February Album Writing Month - FAWM.ORG

sapient network

progress: 22

winner!
joined: January 2008
location: Netherlands
website: www.myspace.com/sapientnetwork
influences: Death, Carcass, Morbid Angel, Celtic Frost, Metallica, Candlemass, Confessor, Sepultura, Megadeth, Slayer, SOD, Anthrax, Nuclear Assault, Acid Reign, Bathory, Cynic, Coroner, Sabbat, Faith No More, Suicidal Tendencies, Voivod, Anacrusis, Pestilence, Sisters Of Mercy, Xentrix, Dead Kennedys, High On Fire, NMA, Trelldom, Finntroll, Evile, Meshuggah, Turisas, Nile, Short Sharp Shock, 1349, Cathedral, Emperor, Ministry, Marduk, Deathspell Omega, Axis Of Perdition, SYL, Dimmu Borgir, Isis, Mayhem, Scarve, The End, Enslaved, Napalm Death, Hacride, Ihsahn, Textures, Scar Symmetry, The Bezerker, Watain, Revenge

Bio

Well, here we all are again. This is FAWM #3 for me, and I'm wondering what I have left after completing last year's 5090 what only seems like two weeks ago.

Still, metal doesn't just write itself. Or if it does nobody's told me where to find it when it's done.

If anyone would like a backing track at 210bpm, or has some words you'd like me to yell then please do let me know...

2010 Songs

1	Devils Trap *	44 comments // 1 month ago
2	Carved In Air	33 comments // 1 month ago
3	The Impact Chamber *	26 comments // 1 month ago
4	Where Once A Man Stood *	19 comments // 1 month ago
5	Viking biking (with Stephen Wordsmith)	27 comments // 1 month ago
6	Vows Under Starlight	23 comments // 1 month ago
7	* The Rats (with Donna)	23 comments // 4 weeks ago
8	Second Hand	20 comments // 3 weeks ago
9	Bless The Machine Cult *	14 comments // 3 weeks ago
10	Happy Metal (with Karan)	17 comments // 3 weeks ago
11	Survived By The Shadowthrone	10 comments // 3 weeks ago
12	[Parody] All About The Void (The Great Cthulhu's theme song) (with Bizarro Errol)	17 comments // 3 weeks ago
13	Yes	14 comments // 2 weeks ago
14	Black Month Where	22 comments // 2 weeks ago
15	[Parody] All About The Walrus (with Bizarro Errol)	13 comments // 2 weeks ago
16	That Time We Wiped Out Humanity (with The Das Binky Recording Collective)	7 comments // 2 weeks ago
17	Come Children, Come Children (with Scott O. Clamp)	17 comments // 2 weeks ago
18	The Scale (with devin)	10 comments // 2 weeks ago
19	HSD-8000	6 comments // 1 week ago
20	Tick Tick Boom!	17 comments // 1 week ago
21	To Be Continued	8 comments // 1 week ago
22	Rush Around Your Heroes (with Summer Russell)	11 comments // 1 week ago

Soundboard

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Summer Russell 2 days ago

Done! Thanks for reminding me, I'm a little slow.
Summer Russell 3 days ago

Awesome!! Can't wait to hear it!
Summer Russell 4 days ago

Hey! Dude! I am so sincerely sorry that it took me forever to get back to you, after your awesome comment on my Viking war song. So... I've listened to a little Amon Amarth (that video is BADASS), and some Einherjer and Tyr and Korpiklaani... but mostly my Nordic influence is from being in the SCA and married to an Icelander, haha.

Anyway - I would LOVE for you to record some music for Rush Around Your Heroes, if you want to! I have some other Vikingish poems/songs I haven't recorded formally because I'm just not an almighty metal god, but it would seriously be a dream come true to have somebody who is do some work with them. You still interested?
G Slade 5 days ago

See this thread ... http://fawm.org/forums/thread/977/
Potato 5 days ago

the only metal i ever listen to is your tunes.... that pretty cool. your like my ambassador for an entire genre ..
you going to london??
Jeff Geissler 6 days ago

Agreed- if you have a CD, I will buy one.
I appreciate your feedback and very much look forward to following you next year as well (!?)...
We should collaborate next year.
Benjamin Nolan 6 days ago

Hey, do you have a CD? If not, MAEK WUN!
third time lucy 1 week ago

Made it through, whew! I'm really, really impressed with your production quality on these. Seeing 21 tracks in the list, I was expecting it to go downhill as time got more critical, but you've kept it up throughout.

