EDIT: Some of the album's songs are now available on Youtube:
YouTube - Broadcast Yourself. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3Lybik8shI#)
YouTube - Broadcast Yourself. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dc44XUVETfM#)
YouTube - Broadcast Yourself. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dOb9ISEUUNw#)
YouTube - Broadcast Yourself. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tXK7BxcfIv8#)
This album has gone almost universally unnoticed wherever it's been posted... despite the few who have listened to it consistently praising its memorable songwriting, heavy and detailed sound, and very polished production value. I feel somewhat uncomfortable praising my own work for promotion's sake, but I do know that I am capable of crafting very good and professional-level music and feel that I have done so to the best of my abilities for this album. Listens and comments a very much appreciated. :)
Original post:
So...
As some of you might know, I like to think of myself as a musician-- and hopefully I'm not that delusional about it-- I play most normal 'rock instruments' and sing, and I am a trained recording engineer: Swimfail has been my personal industrial rock/metal/grunge/etc. project for the past four or five years now. "Vermin" is the fourth and final studio album I've created and released independently, and I've finally decided to let the project go and move on.
The album blends heavy industrial rock and metal with catchy melodic hooks, dense layers of samples, live instrumentation and whatever else crawled its way into the mix. I've spent about three months working on it quite steadily and I am utterly drained from the process.
You can grab the album from the music section of Swimfail.com:
Get it here (http://www.swimfail.com/music.html)
Hard copies should be available in the future as well. :)
Cover:
(http://www.swimfail.com/music/releases/vermin/vermin_front_small.png)
Back:
(http://www.swimfail.com/music/releases/vermin/vermin_back_small.png)
Insert:
(http://www.swimfail.com/music/releases/vermin/vermin_insert_small.png)
Just felt the need to share this since I've spent so much time and effort creating it. I hope it is enjoyed. :)
~Josiah
Just a quick bump, you can now watch the short documentary The Making of Vermin here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V70ReEGAYI0
Youtube links for some of the songs have also been added to the original post.
~Josiah
That is VERY COOL!!!!!!!
Wonderful job!*praise praise praise*
Continue with making music!
I don't know much more about music(other then listening to it) so I can't say much else.......
This isn't my biggest style of music so I can't comment a lot on the writing, etc., but the sound is quite good - deep and lush, without the instruments being blurred. Production's definitely quite solid. Nice work!
Thanks, both of you!
Tony Greyfox: This was the final album released under the Swimfail name and probably the last album in this style I'll be working on for awhile, for various reasons. I hope my future music will be more up your alley :)
~Josiah
Damn, that's some pretty good sounding stuff!
And thats coming from a dragon who just sorta likes metal XD. My mate would probably dig the hell outta this *chuckles*
Hehe, thanks! Feel free to pass it along to him. ;)
~Josiah