Albums for my stuff moved to Audiomack

 I've decided to move my albums to audiomack for downloads... That is a place I can host albums and has a good fanbase there going for it so I plan to make them available there rather than have links here to file lockers where I ran out of space recently... I have some unleashing vengeance, some caustic euphony and almost all rancid abomination stuff up there now.

I have also opened a soundcloud page at www.soundcloud.com/zachadams666 for people to hear the music before they attempt to download it... That has all 3 projects best songs so far...

Get albums here:
https://audiomack.com/zas-music

I hope people like the albums I hosted there... I put up some important ones today and managed to get some plays for them so far... We'll see how this goes later...

I am messing with Generative (AI generated) Metal now...

 After reading about AI generated metal on youtube, I decided to find out if Generative music sites can do good metal... At the time they couldn't... This was a year ago. 

Fastforward to last month, I decided to check this out again and search for a generative music site that does good metal... It took a long time, but I found one... This site, AIVA, is really cool on the surface... You can 'train' it's AI on non copyrighted metal samples to make it do a certain sound.... Then you can ask it to replicate that sound with unique songs... It will adjust and change things in real time, which is nice... It evolves like any person and makes changes to the sound.

Fastforward to last week... I had made 2 major solo projects with the AI powered music generator. One was called Ai metal and was simply a showoff of what it could do. No songs had titles and it was simply set up to name them "track 1", "track 2", etc.  That solo artist was a lot more neoclassical than the next one, called "generative chaos"...

Generative chaos was formed later on, earlier this month to do original songs with AI. The sound was trained on my own music this time and sounded totally different than AI metal.  It sounded more unique, less classical oriented and more Middle Eastern, sound wise.  It also did a lot more syncopated riffs and  was actually heavier.  By the time I set up a third account at AIVA though to show off my music, I changed the setup, trained it on stuff that wasn't mine and did some songs that were more like AI metal and then quit.

I recently set up an AIVA account to make music for me to listen to only. This was trained on a mix of my own music and music the Ai made based on other bands.  The sound sounded different, more technical, more classical oriented and weirder. The prog metal was doing weird time signatures, had some strange blues rock elements, and was weirder. Melodeth was more death/doom and black metal was weird as hell but dark sounding, at least. I use that to make music for me to listen to at night while relaxing now...

What is really bad is just how finnicky this Ai is though. You try to get it to emulate a song and it frankly doesn't always do it right. I had a fucking Pain in the Ass of a time trying to get it to emulate black metal multiple times. Song C worked the first time after Song A and Song B failed to do something that didn't mix in terrible mainstream music like pop drumming, handclaps, rockabilly (!) or rap drumming. The second time Song C did what Song A and B did the last time and it was worse... Song B failed again but this Time Song A did it better... WTF... The alogerithm is totally fucked up and needs to be totally revamped if the music sounds sinister or dark... But besides this this AI actually was interesting... It evolved over time, did unexpected things like add elements of Classical and Middle Eastern Music into an influence (a style of music it can do based on a sampled song), when the influence didn't even have those elements in them originally... 

I may have found the ultimate music hosting site...

 I was unsatisfied with Indiesound so I went looking for a new music site to host my music.  I tried a site called openwhyd but that was a pile of crap. Then I tried this site whyp.it and that actually turned out to be great. Then I tried posting music videos to tiktok but that is filled with annoying video upload limits so I don't like it much. But whyp.it is insane.

On Whyp.it I have 5 caustic euphony songs, 5 retro evisceration songs, and a shit ton of unleashing vengeance songs up there... On this site these songs keep on getting played on their own, something this site has in common with indiesound only. Other sites have been a lot worse in this reguard (forget about getting this to happen on audiomack, they will ignore your music there if you write 1 bad song, same thing is true with audius), but Whyp.it is killing it.

