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Hey there !! Metal Friday Riffs using my Esp Eclipse loaded with Emg pickups!! Cheers

Hi I'm a rapper I usually do the trap metal and Necro trap subgenres but got curious how well that would translate to making a metal or Nu Metal song from scratch. I don't play instruments so I used some VST's (ODIN II for guitars Loki II for bass) for my instruments but everything is composed by me and original. Song was kinda about the end times or something IDRK 😭 but in curious how well I did as someone who doesn't make metal songs usually. I still used my over the top style for the album cover cause that's just my visual style but idk. 🤷‍♀️ Im also transfem so I usually layer both male and female vocals both performed by me but I was kinda just mostly feeling the male vocals on this one.

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# So this was recorded with my phone, in my car. No microphone, no editing, all one take.

Hearing how BMTH is re-recording \*Count Your Blessings\* I had to give this a try. I’ve only ever covered stuff from There is a Hell, and Sempiternal, and one song from Suicide Season. Never really posted any of them cause the internet can be ruthless.

I’ve always wanted to make music, just never really had the means to do so. It was my dream growing up. I used to dance around in my room like a fool with a mic not even plugged in. 14 years old imagining that one day I’d be doing it \*for real\*. Well, life started life-ing and before I knew it, without even realizing I had given up on it. Well years and years go by (I’m 26 now) I saw BMTH live at Rockville 2026 and it woke something up that I feel was dormant in me.

I’m a dad now and shit isn’t slowing down. I figured I owe it to myself.. and even more my kid to at **LEAST** try.

Give it a listen? Tell me what you think?

I started working on a metal album, i'm only 7 months in music production, want to hear your reviews and what to change / add, want to get better at it.

( i wanted to add an industrial elements, but not sure if it went well )

I just released the very first demo of my one-man experimental black metal project, Schism's End. It’s a purely alcohol- and drug-free approach, offering a primal sonic catharsis born from isolation.

I did everything entirely by myself with zero budget and zero help. I play a white guitar I call "Dead Angel," and guitars were recorded directly from the amp via my phone. For the drums, I used wooden spoons, plastic containers, and baking trays I found around the house. Vocals were recorded in a single take inside a wardrobe while wrapped in a blanket to capture that suffocating feeling.

Since I'm a beginner guitarist, it is extremely raw, unedited, and flawed. But it is honest. If you are into raw, lo-fi, and depressive sounds, I'd appreciate it if you gave it a listen.

So I have been writing a 4 track post hardcore E.P by myself over the past year or so and it’s getting closer to release.

What’s the process looking like for release and promotion these days? I am not planning on gigging at all so will just be promoting the music.

For those of you who generate a somewhat livable wage from music. What did it take for you to accomplish?

hi! i’ve been playing for about a year and a half and decided i wanna start recording my own stuff. i’ve looked around and have been told about mics like the AT2020 and C214, but i wanna make sure i get a mic that can capture fry screams and gutturals well. is there any mics under maybe 150 that i can buy fitting that criteria?

As the title suggest I cant bring myself to sit down, open DAW and start to actively make music. I have over 50 different riffs and pieces on my phone that I recorded but I just get frustrated in the middle of actually producing and arranging that stuff. Its probably worth to say that I am one-man band and my genre is technical death metal, so making drums as a non-drummer doesn`t do me any justice. How can I fix that emotional barrier and actually bring myself, have motivation to record and finish songs? What is your way dealing with this?

Hope it’s ok to post here. I’m completely new to the touring world which I was extremely excited about but now that I started to do shows with my band, I get crippling anxiety as soon as I enter the venue that doesn’t subside after roughly the first or second song. I get extremely dizzy to the point where I have to hold onto something or sit all the way until the performance which is hours. As a vocalist i have to mingle a lot pre show (post show I’m usually fine)

Alcohol completely solves the problem but I don’t want to rely on that especially with 2 week tour runs, I can’t be drinking every night. My last show I had 2 drinks and it didn’t help much.

Has anyone experienced this and had it subside and get more subtle? It’s affecting my days after too, I get so sick after and have a headache from tensing up and feeling so bad.