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Posting a few kick-ass heavy metal demos - "Someday" By Orion Hellraiser

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This time I'll post some kind of a personal song, maybe I'l re-record it someday, maybe not, who knows? I composed this song as a gift, and I actually wrote some lyrics that will remain maybe top secret until the end of time, so this is actually a song that could put me really nervious to expose it to somebody else If you're interested in the animation, you should check out this guys, which template I modified, it's free, royalty free and they do an amazing job http://www.freeaetemplates.com/2013/trendy-after-effects-templates/flower-haze-free-after-effects-template/

Posting a few kick-ass heavy metal demos - "Angels & Demons (Instrumental)" By Orion Hellraiser

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This is one of my favorite songs, the only one to this date planned to be completely instrumental, which was one of my dreams back when I started to play music and I was only 12 years old banging my head listening to some Metallica songs. Fun fact is that I created this song by accident, when I was jamming and goofing around with Black Sabbath's "Children of the Sea" which starts with a D Minor chord and it suddenly became the main riff when the distortion starts by refining some notes to my liking. Sometimes I think that I might be the only one in the world that actually loves the "Lulu" collaboration from Metallica and Lou Reed, and to prove it, this song was largely inspired by the song "Dragon" from that album. It's hard to say what was exactly going on inside my head at the time, it was a very difficult time in my life when I finished this song, and back when I saw how the song was progressing ....I actually forgot everything else, I w

Posting a few kick-ass heavy metal demos - "Confussion" By Orion Hellraiser

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Well well well....... what do we have here? I'll be releasing some original demos, that I "mastered" in order to keep a decent and constant audible level, There'll be a total of 6 songs that will be periodically uploaded to my youtube channel, These covers have no footage whatsoever, so instead of making a shitty static video, I'll be making shitty animated videos for your joy in the next couple of weeks. This one in particular is kinda old, recorded 5 years ago, it was the first song that actually made me believe that I could record decent music and was the first song I started to play for some people, and I started to upload it everywhere, and it was composed to actually have some vocals on it, check it out! The animation was chosen because it really fitted the old cover I used back in the days to promote the song, and I think it came out pretty good, it's up to you the final opinon! We'll meet again next Monday, with another kick-ass demo

Thin sound Stratocaster?? I don't think so....

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There's a lot of people out there that loves Stratocaster guitars, but many agree that they are excellent for solos.....not for heavy stuff, you need at least humbuckers to compensate the sound, or another guitar.....I really think that's a lot of bullshit, you can make your guitar sound amazing with the right signal chain. There's my first electric guitar right above this text (with an Undertaker's symbol sticker that I created near the bridge lol) and I got it for under 100 dollars back then when I was 15 years old, and at the time, all I played was my acoustic guitar that I got when i was 12. I spent a lot of time trying to get a good sound from that cheap piece of crap, and I did it!!, it took me a long time to understand how a signal chain works, I really needed to crank the hell out of that guitar in order to get a good sound and it became my only ally when I had to experiment many of the stuff I know by now. I recorded my "first" semi pro sound

The Compressorhead Band ACE OF SPADES!!

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A really awesome work by making robots playing the famous Motörhead song "Ace of Spades" while it's kinda brilliant, we can see why machines and computers can't emulate the feeling that only a human can put into a song......and not to say that no one can copy Lemmy!!

