{"id":304,"date":"2021-02-02T01:06:15","date_gmt":"2021-02-02T09:06:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/herofalls.com\/?p=304"},"modified":"2021-02-02T01:07:35","modified_gmt":"2021-02-02T09:07:35","slug":"song-two-weeks-to-live-feat-many-guests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/herofalls.com\/index.php\/2021\/02\/02\/song-two-weeks-to-live-feat-many-guests\/","title":{"rendered":"Song: “Two Weeks to Live” (Feat. many guests!)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Last year, I started thinking about how I am surrounded by absolutely incredible, world-class musicians, and what an idiot I am not to invite them to play. I realized I would love to have an excuse to ask them to play on one of my songs. So I wrote an 80s hard rock\/metal song around a melodramatic tale of the supernatural, primarily because I thought several people might have fun showing off through it. The solos from Leila-Abdul Rauf<\/a>, Ry Kihn<\/a>, Audrey Shida<\/a> and Brian Poedy<\/a> were all recorded independently, and I told them to play for as long as they liked. I just sort of hoped they’d all fit together in the final mix, and they did. I then had to try to improve the rest of the song to get on their level.

To top it all off, I clearly do not have a metal singing voice, but Audrey’s sister Kate regularly performs an epic death growl, so I asked her to be the Voice From Out Of The Black. I deployed her power judiciously, but she has some of the biggest impact on the song.

Unlike a lot of other more cryptic songs in Hero Falls, this one is a pretty straight up origin story, where I just laid everything out in the lyrics. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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