'a Lossidian threnody' is released.

The most epic set of scifi stories ever told (ha ha!) is released. You can grab it from:

Here or alternatively here.

The package contains 16 songs (320 kbps mp3), cover artwork and lyrics. You can stream the songs also from sites like Mikseri or Last.fm.


Tracklist:

01. I Revolt I
02. That's when they burned me
03. Detention colony
04. Remembrance
05. Above the hills of Lossidia
06. Deflector shield overload
07. Dimension shift
08. Phantom moon
09. Enter the nebula
10. The eye on the surface
11. The silent howl
12. Adrift am I
13. Vengeance against no one
14. Parade of the morbid
15. Lost in the solar winds
16. The rings of the red moon

Overall length is 28+ minutes.

Have fun (that's what we had while creating this package) ... over and out!

Third (from the planet Lossidia)

Third master under the listening & checking currently. Quite likely the old saying of "third time lucky" fits for this. The changes have been rather small from first master, but overall they add much more to the package, considering how small the changes are technically speaking.

It starts to look that it's very much possible, that this release from the Lossidia will see the light of the day (on earth) still during January.

For the master

Heard the first master version today, the whole package. Sounds rather promising I'd say. Only one song had minor "problem" with it (some guitar leads forgotten) and it will get fixed still today. Some volume questions elsewhere, perhaps, but nothing major. It seems quite likely that there won't be more guitarsolos recorded - that's how the package is forming, this time.

There will be severe grind punishment moments, as well as really heavy doomdeath'y moments. Mixed with d-beats here and there, and death metal elements. Rather varying package, it seems. And the dark ambient'ish elements, both within the actual songs at times, and around them. Hmmm. Is it scifi grind, or scientific grindcore? To answer that question, ... it might need some studying with qualitative research method to find out. Ha!

Getting there ...

Status report from earlier today; all songs except one (track 13) are now done with the vocals too. So that one track is the only one with some "basic work" left to do. After that's done, then some synth/machinery/ambient department & finetuning - and also if it looks like there's some room for guitarsolos, then some solos will be thrashed down by yours truly. At the moment only one song has a guitarsolo, the song being the only coversong of the package.

What's the coversong then? Well, it is a piece by Atrocity (US) from their 1992's "the art of death", ... a song called "parade of the morbid".

Virtual soundcheckin'

I got this funny little idea few days ago, about utilising the "second life" system for a virtual Scumfusion soundcheck / rehearsal video. Using a brutally altered rough mix demo for music. Part of one new song. It took overall something like 4-5 hours (out of which 1,5 hours were complete waste with Windows Moviemaker - don't ever try use it for anything more demanding!) and the result is rather funny, as I hoped. Or should I say funky? Grind funky?

It's a part of a song called "that's when they burned me" and you can see it:

Here!

Have fun.

Nighttime birds chirping

I heard few rough demomixes by Timo, with bassguitars and vocals added - and it sounded promising to me. It's always such a huge difference to hear the material with bassguitars and vocals added (than just drums and base guitars). And this time also some of the synth / dark ambient elements too ... it makes an exciting little experience for sure.

Last time I heard from Timo, he had already big bunch of lyrics done and some nighttime recording session resulting into something like 7-8 songs finished with the vocals. Talk about action!

Passing of time

What's going currently, is that Timo is creating the rest of the lyrics for the songs (last time we spoke, he had lyrics ready for 8 songs) plus preparing vocals recording at some point. And also creating & finetuning the so-called dark ambient'like elements. To my knowledge all the bassguitars are already recorded.

Oh, and the release will be called as "a lossidian threnody".