Now the playcounts could be a lot better, but the sheer amount of tracks getting plays is insane there...  About 90% of my songs have been played on whyp.it.  And this is after only 1 day. ONE FUCKING DAY! It took MONTHS to be noticed on audius and audiomack.  And people listen on twitter, which is great.

I want to thank the people who made whyp.it. I love this site... It blows soundcloud, audius AND audiomack to smithereens! It is better than indiesound due to one reason as well... NO music upload limits minus a minor 8 minute song or higher not allowed thing.  Not a lot of music upload sites have unlimited tracks for a free account. Soundcloud doesn't have that. Tiktok has limits, they all have limits. Indiesound for instance, has an insane 5 songs only per account limit which is really bad for a prolific artist like unleashing vengeance, that wrote tons of cds per year for 12+ years... And the sites that allow you to post unlimited tracks, most of them are crap that have bad fanbase issues where the fans ignore your music like on audius and audiomack. Whyp.it is the ONLY phenominal site for my music now.. I give it a 9.7/10!  Indiesound by comparison is only an 8/10, soundcloud is only a 6/10 and audiomack and audius are like 5 or 6 out of 10. 

My music is killing it in the indie scene now...

 Update for you people on my music... It is doing really well online thanks to indiesound mostly. On Indiesound I am regularly getting songs with 1000+ plays, sometimes up to 5000 or so. I am also getting some really EXTREME shit posted low in the charts there for a few days which is weird, but great. Extreme stuff like Black Metal and Blackened Thrash metal is killing it.

Here are songs that have done great...

On soundcloud and audius I am not doing as well but soundcloud seems to be getting a bit better. I posted some older unleashing vengeance and did an autoplaying unleashing vengeance playlist for my blogs there, so check that out...

This is good news people...

My Music is doing amazing in the Indie Scene now!

I wasn't expecting much When I uploaded my music to indiesound.com  I was expecting maybe 200 plays in 1 month maybe. That's it.  I posted the music 9 months ago.  I checked it earlier this month and found out I had 13000 plays in  9 momths...

Since then It has been insane there... I have gotten a total of 29000+ plays there in 9 months now and I am happy that Caustic Euphony and Unleashing Vengeance are now getting tons of plays..

You can go here to actually hear the music...

Caustic Euphony I knew was good. It was progressive Death Metal and it had black metal elements thrown in. Unleashing Vengeance I wasn't sure about. Some of it sounded like Thrash, and other stuff sounded like weird ass folk metal with Overdriven Guitars.  I wasn't sure people would like it. It got labeled shitcore after all...

But to my surprise, Unleashing Vengeance songs are doing great, a lot  have gotten 500+ plays. Some have gotten 1500+ plays. A few got 2300+ plays.  Caustic Euphony though, is killing it there. Tons of songs with 1000+ plays. 

It has gotten so good, that before I deleted a third solo artist that was there to upload new music to get around the upload limit, I had more average plays per month in the last 17 days than some Major Label Bands, Including overkill, exodus, and Destruction. I also had a lot more than some major label bands that are doing bad now like Manticora, Persuader and Detonation.  It has been great there, and I hope it keeps on happening.

I just formed a new metal solo artist called Technical Blasphemy...

 I have metal news for music I write. I formed a new metal solo artist called Technical Blasphemy Last week. This is an attempt to do "realtime" module music, where I map each key of my keyboard to a set of samples playing at once to be able to simply hit keys on my keyboard to perform a song. The top row of keys does guitars and drums simultaniously... The next row does choirs. The final row does accoustic. This allows me to play music in real time.

I've experimented with this for a while with solo projects I kept to myself, with bad results... Now I finally have something that can do good music I think, as my practice level has finally gotten to the point I can make good songs a lot more often.

Technical blasphemy is a prog metal project that only does intrumentals.  It has a sort of blackened vibe to it and had epic dark choirs, classic influences, lots of syncopated riffs, time changes everywhere, jazz drumming and a lot more... I wanted to do this for a while.  It payed off.

