I filmed this heavy progressive djent metal guitar play through with my good friend Jesse Witherington at Wood Lawn Cemetery in Orlando, Florida. You might be lucky enough to see the ghost in the video;) I got some extremely weird vibes from this place and its probably because we were in the most monumental district of this beautiful cemetery where they held the cremated bodies of free masons and important members of occult fraternities.
Notice that there is an obelisk directly behind me in the video. I have read before that an obelisk represent Osiris's penis. Osiris is the mythological Greek god associated with fertility. He is the husband to Isis and the father of Horus. He is known chiefly through the story of his death at the hands of his brother Seth and his subsequent restoration to a new life as ruler of the underworld and afterlife. The fact that this obelisk monument was placed at the center of the cemetery could mean that this god had some significance to the families that buried their dead here. This could explain the ornately placed upside down pentagram I found on one of the tomb stones. Ill show you a picture of this below. This cemetery is one of my favorite places to go to mainly because of its spectacular design! So we filmed a guitar play through of THE CONDUITS heavy metal single Grovel.
Grovel is a profoundly technical and deliberately crushing song. It has repeats some riffs to accommodate the vocals that are on the original track. The lyrics were pretty extensive and the song alludes to demonology and forces of the afterlife in particular, so what better place to record a play through than Wood Lawn Cemetery of Orlando, Florida? When I was young and starting to learn to play guitar it was exciting for me to go on you tube and find videos of the best and most amazing guitar players and learn from their techniques. With this in mind, I wanted to release a video for my viewers where they could see a simple song that still incorporates tapping, odd time signatures, technicality, double picking and musical strategies that people would label as "shredding".
This play through video is all part of a cohesive music marketing strategy I am working with many talented artist and acclaimed agencies on. I suggested to The Conduit's brand new official band member, Jake Gabrizeski (drummer) that we launch a play through video blog campaign of the instrumental songs we feature on the technical metal EP album entitled "SIX". We will do a heavy metal drum play through release every Sunday for 5 weeks and blog about the process. This will be good for our listeners to have a visual reference once our radio campaign is ended with Red Ridge Entertainment of Nashville, Tennessee.
On that note, I am excited to announce that I will be conferencing with Gary Sadker tomorrow about the start of this promotional/radio campaign for THE CONDUITs math-core metal single "Intention 2" from our brand new EP. Intention 2 will be playing on college radio stations Nationwide and conventional public radio regionally for several weeks before we start booking tour dates with the Media Twist Agency of Tampa, Florida. We are grateful that Media Twist has been keeping up with our post even since the first album I made with Treason to Witness, and had offered an opening spot on a tour with American Head Charge, and Psycostic. Apparently these were big rock bands that toured successfully down here in the south but our style relates more to bands like Vildhjarta, Tesseract, Between the Buried and Me, Protest the Hero, Slipknot, Born of Osiris, etc. You get the idea if you listen to our material. So get pumped, The Conduit will be coming to your city soon!
Once we are done with our first official tour we will be writing together for a feature in a Renegade Music Catalog that is sent to video game, and movie producers nation wide as a request to be featured in some bad ass action movies of zombie killing games. I don't care where it puts us, I just need the public to get their ears and eyes on us because we have an extremely expansive and aggressive behavior I would like to eventually see young musicians and artists emulate. The reason I want kids to start thinking expansively is because this world needs more artists and less people spending all of their income on college to work a shit job with no relevance to their degree or social contribution.
So enjoy Grovel and become it. Despite the fact that there are no vocals in the video I am still confident that the emotional chemistry and ambition will translate unto our listeners and turn them into super human demon cyborg sluts.
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