Same time, same place next year? For sure!
Scott O. Clamp 1 week ago

"I struggled to get past thinking "what a twat".... wink"

I think we should close down the forums, because there will never be another comment that great.
Wiretap Studios 1 week ago

Whoa, you got a lot done! The production on all these is great.
itneverhappened 1 week ago

Ha.. Isis I've come across, I guess they beat me on build-ups. And they'd probably beat me senseless for making such un-sinister melodic pop music. Thanks for the comments!
trexcastille 1 week ago

From now on i shall refer to you as the metal messiah to all my fellow fawmers... just saying
Scott O. Clamp 1 week ago

"So last year you do one about living in a care home, and now this?"

There's a lesson there. Folk-pop makes you fear aging and death, while metal keeps you evergreen. Beware the dark side of the folk!
aaronlevy1 1 week ago

Thanks for commenting on my song Maisie. I'll be demo-ing soon. It's a very upbeat pop song. The story is, as you said, both sweet and sad. Maisie is beautiful, talented and obviously well read and also has no clue how appealing she is to people because she lives almost entirely in her head. The narrator is in love with her, but she doesn't even get the concept of love, so it seems it will never be the way he wants it to be. Still, the narrator realizes it's far better to have her in his life and to just have her sit on his couch and read a book or discuss calculus than to not have her around at all simply because a romance isn't going to happen. I chose the name Maisie because that was Little Red Riding Hood's given name, and one of the girls who inspired Maisie was in a photo shoot where she dressed as Little Red Riding Hood.
Vom Vorton 1 week ago

Cheers for comment on The Wizard Within! Do you fancy having a go at progging it up? No worries if not, it's a good suggestion though
Jen Distad 1 week ago

Sapient, you rock. Not only are you a talented musician, but you're willing to share all your metal skillz with lots of people who do mostly folk-type music. (= So, um, yeah, thanks.

Cheers! (=
tinkerbell 1 week ago

You are an inspiration, sapient!!!
devin 1 week ago

My liege...while writing with Helen I was consumed by an epic muse that demanded mass extinction. Danny played a tasty riff, and I immediately said "I'm riding a horse through a field of fallen", and away Helen and I went.

And in the end, I snuck a dedication in just as the camera was turned off. Bwahahaha...my evil could not be contained!

http://fawm.org/songs/8569/
devin 1 week ago

Oh my...my favorite agent of the black arts has been a busy, busy, metal head. Thank you thank you thank you for the awesome song, holy smokes it rawks!

But something is wrong with your vox in places, there's a nasty echo-doubling effect that sounds like cats fighting inside a metal trashcan that's rolling down a cobble-stone hill.

P.S. No guess on the sampling. Maybe I had the music too loud, because the ringing in my ears drowned out the voices. Great effect none-the-less!
Patrick Madden 2 weeks ago

Heh! I've at least allocated the space so that I can complete them. Way too many lyrics, not enough time to record. And I'm ending FAWM with about a half meter of snow around the house (which knocked the chimney off the roof -- I spent the morning on a boom lift, to reach the roof so I could get things put back together).
yeahclickdancehit 2 weeks ago

http://fawm.org/songs/7465/
tinkerbell 2 weeks ago

Thanks for your comment on Mighty Mountains, sapient. Jinx did a great job, didn't she.
Scott O. Clamp 2 weeks ago

Finally, dulcimer metal... we have prevailed! Between anti-lock breaks and self-cleaning ovens, there just aren't that many things left to invent anymore. Thanks for making it all come to life!
Scott O. Clamp 2 weeks ago

Check your FB mail. Also, if that isn't working, send me a message via your FB mail. I have an annoying setting on that pings my phone everytime I get a private message, but in this case it could be quite useful!
devin 2 weeks ago

I'm going to need many hands on our tune. I have some definite ideas though, I just can't get enough words in the right spots...and I certainly fail (read: EPIC FAIL) at my singing attempts.

