Want to hear a new Fetish song?

[Boota]

Finally, new material!

If anyone is interested in hearing a new song from my band, Fetish, we have a new Song of the Week up on our website. It's from our upcoming album Disasterpiece Theatre and the song is called The Mephisto Waltz.

Click here for the website:

http://web.mac.com/jesusrchrist/iWeb/Fetish/Welcome.html

Feedback is welcome.

(It's actually a new recording of one of my oldest songs. I wrote it when I was sixteen. Kind of cool that a panel of record producers selected it to be on the next album for another shot at the Grammy. )

 

[impressive]

Listening now ... nodding my head ... smiling ... picturing myself in the front row of a concert.

 

[entitled]

Will give it a listen when the kids are... uh... elsewhere. Promise.

Oh, had malfunctions buying your book. Still want one. So you know.

 

[angelicminx]

I can't listen to it. I'm running ME and can't get quicktime, which is required to listen to the song. *sigh* Good luck, Boota.

 

[Aurora Black]

It ROCKS!

 

[Liar]

I'll check it out tomorrow at work. No way I'm bogging my system down with Quicktime.

It's for the better really. Tomorrow's gonna be boring beyond belief, and this gives me an incentive to actually go to work at all.

 

[Boota]

http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=48325164

This link will take you to our Myspace site where you can hear the same song, plus three other older songs. You don't need Quicktime for it there.

For those who have heard it and enjoyed it, thank you for the good comments.

Ent, don't worry too much about the kids. There are no dirty words in it. It is about an incestuous Satanic orgy, though.

This song isn't even my favorite off the new record. We're going to radio with Ugly World when we get the disks manufactured. For me, that is the epitome of a Fetish song. It's about the coincidence of Dimebag Darrell and John Lennon being murdered by crazed fans on the same day, 24 years apart. I LOVE that song. But The Mephisto Waltz rocks, too.

 

[entitled]

Ent, don't worry too much about the kids. There are no dirty words in it. It is about an incestuous Satanic orgy, though.

Gee. That makes me feel MUCH better.

 

[Xelebes]

I find the kick drum a bit under-muffled. Sounds a bit too open for my tastes, lacks tightness.

 

[Boota]

That's the sound we wanted. Tightening it up would give it that 80's sound. We used compression on the toms and that's it. Everything else was ran wide open for just that reason.

 

[angelicminx]

http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=48325164

This link will take you to our Myspace site where you can hear the same song, plus three other older songs. You don't need Quicktime for it there.

For those who have heard it and enjoyed it, thank you for the good comments.

Ent, don't worry too much about the kids. There are no dirty words in it. It is about an incestuous Satanic orgy, though.

This song isn't even my favorite off the new record. We're going to radio with Ugly World when we get the disks manufactured. For me, that is the epitome of a Fetish song. It's about the coincidence of Dimebag Darrell and John Lennon being murdered by crazed fans on the same day, 24 years apart. I LOVE that song. But The Mephisto Waltz rocks, too.

Thank you so much, Boota!

I couldn't understand the words to any of the songs, but that's typical of the genre. I tried to click on the lyric link, but there wasn't a link, lol. Do y'all make the lyrics available with the CD's? I'm one of those that reads them as I listen, and as I understand the words, I get more involved with the song.

Out of the songs available to listen to I would have to say that The Mephisto Waltz is my favorite. It gets under my skin. It reminds me of my high school days and reminds me what I love about this genre of music.

I love how Funeral Rose starts, it does sound like a funeral procession, with the soft voice and the steady beat. There's a lot of emotion involved in this song, and I like that the music alone makes you feel it.

The Devils Road gets your heart racing and your blood pumping. A great song for me to stay motivated while cleaning the house or some other task I hate doing, but a very bad choice if I were driving, lol. I would definitely get a ticket with that one.

Let It Die is growing on me. I liked it to begin with, but it was one of those 'take it or leave it' songs. It has a repetitive rhythm and lyric pattern that takes hold inside your head and won't let go. The more I listen to it, the more I like it.

I clicked on the web page as well, so I got to listen to The Waking Hour. I was pleasantly surprised. Very nice ballad, Boota.

I have to say, I'm impressed.

I don't listen to much of anything but country these days, though I love music in all forms. In my younger days heavy metal was what I listened to most often. Iron Maiden, Metallica, Queensryche... Hmm... I wonder if banging my head all those years ago might explain the constant headaches now.

Seriously though, when I have the money I'd like to get a copy of each of the CD's. Can I send in the request for the band members to sign them too?

 

[Boota]

Angelicminx, thank you for the great comments! We haven't been able to make the lyriucs available with the CD's yet. We only have four pages to get the information on, and two of them are external covers. With the band pictures that Big Noise puts in and our thank you list that takes up all the room. I have the lyrics on a file on my other computer, though, so I can post them if you'd like.

The Mephisto Waltz really reminds me of my high school days, too. I think mainly because I wrote the lyrics to it in study hall my junior year the second I finished the novel of the same name. LOL. I love it that a 20 year old song made the cut in front of a panel of record producers.

