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[Arkhangelsk]

Sometimes I wonder if you're actually some big superstar hiding your identity.

OT: I wish I had a band. I love performing, but few I know likes the same music as me and knows how to play an instrument.

You should go solo then. If you want a job done well do it yourself etc...

Would if I could. While I have some ideas, they're just fragments. I work best with others. I only have a few written melodies (the only good one being classic music), and a bunch of lyrics. I've been told that I'm good at writing lyrics, but I'm no good at melodies.

 

[Iron Criterion]

Me and my friends are starting a speed metal band called Midnight Fire, we don't have anything to promote yet because we are still finishing and tweaking our set. As soon as we gig I'll put something up on here...

 

[FinalHeart95]

Searching for a band at the moment. Unfortunately, my writing style is pretty much everywhere, so that might not happen until I focus on one genre. For example, I started writing a melodic hardcore/pop-punk piece last night, but I got the chords for a jazz song if that pans out as well. When I improv, I'll often go into thrash metal sections too.

 

[nick n stuff]

i'm the drummer of my band so i'm the guy who isn't seen and gets the butt of all the jokes. i'm also the worst musician (although i do play guitar every so often and no one complains). however, without me the band would crumble, not being big headed it's just that i'm the mum of the band. i book practice rooms, i makes sure everyone knows what we are doing and when, i do all the mundane stuff that no-one really thinks about, so my security within the band is pretty solid.

 

[KnowYourOnion]

Sort of........ though were suffering from a major lack of free time
but I'm doing some experimental acoustic stuff as a sort of hobby thing.

 

[Outright Villainy]

I'm in a band with two of my friends. We've written some stuff in guitar pro separately (as we go to college in opposite ends of the country) but next week we'll all be home and within ten miles so hopefully fun jammy times are ahead.
It's a Progressive/metal/groove kind of thing. We don't really aim for a specific genre but it ends up having loads of evolving parts while trying to retain some sort of machine head-esque groove or something. Hopefully we can keep it fresh sounding at any rate, if it sucks it sucks, but I want to at least have something that's sucky and unique!
Or I could just rip off Sikth [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7BoKOscMrY] wholesale and hope no one notices.

 

[iLikeHippos]

Nope. But I got a friend over on xbox live who is a bassist for a band.

I find it hard to believe though that he actually got time to play when his longest offline time is 5 hours. ONLY FIVE!

 

[RyQ_TMC]

Used to be in a few, as a rhythm/lead guitarist and once as the singer... One blues-rock band, two metal, one general rock... But then studies/work took me around the world.

Still hoping to go back to music one day.

 

[Optimus Hagrid]

Ugh.

So basically when we were young and retarded we decided to form a band. It would be a band based around funny songs. So we had my friend, writing the funny songs, a punk drummer (who is the best drummer I have seen in my life), a rock guitarist, and me diddling away on a MIDI keyboard.

It didn't work. The recitals were awful, with four different musical elements belting away, and not actually combining to make a song. Thankfully it only lasted a few weeks. Never. Again.

 

[reg42]

I was for a little bit. I was the bassist and singer. Nothing serious, just played some stonerish jams onstage for a while. Didn't last too long, but it wasn't really going to anyway.

I'll probably get together a band when I get to college, because there's depressingly few people around here who listen to doom metal.

I record myself occasionally, playing all the instruments, but they aren't great because it's nigh impossible to jam with yourself.

That lovely duck song you made was pretty good.

 

[ironduke88]

I'm technically the lead singer in a 'band'. Were called 'Concrete Donkey & the Big Scary Breakfast' we have about 20 band members (including four percussionists; one on the rock-triangle) and we've been runnin for around a year and a bit. To date we haven't had a jam with every single member in attendance and we have never made any recordings. We constantly assure ourselves that our blend of pop-punk hooks, heavy metal bass-riffs, drum n' bass synth work over topped with screamo vocals and interludes of gangsta' rap (and a choir singer) work very well together.

