Vac news, June 15th 2009.
June 15th, 2009 by Hexfix93
I just finished a new song called Killing a Stranger. It is the last song on the lp. I decided to drop one of the tracks and replace it with this. So this lp is now officially more of a folk goth rock pop industrial lp, with like 3 dance club type tracks. I am really proud of it. Most of it needs mastering, need to brighten the sound up a bit, I have such crappy software eqs that I cannot eq after the fact, so if i do not brighten stuff up before i go in, i am screwed. On the whole mix with a mastering EQ it will fix everything. I am going to do a once over and mix all the tracks, I should have this lp shipped to the mastering company, BURNIE GRUNDMAN in 2 weeks or so with any luck. The LP is called “…”(still trying to figure it out). It really fits the mood. Isolation, depression, 3 years of having no one real or close to you besides 1 band mate. Alone. That is what this lp sounds like, A sad industrial guy playing a lot of acoustic guitar. This lp sounds so different for VAC, Clean vocals. More intimate and naked sounding. You get to hear a lot of my whiney upper mid range voice. The thing I was so afraid of showing the world for so many years and hid behind a distorted evil psycho mask. I am still the psycho weirdo but sounding more heart felt and sad. I put more energy into making the songs sound good and be more minimal and easier for casual listeners to get into it. Not to sell out, but I found that simpler music is easier to mix and easier to get it to sound more professional and like the stuff you hear on the radio as far as production. I do not feel like this has hurt things, I made the songs on average about 4 minutes long, so they don’t drag on. Well one is 8 minutes, heh. oh well.
I have not picked a track order. I know who will help me though, Stefan Herwig. Yup. I am working with dependent again. He does do a good job, so I am really looking forward to it again.
The web site did transform. I put the media blog up as well in a rough beta form. This site will contain all the gear stuff I talk about, synth reviews and pro audio stuff. I don’t care if I piss people off. Whatever. So that stuff stays. But the medai stuff like other bands, models, video games, art, photography, dj, and interviews and magazine type stuff all is on www.electricdethtripmedia.com. I felt like VAC was getting lost in all that magazine stuff, like people would come here for vac news and be like, WTF is all this shit???? LOL. Seriously, The band got drown in a sea of media. I did not want to focus of this site to neglect VAC. So I had to separate them. I feel this is a much better solution. I am getting people to help me with EDT media as well. I need art for that site big time. I hope someone can help with the art for that site, it really needs it. So any how, I think I fixed the web site dilemma.
lates.
Bryan…
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June 15th, 2009 at 10:57 pm
XD
So excited.
June 16th, 2009 at 9:02 am
Now I’m curious about the song that was dropped. What was it like?
Will we ever hear the canned tracks from this album? As free mp3s or cd-rom data perhaps?
I always liked the dancey stuff the most and is a bit disappointed that there will “only” be 3 of those. You should do what you feel like, though.
June 16th, 2009 at 2:55 pm
cannot wait.
June 16th, 2009 at 4:42 pm
It was mental itch.
June 16th, 2009 at 5:07 pm
call me crazy but i thought mental itch was a toxic coma song?
June 16th, 2009 at 5:12 pm
I can’t w8!!! I hope everything will work out great for you!
June 16th, 2009 at 5:26 pm
Great news, I can´t wait anymore :)
Wow, you work with Mr. Herwig again?
June 16th, 2009 at 7:41 pm
good idea on spliting the website, already added to my favs
waiting for the new stuff :D
June 16th, 2009 at 9:09 pm
wow, things are coming together.
good idea to split media stuff from vac.
maybe do a $0.99 type of thing for the drop track?
i look forward to the album release :)
June 16th, 2009 at 9:15 pm
I like the split website design, it should work out well, I think: VAC news here, your other thoughts there with no compromise to either or muddling between.
I am VERY excited about the new album. Is the track “Killing a Stranger” a(n) homage to either the Cure (band) or The Stranger (novel)?
In any case the stripped down raw sound should be very exciting. The emotions will run through and I can’t wait to connect to that. I always felt that the songs with the cleaner vocals were my favorites. Take the end of ‘Fade Away’ as an example. The vocals were a tad cleaner and the emotion really blared through which has allowed me to connect deeply with that track, the pain is there and I feel like, “this artist understands, he feels what I have felt; he knows lonliness and isolation”
June 16th, 2009 at 9:25 pm
P.S. as a possible title for the album, try out “Anchorite” or “Anchoritia,” the process of being an anchorite, or one who separates themselves from the world for religious reasons or beliefs. It’s archaic and fits the description of the album you’ve proposed here, I feel. I discovered the word when I began some research on Clive Barker’s Hellraiser and found that ‘Cenobite’ is actually a term for a person that belongs to a religious community, with ‘anchorite’ being its antonym.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anchorite
Good luck on the last leg of production!
P.S.S. my comments on ‘Fade Away’ also go for ‘Pain’ whose drum beat reminds me of something Dr. Avalanche would play… :)
June 16th, 2009 at 10:37 pm
Killing a stranger, i played it for a few people, it has soft emotional vocals, i sing well on it, the best i have ever done clean. The music is like this sad film score/radio track. It has dynamics, like the chorus is this wall of sound, and the in between verse is like this suspended pool of water. I love it. It could fit into a james bond film, or a horror film, i’m not kidding.
June 16th, 2009 at 10:39 pm
The truth is, the lp is about the universal doom. Like the blackness of the big rip theory, how nothing stays together long, everything is temporary, everything falls apart, health, love, family, teeth, friends, love, hate, everything breaks down. All the heat in the universe burns out and all that is left is the freezing cold separated dark mass of nothingness. The lp is about the process of this. That is the theme of it. Everything in the universe becoming darkness, the big freeze, the big nothingness.
June 17th, 2009 at 12:53 pm
one step closer for us getting to hear the new album! excited!
June 17th, 2009 at 1:25 pm
I can’t wait…I love the way the way you’ve described the album.
June 18th, 2009 at 10:45 am
Thanks for the reply, I am yet more excited to hear this epic! VAC does horror movie soundtrack stuff. I’m pretty sure that couldn’t sound more enticing. It seems I misinterpreted your direction with this album. You need a name that is more terminal, more final and crushing, something that summons the impression of a void. Something about degradation and the universal chaos. Something like “The Absence In (or of) Inevitability” (except a better title), maybe? I think when you are brainstorming for the title you should look for words about finality and inescapability. Maybe look up root words for ‘absolute’ and ‘cancer’ maybe latin origins, give it a predicted unavoidable apocalyptic feel perhaps?
Also, weren’t you in a band called ‘Vortex’ before VAC & Toxic Coma? Maybe that title should be resurrected in some way?
Anyway, name or no name I will be buying this album immediately upon release!!!!
Any chance of a vinyl version? Metropolis has been doing that lately, that is, if you plan on sticking with them.
June 23rd, 2009 at 1:13 pm
yeah a record would be awesome. i would buy vinyl.
June 29th, 2009 at 9:45 pm
untouchable_888,
could you imagine VAC’s electronics through a decent speaker set, pressed on VINYL? I think “there is no god” would translate really well; the vinyl would carry it and add resonance, I think. Same goes for “Phucking Phreak.” I also feel that the natural fuzziness of vinyl would compliment “Discolored Eyes” and make it heavier sounding. The drum has a lot of gain, and I feel that vinyl makes that sound really heavy (try old thrash metal vinyls). Plus the echoing vocals would probably gather something too. I haven’t heard too many electronic bands on vinyl, being more of a metalhead than a rivethead mostly, but there is much potential, especially in a stripped down style.
Enough rant. Thoughts?