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Conscious Agony

by Conscious Agony

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1.
Justifiable Death 02:19
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2.
Liquefied Scars 02:42
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3.
Black Hearted Pure Hatred 04:04
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4.
Faded Into Yesterday 03:13
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5.
Nectar 03:23
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6.
Burning In Hypocrisy 05:09
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Mother Cum Obsessions 03:45
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Eight 02:58
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Conscious Agony 05:40
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about

In 2000, I started practicing death metal in a garage with a couple of guys that I knew. I had been playing drums for a few years but had never been in a band before, so the experience was very awesome for me. I had always admired my friends who were in metal bands, and was eager to be in one myself. The bands that I met in high school were Dark Faith and Sadistic Artistry, and I regularly attended their shows. Once they had heard what Conscious Agony was sounding like after we had practiced for a few months, my friends eventually put us on the bill for a live show.

Writing this music was intense. I would literally be soaked in sweat 20 minutes into playing. Jeff would work on riffs in his spare time and then piece them together into sequences. Once practice started, I would take his feedback and build the drums around the architecture of his shredding. It was such a powerful feeling clicking those sticks together four times to start a jam session. We also spent a lot of time acting stupid and making jokes. Every time we got a song finished, Phil would name it and show us his lyrics before unleashing his vocals. We started each practice by performing our growing bank of songs known, and got a little tighter each time. These tracks are presented in the same order we wrote, practiced and played them in live.

These rough recordings represent the culmination of our many practice sessions and live shows. I am unable to mix or master these recordings, and the written lyrics are no longer available. The song 'Nectar' might be the only track that I can pick out all of the words from, but most of the other songs have their titles growled/screamed in the chorus sections. I miss playing drums with these guys, but we all went our separate ways to pursue different interests. You can only dedicate so much time to something that essentially never made us any money.
But this music thankfully exists at least, and may give you some insight into my drum programming methodology.

credits

released January 1, 2001

Vocals: Phil Grech
Guitar: Jeff Marinko
Drums: Shinobi MC
Bass: I think his name was Brendon.

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Shinobi MC Orlando, Florida

Shinobi MC is a composer who specializes in intertwining melodies, retro style video game tracks with jarring drum & bass lines. Oh, and he also raps.

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