As most of you know by now, I'm a musician and I'm currently in a 5 piece melodic/progressive metal band. We use 3 guitars, bass, drums, and 4 way vocal lines (though one of our guitarist's is our lead singer, all of us excluding our drummer share harmony/backing death vox). We try to find a good balance between heavyness and melody using both death vocals and clean vocals accordingly over a mixture of distorted/clean/acoustic guitar riffs & solo's.

We're about to start recording our bands demo in the upcoming weeks, I'll most likely post the songs 1 by 1 as they're recorded rather than waiting untill the demo is actually released, because you guys are special

Now, a few little notes to get out of the way before I go on.

IMPORTANT ONE TO READ - These are mostly 2 guitars and bass and the 3 tracks are written by myself. The 3rd guitar parts are written, although Charles hasn't updated these yet with his guitar parts (he has a memory like an elephant, he just remembers everything). So try to imagine leads and solo's, it takes away from how repeatitive certain riffs sound.

- Midi doesn't sound real! My bands music doesn't sound like Megaman music, although midi does, which means these do indeed sound like Megaman music. Use your imagination a little.

- These should have midi distortion with transitions into clean/acoustic riffs and what not, aswell as bends/slides/vibrato's and things of that nature. If not, your computers midi card (is it even a card? Fuck if I know) isn't capable of handling it. If everything comes out sounding like piano or something, it's your midi card, not the midi's themselves.

- These are all written in C# minor with different modes and what not. Alot of metal bands use minor keys to write, and quite often tune half a step lower than we do. As a result, there may be bits and pieces that remind you of other songs. It can't be helped, there are only so many notes per key so some repeatition can't be helped (especially after 30 odd years of metal already written before us).

- I've written all of these in just the last few weeks, so there are still some changes to be made, but these are pretty close to finished. Also, every ending is only temporary, we're planning on having most of the album tie together and I'm leaving that to Charles who is stupidly clever at that sort of stuff.

Now, in exception for "...Of My Souls Decay" (which has lyrics/vocals already), none of these names are sticking. I always give midi's temporary names that are usually stupid and come from whatever I hear/see/feel at the time, they will be changed once lyrics are written

Prisoner Scandal - The Greg Turnbull Story - This is the most recent thing I wrote, so it naturally has a few creases I'm yet to iron out. The distorted solo about halfway through the song (over the acoustic riff) is a bass solo using a distortion pedal. Just because I play bass, it doesn't mean I don't solo too

...Of My Souls Decay - This will most likely be the first song we record and you guys will get to hear. The lyrics/vocal lines are finished, the other songs are still awaiting vocals (Tim and I write the lyrics/vocal lines together, it takes a bit to get it feeling 100% right). Again, there is a distorted bass solo in this song over an acoustic riff. Much more fiddly than the one in the previous song which was more of a build up than a solo. You also may notice the 3rd guitar comes in for the acoustic riff, we actually had this written months ago for another of our songs we have since ditched. We all loved the acoustic riff though, so we used it for this song instead. This is also good to give an idea of what our soloing is like, as it has a 4 bar solo that Chuck wrote which comes in slightly after my own solo. Oh, there's also a solo about halfway through written by Tim. It isn't finished yet, so it stops suddenly, it isn't meant to.

Cold As Fuck - It's winter over here, this was written at 4 in the morning, the name should explain itself. Not much to say about the actual midi... Nothing at all, actually.

Skin Chooser - The ending riff which repeats a hell of alot has a long melodic solo over the top of it.

Corruption Probe - Named after a news report on corruption in the Victorian police force, which I know all too well about given the people I associate with, lol. This will be one of the slower more melodic tracks on the demo. I actually bothered to write temporary drums for this because I still had alot of time to kill once I had finished the other tracks, I'm not that great of a drummer myself and the stuff our drummer writes is about 10X better than what I write, so ignore the drumming.

Cell Level - The slides at the start of this sound shit, but that's midi for you... The clean riff in this is going to be changed, I got pretty lazy on that one I must admit.

Well, that's that for ya's. Like I said, midi doesn't sound real so you're best off waiting to hear the recordings before you pass judgement. This should give you all a rough idea of what my band sounds like, though