DETERIOR

Tomorrow, an album is being released by members of Rate Your Music which consists of covers of '70s and '80s punk classics. Among the tracks is my own cover of Minor Threat's "Screaming at a Wall". I'm handing out this link a day early; I hope nobody gets mad at me for it. Download at Mediafire Self-released (#RYM 004) digital file, 9 December 2010 Mastered by Nap; art by Luís Felipe Rocha China Girl – New York [Sex Pistols] Paulie Jay – Love Song [The Damned] ATSEA & Nun the Wiser – It Was Cold [The Ruts] The Transparent Nudes – Final Solution [Pere Ubu] Andrew Sacher – Blank Generation [Richard Hell & the Voidoids] Nap – Sonic Reducer [Dead Boys] Jef Leeson – Tired of Waking Up Tired [The Diodes] Nervousbreakdance – Let's Lynch the Landlord [Dead Kennedys] Modest View – Split Myself in Two [Meat Puppets] Evilface – Oh Shit [Buzzcocks] Kelly Kish – Because You're Young [Cock Sparrer] Iakov – American Waste [Black Flag] ...

Apparently I haven't even mentioned this yet. I'm already working on a new album. I've been writing song sketches (essentially, guitar jams) since May and so far have about fifty—about three and a half hours' worth—to use. After the clusterfuck of finals/the holidays are over, I'm going to start piecing together some real demos starting in January; maybe I'll have a couple to post around then as well. Going by that timeframe, I'm looking at actually having something released in July or August. But considering graduation/potential moving in June, who knows what will happen, so don't hold your breath. p.s. If you still haven't downloaded Primitive Circuitry for free yet, better get on it —it might not stay free for long as there are a limited number of free downloads left.

Hey, it's me again. Yeah, I'm still here. Been super busy with school, work, and looking for a job post-graduation. That's all going splendidly but unfortunately leaves little time for music. Rest assured that I'm still cranking out song ideas when I have time. While you wait, I thought I'd post the interview I conducted with the media webzine Ve3tro (it seems they now only do video games), originally published in late January 2009, just after Cleanse came out. Ve3tro: What is the main purpose of your music? Do you have any particular message or meaning that you try to make your work embellish? Deterior: The main purpose of all the music I do is to entertain myself. I started writing music because it sounded fun and it was something I had always been interested in doing and was willing to learn. I spent several years churning out utter crap. It took me two years to write and record World , and even then I wasn't satisfied with what I had made (which isn'...

Yeah, been a long time posting. I've been busy with work somewhat, but that hasn't kept me from working on music. I've got a bunch of sketches of new songs that I've been working on for the past few months, and Ectype is being worked on a bit, too. In the meantime, I found all the guitar tablature I made when recording Primitive Circuitry sitting around and thought someone might find it fun to look at. I used drop A tuning, which is kind of unusual, but some pitch-shifting plugins can get the music up to a playable pitch. http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?e8zpm45ys7x4ggy update: just realized that "The Rhetoric Drain" tab is missing the intro. sorry about that. it's probably pretty easy to figure out though.

Thanks to all your wonderful donations over the past few months, I was able to afford a replacement for my broken Digitech pedal. I've played around with it a bit and it sounds great; I've heard many good things about Metal Muffs (one of them being durability, so that's always good) and I hope this one will serve me well in music to come.

It is with sorrow that I announce that one of my most faithful companions on my musical journey, my Digitech BP-80 effects pedal, has finally gone on to meet the great circuit board in the sky after at least five years of use. I'm going to be shopping for a new one soon, but that means I'm not going to be able to do any further work on Ectype for a while. Oh well.

I just realized I'd forgotten to update the lyrics page with Primitive Circuitry 's lyrics. So they're there now, in case you wanted them to copy or something like that, I dunno.

Primitive Circuitry by Deterior Well, here it is, the moment I'm sure you've been waiting for. I don't know what else to say except I hope you like it; I worked extra hard on this one. label: GarageMonkey Productions (GMP-020) Format: Digital file Released: 29 June 2010 Time: 46:18 Recorded and engineered by Deterior from February–April 2010 at Studio 205 Mixed and mastered by Deterior from April&#150May 2010 at Studio 205 Cover art: Drastic Actions Credits This record was entirely produced by Deterior; however various sound samples used were kindly borrowed from the following: ABKCO Films Inc., British Lion Films, freesound.org users batchku, alchemical, Greg Baumont. All content remains copyright © the original owner.

Track 2 from Primitive Circuitry , "Lockout", is now up on MySpace for streaming .

Well now that I've finished with just about everything for the new album (and have upgraded my DAW! wooo!), I've been contemplating rebooting that covers EP Ectype and the re-recording of World . Ectype is definitely going to have some different songs on it (I think I'll keep the Liars and Why? covers; they were the only two that sounded half-decent). I should have time to crank those out over the summer. So maybe fall we'll see some new stuff (and some new old stuff).

one of my all-time favorite bands and a huge influence on my own music, the mighty ISIS, has decided to disband . I'm sad to see them go, but I'm looking forward to new musical projects by them. here's to you.

