»Notes: Chief Rebel Angel

I'm a major cock rider for Entombed, so it was inevitable that I'd cover one of their songs at some point. This one is from my favourite studio album of theirs called 'Morning Star'. No, I don't have much of a clue what the relevance of the morning star, phosphorous or anything else in the lyrics is. I'm guessing it's some LaVey Satanism stuff.

Most of the time I employ two rhythm guitars, usually doubling up the rhythm parts and then splitting for any lead or harmony stuff. Seeing as this song doesn't have any major lead work, I was able to just go with one rhythm guitar, which I find preferable. Surprisingly, there's no real drop in power with only one guitar. If anything, with there being less to compete with the bass, it actually makes it sound more powerful. As Lars would put it, silent gaps between massive power chords really get my dick hard at the moment.

I was really pleased with how the bass came out in this one. I have a mind to boost it even more in the mix.

I made more of an effort to mix this song, boosting the main parts at different frequencies to help with clarity. It seems to have paid off, at least I think it sounds better for the changes.

I was a bit unsure of the synthesiser parts at the beginning of the song. At least one of the parts I was mimicking was done by an actual singer in the original (and not a pad as I first suspected). This was somewhat disappointed as as well as not having access to a decent keyboard for pads and pianos, I don't have access to a female singer either.

I was reasonably pleased with how the vocals came out. I wouldn't have much chance of getting anything at all like L. G. Petrov's vocals (which is probably a good thing from an originality stand-point) so I had to do the best with what I have. I really piled up the back-up vocals in the chorus but my voice couldn't take doubling up the main vocals so I had to leave that as one part.

My hat goes off to anyone who can do harsh vocals for more than one song at a time.

There's an ass load of noises and effects in the quiet middle section. Some of these were produced in a seriously low-fi way. Think along the lines of 'well I can't think of anywhere I could source a sample of some wind blowing, so maybe I could just whistle a blowing wind noise into the mic? Great!'

Whilst I was farting around with the mixing of the vocals I had the TV on and ITV 3 or 4 were showing an episode of The Champions, which is sixties with a capital S. The rather cool sample at the end was just a direct recording of the TV with my mic and makes the song sound like I put a lot more effort in it than I did, sourcing vintage samples etc. I'm a total hack.

The thumbnail was stolen from deviantArt. The original piece was called Blind Deceit. Here's a link to show I'm a thief with a conscience. License? WHAT LICENSE!

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