Wanna make a wise investment? record guitar with the Logitech c270

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When you start on the recording music world, the first issue you front is "F*ck!! I don't have enough money to afford this things", but the most important thing even with pro equipment comes down to........creativty, and if you're creative enough, you can make amazing things from stuff that others might point as "unthinkable crap". Before I got the XM8500 to record my acoustic guitar, I was kinda interested on buying a cheap HD webcam, as the regular consumer I always look for the cheapest 8th wonder of the world that might be some times impossible.......but I think I got more than what I paid with the Logitech c270 that was under 40 Dollars It's not the best webcam.....but it gets the job done, it has a 720p resolution (but kinda noisy image), it has some color correction, but then I found that it had a built in microphone that the system detected, and I really wanted to do some tests with it. I put the c270 mic as default on windows (it also wo

Labels get Fake Views on Youtube

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While we saw the rise of the "Gangnam Style" last year achieving the unbelievable number of 1 Billion views in just a couple of months, the even more unbelievable number of 2 Billion fake views were stripped from label channels such as Universal Music Group, Sony and RCA Records acording to the Bobby Owsinsky Music 3.0 blog I gotta say.......I'm not surprised, but I'm glad that we live in an era where the internet freedom allows people to choose what is best for them, we are no longer on the years where Labels, T.V. and Radio decides what's best for us by just receiving in some cases money from untalented artists to get airplay. I personally don't like that stupid "Gangnam Style" song, but it's kinda cool to see how an artist that was certainly unknown on many countries achieved a worldwide success by just the word of mouth, and that's the cool part of this new era of music. Be sure to check out the Music 3.0 blog, it's amazing a

The Behringer XM8500 Review - Awesome noob gear

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This mic is really aimed for recording enthusiasts, but it really works great in almost any studio application you may want, the purpose behind the reviews for "noobs" here, is to start with the cheapest RIGHT products that will do the job, and will last a long time..........what a better way to do this than reviewing the Behringer XM8500. There's almost nothing bad to say about this product, it's under 50 dollars too....but I could easily pay twice the price for a product of this quality. The first thing that you'll notice about this is the amazing build quality, it feels heavy and it ensures durability and quality, this is the first right step for beginners (and not so beginners) that wants a mic that really stands out for vocals and instruments. It has an incredibly wide frequency response from 50 hz to 15 khz that make things sound clearer and cleaner, it's a cardioloid dynamic mic. I should recommend this mic as the first choice for a person that

The amazing Behringer XENYX 302USB review - Awesome noob gear Pt. 1

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Well, there isn't quite an extensive review about this really cheap and affordable piece of gear from Behringer (kinda becoming my favorite brand). There are a lot of stuff to say that no one has said about this little mixer on the web, that I'll be making this multi-part review for all of you. This is a mini Mixer/USB Interface that can really kick major ass if you know how to use this. it has a combo input for both 1/4 instrument jack and XLR that provides up to 16v of phantom power (I'll address this in a few moments) Recording electric guitar, bass, acoustic guitar and vocals in a professional way for less than 60 dollars (at the time of writing this post). But.....don't get fooled by my awesome words about this product, it has its limitations, like for instance, if you see the review on the video above (or even Behringer's website) it claims to be a 5 input mixer..........you can mix up to five channels, hell yeah, but in a really complex and unpract

New channel, New video

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Well, I put my ass to work really hard for like a week or so, and I recorded the first video for my new channel, where I'll be uploading original stuff every once in a while, be sure to check it out. I used a Behringer XENYX 302USB and a XM8500 to record, and a Washburn WI14, no amps, just VST's, free VSTs like LePou LeGion and LeCab, which are just a beast!!! I'll be posting some reviews on the interface and the mic I recorded the whole video with............just 1 webcam!!!! a Logitech c270, this is what I achieved with a lot of patience, time and imagination (as fucking silly as it may sound) Let me know what you think, give a thumbs up, comment and suscribe if you liked it, more videos will come sooner or later to this channel Cheers!!!! \m/

Only Misfits Backing Tracks ... My little collaboration for other musicians

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First of all, I Apologize for my long absence, I've been struggling with some health issues, I WAS BLEEDING LIKE A RAPED WH*RE!!! Lol, but I'm back again!! and I'm bringing a few gifts for those Misfits and Backing Tracks lovers!! You'll see, I've recorded a few Misfits tracks in order to practice my mixing/playing/creative skills, and I thought it would be a cool idea if I also make them backing tracks, they are really useful tools for guitar players.........so I thought.....what the hell, let's do it!! The songs are: American Psycho Astro Zombies Dig Up Her Bones Lost In Space Saturday Night Teenagers From Mars The Haunting You can download them by clicking on the song you want!! I also want to point out that I also sent those tracks directly to an excellent site called GuitarBackingTrack.com , you can see that there's also a profile from me  http://www.guitarbackingtrack.com/author/Orion_Hellraiser.htm  (1000% verified, No BS, the original Orion Hellr

Online Piracy??