Funeral Rose is the first song that my singer and I ever wrote together. I had all these semi-related riffs and scraps of lyrics. He heard me play one of the riffs and I started putting the pieces of words and music together. He added some more lyrics, and about ten minutes later we had a song.

The Devil's Road is one of our top live songs. The room just explodes when we kick into that one. I'm pretty happy with my solo in that one, too.

Let It Die had to grow on the other guys in the band, too. LOL. I always loved it, but they had to have it pounded into them. I wrote that one on New Years day, early in the morning, several years ago. There was a news report about a racially motivated killing at a New Years Eve celebration and it struck me that nothing really changes.

The Waking Hour was written very strangely. I bought a digital piano, put it in the studio, which is next to my bedroom, and went to bed. The next morning I stepped out of bed, walked right to the piano and played that song, exactly as it is on the CD. At approximately the same time, several miles across town, my singer was getting out of bed and he wrote those lyrics. We got together later that day and I played that piano part for him. He pulled the lyrics out of his folder and started singing them along to my piano part. Everything fit like we had written the pieces together in the same room. I added some lyrics to fill out the verses and expand the chorus the next day.

Let me know when you want them and I will get you some CD's, and I can have them signed. The new one hasn't been manufacutred yet. In fact, the studio master just got to Big Noise today. Suicide Black is sold out, we have to get more copies. It's our best seller. We have a few Triple X left, and quite a few Rough Edges, the one with The Waking Hour on it. I never officially released Rough Edges because I think it's a weak album. Good songs, it just doesn't grab me for some reason.

 

[entitled]

Let me know when you want them and I will get you some CD's, and I can have them signed. The new one hasn't been manufacutred yet. In fact, the studio master just got to Big Noise today. Suicide Black is sold out, we have to get more copies. It's our best seller. We have a few Triple X left, and quite a few Rough Edges, the one with The Waking Hour on it. I never officially released Rough Edges because I think it's a weak album. Good songs, it just doesn't grab me for some reason.

Save one of each for me, too, for if and when i ever get money? *insert puppy dog eyes here*

 

[Liar]

Heard it now, and I like it. Good job on a good song. The song's got a sluggish mood that fits well with your general sound and attitude. I can hear that you know what you like and how to achieve that.

Personally, I would have liked a little more grit in the mix for songs like these. You kow, that "did I just shove a blender in my ear?" kinda feeling. The other songs on your myspace page have a rougher polish to them, for instance.

 

[angelicminx]

I'd love to see the lyrics! The songs are good enough that, though I haven't listened to them in several hours, I'm still thinking about them. That says a lot, lol.

Amazing story about The Waking Hour. Fate, destiny, whatever you want to call it. *chills*

I will definitely let you know when I can afford to buy the discs. Hopefully it won't take too long. I'm salivating here, lol. About how much are we looking at with shipping to Kentucky? (PM me if you want to.)

I'm an aspiring songwriter myself and I am amazed at the process. I have melodies running through my head, driving me completely insane, but the words don't always come together like they 'should'. It's more work than I thought it would be, but very satisfying when I get to 'put one to bed'. Now, if only I could get the music and the lyrics to come together in the same song, lmao.

 

[Boota]

Liar, I'm glad you liked the song. The mix is more polished because we did this one in a real studio with good mics and top notch gear. The other songs were recorded in my spare bedroom on junk gear with $20 mics. It was good enough to get us to the Grammy ballot, but we still wanted to see what we could do in a good studio.

Angelicminx, it's good to hear that my songs are sticking with you. I like that.

Sometimes songs just fall together like The Waking Hour did. We have a song on our first album called Love On The Run (Don't Look Back). I wrote it at three in the morning after dreaming about playing it live on stage. I wrote the whole song, music and words, in less than five minutes. Rolled out of bed, grabbed my guitar, a pen and some paper, and went to work. Then I spent three months convinced that I had subconsciously plagiarized it. It took friends and band members that whole three months to convince me that it was my own composition. LOL.

Do you write mostly country songs?

 

[Boota]

The Mephisto Waltz
by Boota c. 1986 (Disasterpiece Theatre c. 2006)

Ebony satin wraps up their souls
And pulls out the last of their breath.
Ivory evil captures their hearts
Brought to the brink of white death.

Pounding of hammers
Devil may care
Body and mind just a shell
Burnt to the ground
Naked and bare
They move to the fury of Hell

pre-Chorus
The flames dance and sway
As they writhe on the floor
To their master's Mephisto Waltz

*CHORUS*
Mephisto Waltz (X3)

Orgasmic frenzy possesses their hearts
The air in the room is like ice
Heat from the friction rises as steam
Their breath is their Lord's sacrifice

They lose all control as they grind on the floor
A twisting tangle of flesh
Fathers and daughters, mothers and sons
Forced into Satanic incest

pre-Chorus
The witches of Sabbath
Shriek from the flames
To their master's Mephisto Waltz

(repeat Chorus)

slow break
The burning of the witch
The burning of a thousand years
Beware of false prophets
Deny sympathy to the witches tears
Screeching in the whirlwind fires
The Devil's daughters call your name
Molested by the incubus
Molested by the Hellish flames

pre-chorus
Euphoria fades
And they all will applaud
Their master's Mephisto Waltz

(repeat Chorus)