Leafblade

- The Ballad of the Horror Cerebral

This is an old recording! It was recorded using an old studio program called “Digital Orchestra Plus” which has long since ceased exisiting in that form.

Sean and Pete had just started using computers for recording instead of my old 4 track recorder, so they could have more control over what was recorded. Previous to this track, they had only recorded demos for Beneath a Woodland Moon, Valle Crucis and Once Upon a Dawn using a computer, so it was a time of fun and experimentation.

Sean had played this track to me a few times, and Pete knew it had potential to be quite massive in sound. On this track, Sean played the main guitar part and sung the main vocal line. We had errors in the guitar recording (due to the computer being very old and the software being buggy) about half way through. It would have taken absolutly ages to re-record them, so Pete decided to try editing guitar parts to create a loop which would replace the faulty part. Pete had never tried “copypasta” up till that point, and I must say it worked well for us here and the guitar part was mended.

Sean had gone for a lengthy holiday in the Czech Republic at the time, leaving Pete to see what he could come up with around the framework of the track. A lot of feedback sounds were added and vocal drones for a wall of sound effect, and experiments with guitar parts that had a different time signature and even different key to the main parts were added (Pete had been listening to a lot of Tool at that stage of his life, so the influences were starting to shine through a bit).

Trivia

One piece of trivia about this track : The main guitar used to rise a note, rather than dip a note. This was changed when Kev (Murphy - Bassist for Valle Crucis and Leafblade) pointed out it was the same notes as The End by the Doors. It was, but neither Sean or Pete had noticed! heheh!

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