I mostly made this to explore my new Modo Drum kit "Jazzy Drums" which is a Mahogany wood based Jazz kit and the new Modo Bass 2, but as many of my songs do, this one took on life of its own (most likely due to the overall emotional impact on me of the recent and horrible Uvalde Texas massacre ). The horns are programmed by me--as is everything else as per usual--from my i k multimedia milhavious orchestra 2 vst and really shows I think that that vst is versatile and can be used for more than classical music. This was created and mixed in FLStudio 20.x. The consistent but always evolving glitch is run from Massive to Grossbeat vst to the master which hopefully adds some low presence texture and a darker contrast to "lighter" horns as does the dirty bass

The Turn is present in many things: Jokes, Cards, etc. It is that point where something expected turns into to something different than expected and you laugh at a punchline, or win or lose at Texas Hold'em, etc. Life has The Turn too and apparently so does music ;) This is built around a 3 part progression that doesn't fully "mature" until... "The Turn" in that progression...lets call it a study of progression and progressive ideas...

The Pond by Wintermut3

A Harsh shape cuts the night sky as he watches fires burn, the silhouette of a crown cuts against the horizon...A kingdom burning, is it his, or his craft... you decide.... War King

Sometimes songs beget songs, this track became "The Gun Fighter"

Years by Wintermut3

Regardless of his existence, he lives in each and every Ukrainian. I pulled upon various Folk and Patriotic Folk Ukrainian songs for the Ghosts riffs and themes.

The opening repeating "alert"-like theme is the Russian Su-30s which are then chased down by the "Ghost"

May he live in all of us...

Began as an experiment of mixing metal elements with Vocoding. Using not just a single Power chorded Distorted guitar as the Carrier in the vocode but the main guitar bus so that the carrier frequency was modified and shaped over time by all the electric guitars

Vocoding with Power Metal guitars rounds this idea out--I will leave both versions of this track up, as they are very different songs despite the shared riffs

In nuclear engineering, a critical mass is the smallest amount of fissile material needed for a sustained nuclear chain reaction. This track seeks to creation a "Metal" Critical Mass by using a minimum "Metal" elements--power chorded guitars, Metal Drums, Metal Bass....