FAWM is in full effect (that's February Album Writing Month, for the uninitiated), and I have been hard at work....on a million other things going on in my life this month. As such, my musical output has been at a vastly reduced level from where I would like it to be.
However, my vast network of musical collaborators have had much more focused months, and I've been lucky enough to receive several invitations to write lyrics & melodies and sing vocal tracks on other people's songs. Thank you, collaborators!
Even more fortunately, the majority of these songs have been in the greatest musical genre known to man: Heavy Metal. I was a huge metalhead starting in around 8th grade and continuing pretty much through the end of high school, with occasional bouts in my adult life (you can't ever really shake the metal bug once it bites you with its gleaming steel mandibles, etc.). I count myself as a very lucky man to have such talented friends and collaborators that I'm able to make the dreams of my 15-year-old self come true, namely, by singing lead vocals on 2 bitching metal tracks.
Presented here for your enjoyment:
Formal Commitment To Satan
Music, Production, Concept: John "Das Binky" Argentiero
Lyrics, Vocals: Jordan Hirsch
Lyrics posted at FAWM.org
To quote John: "This is a song about selling your soul to the devil, but it really gets into the details."
Your Disease
Music, Production, Growling: Peter "Sapient" Watkinson
Lyrics, Vocals: Jordan Hirsch
Lyrics posted at FAWM.org
This is a song that gets written when the songwriter and everyone he knows has been battling a nasty cold for weeks.
Truly, I am blessed by Satan (who else?) to have musical collaborators who can shred so hard.
Rock on.
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