to be a disturbing pattern,
“Eigenvalue”, the second track from
Synchronized Seasoning took way too long to
finish. In fact, I’m now almost 30 years old, and this song was mostly written
more than half a decade ago. The time between was filled with some tough stuff
and some negative thoughts, but I kept chipping away at this beast slowly in the
background. During this period I was in grad school, which is notorious for
causing self-doubt, and worse. Thus, Eigenvalue is a bit dark.