Alazar

I honestly don't know what genre this stuff falls into. With all the ridiculous sub-genres these days, you'd think I'd find one, but no such luck. What do you call black metal when you remove the guitar and use a keyboard instead? When there's as many low growls as high? When there's a strong swing influence? When most of the songs are mid-tempo, and blastbeats and double-bass drumming are only occasionally used? If you can come up with a cool, catchy name for this, email it to me and I will copyright it, so that I can charge you a quarter every time you say it. :)For now, I'm tentatively labeling this an experimental black metal project. I'm sure there's plenty of people who would argue that Alazar is not "metal" or "black metal" because it's not fast/heavy/evil enough. I suggest those people either come up with a cool, catchy genre name for me or go jump off a high building to prove how "heavy" and "evil" they are. Unlike many of the poser bands that are clogging the media these days, I do not make fast, heavy, evil music. I make GOOD music--and when it happens to be fast, heavy, and evil, that's just icing on the cake. The key to making good music is letting the song speak for itself--not telling the song what to say or how to say it.Final Mistake is most indicative of my style. The other two tracks up are from the early days of this project, when I had no way of multi-tracking and relied on computer accompaniment; they will be re-recorded without the computer. The vocals on Curse are entirely by Cody; the high growls by me will be on the upcoming demos (which you'll be happy to know are for the most part a bit faster paced). I have an album's worth of lyrics and half an album's worth of music, and I'm working day and night to bridge the gap. Thank you to everyone for your patience.--David