Death Song

Written in 1990 / Recorded in 1990, 1991 and 1998

Death Song was a thing I wrote expressing the outburst of my anger and frustration I held at the time of writing - December 1990. Before the song was recorded in any form, it was played live for filling the stage time as a solo act of me playing the guitar and singing. What surprised me at the most was that the audience’s response was unexpectedly good towards the song, to which I rather had a negative impression and estimation.

A demo recording of the song at home soon followed and in it, I added the sound effect of my voice, modified by the digital delay pedal, and rhythm sections for enhancing its weird atmosphere and (Hard) Rock aspect. The strings part was also added for dramatising the climax sequence.

In the following year, the song was played by my new band called Elegance on some occasions and one of them was recorded. 

Nearly a decade later, I picked up this song to be played again by my personal recording scheme called The Soft Core Project. On this occasion, I invited my friend drummer to a studio for recording his part accompanied with me on the guitar.

The audio track of this video consists of all three recording materials mentioned above.