The other day (January 21st to be precise), a new album project was decided.
It’s going to be technical death metal. For something different.
How this came about
With MAX pretty much completed (safe for the vinyl release), there’s time and energy available. What to put this into? There was an idea earlier called Emmy & Sieglinde, as well as others, so let’s do a decision-finding kind of thing.
I thought about different things. Some of them old stuff that just needs completion (like the remaining #secretalbum that just needs a great pianist or Warr guitarist), some were vague one-time conceptual ideas that might deserve further attention (like Ambienthoven), some were merely a title in some old project list, or a few words indicating an idea (Nerdville, irgendwas mit techno, no drum no bass).
And I added Was mit Technical Death Metal wär‘ lustig at the bottom of the list.
But why?
Why, indeed?
You may not have guessed that by looking at my release history, but extremely heavy forms of metal have held an important place in my heart for decades. From the early metal and proto-metal stuff like 70s Sabbath and Priest over early thrash (Kill ‚em all, Among the Living) towards more heavy and more progressive stuff (Maudlin of the Well, early Opeth). So why not do a metal album after all these years?
The Details
In a nutshell:
- Low-effort, no- or low-budget.
- Which means I’m going to do most of it myself.
- Release date on or about April 30th 2026.
- Album Mindset (whatever that may mean).
- Use that to „learn to make metal“ (hence a working title A Lesson Learned).
- Progressive technical death metal, potentially leaning into other hard styles, e.g. hardcore tekkno, industrial, noise, doom metal).
So…how’s it going?
As of today, I have (yesterday) created a prototype track! It’s called Sheaf of Broken Bodies, but I’m not going to share it.
Having listened to and thought about it, and thought about the album in general, I assume it’s going to be mostly progressive/zappaesque rock with really heavy guitar and drums. And maybe crossover.
Right now, I’m thinking a five-track symmetry with what in the past would have been typical EP length (think 20-30 minutes). But this is subject to change.
