Dirty Beloved

Continued Progress on Third Album

Currently there are 10 tracks being worked on with plans to write another 2 to 4 songs before we hit to studio. The plan is to record everything and then choose what will make the album, most likely 10 or 11 songs. The rest we’ll post on the site for a free download.

One of the new tracks is “The Priests of Hiroshima” which we have debuted at a few of our last shows. This song was one of the first written for the third album and I think defines the general direction of what to expect. It is killer to play live.

I am still working on the best way to intro the song. I have tried a few different ideas, such as a building a roll on the snare to match the phrasing of the guitar, then going into the verse. The second idea, which is what is used currently, is to start the track with some chokes to build the energy and then lock in for the verse. Seems to work, but we’ll get it figured out for the CD. The songs about 4:15 in length.

From a drum point of view it is hard driving all the way through with double kick virtually from start to finish. I get a chance to try some new techniques I have been working as well, such as double stroke rolls with my feet. This song usually plays around 210pbm, so moving for a DB song with double kick to match in the chorus, solo section and end riff.

The guitar for this song is totally driving from start to finish with a riff heavy verse, chorus and bridge section. It features some incredible vocals, with a 100 word a min vocal flash in the pre-chorus (with some great backing vocals) and some great harmonies over the bridge. Of course no DB song is complete with a killer lock between drums and bass and this song has it, seen certainly in the solo section.

To give you an idea of what it sounds like a comment was made at a recent show indicating it is in the same vein as “Painkiller” by Judas Priest.

Definitely fun to practice and play live.

I hope this to be the start of a weekly entry on all the new material for the third album. Each week we’ll talk about the structure and background on one of the new songs being worked on, maybe even post a demo of it for you to check out.

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As Indie bands, we know all to well the challenges faced by the little guy in the media industry.  The issues faced by local television threaten to remove this service all together.  Local television has helped many of us promote our music in the past so it’s time to return the favour.

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Competing with commercial volume levels while trying to preserve dynamics is an eternal battle.  It’s interesting to see the fallout from attempts to push volume too far.  With the CD mastering nearing completion, this article seemed relevant.

Can a Metallica album be too loud?

The very thought might seem heretical to fans of the legendary metal band, which has been splitting eardrums with unrivaled power since the early 1980s.

But even though Metallica’s ninth studio release, “Death Magnetic,” is No. 1 on the album chart, with 827,000 copies sold in two weeks, some fans are bitterly disappointed: not by the songs or the performance, but the volume. It’s so loud, they say, you can’t hear the details of the music.

“Death Magnetic” is a flashpoint in a long-running music-industry fight. Over the years, rock and pop artists have increasingly sought to make their recordings sound louder to stand out on the radio, jukeboxes and, especially, iPods.

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Even Heavy-Metal Fans Complain That Today’s Music Is Too Loud!!!