First 3 Songs Started / Thought Dump || (V1)

This was the first version of Helix, Momentary, and Menace (Not final titles either).

I really just tried to get some basic structure to the songs so I could tweak and develop the sound from there. Pretty basic, but my 3 best songs from the last few months of trying to get over my creative block. I haven't finished a song since around January of 2021, so this has been very relieving to know I'm capable of making music again.

The original plan for this project was to make a stand alone album; using the story and themes of one of my game universes I've been working on for a while. The first game I made in this "Universe" was meant to be my second long term project, but I dropped it after I came up with the idea for Beyond Dreams; as that became my primary project at the time. Afraid of the Dark  was meant to be a horror inspired puzzle game / Metroidvainia, but the second game I worked on in this universe, Cavern of Souls, was a boss rush / shoot em up that I made in 3 days for the Wowie 3.0 Game Jam. Neither of these projects started to effectively tell the story I want to tell with this universe; but I will fix that some day.

The games (and the music as well I guess) take thematic inspiration from Kentaro Muira's Berserk and The Legend of Zelda games. For music, I take a lot of inspiration from several different bands, but the top 4 that I think about when I work on my stuff would be:
1. Infected Mushroom
2/3. Leprous / Haken
4. The Protomen

Infected Mushroom takes the crown in my head, solely due to the unique sound of their music. I've been listening to them for pretty much my whole life, and I probably wouldn't be trying to make music as much if I hadn't ever heard of them. I wish I knew what I was doing enough to effectively replicate some of the same sort of songs they make.

Fun factoid™: So there's another universe that I've been working on a story for; I started on this one probably 6-7 years ago, and I wanna make the story into a series of games as well. I'm thinking that I want to have a studio with several people working on this, because I want it to be an immersive sim (Like Deus Ex or Dishonored), and those are notoriously time consuming and difficult games to make... and the fun fact is that I kinda really would want Infected Mushroom to make the whole soundtrack for the 1st game... Yeah, it will literally never happen, but that's why I want to learn how to make the really good electronica/psy-trance/EDM/weird goodness that they make, so I can just do it myself!

For Leprous and Haken, it's the song structures that stand out to me the most. Before I ever started listening to Djent or Prog at all, I had never really heard rock or metal songs that sound like their stuff. I don't exactly know how to describe what I want to (because I really don't know much about music), but yeah, I think of their stuff a lot when I'm trying to structure out my songs.

Now, last but not least: The Protomen! This is another one of my favorite bands; I got a tattoo on my body for them. (Same for Haken, but my first tattoo was The Protomen) I take a lot of inspiration for them when I'm trying to think of the story of my music. I've never released a song with lyrics before, but I still have an idea of what is taking place during the songs I write. I also will probably release some songs with lyrics at some point, because I've actually been itching to write a Djent/Electronicaconcept album for a few years. That's ultimately the goal I'm working towards with music, so hopefully I can keep this snowball rolling and maybe have a little success with my music ambitions!

Fun factoid™: The first game I ever made was a (shitty) Megaman clone. It's also the game that inspired the first big story I've been working on. (the one I mentioned in the last Fun Factoid™) Well... I was inspired to make that game because I was in a game development class and I had been obsessed with The Protomen and The Megas for a year or so at the time. Also VERIDIA and their Inseparable EP (The first name I wanted to use for that game was actually just Mechanical Planet as well), so yeah... my games and stories are all very closely tied to the music I listen to... which may be a very common thing among artists, but I'm not too sure.

I also want to make a rap song or two eventually (which I know, that sounds kinda cringe) but I think it would be fun as hell. I think my "rap persona" would probably be MilqueShake, and I'd wanna rap about being a gangster and shit. (The first song is 100% going to be called "CAPS LOCK", because I'm not really bout that life) Anyways, make fun of me, that's fine... but it just sounds like a lot of fun to be spittin on the mic about running my block and making racks and shit.

That's all for this update, I will post more soon. 
- Miasma Geek