An original metal song from me!

[Child Of Norther]

Wrote this for someone's birthday as a present!

Tried to include elements from all her favourite genres:

Heavy metal (Dream evil and so on)
Folk Metal (ensiferum and such)
Symphonic Black Metal (dimmu borgir)
Heavy riffing (BLS)
Melodic death (Wintersun)

First 4 solos are based around pentatonic and natural minor scales!

Last one is something more in my own style of writing!



Let me know guys!

http://www.celtiaproductions.co.uk/misc/recordings/gavinharper-thedeilscauldron.mp3

[Nazgul]

I like it! Especially the black metal elements! Don't like the folk elements tho...
Nice playing and sound too!

[Child Of Norther]

Hey, thanks a lot bro!!

[St.James]

Sounded good as usual to me. Interesting mix of styles.

[Child Of Norther]

Thanks!


My upcoming solo CD is kinda like this but more technical, better mix of styles and such!



Man, solo CD sounds so pretentious....

Essentially, i live in a small city in Scotland, no-one plays the metal i like so i'm just doing an EP by myself and borrowing a friend's band'sa vocalist!

[Drizzt]

Very nice! What kind of instrument did you used for the choirs?

[Child Of Norther]

A special choir patch i made outta two choir sample libraries

EW Voices of the apocalypse
Spectrasonics Symphony of Voices


I built my mighty choir using a total of 5 patches from these libraries into Kontakt 2

[wichitadave]

That was really cool! Nice solos too. Rockin!!!!!

[metalboots]

\m/ Kewl! Sounds like Amorphis or Belgrath or Lord Belial...

I really liked it.. The tempo changes midway prior to solos were nice...

[metallicarocks]

Jesus Christ that kicked ass! Throw some vocals on their, and it'll be in my car stereo soon.

What is your recording setup like?
What software/synth do you use for the choirs?

[SGplayer]

Great Intro/Solo & backing rhythm behind it!!!!!!

[Child Of Norther]

Hey! thanks a lot guys!

[RacerX]

Kickass! You know I love your choirs.

But wait! the deilscauldron.mp3 ??

Did ya forget a V in there, Gavin?

K. what axe, what amp?

[Child Of Norther]

Kickass! You know I love your choirs.

But wait! the deilscauldron.mp3 ??

Did ya forget a V in there, Gavin?

No i didn't


Deil is Scottish pronounciation of Devil in the west and place i grew up


The "Deil's Cauldron", however, is a valley in the village i grew up in and the reason i named it so is special meaning between the person i wrote it for and myself

K. what axe, what amp?

KV2
Pod XT
Nuendo 3.2
Drumkit from hell superior
This time, i actually used the Andy sneap kick sample but processed it even further to give it some balls
Rakes of VST and DX compressors, EQ, Reverbs and so on.

First song i recorded on my new studio PC,
AMD 4200+ dual core and 2gb ram and so on