A Little Something About My Band, Culloden
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, 03-03-2012 at 01:29 AM (8930 Views)
I write, I play bass and I sing for a band, a Heavy Metal band and it is called Culloden. Originally it was because no one else could do the job properly or would bother that I started singing and I've never been a good bass player, I've been inspired by bassists who play the bass like the guitar for crying out loud!
I've been plucking, bashing, shouting, screaming, chanting, forcing my way through the ranks of skill, you can say I've been grinding, a lot to reach a level I can face the next boss, the world of music itself!
With there being only 3 of us our sound is limited, our range is limited only to what I can sing and play, for covering songs its the same but I bite my tongue and change it, modify both elements and bend them to my will so I can. What has spawned from our unison though regardless of these limitations is a force so odd, yet entirely awesome and above the blackened seas of self pity.
Ladies and Gentlemen let me show you, the power of Culloden!!
Our first original is a fully recorded and mixed demo, it is called "The Void" originally the lyrics were inspired by how I felt when I was dumped 2, 2 and half years ago maybes and there are still remnants of the originally lyrical elements in the first section before the fast part kicks in but as time went on I worked on the lyrics more and it slowly became a story of its own, a story of a being trapped in a vast, empty, dark and cold prison between dimensions, The Void, for ten thousand years, cursing his fate, his sorrow and remorse became pure vengeance pure fury and madness and when he broke free, the world would burn by his hands and that is the story behind it, cliche but metal lyrics are full of cliches everywhere tbh.
We recorded this in D standard as at the time I was just starting to sing again after we booted a singer we had in because she just couldn't do the job. Now we play in Eb tuning and plan to redo the song.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lawsI...-1sHtITDIxm1TQ
It was recorded live in one take.
We also recorded a Judas Priest cover of their most famous song, Breaking the Law, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5GVBuSyAFw
A Motorhead cover of The Ace of Spades http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9DKVXpZQuo
and a Manowar cover of Kings of Metal http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2pwAK14vMIM
This was back in September and since we've began 2 more songs.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOGE7BqkR6Y The Fall of Culloden (also called The Lost Children)
And March on the Somme http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYY8DRb8dj8
Worth linking too is a video of a really good, heavy, slow, grungy, groovy, crunchy and dark jam. Me and the drummer are adamant to use this! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRqadj9BecE
So there you have it! This is what I do, this is me, making and playing music with my friends and we hope to level up again and again and storm the barricades! This is Culloden, this is I Shoden.