Back in June of last year @[email protected] tagged me into a conversation that some folks from metalhead.club were having about putting together an anthem for their server, they had guitars and bass and vocals and such, but no drummer. I figured why not, it might be fun, so I said yes and they invited me to their NextCloud server so we could more easily collaborate. The guitars came down first so I played along to the first draft of them, though it was 140bpm and it turns out I can't actually play decently that fast. 😅 So I ended up doing double time instead so I could essentially play at half the speed. We went back and forth with some tweaking of what I was doing to fit the song better, then the project kind of fell off for a number of months thanks to real life getting in the way for several people. It was started up again at the beginning of this year, we ended up getting a new vocalist and then everything really hit full speed and here we are!
I'm absolutely amazed at how well this came out, and you really can't even tell I was playing the drums at essentially only half speed compared to the rest of the song, it feels like your brain fills in the missing hi-hats or something. @[email protected] has written a much more in-depth blog post about the whole process here.
