For four years The Black Enigma lived in one room. The Bunker: the studio I built with my own hands like a temple, in the woods near Lake Maggiore. Every riff, every odd meter, every dissonant interval was born there on the guitar, note by note, and then transcribed into Guitar Pro, with one rule that never changed: no gratuitous notes. If a note does not serve the song, it goes.
Four years is a long time to work alone. You doubt, you rewrite, you throw away entire sections and rebuild them. The songs grew slowly, the way things grow when nobody is waiting for them. Emerson, Lake & Palmer, Coroner and Rush in the roots; distortion as the only voice of the guitars. No clean tones, no acoustic guitars. Only signal.
The first five
The songs are ten. I did not pick the best five: I decided to produce them in the order they were born, one after the other. The first five became the demo:
- 20 Drops of Heaviness
- Where You Don't Want To Be
- Save Your Soul
- Sirens Night in Tangeri
- Fucking Kalashnikov
For each one I built a precise tempo map, because these songs change meter constantly and a drummer needs a map, not a guess. Then I sent drumless mixes, maps and click tracks across the borders.
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