I will do my best girl-scout voiceover tonight, and send you the fragments of my muse, just in case it sparks something in you. I like what I have, alot, but there's not near enough. Like getting the last 1/2 slice of pizza or 3 ounces of beer. (no, *gasp*, that would be a nightmare...nevermind)

If not, then congrats on a VERY excellent instrumental. It rawks!
mokele 2 weeks ago

Best fawm recordings I've heard. \m/
Karan 2 weeks ago

Oh my! Sorry about that! You know, when I had the idea about Troy, my inner voice said: Do it NOW... (must have had a premonition... )
The Das Binky Recording Collective 2 weeks ago

Metal autoharp!

The possibilities are... well, kinda limited actually, but it could be cool.
Errol 2 weeks ago

Alllooo Sapient!

Could you do me a favour please? Could you change the collaborator on our parody song. I wrote about it here: http://fawm.org/forums/thread/823/

Pretty Please? Thanks a bunch!

*sigh* It's giving me the 30 second warning. I think I should sing our 30 second song...
tinkerbell 2 weeks ago

And thanks very much for your comment on the molehills, Mr Sapient.
spheniscidae 2 weeks ago

I finally got a few friends to sing on III-Atrophied and I'm really loving the final version!
Karan 2 weeks ago

Aaaaah, how I enjoy Happy Metal!
tinkerbell 2 weeks ago

Thanks for the link to the radio program -- I really enjoyed that. Also continue to enjoy the bemused tone of the comments on Vows by Starlight. It's good to surprise people. And ourselves.
gimmecoldpizza 3 weeks ago

dude, we gotta collab.. i love your riffs and vox! can't get enough of viking biking
Errol 3 weeks ago

Your parody is hilarious, btw. As I've said, every time I come on my soundboard, I have a new song. It's like... FAWM is writing songs for me...
Benjamin Nolan 3 weeks ago

Funny you should mention sleigh bells...
pifie 3 weeks ago

Nothing too fancy, I think you'd just enjoy this : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A43JOxLa5MM
devin 3 weeks ago

On our tune, I really like the lyric I've got...but the vocal, is 100% epic fail at the moment. My hat's off to you sir for your singing ability with this genre.

I'm back to the pondering spot to ponder what to do next...please stand by!!
negasi 3 weeks ago

Viking Biking is amazing.
Karan 3 weeks ago

Thank you, thank you! I can't wait!
Karan 3 weeks ago

Oh Sapient, I challenge thee: http://fawm.org/songs/5164/
(Do with it as you please... And please let me know whether you want to do anything with it at all, so that I can add you...)
Fine Excuses 3 weeks ago

Cheers for the comment on A New Low - I've dug out Age of Quarrel because of it! Storming album.
hiddenrevelations 3 weeks ago

Hey, I've uploaded my second song again, let me know if it doesn't work
devin 3 weeks ago

Having a rough go...10 days of extremely sore throat and counting...trying to sleep it off (when it will let me), to no avail. Productivity in the can.

Gonna get some dope on Wednesday if this doesn't clear up!!
Fine Excuses 3 weeks ago

Cheer for the comment on The Emperor - a couple of people have brough up Ultravox now, which is interesting, as all I know of their stuff is 'Vienna'! Perhaps some of the folk I thieve my chops off nowadays are Ultravox fans, you never know...
John Crossman 3 weeks ago

Thanks for the read on my Second Hand song. I put up a demo tonight because I felt sort of cheaty by not diong one earlier. My excuse is that I was not at home at the time... Take a listen if you get a chance:

http://fawm.org/songs/4104/

Thanks, metal man!
The Das Binky Recording Collective 3 weeks ago

The "Watkinson" pull was completely random. I needed a five-syllable name, and that just popped in. I didn't even notice until Nancy pointed it out. You're in my head, man... watch out!
Margins 4 weeks ago

Clearly no one told Cynic about FAWM
British Boredcasting - Radio FAWM 4 weeks ago

What Karan said!!
Karan 4 weeks ago

Oh pleeeeeeeeease come to London!
Billy Sea 4 weeks ago

LOL, thanks for the comment. I totally stole your line about the cookie monster

Man, that is hard on the voice though....I could only 1 song like that every 3 or 4 days
Becca 1 month ago

Hey Sapient.... did you ever get copies of the fawmpilation CD? I've been waiting, but haven't gotten any yet.
Dan Fors 1 month ago

