This is a slow and sad indie rock love song about longing for someone who meant a lot to you. It features a highly-refined guitar tone playing a powerful chord progression.
WARNING: The powerful delivery of the heartfelt lyrics in this song will make the listener feel immense sadness, whether they like it or not! May cause teardrops and/or crying.
This is a pop-punk song about feeling like you exist somewhere that don't belong. Touching on themes of depression and being mistreated, the song uses a loud angsty guitar tone to match the vibe of the lyrics and vocals. The clean guitar line and catchy drum beat make the song the absolute banger it is to anyone with functioning eardrums.
"Fight Without Fear" is a metal song written for my game "Lightscape". It is the only song on the sountrack so far written in the drop C tuning.
Another pop punk song that I wrote. The song is about struggling to let go of a relationship.
The third track inspired by Quake 2's soundtrack, "Sabotage", was made with a Ibanez Gio, a MXR Fullbore Metal distortion pedal, and Ableton Live 11 Suite.
"Arms Race" was written shortly after Onslaught. I used similar tools as Onslaught; the Boss Metal Zone pedal, the Scarlett audio interface, and Ableton. However, I learned about dual-tracking shortly after making Onslaught so I did that to the guitars to make them sound fuller. Fun fact about the main guitar riff: The first chord in the progression was actually supposed to be the last one; however, I ended up keeping it the way it came out because I thought it sounded better.
"Onslaught" was a track made by myself and my cousin while we were on a family vacation. I came up with a very simple guitar riff but it didn't exactly fit the time signature, so my cousin took it, added some chugs to it, and with some bass, synth, other riffs and a drum beat it eventually became "Onslaught". I used my child-sized Fender Squier that I grew up with because I liked the pickups in it. I also used a BOSS Metal Zone MT-2 for the distortion, and directly plugged it into my Scarlet Solo audio interface. Everything else was done in Ableton Live 11.