'Belie the machine' - black crown initiate -Jon Phipps CoveR

I've been learning some pretty darn chonky music recently - I present to you my guitar cover of 'Belie The Machine' by Black Crown Initiate, which I worked out by ear this last week. ​ 

It's great to be riffing it to the max on the 8-string again - expect more of this kind of craziness very soon (with a more orderly background, next time)! 

Alchemia (Brazil) have released a spookily ghoulish video for their new song 'Inception', live at Horror Expo 2019!
 

The track features  eerily creepy virtual orchestration and sound design by Jon Phipps, with  mixing and mastering by Tue Madsen, the dark overlord of metal  production himself!
 

The band were also most ceremoniously joined on stage by The King of Freakshow, Coveiro Maldito!

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This photo was taken three years ago, when Moonspell and I were working on the pre-production and virtual orchestration of the songs for their album '1755' (produced by Tue Madsen).
 

Check it out here my website, orchestralmetal.com, where you can also hear my contributions to releases by Amorphis (Finland), HateSphere (Denmark), and Dragonforce (UK), among many other fantastic international artists, in collaboration with industry-leading producers.
 

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Paulo F. Mendez

I wish you all an ever-somber and delectably dark World Goth Day today - to celebrate, I encourage you to rock out to the music of  Moonspell, with the tracks in the YouTube playlists below featuring orchestral, choir, and synth arrangements by yours truly.

Production by Jens Bogren on 'Extinct', and Tue Madsen on '1755'.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLYyXfRUKJSAcSOaxuPmb5F67ejNk4q5oc

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLYyXfRUKJSAdF2g51AWnXGcTXI8doexRk

 The terrifically talented Dutch quintet Nephylim have unleashed their fantastic new album 'Severance of Serenity' unto the world - their own bespoke style of melodic death metal combined with doom and post-metal influences is exquisitely executed with utmost precision on this release, whilst expressing a depth of feeling that is both profound and immersive.

They intrepidly explore extremes of dynamics through the juxtaposition of calm atmospheric textures with pummelling riffage and blistering vocals.

Three of the tracks feature subtle virtual orchestrations brought to you by Jon Phipps at orchestralmetal.com, which you can either hear on Spotify.

The album was mixed magnificently by the band's drummer, Martijn Paauwe, and was mastered by none other than Brett Caldas-Lima at Tower Studio, France.

Who in their wrong mind doesn't enjoy a bit of epic atmospheric prog metal with soaring vocals? I've recorded a cover version of this brilliantly haunting and stratospheric tune by Leprous - give it a spin, I say!

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There's more to come, with even less mad facial expressions next time!

'Come Away, Come Away Death' - Words by William Shakespeare, Music by Jon Phipps.  

Lyrics:  

Come away, come away, death, 

And in sad cypress let me be laid.
Fly away, fly away, breath;
I am slain by a fair cruel maid.  
My shroud of white, stuck all with yew,
O, prepare it!
My part of death, no one so true
Did share it.  

Not a flower, not a flower sweet,
On my black coffin let there be strown.
Not a friend, not a friend greet
My poor corpse, where my bones shall be thrown.  

A thousand thousand sighs to save,
Lay me, O, where
Sad true lover never find my grave,
To weep there!

Moonspell embark upon their European tour with Rotting Christ today - to mark this wicked ritual, they present an ungodly offering, in the form of a new live video for their song 'Ruínas'. ​ 

This track is from the album '1755', which I collaborated with them on and orchestrated for the band, with the production manifested by the grand magister himself, Tue Madsen.

The HateSphere album 'Reduced To Flesh' was released a year ago today - I had the pleasure of creating the disturbing orchestral soundscapes that sinisterly adorn this masterwork of thrashcore heaviness.  

This album was produced by none other than the legendary Tue Madsen at Antfarm Studio, Denmark. The tracks I contributed to are: 'Praeludium', 'Reduced to Flesh', 'Can of Worms', 'Lethal Mistakes', and 'Afterlife'.

Shattered is the brainchild of Ryan We - death metal guitar maestro extraordinaire from Germany. This intensely caffeinated brew of neoclassical brutality was orchestrated by yours truly, and it was an excessively fun piece of music to get creative with!   

If you are a fan of technical death metal similar in style to Obscura and Necrophagist, then listen to this band's first album 'New Atlantis' - it will definitely satisfy your hunger for psycho-sonic cosmic chaos! CLICK ON THE IMAGE BELOW hear the album on bandcamp.

If the orchestration in this song piques your interest, feel free to check out the rest of my metal orchestrations on either the home page or in this YouTube playlist.  

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLYyXfRUKJSAdxxN-Ea4K4AtDaynj7geMe

Get in touch if you want me to work on your music - just click on my screaming face to make it happen!

I've decided to start creating more frequent and engaging content for my YouTube channel - 'Toxic Garbage Island' by Gojira is the first of many guitar covers that I will be performing on there.

This crushing riff-monster of a song is from their album 'The Way of All Flesh' (2008). However, I've somehow only just discovered how awesome this band is, so it sounds pretty fresh to me!

I am open to taking requests for other tracks people would like me to cover, so if you have any suggestions, free free to write them in the comments section - if I dig it, i'll consider it!

I've worked with incredible metal bands and producers on the international scene as a virtual orchestrator (including Moonspell, Amorphis, and Hatesphere) - feel free to check out my portfolio on the home page, or in this YouTube playlist! 

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLYyXfRUKJSAdxxN-Ea4K4AtDaynj7geMe