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Pursue your own Fate

Hi!

Pursue your own Fate is a song I composed with the help of my fellow bandmate for our project April's Carnation(a name that makes reference to the Carnation Revolution in Portugal, our home country).

We play Melodic Death/Metalcore based music with several influences from black, progressive to old school death, doom metal, etc. I recorded all the guitar and voice tracks myself and programmed the drums on EZDrummer.

Due to the lack of quality material and knowledge, because I'm quite new to the world of recording, I'm unable to achieve high-quality sounding tracks, nevertheless, I pushed my capabilities to the limit to produce this.

If you enjoyed what you heard, I invite you to like our facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/aprilscarnation?fref=nf

Hope you like it!

Have you heard about "Killer Be Killed" or am I late? It's a supergroup formed by the mighty Troy Sanders, Max Cavalera, Greg Puciato from The Dillinger Escape Plan and Dave Elitch from The Mars Volta. Interesting line-up but I had my expectations up high and they came out with this.

Not really my thing to be honest, some interesting parts in the songs but I thought it would be a little bit more experimental and fresh. Just sounds like a mash-up of Sepultura, Mastodon and some boring metalcore/alternative metal to me. Maybe I was just expecting something so different that I was unable to really enjoy this, especially judging by the cover. What are your thoughts about it?

At 4/16/14 05:05 PM, Viper wrote: New Mastodon track (ignore what the url says it's not a leak)
http://www.metalinjection.net/av/jam-the-leaked-new-mastodon-song-before-it-gets-taken-down

These motherfuckers never lose their creative spirit. I'd just love to hear some agressive vocals Blood Mountain/Leviathan-esque.

At 4/4/14 04:21 PM, Sense-Offender wrote:

At 4/4/14 03:52 PM, TheDaemonicPoet wrote: Mastodon already have a name for their new album: "Once More Around the Sun". I am really looking forward to it, they seem to be in a creative rush these years.

http://www.metalsucks.net/2014/04/04/mastodon-album-will-called/

Well, "rush" is definitely a word that comes to mind, which has me a little concerned. I love Mastodon, but it's better they take their time.

Maybe they will rest for a while after this album, but if they feel the urge to create a new album so soon, they better have strong creative reasons to do so, and that's why I'm quite excited about it.

Mastodon already have a name for their new album: "Once More Around the Sun". I am really looking forward to it, they seem to be in a creative rush these years.

http://www.metalsucks.net/2014/04/04/mastodon-album-will-called/

At 4/2/14 07:59 PM, HeavenDuff wrote:

At 4/1/14 06:31 PM, TheDaemonicPoet wrote:

At 4/1/14 03:33 PM, Sense-Offender wrote:

At 4/1/14 12:23 PM, TheDaemonicPoet wrote: Is Converge considered a metal band by the almighty Metal Hell?

Nah

I've been kind of obsessed with them lately, very aggressive and distinct sound.

I've heard quite a few good things about them. I might have to look beyong that hardcoreness and give them a chance.

It's different, the feeling I get from them is that they play the original metalcore(mathcore to be precise) as if it never got trendy. The hardcoreness in them hits you like the hardcore that influences lots of metal bands like Mastodon, I find their sound to be very pure, fresh and original, and it's quite technical. As I've said they're very distinct in my opinion, specially considering how long they've been around. Maybe you won't find anything special about the vocals, but I think Jacob Bannon is amazing, very harsh, aggressive and emotional, in a lot of songs his voices is black metal-esque, and I like how he said in a small documentary "I'm 37 years old, and I still yell for a living" or something like that.

I've also heard they're excelent alive, again, the vocalist said something as "playing a concert for me has always been like play hard, or go home, with the true hardcore mentality", and still he seems to be very humble about his activity.

Some of my favorite songs (and the albums they're in are my favorite as well):
The Saddest Day
Heaven in Her Arms

At 4/1/14 03:33 PM, Sense-Offender wrote:

At 4/1/14 12:23 PM, TheDaemonicPoet wrote: Is Converge considered a metal band by the almighty Metal Hell?

Nah

I've been kind of obsessed with them lately, very aggressive and distinct sound.

Is Converge considered a metal band by the almighty Metal Hell?

At 8/25/13 12:28 PM, Blackdoom13 wrote:

At 8/25/13 09:17 AM, TheDaemonicPoet wrote: Anyone heard Fleshgod Apocalypse new album? A big pile of shit in my opinion, they don't know how to play the guitar anymore.