To hear technical blasphemies music go here:

https://audiomack.com/zas-music

It currently is not on anything else but that and my soundcloud which you can find here:

https://soundcloud.com/zashit666

Technical blasphemy has a theme : Paranormal phenomina. It does concept albums. So far I've done one on Alien Abduction, and plan to do 2 more tonight, one on A mothman sighting that turned into a government  coverup, and one on the Brazil Mage Ufo Crash.  Stay Tuned...

Some Asshole has been Hacking my Music Production Computer and finally has been removed...

 I spent the last month tracking, hunting, researching methods on removing, and finally removing, a hacker that got on to my computer. I have no clue who this was and probably never will.. It sucks too, because that info would be so valuable now... Especially with me and the possibility someone who hated unleashing vengeance hired the hacker or executed the hack him/herself...

The Hacker used a very weak method of taking over my machine, a weak method known as windows remote assistance, It is a system where someone can access your computer and remotely assist you by fixing problems while doing so. The problem is, this allows hackers in as well thanks to unpatched vulnerabilities... I disabled this feature immediately and the hacker went away suddenly. Cleaning out my temp files may have also helped... As early as 2015 and before, the hacker made himself known... Back in 2011, someone made my previous PC, a PC's for everyone PC, slow down. Sysprot antirootkit found a LOT of hidden browser processes... I assumed my PC was turned into a proxy server.. I reformatted it then... In 2015, my PC displayed odd, supposed hard drive failure symptoms that included audacity (my mixing software) and OpenMT (my tracking software) failing to play any sound all the way through... I soon got the PC nuked by some virus and the repair shop called it hard drive failure even though it wasn't... The PC then got a new Hard drive in 2015 and as soon as 2020 hit other weird tracker symptoms happened... The instrument I was selecting to write riffs with would suddenly change on it's own.... I thought this might be a tracker bug but since it happened then and never before, I assumed that isn't the case. In 2021 a folder on my Mp3 player suddenly got "locked" by malware, locking me out of it. It had unleashing vengeance music. Soon afterwards, the folder containing all music on the player also got locked.. Luckily resetting the mp3 player fixed this.... Now I can play any music I feel like on xmas day if my sister has a family gettogether... I am buying a new mp3 player just incase this was an mp3 player failing... Strange hard drive errors soon happened on one of my external hard drives. Files copied over would all get deleted mysteriously... This bothered me for a while. This even happened when the internet was unplugged, proving it was some kind of malware doing it or some kind of hard drive problem... Disabling windows remote assistance made this go away, proving it was malware. Cleaning up the temp folder also may have stopped this. These weird symptoms that happened from 2011 to later bother me. Clearly SOMEONE didn't want me to write music or make music. They went as far as trying to disable the ability to copy to my mp3 player, what I use to play music over my sisters... They fucked up with my tracker when I was writing music. They fucked up my tracker AND my mixing software in 2015... SOMEONE didn't like me making music. SOMEONE... I don't know who.. Suspects range from idiots in the Doom Community who trolled me for making bad wads and for me trolling them for trolling me, to someone else I am close with who might be someone who would gain from my music being stopped by various Issues like this. I don't know... All I know is this. This Hacker is gone now. No signs of him remain.. I have no clue how to proceed... All I know is this shit has to end now... This kind of crap is against the law, NO ONE should pay someone to do this to a musicians computer, no matter HOW offensive the music is, no matter HOW offensive the trolling video was, it does not matter, it's still illegal to do this. Clearly SOMEONE doesn't like unleashing vengeance, and has NO problem with doing illegal actions to kill it or other music I have written since then like thrashfest. His actions in august/september 2020 almost killed the production of thrashfest, a brilliant thrash metal solo artist I put together to replace the perminently disbanded unleashing vengeance. It didn't work... Thrashfest WILL be played this XMAS if we have a gettogether... SOMEONE will hear it. I don't care if the lyrics are offensive, I don't care if it's a "Bad" influence, I don't give a shit. This shit won't stop me. EVER!