A Grey Cell [single] by Deterior from Primitive Circuitry . also contains a cover of Fugazi's "Waiting Room" and a remix of "Tidal" by Rubb. label: GarageMonkey Productions (GMP-019) format: digital file released: 18 May 2010 time: 13:19 recorded and engineered by Deterior in Studio 205 from Feburary–April 2010 mixed and mastered by Deterior in studio 205 from April–May 2010 cover art: Louise Docker / Drastic Actions video direction/filming: Drastic Actions tracklist: A Grey Cell (4:59) Waiting Room (2:53) Tidal (Surfing into Battle Rubbmix) (5:27)

...is a wonderful thing. Yep, it's done. Well, except for the single, artwork, video, promoting, and all that. But still!

After some experimenting with the site I've decided to start using Bandcamp for managing my music downloads. I'm currently in the process of uploading stuff. Antimonument , Lifting of the Veil , and Cleanse are all available as name-your-own-price downloads in a variety of formats (including FLAC). The new stuff will be going up there as well. You can check it all out at http://deterior.bandcamp.com/ .

:-O Yep, things are winding down. I actually have a timeline up through June of when I'm going to be doing stuff... for the next maybe two weeks, it's artwork, then mastering, then release. I'll have a promo video up in a few weeks, hopefully. I should stop promising all of these things.

It figures that right after I make a post claiming that I'm not slacking off on the new album that I have one of my least-productive weeks. Well there is only bass for one track left to go (plus some extra tweaks/bits I forgot) and vocals for one of the B-sides for the single—which, by the way, is the third track "A Grey Cell" and will be out (like I said) May 18... assuming, of course, both the B-sides are in order by then. Mixing is about half done too, and I'm pumped for this. It's sounding good, I think.

I promise I'm not slacking off okay? This past Saturday, photos for artwork were taken. Neat shots of the area, I guess. Bass guitar (and consequently all recording for the album) should be finished by the end of this week. Mixing is about halfway done, so... tentative release dates are: May 18 for the single, June 29 for the album.

The sacrifices I make for art! Seriously though I drank at least a gallon of water in the space of a few hours total this week in order to keep my throat lubed up enough to crank out all the vocals for the new album. But oh it was worth it. (It better be, anyway.) Break is over starting next week and I'll be cranking out the bass then, the final step for recording. Then about a million months of mixing and tweaking. Hooray.

Bleh, my throat hurts. Probably shouldn't have done that vocal demoing all at once. Yep, there's (so far) going to be quite a bit of harsh vocals on it; hopefully my throat will man up enough to take it when I do the official recording in about two weeks. (That's one last week of class, followed by finals, followed by one week of free time for me to crank them out.) In fact I didn't even have the lyrics finalized until today, and even then I actually wrote a line or two today to get it all fitting together. I suppose it's going to be around the same amount that was on Cleanse ; present but sort of in the background part of the time and still letting the instruments have their way with the music. I don't remember if Cleanse was supposed to be a concept album ( Antimonument was for sure), but the new one isn't so much. The lyrics are still pretty abstract but I wrote them all without any connection between songs. Mostly they are about everyday life. I am goi...

I don't know what song is going to be the single yet, but I do know that there are going to be two exclusive B-sides along with it. One of them will be a remix (of a previously-released song) done by Rubb. , whom you may recall from the Spire remix single. The other one will be a cover of the band Fugazi.

I was planning to post some pictures or video or something, but that's not working out yet ... I'll try to do so in the future. Right, so, I've officially begun the recording process for the new album. At this point, I have recorded all the guitar for the first of seven songs, and I'm probably just going to progress straight through and then do bass and vocals after. Seems simpler that way. So about my equpiment: I've been using the same guitar for a long time now, an Ibanex EX 370 that I got used in 2005 or so. I don't like it very much. The main problem with it is the fact that it has a floating (Floyd Rose) bridge, meaning that where the strings attach at the bottom just kind of goes up and down whenever it wants instead of staying put. Apparently there are professionals who can string guitars with floating bridges. I can't. When I restrung my guitar for Antimonument , I tried to use regular drop D tuning, resulting in so much tension that I just broke th...

So apparently Blogspot launched this "pages" feature without telling me. I've taken advantage of the situation to post a more detailed discography page all in one place. I'll probably put download links in it eventually. Oh, and it also contains the tentative tracklist for the new album.

Well, all my tabs are done and that means song arrangements are pretty much finalized... all that remains is a bit of rehearsal and I think I'm going to start recording this weekend. Exciting. I'm thinking of doing some sort of picture or video updates when I start recording because that sounds cool. Who knows.

I think I'm just about finished editing the arrangements for all seven of the songs on the new album. I'm probably going to crank out tabs for them and then I should be able to start the recording process within a couple weeks. Very exciting stuff. So yeah, like I said before, even though I loved Cleanse when it came out last year, I've realized that I made a lot of mistakes in its execution and it doesn't reflect my best effort. I'm trying to put a lot more effort into the new album, which I hope will show. Like I said I realized that the overlong ambient pieces really took away from the flow so there is going to be a lot less of that. The tentative title right now is Primitive Circuitry , in case anyone was wondering. Barring any horrible accidents, I hope to have it ready to go in maybe mid-spring.

Back in Columbus. I'm going to be starting school tomorrow, but I'll hopefully still have time to work on songwriting while I'm at it. Also, I can ship out any CD or tape purchases.