Ive always heard about them but never listened to em.
Are they worth checking out? The name is interesting if nothing else.

Their first album 'Oracles' and and their first EP 'Mafia', are both masterpieces with astounding guitar work, aggressive drumming and vocals, with a kind of a neoclassical approach to their sound, which made them an unique group and one of my favourite bands, but their last two albums are utter shit, instead of using guitars to make music, all they do is some wankery with symphonic arrangements, so I just won't recommend those.

Anyone heard Fleshgod Apocalypse new album? A big pile of shit in my opinion, they don't know how to play the guitar anymore.

At 8/14/13 12:32 PM, Viper50 wrote: Also I've been wanting to take a denim jacket and dye it green and put patches for Stoner, Doom, and Stoner Doom bands on it and replace the buttons on it with ones with little pot leaves on em if I can find some, haha.

That would be the most amazing jacket ever!

Best decision Megadeth could ever take.

At 8/3/13 07:45 PM, Blackdoom13 wrote: Is it just me or is good Metal Dubstep impossible to find?

Cult of Luna - Vicarious Redemption

This song has the best dubstep moment in metal history you will ever find around 11:00.

At 8/2/13 03:10 PM, HeavenDuff wrote: I don't recognize myself in "shy and socially awkward". We have so many different and who distinguish themselves from each other. Metalheads aren't all the same. All crowds have specificities. I've been to black metal, power metal, thrash metal, death metal shows, and the crowds are all different and so are the musicians.

Well, I actually happen to be that shy and socially awkward guy, but it has nothing to do with metal, that's my personality since I've got myself one. Maybe I'm not really that socially awkward, I just really don't enjoy to meet new people, I prefer to stick with my good friends, and not everyone can deal with my special humor, but it has nothing to do with metal whatsoever, if I happened to be an outgoing person I'd love metal anyway.

*cough* Pantera *cough*

Aw man, I love Pantera, I must forgive their badassery ): Though I totally understand your point.

At 8/2/13 02:42 PM, ElGhoulio wrote: Haha it sounds like he's trying too hard to lower his voice.

He sounds like he's yawning actually, my girlfriends gets pissed off at me, because she loves Type-O-Negative and I keep telling her that, then I try to mimic him and she gets even more mad because she can't admit it, but he really does sounds like he's yawning words out of his mouth haha

Your english is actually really good. There are occasional non-sequiturs, but that's usually because you use a word or phrase that, while in portuguese might've been appropriate, in english didn't quite translate. But that's not very often, and it happens whenever anyone learns a new language.

Well thank you very much, that was quite cheering! And you're right, it's even worse in spanish, from which portuguese evolved, and even though those languages sound totally different in accent, my mother language always interferes, but that happens to the majority of portuguese trying to learn spanish, because a lot of words are wrote in the same way. Sometimes I even think that english is easier for me than spanish because there's not so much space to let my mother language interfere.

At 8/2/13 10:43 AM, ElGhoulio wrote:
I think he's referring to Peter Steele's habit for writing slightly misogynistic lyrics, and for the tendency of women to fall over themselves to fuck him.

It's more because of his masculine voice, he always sounds like he's trying to hit on someone.

Just guessing. Still, it's obvious english ain't your first language, Daemonic Poet, so I'm extending some forgiveness for a non-sequitur or two. but forgive me if I interpreted your post wrong. I gotta agree with you, though, about the bullshit badassery, or as i like to call it, "tuff guy syndrome", which is why I hate most -core bands as well.

Yep, it isn't, though I'm able to understand and communicate with ease, I'm not really that fluent. I hope that with time I will get better at it, I don't really have the opportunity to practice that much outside school. And I must say, newgrounds helped me a lot. Also, you're right.

At 8/2/13 01:38 AM, HeavenDuff wrote: I don't understand the "sexual harassment" part...

It's simple, whenever I hear Peter's masculine voice I feel like he's trying to hit on me, and that's not pleasurable haha

At 8/1/13 03:44 PM, HeavenDuff wrote: I wouldn't say Epica is like that. I know AniMetal would firmly disagree with you. Epica is a rather creative band, and even if Simone is rather beautiful, Epica as been around way before it became a gimmick to have popstars singing in your "metal". I was thinking more about titscore like In This Moment or heavy pop like Amaranthe. Nothing except the movie Avatar yells the word cashgrab louder than these shitty bands.

