When The Law Betrays

Welcome back, Mr. Hyde!!! (insert creepy evil laugh)

I ended my last blog about my lo-fi/chillout side project Faded Grey with this statement: “Mr. Hyde is on a short vacation; let’s welcome Dr. Jekyll for the time being.”

Well it turns out that Mr. Hyde is now back to inflict darkness, riffs, and metal unto the world. (Side note: Forgive my overbearing references to “Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde,” but I just started reading the novel today and I’ve fallen absolutely in love with it.)

Ahh!! I miss the sound of distorted guitars, wailing guitar leads, pounding drums, growls, and screams. I miss recording heavy music, and I’m so glad that Greyfade is back! It never really went away, as I’m always playing guitar and creating noise, but I missed writing and completing finished songs for Greyfade.

Don’t get me wrong, I absolutely love what I did with Faded Grey because it provided an outlet for my improvisational guitar playing and, overall, the simplicity of creating music. I didn’t need to overthink things—I just had to play whatever came to mind in the moment. I won’t stop Faded Grey, and I’ll keep on playing that type of music until I stop enjoying it—and I don’t see that happening anytime soon.

After recording Faded Grey, a sense of urgency and restlessness took over me, and I started immediately writing heavy songs—the result of which are four of what I think are my darkest and heaviest songs to date. To add fuel to the fire, a lot has happened in the world since then—a tragic war in the region where I live, continuous disregard for human life, corruption, etc. How can you not be influenced to write dark and heavy songs?

While writing the songs, I didn’t want “commercial”; I didn’t want “catchiness.” I didn’t care about how long the songs would be. I didn’t care whether or not there would be a hook in the song. I didn’t care if there would be too many riffs in a song. None of this mattered - “The weirder, the better” was my motto.

The four songs turned out so different yet so intertwined with each other.

“When the Law Betrays” is probably my heaviest and riffiest track to date. It’s an in-your-face song which, as the title suggests, talks about corruption at the highest level.

Check in on this blog in May, to hear and learn about the second single from A Vessel EP.