Finished an all night recording session.

[blazer]

My Band "Slavantas" had been pressing on me to come up with a cool song so after jamming for a while in our rehearsal space I suddenly had this really cool riff and the others were going: "Dude, keep that in, it kicks ***." We then started chatting on what the song should be about. I then came up with a title, since we've already have really dark and moody songs with titles like "dreams of Insanity" and "World of hate" I said to the guys: "We could make it about a guy who's been through all kinds of hardship and survived it all as if been guided by a hand of fate."

And so I went home and switched on my PC and started up my Line 6 recording software and went to work. Now I'm eight hours later and the rough version of a new song called "Hand of fate" is done.

I did everything, I used the MIDI from my Line6 gear box to do a drum line, I played about twelve different guitar tracks (I used my SG/Tele hybrid on the main distortion parts, my CAR Squier Telecaster on the clean parts and my 1989 Squier Stratocaster "The Veteran" on the lead parts) and I played two bass tracks. (one on my five string Knooren Custom bass, the other fretless part on my Ricky-rethink bass)

The resulting track has the riff I came up with, a dark and moody clean section on which I employed a "Master of puppets" style twin guitar lead and a heavey chorused fretless bassline, and a reprise of the rocking parts with me doing a long solo on "The Veteran"

As soon as the others add their tracks we'll put this bad boy online.

As for now, I'm off to bed.

[brammy]

Looking forward to it.

[wayang]

Sounds good, Wouter...of course, there is already at least one other song called "Hand Of Fate", but so what?

Our three newest tunes consist of two Latin-sounding numbers called "Adios, Mojados" and "Mitt Romney's Lawn Crew", and a moody sort of tune with a chromatic descending bass line (ala Iggy Pop's "Street Of Chance) which is entitled "The Next Big Thing Might Be The Last"...