It's not good but it helps blow off steam and everyone has some creative input so we enjoy it.

 

[TheRightToArmBears]

Well, some of you might remember my thread the other week bitching about other band members. I'm not in that band anymore, but there's also the ska band (Marijuana Salad, sounds like Reel Big Fish mainly because we tend to cover 80's songs in a ska style, like Billy Idol) for which I'm the bassist, the rock/metal band in which I play lead guitar (kinda sounds like AC/DC mixed with Lamb Of God, for at least the two songs we've written as of yet).

 

[zen5887]

Why yes I am.

My main band is a Prog band called Pandema. We've played some gigs at some cool places with other cool bands around Brisbane but not really anything big. "They're a pretty damn impressive band - kind of like the bastard lovechild of Muse, A Perfect Circle and Placebo." Personally I don't hear any of the Muse or Placebo, but I've got told that at pretty much all of our shows. I hear more of a Porcupine Tree and Tool stuff but maybe thats what I play.

I just realized that, in our band leaders infinite wisdom, our songs are off the myspace page so I can't show you any of our tunes, but we've almost finished our EP so stay tuned.

www.myspace.com/pandema
www.facebook.com/pandema

I'm also in a uni band which is a funk/pop thing, mainly for fun but we might gig sometime soon. We actually had a pretty huge recording session today, and another one booked on friday. Should get 4 songs out of that =)

Here is some stuff I've done in the past.

 

[Ares Tyr]

Glam rock death metal?

I suggest making something original. Maybe getting musicians who have some desire to create unique tunes instead of dime a dozen predictable stuffs.

You guys have talent for a cover band, but you need your own sound, and from the link you gave..... I didn't hear anything unique.

But hey, lots of people like 80's metal with 90's death vocals.... you might get a few fans the way you are.

As a musician, I give you 1 out of 5 stars on the one song I heard.

If that's directed at me we definetly are not a cover band at all, because all of our stuff is original music. We don't even have a cover song to speak of. If you're saying our music is a cross between glam rock and death metal then you are sorely misplacing our genre and should probably take a look at whats going on in underground music for reference to what we're shooting for.

We all have a desire to create unique music, original music.

Anyways, update.

We wrote and performed a new song recently at a show, here's a video of it:

Brockness Monster! [http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=105225375]

(another Venture Bros. reference)

We have two more songs in the works, one of which is heavier than anything we've written before. Getting ready to play a HUGE show with three really HUGE bands from the Carolinas. It's us, The Terrigen Mists [http://www.myspace.com/theterrigenmists], Tyrannis [http://www.myspace.com/tyrannismetal], and the incredible Wretched [http://www.myspace.com/wretchednc], who I've been a fan of for years (I even saw them shortly before they released their first album on Victory Records). I'm really stoked for this show. We're also supposed to be recording this month or next, so I'll share that when its all said and done.

 

[The Rockerfly]

I used to play in a band called Terminal Velocity, we did covers of metal songs such as Avenged Sevenfold and Trvium but I left once the drummer slept with my girlfriend

Now I'm in a brass band with my tuba and a tenor in a chamber choir. Have to say they are easier on my vocal chords and fingers than being in a metal band. Oh and my ears too

 

[Julianking93]

I used to be. Didn't really get along with the people though since we all wanted to play different styles and by "we all wanted to" I mean me.

They wanted to play some shitty death metal that sounded like a mix of Electric Wizard and Cannibal Corpse while I just wanted to play something that didn't involve monotonous riffs and droning music

 

[hottsaucekid]

Ive been trying to start a band with my friends. we've gotton together and practiced a few times most just covers of songs we want to play. one member will always bring a different type of music (for example i'd bring Blink 182 and my guitarist would always bring something with a huge long insane solo he could show off on stage) i love doing it. do i see us going any farther than maybe a few gigs around my home town? no but i love music and i love playing it so i will be until the day i die, band or not.