ZASHIT666

Hello... I am ZA... I track extreme metal... Tracking is hard... it's the process of turning samples into virtual instruments and making music out of it...

Each sample set becomes an instrument and has samples mapped to different pitches so when I note is programmed in to the song, that sample for it is played. This involves recording every note every instrument you want in a song can do normally, but there is a short cut, the tracker can pitch shift notes you put into it in real time if needed...

 

You  then program song structures, melodies, chords (they are samples too), and drum beats using a setup where you can assign notes to be played in every beat in a part of a song. It gets complicated and definitely requires some music knowledge to do it.

 

I had to learn all of this from scratch and practiced this WITHOUT having music knowledge till I got good at it. It took 6 years of programming songs once a month per album till I got good...

 

It's actually quite hard to do. Playing the note too fast or too slow or too high or too low makes it horribly artificial sounding. You need great ears because you are mastering your own music, and you also need something to emulate a guitar sound from an amplifier to do this right. For me I use Cortex Stack for this. It really is the only option that is free and has all configurations a real amp/cabinet would have.


To make the music of the 5 solo artists you see on this page (Caustic Euphony, Unleashing Vengeance, Rancid Abomination, Homicidal Hammerfist and retro evisceration) I used programs like openMT, Modplug tracker and impulse tracker to write the music...  To mix the vocals in I used cubase VST (Oem), and audacity later on...

My HQ for tracking Extreme metal is in Dedham, Massachusetts, USA, in New England.  It's nothing special... Just a PC with an internet connection and has tracking and mixing software loaded on it... I have a hotec microphone connected to it, and in the past I used shure microphones as well... For guitar amp simulation I have used cortex stack and others.. For reverbs I used freeverbtoo..

Massachusetts doesn't have a lot of metal bands that are good. Tons of core bands, etc... Only Dream theater can say they still do good music for a massachusetts formed metal band... Many others have gone modern metal or worse... Some like shadows fall don't interest me because metalcore sounds crappy to me anyway... Caustic Euphony at least is different...  It's dark, it's well written, it's progressive, and it's fucking atmospheric as hell... It does NOT sound like a core band..

I formed a project a year after Caustic Euphony Formed that was my most played project of all time : Unleashing Vengeance. Starting as thrash metal, it blended in prog metal and death metal soon and then mixed in Black metal with overdriven guitar done like crust. The sound is brutally heavy and has a serious Punk Influence in vocals and guitar sound and even lyrics. It has Tehnical elements taken from Tech Thrash and prog metal and even uses some riff influence from Bands like Metal Church or Meliah Rage.

My first Project, Rancid Abomination reformed in 2017 after being HORRIBLE in 2001-2006. It reformed as atmospheric black metal with a paranormal theme. The guitar is more atmospheric than any black metal you will ever hear due to it's insane reverb. The keyboards sound more sinister as well... It almost sounds like Horor movie music mixed with extreme metal.

I have also done 2 instrumental projects. The first : Homicidal Hammerfist, is half black metal, half german power metal and doesn't mix them in aa way that sounds cheezy by letting black metal determine the melody and only use riff styles, not melodieis from power metal. I also formed a proggy black metal project that was instrumental only in 2020 that has very atmospheric production on guitar, not even using any distortion, instead revrbing everything with elements of prog metal mixed in.


In my state, until very recently, the scene for my music has been nonexistant.  I have gotten only 4 people to like the fact I am making the music, and only 3 out of 4 are fans. All are friends. Marketing stuff on twitter did squat. Putting it on soundcloud did very little later on as fans seem to be anti extreme metal there. Other sites like audiomack did very little as well...  On indiesound however, I have gotten a LOT of plays in 2 years so there I am doing fine but that site totally lacks stats, so I don't entirely trust it.  Here on Wix I had almost NO plays till 2 months ago and then I got regular ones from a town near where I live for a few months that seem to like my music a small amount.

The solo project featured here called "Generative Chaos" is AI Generated... I used AIVA, an AI powered online music creation tool to make it. It's a mix of rock, metal, prog metal, black metal, and middle eastern music.

Music composed by AIVA - Artificial Intelligence Virtual Artist (https://www.aiva.ai)

Contacting me:
Email me at adamszach264@gmail.com with any questions or other comments.

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