LL (Old) - The Artificial Demise

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LL (Old) - The Artificial Demise

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So after not finishing off a load of stuff, I finished this one off. I'm still getting used to my new Monitoring speakers (a pair of ADAM A5X's which sound super damn nice) and I've grabbed some more software since then aswell as learning how to properly utilize the power of Adobe Audition CS6 for Mastering.

All Vocals & Dialogue is made up and done by myself. I am fully aware of the clipping going on, this is a rendering issue which I can't avoid for now unfortunately except making it even quieter (when I'm already making sure that it doesn't go above 0DB when mastering).

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You are infected, you are dead meat
Your cybernetic implants corrupt to the core
Your body gives up, your legs cave in
Your consciousness slips, death by infection
The ground gives away as the leaders awaken
Our damned creations arise to the top
Our lives are forfeit, Our freedom dead
Our visions of promise, crushed.

Die in battle, Thrive in war,
Last hope for mankind, kill our vision.
Implants dead, our minds infected,
how can we fight what rules over us all?
Sleep eternally, dreams are dead
The host is thriving, download the protocol
Your body controlled by the overlord
Welcome to your Artificial Demise

Your body a drone, your flesh a soldier
Your carcass a shell of it's former self
Storm the settlements, the host obeys
Your family killed by your animated body
Our lives are in Limbo, drowned smog
A prick of fate, cruelty perverse
Our history of mankind stopped
The mother-brain of Earth, arise as the new race

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Vamsome

2017-07-17 12:29:59

didn't expect such an good track here... tracks like these are the reason I've got into this music genre.

Greetings from Germany btw ;)

DjAbbic

2014-01-19 19:17:49

Great intro. Creepy but it got my attention. I know you said there are some rendering issues, but I'll still point that the kick seems to fade out at 0:14 (possibly getting drowned out by the atmospheric pad). I can usually pass this off, but I feel like the kick is vital to this track and you should avoid drowning it out if possible.

1:16 sounds super cool. I really love what you did to the vocals, matches the characters they portray in this song/story perfectly. Unfortunately I can't make out the words being said without the author's comments, but maybe it's just me.

The synths sounded good, and compliment the vocals very well. That square/saw lead you have during the evil voice really makes it that much better.

Keep it up, this is great stuff that I've never heard before, but I like it :D.

Lich responds:

Thank you for the review, glad you like the track and I have taken note of what you have said! :)

LunyAlex

2013-12-13 15:12:36

Fantastically atmospheric. The vocals are particularly great. Really love the effects on them, to the point where I'd ask how they were achieved, but I respect an artist's privacy regarding his methods.

Lich responds:

Haha, it's fine I can tell you how I've done them:

Main Vocals (Industrial Fry)
1 - Record the vocals, it can either be done in two ways as either full on Fry Vocals (which are easier to work with which I have been doing alot more recently) or if you can't do that, a strained whispering shall work as well (more distortion would be required to get Whispering to work for this).
2 - Once vocals are recorded, apply the Distortion first. My Two favorites which I use for this is Ohmforce's Ohmidide and Adobe Audition's Distortion unit working together. Distort it, so it sounds Powerful and sharp but not impossible to hear the actual lyrical wording.
3 - Apply Pitch Shifting to it. Taking it down alittle bit, tune it to the key you are trying to sing in and reduce the wet/dry to around 50%, down from 100%.
4 - EQ anything which sounds out of place out. Usually if done correctly you won't have to do much other than cancel out some of the higher frequencies (I use Waves DeEsser to do this super quickly).
5 - Apply some Light Compression to glue it down sligthly. Not too fussy on what is used, the nicer the better.

(Robotic-ish) Dialogue Parts
1 - Record the Dialogue and then load up AVOX Mutator and make the 'Thoat Length' option set to around 1.15 (for a longer, deeper sound)
2 - Apply AVOX Harmony Engine to the Recording and fiddle around around with the different bands and parameters untill you are happy with the sound you like. Pretty simplistic compared to editing fry.

Spoonukem

2013-12-12 00:02:26

I'm really diggin' these newer tracks of yours, man!

Lich responds:

Thanks, glad you like them!

dude-im-alive

2013-12-07 17:24:59

Scary, not my kind of thing but I appreciate the creation of the song is sound and well done. I didn't vote on the thing as I don't want to lower your score ( i would pick 4) but I didn't want to give it 5 either. well done!