I just hate them all haha, they don't fit my taste, and I can't stand Epica specifically, I understand what you're saying though. But I don't know, I feel like I have a natural misogyny for women in metal, I also can't stand Arch Enemy, even though Angela's growls all the time, it makes my dick retract I don't enjoy that feeling haha.

There are some themes and feelings I don't want singers to inflict in me, and those are: whining, thus my hate for Epica and such, bullshit badassery and non-sense, thus my hate for some metalcore acts and most Djent, fairy tales and fabulousness, therefore and heretically I'm not a fan of most traditional heavy/doom/power metal and sexual harassment, and that's why I dislike Type-O-Negative. ;_;

At 7/31/13 11:39 PM, HeavenDuff wrote:
That's because they often make these vocals as obnoxious as possible and there is always a huge focus in such bands on the female vocalist, most likely for commercial purposes... and usually not for artistic value. It's usually always over-technical female vocalists who can't seem to put any kind of emotion in their music.

But like Sense said, once you drop these gimmicky bands and look around, you'll find amazing female vocalists who aren't just there for show.

Yep, that's why I hate "gothic"/symphonic metal bands with their big-boobed pretty faces singing opera over heavily-distorted groups of power chords with some synth or keyboard playing with their cheesy melodies... Disgusting. It just sounds like heavy pop honestly, if I heard a metal tune over a Katy Perry song, I couldn't spot the difference between her and Epica, for example.

I also recommand
Aghora
Thorr's Hammer

I enjoyed Aghora, I love when bands mix jazz and metal, and her voice is soft and really fits the sound, well I will thank you but I'm getting metal bands with female members instead of hardcore/post-hardcore influenced metal bands.

At 7/31/13 10:53 PM, Sense-Offender wrote: Glad ya like 'em. There are lots of good metal bands with female vocals, though.

Alkonost
Stolen Babies
Gonin-Ish
Kylesa
Acid King
Unexpect
Hammers of Misfortune
Peccatum
Ava Inferi
Darkestrah (good black metal vocals from a female? You better believe it)
Arkona (ditto!)
Sinner's Bleed (awesome death metal vocals from a woman, though she left the band)

Damn, I'm such a metal noob, I think I just sticked with my favourite bands you know? The only bands I know from the ones you listed were Kylesa, Acid King and Ava Inferi (from my country!), and I don't really listen to them that much, I just grew tired of searching new metal bands I didn't know about because in the end they all started sounding the same to me, so the only way I get to know new bands is once they get commercial success and everyone is talking about them, and I usually get dissapointed because of the blast of idiotic Djent coming up... I'm a bad metal fan ): Thank you for your suggestions though, but again, I ended up getting more bands with female members than hardcore/post-hardcore influenced metal bands...

At 7/31/13 09:22 PM, Viper50 wrote:
Even Kylesa?

I said usually!

At 7/31/13 06:42 PM, Sense-Offender wrote: Battle of Mice and Made out of Babies

Astounding! The girl has an interesting voice, and I usually hate women in metal, but these two bands go with my style, very cool!

At 7/31/13 01:52 PM, HeavenDuff wrote:

At 7/31/13 06:04 AM, TheDaemonicPoet wrote:

At 7/30/13 09:40 PM, smeagol1 wrote:

Chicken

In all seriousness guys, you can create an official debate page on the politics forum to debate gun control.

I have nothing more to say about this subject, there was just no need to create a new thread when all I had to do was answering.

On the subject of Metal, I'm getting really fond of hardcore/post-hardcore-influenced metal, not metalcore, bands like Mastodon, Cult of Luna, Neurosis, specially when it meets sludge. What would you recommend me?

At 7/30/13 09:40 PM, smeagol1 wrote:

Lets put it this way in simple terms, Why would a government that allows the IRS to target patriot and tea party groups, that allows the Department of Homeland Security horde 2.4 billion rounds of ammo (most of them hollow points) and 10,000 light armored tanks, that allows the NSA to spy on all it's citizens and that publicly funds Al Qaeda would want to disarm it's people? let that sink in.... the second amendment is the backbone to the constitution, it's the last resort to keeping tyranny restrained and to protect the people from Government. The second amendment has nothing to do with hunting what so ever and these tyrant traitors like Michael Bloomberg ask "why we need AR-15's?" Why do you need jetcopters, fully armored redoubts and armed bodyguards? The anti gunners in power are the biggest hypocrites I've ever seen.

