About the forthcoming 'Aeuk' release

I've been working on the forthcoming 'Aeuk' release for about a month now, almost on a daily basis when I've had free time. It's been a really fun project, looking back at these ancient releases. The idea is not to "rework everything from the scratch" or anything, but more the opposite ... the songs (in this case dating to 1999-2000) remain musically speaking very much the same, respecting the very rough  & dirty soundscapes. I haven't re'recorded any guitars nor bass, and I won't be doing anything like that. Instead I've emphasized the very lofi / garage soundscapes the way I like it - and as the idea was from the start to make this a very zombie & ghoul themed package. It will be totally that, 100%. :) What makes this even more ugly package (fitting to the theme of it all) is that around this time, back in 1999-2000, I was having a phase of trying to downtune guitars as low as humanly possible. It was bordering on something very ... zombie?

So, as it's about the so-called "sewer metal" (as I myself named it in the turn of the century already) and songs which led to Scumfusion - the zombie etc theme is more than natural here. The first sewer metal tracks I did were especially about stuff like this, tracks like "eternal souls below" or of course "zombies" (which ultimately led me to form Scumfusion). The thing is that only handful of these sewer metal tracks originally had vocals in them. Some had, I calculated that five of the songs originally had full vocals - and there will be 14 songs in this album. Some other songs had just some occasional growls and grunts but no lyrics, nor full vocals. What that means then?

Well, the biggest change in these songs is that now all of them have vocals. And I've re'recorded all the vocals for all of the songs. 3 songs out of the 14 songs have original lyrics (about ... zombies!) and as the original lyrics are very much over the top / tongue-in-cheek style, I wrote new lyrics for 11 songs in the very same style. :)

There is also one other change musically speaking: Originally these songs had nothing else but guitars, bass, drums (and in some cases vocals). Now I've worked and mixed in some horror / weird sound effects backing up the crazy little horror tales.

Some of the song titles have changed, too - mainly because 

1. Originally there were just one word titles, at times too mellow and 
2. I also built up over the top "zombie tale" progressing along the song titles *

* The song titles go like "Title (short desciptive tale that progresses)" where the song title is the original song title and the rest is about the brief storyline inside parentheses. Actually the song titles are let's say about 85% in their original form. It's just I think 2-3 titles with slight alterations fitting better to the theme of zombies and stuff. For example one original title was just "stormed" - it's now "storm of the zombies (storyline blabla)". 

Actually it was only yesterday evening that I got 14th tune I have been working on, pretty much ready. Now I'm in the process of listening the overall package and doing some finetunings where / if needed. I have a strong feeling that not much needs to be done for the actual music anymore. I have also the cover artwork ready (CD jewel case size), both front cover and back cover. I'm going to craft also a massive graphic lyrics image which I'm gonna put into for example bandcamp page (as I get into forming a page for Aeuk there). :) But yeah, there's still stuff to work for this release. 

I'm thinking about setting the release date for 30th November which happens to be name day for Antti, which would be perfectly fitting as my forename is Antti and also as this release's last song is going to be "Aeuk" (= first letter from all my names, forename, two middle names, surename) ... this track was back in the day inspired by certain era in metal music world, when bands used to have self titled song and it was usually something good, beginning with bands like Iron Maiden ... but as well perhaps something like Exodus ... Malevolent Creation ... Deicide, etc) ... and so this filthy zombie release literally ends with my name, ... you'll get what I mean when you hear it. Something truly ancient among the already old shit. ;-)

One song title as turned into visuals with generative AI