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About Me

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ALTAiR was formed many years ago by Erik. Aaron and I joined up around the end of 2001, early 2002. We didn't do much writing on Technophobia but our input swayed the sound a great deal. In fact I only wrote one song off that album but I co-wrote 3 or 4 others. Mostly it was our creative ears doing the work there, but our last album With Inhuman Vigor was mostly my brainchild. Heavy Metal is my greatest influence and the song structure on most of the songs will show that. The first song all three of us wrote was Overload. Excellent tune and hopefully our growing chemistry will produce more kick ass tunes as such.This page is dedicated to the stuff I write on the side which is essentially the same only I release a little more rage and get a little racy in the lyrics. Erik had me rewriting some of my stuff for the album, trying to make it family friendly. Not too rough around the edges as a band like ours oughta be but it's a democracy.

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Member Since: 27/04/2005
Band Website: http://groups.myspace.com/cageofaltair
Band Members: For the purposes of this page... just me. Cage. All programming and vocals... Cage.
Influences: Megadeth is my biggest influence. Not just in music but life in general. My writing influences include Type O Negative, Stabbing Westward, Queensryche, Iced Earth, and a little Skinny Puppy and Ministry. Not to mention a lot of obscure, little things. Visual and emotional stimuli is also a major influence, not just auditory. A sunset, a movie, death, heartache or contentment. Anything can produce a song in your head.
Sounds Like: ALTAiR
SONG ARCHIVE These are songs currently available for listen, and those that have been removed to make way for new songs. If there's something you haven't heard yet, you can always request to have it thrown on again, perhaps even for download. Heresy Knife In Back Brain Rot Permanence Gray Matter Injecting the Virus Hurt Letting Go Two Worlds(demo) Stain of Memory (ALTAiR) Weakness Is She Ashen Wings Unglued Broken Glass (ALTAiR) The Year of Machine/A Last Resort (ALTAiR) What I Can Be (ALTAiR) Mechanical Outlaw (ALTAiR) Null (ALTAiR)
Record Label: If you work for one, sign me! Just because...

My Blog

Interesting Day

Well, I finally got someone in close quarters with Geoff Tate to take over the myspace page I created. Like I figured I got a lot of shit by taking the high road and saying to all the fans that ...
Posted by on Wed, 20 Dec 2006 13:26:00 GMT

Null and the quest for completion...

Okay, so I've been relatively absent for the past few months... there haven't been any new songs up for a while and there's a few reasons for that. 1. I just got married, so you could say ...
Posted by on Mon, 12 Jun 2006 16:15:00 GMT

Year of Machine / A Last Resort

So this is the opener to the upcoming concept album which I'm guessing will most likely bear the title Slave To Technology. I've redone the lyrics completely as I wasn't satisfied with their fl...
Posted by on Thu, 20 Apr 2006 11:28:00 GMT

Mechanical Outlaw

This is probably the danciest song I've ever written that still fell under the industrial category. EBM you might say. It's the part of the story where the character has lived through so m...
Posted by on Sat, 04 Feb 2006 07:23:00 GMT

What I Can Be

It's kind of weird that during a stressful and rage-filled time, I wrote this heart-felt song that's so full of sorrow and high expectations. Lately I've been writing music that's quite the oppo...
Posted by on Wed, 14 Dec 2005 04:08:00 GMT

Unglued

I wrote Unglued in August of 2004 but I was never really happy with the way the lyrics turned out. Recently my fiancee was asking for a CD to put under a candle and I found a slightly scratched ...
Posted by on Fri, 30 Sep 2005 20:42:00 GMT

Weakness....

Some people are baffling. They have that battered wife syndrome yet they're male... Some people keep going back into fucked up relationships that have ended once or twice or thrice before....
Posted by on Sat, 03 Sep 2005 20:56:00 GMT

Stain of Memory

This is a song I intend to put on the concept album we're going to be working on. It's basically about a guy who has been integrating machinery and computers with his biochemistry and is becomin...
Posted by on Wed, 27 Jul 2005 21:08:00 GMT

You'll never HURT like that again...

This one is a little older but not yet released to the public.... until now of course. This is basically a creepy sort of love song... well, not really. It's about a turmoiled relationship that...
Posted by on Wed, 25 May 2005 09:49:00 GMT

Injecting the Virus... attempt at being political

This song has a few different levels to it. It ties together the war, AIDS, and rampant intraveneous drug use. It's basically saying that all these evils may have the best of intentions in...
Posted by on Tue, 24 May 2005 23:29:00 GMT