Your more likely to be killed by a deer than a gun, hands kill more people that guns should we ban those? Or better yet more people are killed with hammers should we label them assault hammers and ban them? Drunk drivers kill more people than guns yet we don't do shit about that.

Guns don't kill people, people kill people any who think gun control is the answer should tell that to the Jew of Nazi Germany, The millions dead at the hands of Stalin, the millions Mao killed in China and the millions Pol Pot killed in Cambodia. The U.N states in it's small arms treaty citizen ownership of firearms is a threat to the monopoly of force that only Government should have.

Without the second the rest of the bill of rights and constitution would be gone in a matter of days.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFfMooFBM8E

If you're going to use the argument that guns don't kill but people do, then why do you want a gun in the first place? So you won't kill while you're enjoying the possession of a gun? I mean if we're already able to kill with our bare hands, with tools, with our recklessness... Well, gives us guns, we might kill less!? But oh well, I'm an hippie-like pacifist that thinks all guns should be destroyed and all that stuff and bows should be used for hunting instead.

And don't you bring me the argument of self-defense, because in a civilized society, if we need guns to feel protected, then the problem is not in people not owning guns, but the lack of government's control in the criminality of your country. This being said, FUCK AMERICA! Just kidding, but sometimes you can be real cunts about guns.

Also, that video made me even more convinced of my own points, all I heard was delusional.

At 7/29/13 06:39 PM, Viper50 wrote:

At 7/29/13 05:44 PM, TheDaemonicPoet wrote: I know you're Canadian Duff, but I think smeagol is American, and I can't understand that obcession you Americans have with guns. Seriously, it's like your lives depend on it, get a safer toy to play with...

I'm American and I'm not obsessed with guns....

Thank god. But in general, most americans seem to be pro-guns or something, and I personally hate them. And I just realized I wrote 'obcession' instead of 'obsession', I don't communicate in english very often so I let myself commit such mistakes, I'm sorry.

At 7/27/13 10:32 PM, HeavenDuff wrote:

At 7/27/13 10:17 PM, smeagol1 wrote: In regards to Varg's recent media attention, I think it's incredibly pathetic how big of a nanny police state France is for freaking out over him transporting firearms and having no evidence what-so-ever of plotting a terrorist attack and still charging him. However being a firm support and political activist of the second amendment in my area I can say this now he lost his rights to own firearms by killing Euronymous in cold blood.

Guns should be legal, cause otherwise we couldn't have the perfect combination of tits and guns, ya know?

Pew Pew Pew! *Bounce Bounce Bounce*
We love titties!

I know you're Canadian Duff, but I think smeagol is American, and I can't understand that obcession you Americans have with guns. Seriously, it's like your lives depend on it, get a safer toy to play with...

At 7/23/13 01:20 AM, HeavenDuff wrote: I don't know if I'm happy or not that Loomis will be part of the project... Of course he's a great musician, but when Nevermore splited-up it was said to be because of band members not getting along too well with each others. I know it might have just been with specific individuals, but a little doubt stays in my mind, telling me that maybe the guy isn't that much of a cool guy to work with. Maybe not the Dave Mustaine kind of dick, but you know...

Nah! He's been working a lot with Keith Merrow for the past few years, those guys seem to be like best friends by now, I believe there's really an harmony between them, both very humble and passionate about what they do, it almost seems like I'm writing a gay love story or something haha.

At 7/22/13 03:34 PM, HeavenDuff wrote:
I'm very happy to see him in a band two. His solo work is interesting but I feel that he could really make something happen working with a band. Plus, Alex Webster is one of my favorite death metal musicians, and one of my favorite bassists. I'm happy to see him work on another project :)

And Jeff Loomis is one of the best shredders around, one of the few that can shred without being a dick about it.

Talking about shred, just kidding, if you guys want check out my new guitar video.

At 7/22/13 03:51 AM, HeavenDuff wrote: Anyway... what do you guys think of thisthis? Alex Webster in a new band with Keith Merrow, Alex Rudinger and Jeff Loomis.

Oh God, I'm so looking forward to that, I love Keith Merrow, he's an amazing composer.

What about my tapping? Is it any good?

You are all fucking stupid!