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January 20th 2012, we all witnessed an act of autoritarism from the U.S.A goverment. ....it seems like they are the kings of the world, that they have the power to control the entire world..... I don't mind if Kim Dotcom was even selling drugs, fucking the president's mom.......I don't really care, what pisses me off the most is that they're trying to control the internet, the ultimate tool of knowledge and freedom that we all have is being forbidden in such a degree that they don't know when is the piracy causing damage and when the users are being violated in their personal life. The fuck with what was Megaupload involved with!!! is that the kind of security we are having with the new almighty "Cloud Storage"? if some stupid guys upload "copyrighted" material to our favorite file host (Megaupload, Mediafire, SkyDrive, iCloud, Dropbox, etc) the FBI can take our personal information without any advice and permission whether if we are america

My top 5 favorite metal bands of all time

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Well, first of all read the title........that's right MY favorite bands are listed here, I'm not claiming that they are the best in the whole fucking world, but they are to my personal taste. Everyone (at least in my opinion) that is hooked up with some band or genre, is because the music touched them in the best or worst moment of their life, like Lemmy Kilmister once said.......There are only two genres of music, the one that you like and the one that you don't like, so here I'll list the ones that mean a lot to me, I wish that I could list at least 30, but, it's a little bit more practical to handle a number of 5 don't you think? No. 5 - VENOM One of my favorite Metal bands, They have an special sense of aggression and melody that no other Black Metal/Thrash Metal/Speed Metal band has (as far as my personal taste goes), they are just admirable, I love every stuff that they released with Chronos.....and maybe the album "Prime Evil" too

Dr. Phibes Rises Again - The Misfits Covers Demo

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First of all, let me apologize about the long, LOOOOOOOONG absence here, I've had some health issues, as a lot of work as well, but I'm back!! Now, I'll be posting new stuff Monday mornings Let me introduce to all of you an "album" (if we can call it that way) made entirely by myself, containing all of the experimental covers that I made around the late 2010's and  during 2011. I first made some tracks exclusively for www.guitarbackingtrack.com because everyone lacked of Misfits backing tracks, and I really love to play their songs, so I thought........what the Fuck?!!! let's have some fun, reccord those tracks and then do whatever I like to them. Once the tracks (as backing tracks) were finished, I did whatever arranges were needed and then, I kept them for my personal use (some tracks were uploaded to youtube to experiment a little bit). Then I reunite the best tracks (or in some cases, just the ones that had an special meaning for me) to make

Talking about band reunions....

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Hi there mötherfuckerz!!! tonight I´ll talk about band reunions, Money? Fame?? I don´t give a shit, but we all want some reunions to happen, and we always wanted some reunions that we know they´ll never happen. First of all, Black Sabbath, one of my all favorite bands are playing together one more time since 2005, they made it official on the video above, they are coming back with a world tour, original members and a new record, produced by the legendary band resurrecter Rick Rubin, I don´t know about you guys, but I´m pretty excited about it, but looking at the realistic and bad side of the history......how much can my Idols can take?? I don´t want to be disrespectful with a legend such as Bill Ward, but I think that he will be the first to fall due to his past, he has fallen a lot of times on the past......can he stand a world tour?? I only can wish him the best,  On the other hand, Iommi and Butler are fucking beasts on the stage! I can´t worry that much about them, they were bor