This is, hands down, the best demo recording I have ever done. I've been tinkering at it for pretty much all of February to get it right, since I could tell early on it was gonna be a banger, but even so I'm not entirely sure exactly what I did to get THIS big of a guitar sound. Yeah there's some layering, but you know what it's like when you're in the zone! I can see in the DAW kind of what I did, but the exact details? I'll never get this tone again, I know it. Downside of using a real amp and not a sim I guess.

Anyway. I was reading a New Scientist magazine a few weeks ago and came across this incredibly bizarre article (https://www.newscientist.com/article/2507988-the-century-long-hunt-for-the-gigantic-meteorite-that-vanished/) and knew instantly a song MUST BE WRITTEN!

Went into my ideas folder and found something called 'lasagna power pop metal' from October last year in which I was playing a chunky muted riff to a disco beat and mumbling something about lasagna. When I realised 'lasagna' rhymed with 'Mauritania' - the location of the titular Iron of God - I knew I'd found the right idea to flesh out into a real song.

Little did I know I would end up with the bastard child of Siamese Dream-era Smashing Pumpkins and Franz Ferdinand.

Tried recording my vocal a bit differently today, using the Rode instead of the Shure, and I think it worked. I'm rarely this pleased with a done-in-10-minutes vocal mix. Shouldn't take too much work to get it release-ready.

#rock #newwave #grunge #postpunk #synth #powerpop

Gear used:

Drums: EZX UK Pop Bass: Kontakt Prime Bass via Guitar Rig 7 Guitars: Danelectro '59 + Artist Grungemaster through Orange Crush 35RT amp, Big Muff Pi Synths: FM8, Polymax, Vocals: Rode NT1 mic, Ovox, Replika XT, H-Delay

Plenty of processing - mostly Abbey Road and UAD stuff. A LOT of compression! Hear those drums thwack.

Get my finished proper stuff: koshrecords.net

in the desert of mauritania, god has left a clue he don't want us here, but without a coup there's nothing he can do

well that's fine, i don't you expect you mind what i left behind, yeah, that's fine, i don't expect you to find what's lost in my mind that's fine, i don't you expect you like what they left behind,

'cause it's mine, and i don't expect you to… like my type

hundred years of a lie? how bout a cou-ple thousand years? just if you've got the time

well that's fine, i don't you expect you mind what i left behind, yeah, that's fine, i don't expect you to find what's lost in my mind that's fine, i don't you expect you like what they left behind,

'cause it's mine, and i don't expect you to… like my type

everyone is on fire! even those those who had no exposure to the lake of fire yeah everyone is on fire (everyone) everyone is on fire! even those those who had no exposure everyone is on fire yeah everyone is on fire no mercy from the god of iron iron of god, iron of god