This time the title of my post comes from a compilation of Saturday Night Wrist-era demos by the Deftones that I discovered last Sunday. Finger of Death is a masterpiece of a demo found within the batch of songs, and it's also the song I've listened to the most during the last week or so. The rest of the leak is mindblowing as well, and for the first time since 2005, I think I actually have to place some band higher than P.O.D. among my favorites. Don't worry, they're still steadily my number #2 though... As can be seen from my last.fm charts, where Deftones and P.O.D. both crossed the magical boundary of 1000 plays this Wednesday. What comes to the week before, I was really into Parkway Drive and their new album Deep Blue, which despite a fair bit of repetition is wonderfully heavy and enjoyable.
New Wicked Breath material is currently something that I come up with very fast, as if it was coming from an assembly line. Letters from Rats, the song I had started when I made my last post, is now nearly complete. There are 3 new ideas that I've executed in terms of riffs and I have a bunch more in my head yet to be tried out. I've also developed and modified several of my old songs - including (Unholy) Months for Affection (now entirely finished writing-wise), Seven (a.k.a. the worship song) and Let Go. Besides all of that, I've spent time planning and planning the tracklists for the demo, album and the EP, as well as song lengths, structure, flowability, et cetera. Last but not least I've finished the composition for the Theban Cycle song Midnight Sun, and worked on some of the lyrics for it. The rest of the band have been happy with the results so far, and the dark and rather dissonant song has become one of my own favorites. All in all my recent stuff has had even more significant emphasis on the contrast of dissonance and harmony/darkness and light than before.
Lately yours truly has been pondering his future as well. I've done some estimated calculations on how much money I'd need to make it on my own in my own place and everything, which is ahead of me in a few years. Moreover, I've given some thought on where exactly I would study after graduating from upper secondary school and completing my non-military service. Right now the campus of the University of East Finland over at Savonlinna is the most likely option, where I would like to study either religious or psychological sciences. This of course doesn't mean that I want to quit on my dream in music - it's just that regardless of how great the music I make is, the personality of it in contrast to the situation of the music industry today just can't produce me any money to live my life with. Besides, I doubt that without an actual profession outside music I could have as much inspiration and variety all around as in the opposite case. So, everything is still tentative, but things are getting a lot clearer. Moving to America is still another dream I want to make reality, but it'll have to wait for at least until 2018.
School has been mostly really fun the past few weeks and even with the difficulty of chemistry and such, I'm doing well in my opinion just like in the past. We haven't started practicing for the upcoming performance yet, but I've kept looking for the right people and the right way to handle the performance itself. As the days are getting more and more spring-y, I'm getting more and more excited - and a bit terrified, too. :P Summer's basically just around the corner and that means that another recording process is about to begin, this time with much better tools I though have yet to purchase. Collecting money through chores has gone smoothly and mostly according to the plan - just today I earned about 15 Euros more to put in my pocket.
Before the conclusion of this post I want to give my best wishes to all the innocent and not-so-innocent victims in Japan and Libya. With these two crucial areas it seems like the theory of the world coming to its end next year isn't entirely without foundation. Let's just hope and pray for the best, shall we...
Blessings, Joona
School has been mostly really fun the past few weeks and even with the difficulty of chemistry and such, I'm doing well in my opinion just like in the past. We haven't started practicing for the upcoming performance yet, but I've kept looking for the right people and the right way to handle the performance itself. As the days are getting more and more spring-y, I'm getting more and more excited - and a bit terrified, too. :P Summer's basically just around the corner and that means that another recording process is about to begin, this time with much better tools I though have yet to purchase. Collecting money through chores has gone smoothly and mostly according to the plan - just today I earned about 15 Euros more to put in my pocket.
Before the conclusion of this post I want to give my best wishes to all the innocent and not-so-innocent victims in Japan and Libya. With these two crucial areas it seems like the theory of the world coming to its end next year isn't entirely without foundation. Let's just hope and pray for the best, shall we...
Blessings, Joona
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