Working on a New Track

While I don’t want to show off too much, I’d like to say that I’m really stoked with the work that I was doing today. I was feeling particularly inspired due to some reading that I was doing that was totally separate from anything to do with metal at all. I don’t know how everyone else is, but I find that sometimes my best ideas come when I’m not at all working on the things that need inspiring. Right now I’m reading a book called Racial Domination, Racial Progress which is actually a text book that I helped to do research on. During one of the sections I got a sudden insight into how I could do two things that I want to do at the exact same time. First, I can work on an EP for release later this summer or early in the year, something that I’ve been wanting to do for a while now, and at the same time I can grapple with a smaller concept that I’ve been trying to work on.

What was the most fascinating aspect of this whole thing, is that I was then inspired immediately thereafter to go and write something. That thing that I went to write transformed also fit perfectly with another piece that I’d be working on that had been giving me trouble for a while now and boom, new song. I know a lot of artists don’t like talking about the creative process and I know that some turn it into a job. For me, inspiration always strikes at the weird moments when it’s not supposed to be hitting me and this was a perfect example.

The other thing that occurred to me is that there are so many ways to work on a concept. In the entire creation progress I find lyrics the most difficult thing to work on. This is mainly because I think that it’s so easy to be totally trite when you’re writing. Because of this, I decided a long time ago that often times lyrics should be left until last and they should be written cohesively with a certain idea in mind. In this case, the concept on which I wish to write on could be approached from many different perspectives: but I’ve long thought that most of them would be cheesy. This new approach is something new altogether and I’m really looking forward to seeing it through.