Hello friends!
Big news: all three of my albums have been completely remixed, remastered, and even partly re-recorded to sound more powerful and alive than ever before! I’ve replaced the original files on Bandcamp, so if you’ve downloaded my albums before, make sure to grab the latest versions – you’ll definitely hear the difference!
This is the best sound I’ve ever achieved, and I truly hope you’ll enjoy it! Thank you so much for your support, and happy listening!
Zsolt
Some of you might have thought I had vanished – maybe even stopped making music altogether. But nothing could be further from the truth! While I haven’t been as active here as before, I had a damn good reason for it. Over the past few months, I’ve been completely immersed in remixing and remastering all my previous albums, diving deep into an intense online mixing course, and battling through the inevitable trial-and-error process that comes with learning sound engineering on your own. Trust me, it was a long and exhausting ride!
But now, it’s done. And the result? In one word: BRUTAL. After months of experimenting with new guitar and bass tones, tweaking drum samples, and refining my mixing techniques, Hexapla, Missa Innominata, and Thanatology now sound massively different from their original versions. Of course, I won’t be the one to tell you whether it was worth the wait – that’s for you to decide.
One big change you might notice: Hexapla – The Remasters (my 2022 remix/remaster) is no longer available. Why? Because I’ve completely reworked the original Hexapla from the ground up, making the older remaster obsolete. But aside from that, all my previous releases are still there – now with significantly enhanced sound quality.
So, do me a favor: head over to my Bandcamp page, crank up the volume, and experience the new, upgraded Darkwave sound for yourself!
Thank you for being part of this incredible musical journey!
It’s always hard to start writing these kind of posts – not because I don’t know, what to share with you, but rather because there are too many things at the same time on my mind. So, instead of trying to “find my voice”, let me jump immediately into the middle of things: Missa Innominata, my second full-lenght album became one year old today!
Missa Innominata represents an important milestone for me. Not just because of its concept and multicolored musical approaches (back then I was in a mood for heavily experimenting with various tonal and emotional elements) but also its sound and way of production. I don’t say that it turned out to be perfect in this regard (not at all!), but I do say that it was created with the intention to reach the best achievable quality both on the songwriting and music production side. I always used to say that composing and making music is a constant journey towards an ideal, never-achievable musical perfection: and Missa Innominata is definitely a significant step for me in this continuous learning process. While I internalized the basics of music making and sound production during the recording, mixing and mastering of my first album, here I already had at least a general idea on how to do these things better than before. Compared to the rawness of Hexapla, Missa Innominata turned out to be a less brutal, but more sophisticated and multilayered album with various emotional aspects and faces.
Let me tell you that I’m extremely proud of this album. I really poured my heart into these six tracks, trying to condensate multiple feelings and thoughts in the shape of a wide range of musical approaches. Besides the joy of creating (hopefully quality) music, however, I learned a couple of lessons too, while creating this album. The most important lesson was that I realized that I need professional help to further refine my recording, mixing and mastering skills. There is always a point where one has to realize his own limitations – and my most obvious limitation was my instinctive way of mixing and mastering my own music. I needed guidance on how to evolve. Hopefully the sound quality of the next album will witness those enormous efforts that I put into learning how to mix music.
Anyway, it’s almost midnight here, and I just wanted to share my joy with you guys before the day ends: happy birthday to the second Darkwave album!
SoundCloud has always been a great place for sharing music and building a lively community of musicians and music enthusiasts. RepostExcange by SoundCloud is a tool for distributing and promoting music and an excellent way to get feedback from other users. As it is stated by SoundCloud that “Re-ex chart positions are based on quality ratings from other members. This is more than a popularity contest“, I feel extremely honored that Agnus Dei is making waves not only in the Pop/Rock Top 40 (place 9 today, on the 3rd of July), but also in the Re-Ex Top 40 chart, a cumulative chart for all SoudCloud users belonging to various musical genres – it’s on place 29 today!
I created a short video with excerpts from each songs of the new album, just to give you guys a quick overview on what to expect from Missa Innominata.
I hope you’ll enjoy this small compilation! Please don’t forget: album release is on 01.06.2022!
Missa Innominata, my second album will be released on 1. June, 2022!
This is another great milestone for me. I never thought that one day I’ll compose, record, release and promote my own music – and now it’s already the second time! To be honest, I am full of anxiety and anticipation. As one of my favorite authors, J. R. R. Tolkien wrote: “I am dreading the publication, for it will be impossible not to mind what is said. I have exposed my heart to be shot at”.
Thank you again for your continuous support!
As recently I’ve been quite busy with remixing Hexapla, I couldn’t give you frequent updates on the progress with the new material. Well, my second album is practically fully recorded and mixed – I’m currently busy with fine-tuning and polishing it. In the next couple of days I’ll try to finish the mastering process and upload the whole bunch of songs on Spotify and all the major streaming platforms, too (it takes weeks, though, until the album gets published…).
The name of the album will be “Missa Innominata” (“Unnamed Mass“). You may ask, why I ended up with such a subject that’s so uncommon in the metal scene…? My definitive answer is that I wanted to try, whether I could add personal shades to something that is otherwise very traditional and monolithic. The indeterminacy and obscurity of the title, therefore, intentionally form a clear contrast with the track listing that follows the well-defined and solid structure of the traditional Roman Catholic mass. So – at least according to my understaning – it is my personal interpretation of something ancient and enigmatical, but at the same time deeply spiritual, inherently beautiful and excitingly multi-layered. As it is an instrumental album, I had no other choice but to portray these emotional and spiritual aspects of the diverse liturgical elements (for example the solemnial character of Kyrie or Agnus Dei as well as the ecstatic vibes in Gloria) exlusively by the help of metal music, which is otherwise considered to be profane or even unholy. The cover art (created as always by my talented friend, Dávid Ujhelyi) is intended to support this approach by emphasizing the dichotomy of darkness and light, with an outlook on the rising sun, the symbol of hope.
I hope you’ll enjoy the final result, which will come in the next couple of weeks. I’ll let you know the exact release date once I’ll be aware of it!
Track listing:
Just a quick update on this cold Sunday afternoon 🙂
I’m progressing well with the recording of the new songs. The whole material is already 80% recorded, but needs further fine tuning, and lots of mixing /mastering. First, let me show you a short solo from the fourth track. It’s still far from perfect, but I’d like to share with you a snapshot on how it’s evolving.
Thank you for being with me here and supporting me!