Hi there! A belated thanks for the comment on my first (and so far only) song!
I've been pretty cr*p at listening and commenting this year, but I'm getting more time now so I'm about to make amends. Good luck with the rest of FAWM, I can see you're on track so far!
Billy Sea 1 month ago

Care for some Delicious Sapient Cookies? http://fawm.org/songs/2903/
Stole the idea from your comment about being told you sounded like the cookie monster. Couldn't steal your style though, even though I was trying to copy it
The Das Binky Recording Collective 1 month ago

Aliens work, though I was initially thinking evil scientists, or possibly even the surviving henchmen of said evil scientists. Pick a tempo (and a key, I suppose), and I'll get on some riffs and methods of destruction!
The Das Binky Recording Collective 1 month ago

Collab plan... Working title: "That Time We Wiped Out Humanity". Riff trading. Lots of screaming. I don't have anything else yet. Interested?
Potato 1 month ago

hey thanks alot,
The Das Binky Recording Collective 1 month ago

Weirdly, Google Ads for me on that track were for lymphedema, psoriasis and leg pain.
spheniscidae 1 month ago

Thanks for all the comments! Checked out the pictures of your guitar - very pretty indeed. Maybe we could do some collaborating on Part V, your growling style could fit quite well. I'll just have to work on some lyrics first.
Stephen Wordsmith 1 month ago

Hello to you, my random collab partner

I have written something that I think will make the best use of your abilities: http://fawm.org/songs/2371/

If it's not to your liking, we can discuss an alternative. I'm a writer exclusively, but I'm happy to work with you on the lyrics.
spheniscidae 1 month ago

Great! At least someone is doing metal.
Potato 1 month ago

yo! been up to ma eyeballs with an assignment work all weekend got a head full o ideas but no time grrrr.... o lord give me precious minutes
devin 1 month ago

It's really hard to type with my eyes rolling up into my skull.

I am spoiled by thee....
The Das Binky Recording Collective 1 month ago

My Pretty Thing is 120 BPM, and it's F - G - C - C repeated ad nauseum.
devin 1 month ago

My good dude, 210 bpm will be just fine...just fine indeed!

My boyz and I have been wearing black for 4 days now in anticipation.

If it's that slow, we'll do some on-hold music or lullaby with it.
(or I'll just speed it up in C5 )
Becca 1 month ago

Saaaaaaaapient!!! I missed you!!
Joel D Canfield 1 month ago

Re: that effect at the beginning of "How I Tried"—your youth shows It's the hopeless cliche of a guitar solo played backwards. Really common in the late 60s and early 70s.
Nancy Rost 1 month ago

Thanks for checking in. I'm going to get going on FAWM this weekend, and look forward to catching up on listening once I catch up on posting. Love to you, Laura and Gidget.
kermy 1 month ago

thank you - and i'm cleaning my computer desk - and listening to demo's after dinner!

i'll be back to listen to yours! k
Captain Vulpine! 1 month ago

Yes! Devil's Trap! My lady and I were admiring your voice to quite a degree, it's so much fuller than all the crap American death metal out these days, and the music is sickly solid as well!
chrishensongs 1 month ago

All right, man. I've posted # 2. Go easy.
Captain Vulpine! 1 month ago

Well thank you so very much for the kind words! Also, I think it's great you're doing death metal here, I've been hoping it would show up sooner or later, but I never expected it to be so quality!

Keep it up, cheers!
The Das Binky Recording Collective 1 month ago

I was going to send along a random hard rock-ish track for potential Dueling Guitars, but I can't find where they went... Damn computer rebuilds scattered some of my tracks. But, if you want to spread some evil into happiness, here's the backing track for the one I just posted:
http://dasbinky.com/mp3/FAWM2010/03a_My_Pretty_Thing_BLANK.mp3
Scott O. Clamp 1 month ago

I think we should make this difficult: true metal/dulcimer fusion. Attempted twice, never fully integrated (excellent efforts, but no drums or proper mixing, etc.). I think you should send me a truly wacky mode to try to tune to, and I will swear to abide by the laws of the click track.

What say you?
devin 1 month ago

I'm having fun this event for sure...took Feb 1&2 off from work, and started 3 hours after midnight with a poem Mal posted after the starting gun. I've a box full of snippets and ideas to fall back on, but so far, all my tunes have been real time.

