DETERIOR

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.

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 .

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

:-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...

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.

Twelve demos, seventy-four minutes all told (well really 13 demos, but the intro doesn't really count). It's a bit sad that I am going to scrap at least 3 of them for the album, but at the same time I enjoy being able to pick and choose. It's sounding much different from Cleanse (perhaps that's a good thing); it's faster and has kind of a more "post-hardcore" sound to it. Or something like that. Maybe I've been listening to too much punk lately... nah.

I told you I was going to post a demo. Here you go!

up to eight demos for the new album, forty-five minutes, all killer no filler. especially after I realized that Cleanse only had five songs on it. that's going to change for the new album. I'll have time this month to crank out a few more, hopefully, since I'm out of town until early January; also, because of this, anyone wishing to get tapes or CDs is going to have to wait; sorry about that but I couldn't drag all my stuff with me! a demo WILL be posted soon.

five demos have been cut so far. I'm aiming for at least a dozen good ones before I begin to think about album structure/layout. if I'm feeling generous, I may post one or two of them here soon.

I suppose I should apologize for the severe lack of updates lately... one a month really isn't as much as I should be writing, I feel. the reason for that is probably because there's been a lot of stuff going on with me lately, mostly classwork, but rest assured that I am working on a ton of music-related stuff; it just won't come to fruition for a while, I suppose. here's a quick rundown: I have not worked on Ectype in a long time, but it is actually nearing completion; it just needs bass recorded and mixing/mastering. vocals and half of the guitar for the re-recorded edition of World are finished. I'm working on developing a more polished guitar tone via effects added during mixing instead of during recording, which should shape up to be interesting. I probably already mentioned that I have a new, more professional-sounding drum machine; it's pretty cool. I still haven't been able to press Music for Battery though I'll probably be able to over Than...

two songs have been written for the upcoming new album. of course I may not use them, or rewrite them, or whatever; but the point is I am actually making some progress. on that note, I'm moving back to my Columbus studio in a couple weeks to finish off Ectype . Music for Battery should be out soon after that, though I still haven't even gotten the tapes pressed (yeah, I've been lazy).