Band: Alkaloid
Song: “As Decreed By Laws Unwritten”
Album: Liquid Anatomy
Release Date: May 18th, 2018
Label: Season Of Mist
Streaming exclusively via No Clean Singing.
Guitarist Danny Tunker commented:
“This was the second song I wrote for Liquid Anatomy. When we first started sending demos and talking about songs we felt we needed some heavier songs. We had the title track, which is a ballad, ‘Kernel Panic’ which didn’t have a heavy section yet and another song I wrote, which was a mellotron driven prog-ballad at that point and turned into ‘In Turmoil’s Swirling Reaches’ later.
As a result Florian wrote ‘Azagthoth’ and I wrote ‘As Decreed By Laws Unwritten’. Most of the song was written in one sitting in a hotel room, but after it was conceived it went through various incarnations with a full-on flamenco part and even a string section. When I completed the lyrics I chose to drop those sections in favour of the desolate atmospheric section that’s there now.
This song also marks my singing debut with Alkaloid. I’d never done any screaming or harsh vocals but since I had a clear idea of how I wanted the vocals to be I just did demoed them at home. We found out that my voice blends quite nice with Florian’s, so for this album I’m providing backing vocals on most songs. I’m extremely happy with how this song came out. Recording the rhythm parts over Hannes’ ultra heavy groove was one of my favourite moments in the making of this album.”
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