Seeking to start a very depressing metal band. Heavy riffs mixed with softer passages. Also interested in many other genres, just need collaborators.
I am an experienced musician and play guitar, bass, keys, and some other odds and ends. My ideal project would be a metal band with a depressing, gothic tone and quieter moments with acoustic or clean guitar and synth atmosphere. I like the sound of dated, digital sampler synths and have a few. I also like the sound of fretless bass in this kind of music, and could play that if I wasn't on guitar. Influences include be the early albums of bands like Tiamat, Saturnus, Opeth, Anathema. I'm also highly influenced by the medieval-inclined folk bands of the 60's like Pentangle and Fairport Convention and try to work that influence into my acoustic writing. I would like to avoid the current trends in metal, namely nu-gaze and hardcore-style riffs, and make something people don't get to hear often.
I'm very open to starting other types of bands though, with a few examples:
Folk/Medieval music
Grunge (have some riffs for that, relatively easy to get off the ground)
OSDM
Melodeath
New Wave (with interesting fretless bass, like Japan)
Gothic rock/metal (like Type O Negative)
Dungeon Synth
I don't know too many musicians in town (moved here) and I don't have a space, but I have gear and can play and can write. Also open to joining an existing band if I like the music, or filling in. Playing music was my whole life before I moved, I'd like to get back to that.
If you DM about a certain sound I can send snippets of riffs or ideas.