My electric guitar is still in pieces, and I've had an old Marshall JCM800 fixed up at a shop. Hopefully I can get both ready this coming weekend, and return to some crunchy goodness!

Not that we're going to be short of the heavy stuff...this guy I know, "Sapient", is already on fire!
chrishensongs 1 month ago

Thank you for your kind, kind words. I just might have to quit with just one song.
Wash Away 1 month ago

Wow, your guitar on your myspace page is really cool! and you made it your self too. i wouldnt be able to do that even in a million years...
Happy Atheist 1 month ago

Hey! Hey! Thanks a billion for dropping by! I appreciate your support, man.
1B King 1 month ago

POD Farm rocks. I am amazed at the tones that I've found so far, and I haven't even started.
negasi 1 month ago

Thanks! .
negasi 1 month ago

Hmm... Metallica? Megadeth?
negasi 1 month ago

Well not tooo fast, but heavyness I'll leave up to you. FAWM is making me go outside my box, and so really do whatever you will! I'm adapting as I go so . Up to you basically I know that doesnt help
negasi 1 month ago

Hey if you wanna whip up a backing track I'll take a go at singing something to it .
Donna 1 month ago

Sapient, I enjoyed your comment on my lullaby lyric.
And you know, it got me thinking. I'd love to have a go at a "metal lullaby". I could imagine that shouts and growls at a certain pitch would be comforting to a "metal child".
Let me ponder the notion...
kermy 1 month ago

if i ever get to writing something - i hope you'll take a gander...have fun fawming! I'm hoping to pull something out of my ears tonight after putting kids to sleep! k
Halfpenny Orchestra 1 month ago

Sapient, thanks for signing up for Halfpenny Orchestra’s Loteria Challenge. You have been dealt: El Borracho (The Drunkard, No. 25). (We didn’t hand-pick this for you, we promise. It’s all random.) In the description of your song, please include the subject of the card and its number. Also, please include loteria as a tag. Have fun!
heavyhedonist 1 month ago

what's your film project?
Jeff Geissler 1 month ago

I use Logic Pro... I'm able to drag the loops in etc with no problem-- but my question is really I guess knowing how to make fills etc work and how to make it not so stiff--- verse beat/chorus beat. ya know? I'm not a drummer so its hard to really have a feel for what it 'should' be. Blast beats etc are easy-- but to make a track that really fits the riff sometimes requires more than the standard beat... I guess my issue is not so much 'how' to use the software but... how to make a good beat? haha
Jeff Geissler 1 month ago

I recently bought EzDrummer and Drumkit from Hell. I don't think my version of dkfh has all the loops or not. But... I'm not much of a drum programmer, so mostly I've just played with the loops as a metronome of sorts. Do you do drum tracks using EZdrummer? Any tips/hints/pointers?
Xnah 1 month ago

succes!
Jeff Geissler 1 month ago

KILLLER influence list. We may need to collaborate!
oddbod 1 month ago

Ha ha, I saw you posted Rathergood's "Moon Song". I'd forgotten all about that. It's just brilliant. I love Elbow's version of Independent Woman on Ratergood as well.
Potato 1 month ago

hey man, im looking forward to checking out your tracks... you know the only metal i ever listen to is yours... you are the ambassador of metal in my musical universe
The Das Binky Recording Collective 1 month ago

For any Madison song showcases, I'll bring along a 1:8 scale model of you made of tofu, dressed like Immortal. It'll be just like you're there.
Helen 1 month ago

I always fancy a spot of shouty punk.
devin 1 month ago

I'm sure you can add to Charlie's options for "radio cues" for his daily show...don't let me have all the fun! The score is Devin:2 right now....go biscuit the man to death!!

http://fawm.org/forums/thread/38/#c1942
The Das Binky Recording Collective 1 month ago

This is your new assignment:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KBFLyyrhxXU

It's no Hatebeak, but it's close.
QU 1 month ago

Im in. Here is to making something that rivals Sleep, EW, and High on Fire
Embers of Autumn 1 month ago

I have to say that your advertisement at the end of the Bio (cc the 210 bpm) has got to be the coolest advertisement for services I've ever read.

Good sir, I will take you up on that if and when I need it!
Karan 1 month ago

Heeeeeey, here we go again!