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VENT FOUR: THE DEATH OF IT ALL
. tracklist . info . current cover art .

This album was going to be The River of Piss.  Black Depths to Loss of Will were what I had done for it.  I had pages upon pages of a notebook full of notes concerning what I was going to change, redo, add, subtract and otherwise create for the album.  scribbles of lyrics and ways of doing things to continually make it interesting.  I had a CD burned of those tracks between 1 and 12.  Actually, looking at the track list, between Black Depths and Loss of Will, Trauma and Blackout didn't exist at the time I am speaking of now.  So those 10 tracks were in all actuality an early version of a demo for that album I was working on. 

Blackout and Trauma were actually created in Sound Forge using other tracks on the album as sound fodder. 

The demo CD became all I had from every piece of work I had saved.  I had a hard drive crash and at that time I was not backing up my original files.  If you don't know how audio production works with computers and studio equipment, different elements of music are kept on seperate tracks, or in seperate files.  Guitar, vocals, bass guitar, various effects -- all were seperate.  Think of it as a knit glove.  Each string is able to be altered or changed as long as you have the master file, if you will.  But since the hard drive crashed, all I had was the glove and there was no way to seperate the threads to alter or remove what I wanted.  So, the demo for what was about 1/20th (rough estimate) of the way to becoming The River of Piss, became The Death of it All.  It was such a bad time for me and I was so angry and self destructive that I decided to make the cover art hand written.  I wrote in pen on paper, scanned it and inverted it.  Cropped it to fit, etc.

The software used in this was a much bigger mix than previous efforts.  The mixing was done in Reason 2.5.  Some of the sound was from refills and a few factory things in 2.5.  A lot of the sound came from various VSTi plugins loaded and triggered through Fruity Loops Studio.  I only used FLS to load the VSTi plugins.  I tried CuBase, Acid and some other shit.  I really didn't like the interface and pretty much stuck my snob ass nose up and said fuck you and did it a harder way.  There were definitely samples from Coagula mixed in on this album.