Feb 2022 indie stoner metal industrial fawmtronica ish international collabs can be
Bass/Guitar/Drums/Production: Nahlej
Keys/Production: DJTJB
Vocals/lyrics/nice butt: Deathboy
Made this cuz it can be difficult to meet up when you're an ocean and some change apart....but it is a labor of love. feast your ears on THIS!
PS my name is Nahlej and i am a deathboy lover
this track was a lot of fun, DJTJB and I jammed for a few hours then chopped and screwed it together to make a song to play with the man, the myth, the legend...Deathboy. <3
@splittybooms Mar 2022
Great minds - I remember doing a track using phone and modem tones; so I love the busy signal as part of the rhythm, that's that good stuff.
Such a smooth and warm bed for these great vocals.
The tom hits are a nice touch.
Oh snap, this is going in a total different direction now!
That chorus section is pretty darn awesome, ups the intensity and gives the song a completely different feel. But it doesn't lose any of the flavor, just kicks it up a notch ala Emeril. BAM, A MELLOW METAL CHORUS!!!
Then back to smoothness.
Perfectly executed with a great build up using a change of drums to lead into the choruses.
Digging the lyrics, too.
Really liking the vocal style on this track as well.
Unique sound, great sound.
You guys can do no wrong, huh?
@davidtaro Mar 2022
Loved the chill bit. Loved the heavy bit. Agree with the Massive Attack vibes, the overall soundscape is incredible. The way you're using the voicemail recordings is so clever and sounds SO good. Funny too. Glad I came back to this one, sorry I missed it first time round.
@nadine Feb 2022
Indie Industrial Metal ? OK sounds the stuff I want to listen to. But then you enter the stage with a Massive Attack vibe with a touch of NIN. Waiting for this song break down real heavy and yes it came. But more good old Limp Bizkit style. What an interesting combination. Hmmm the more I think about the more it reminds me on Black Light Burns. However this sounds professional and I dig the sounddesign here. Awesome.
@fonte Feb 2022
Really cool vibe. Almost trip hoppy. Massive Attack type vibes. Then the heavy guitars almost reminds me of Neptunes? Really cool mix of stuff all of which is very cool and totally works
@emplate Feb 2022
Very cool beginning, I could actually expect some urban rap based on it. The vocals are very nice when they come in. The chorus is awesome. I love the mood of this, the whole thing feels like a complete package.
@sapient Feb 2022
Hot damn.
This is one HELL of a song.
So much to love about it. And it feels so complete.
The arrangement... the production... the sounds...
Don't you just love it when FAWM does this?
@deathboy Feb 2022
them lyrics fwiw ;)
--
I love the back teeth
off my partners in crime
we connect on the regular
just not often in time
some nights i need you
some nights I need to fall
some times I curse these timezones
pick up the call
the way the world works now
is pretty cyberpunk
connect with strangers
especially when I'm drunk
ADAM
TRAVIS
JOE
ANYONE
PICK UP THE PHONE YOU FUCK
ADAM
TRAVIS
JOE
ANYONE
PICK UP PICK UP PICK UP
connect with beautiful people
find long-lost brothers
enmesh yourself with
dislocated lovers
family you never met
seperated by an ocean
your sun rises, mine's just set
we sleep under the same one
---
(the 'joe' in the chorus is another of my beloved US brothers who I call a shit-head-o-clock when I'm all messed up ;) )
@looprication Feb 2022
As soon as this started I looked at the time to make sure it wasn't going to end anytime soon. Fan-fucking-tastic collaboration m8s! You know it's a great collaboration when it's so seamless. Damn. The hook that sounds like a busy signal is fire. Love the vocal treatment, the guitars kicking in are killer.
@spazsquatch Feb 2022
I'm dying here. Great track, but last week (this week? mind's weak...) you apologizing about (possibly) blowing up my in-box in the middle of the night makes total sense now. Fucking great.
Anyway, song is great. Maybe mix is up and drop something mediocre once in a while. Trust me, it's not that hard. ;)
@amelea Feb 2022
“Don’t you understand how timezones work?” Also the song is very fitting for me because I have a friend named Travis who lives in a different timezone and one time I did randomly call them late and they def did not pick up but now I know what the conversation would’ve been like! Probably one of the snippets in this song …
This song is so awesome. The phone call snippets are super fun to listen to, like others mentioned, and the chorus brings it all together really nicely where now you’re not calling them— you’re calling them out (!)
@deathboy Feb 2022
@lyricslinger always dead chuffed to be involved any where near a NIN reference :D I fucking <3 reznor :)
@n24 Feb 2022
I absolutely love a voicemail clip, there's something about it that just feels so damn hip-hop. Fantastic choice. The bass and the slow beat on this is magic, so good. Awesome low and laboured vocals and the delay/echo is so great. The distortion on the chorus part is amazing, there's so much going on here in the production, it's gonna take a couple of listens for me to take this in!
@fuzzy Feb 2022
Love the voicemail idea.
Pretty chill and yet somehow ominous feeling.
Loving the razor guitar in the chorus.
Nice delay on the vox.
I like it.
@jibbidy34 Feb 2022
Ooh hello! Isn’t this the jam?! Yeah fresh and angsty. Has that signature Nahlej/djtjb sound that I love. There is not one song you guys have done that I don’t rate highly. And now this! Going to check out more deathboy…
@lyricslinger Feb 2022
Very cool and fun! Love the inventiveness of having the recorded phone call sections and the humour. Also, the loud industrial rock bits - a bit of a Nine Inch Nails feel. A great listen!
@xfloorpunchx Feb 2022
Really dope collab! Love the hip-hop vibe on the verses and the chorus stoner parts!
@sw1n3flu Feb 2022
Dope. Sick, Badass. Fuck yeah,
@richaaaay Feb 2022
Vibe’n to this hilarious and full force musical adventure. Pure brilliance. What a great concept. Vocal delivery is AWESOME! As are all the voicemail snippets.
@nahlej381 Feb 2022
Ya found out I can send voicemails to my email from my phone…I remember the good old days gettin real quiet and holding my flip phone to a microphone…the future is here brother bear!
@codeenergy Feb 2022
Was not expecting that hard ass chorus. The production is off the chain of course. You guys are becoming quite the dynamic duo in mix. @Deathboy crushed the vocals obviously as well. I love the sampling going on. Are you just playing back voicemails you left each other?