"Hollow Points" is on streaming services: 7Digital - https://us.7digital.com/artist/plague-morphology/release/hollow-points-17911514 Apple Music - https://music.apple.com/us/album/hollow-points/1587190461?i=1587190463 Deezer - https://deezer.page.link/9fUKoSPrDrUdsY2o9 iHeartRadio - https://www.iheart.com/artist/plague-morphology-36849264/songs/hollow-points-145236758 Napster - http://us.napster.com/track/tra.612386945 Pandora - https://pandora.app.link/wNPRIClKqkb Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/track/3721VVKdfosrOlSlKN3zhF?si=9a0d45f460574ce1 YouTube Music - https://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_moTqznVzN87QZlb7UvTmCURYjas5JRcYw
Music is a release, catharsis, escape -- usually all at once. It's always been a part of my life and has always served as a way to take me somewhere else. The biggest thing it gives when listening is an escape. The catharsis and outlet come when writing and playing.
My dream? Being able to pay the bills with my hobbies -- of which a large part revolves around writing and producing music -- and quit the corporate grind. More of pie-in-the-sky dreams generally revolve around working with some of my musical heroes growing up. We'll see. Baby steps.
Removing religion from politics. Once you start legislating beliefs, invariably, the world becomes exclusive rather than inclusive.
Honestly, from the standpoint of near-obsession, it's a tossup between "Music Box Dancer" and "Master of Puppets." Obviously, age-wise, one came before the other, but they both were mind-blowing to me, at the time.
Not to be snide, but how much time do you have? By genre: * Metal: Nevermore, Tyr, Metallica, Testament, Savatage, Conquering Dystopia - so, by extension, Jeff Loomis and Keith Merrow, Amon Amarth, Arch Enemy, Trivium, Slayer * Classical/Modern composers: Faure, Mussorgsky, Paganini, Danny Elfman, John Willians, Howard Shore * Folk/Country: Carrie Newcomer, Patsy Cline * Rock: Asia, Styx, Yes, Rush, Pat Benatar, The Go-Gos * Alt-y stuff/SKA: R.E.M., Weird Al, Mighty Mighty Bosstones, The Dance Hall Crashers, Spring Heeled Jack USA *Jazz/Blues: Miles Davis, John Coltrane, T-Bone Walker, Buddy Guy, BB King
The things that usually inspire me to write are emotionally driven. I know my wife *loves* this, but after our first date, in a single session, I wrote and performed all the guitar parts, programmed the drums and bass, did all the recording and mixing down...the whole thing in just under 5 hours. Why would she not love that? It was about being chased through a cornfield by someone with murderous intent. So, you know...inspiration doesn't always dictate subject matter. My current project revolves almost exclusively around political angst. I'm actually deviating from that as the writing and recording commences, but, again, emotionally driven. So, emotions. There are also times when I'm just noodling on the guitar and come up with something solid and the vibe will inspire pursuing it further. I guess that would translate to emotional connection, so, again, emotions.
In metal, positive messages are hard to come by. It's a lot of anger-fueled catharses. So, the message depends on the topic. I've been working on positivity, but my current material the messages revolve around exposing the corruption that surrounds us day in and day out. I'm working in some more positive messages, though, I promise.
Absolutely no real idea. I've played in front of an audience once, an acoustic performance of two songs, and I can't tell you how I feel because it was pretty much abject terror going in, some weird trancy calm while playing, and then massive relief when it was over and people responded well to it.