My band's last CD exposed to FOFC critics

[Icy]

After seing Skydog's CD thread, i copied his idea and decided to post mine :)

Here are some songs of the last CD demo of my band called Swamioms (Now you know what my Hattrick Team has that name:) ). It was recorded last summer. Please download some and tell me what do you think, don't worry about telling your thoughts, i won't get offended at all, the harder the critics the more i will know what to improve so be hard with us :)

Song 1 here (http://www.grupox.com/mp3/swamioms1.mp3)
Song 2 here (http://www.grupox.com/mp3/swamioms2.mp3)
Song 3 here (http://www.grupox.com/mp3/swamioms3.mp3)
Song 4 here (http://www.grupox.com/mp3/swamioms4.mp3)
Song 5 here (http://www.grupox.com/mp3/swamioms5.mp3)

[Karim]

Wow! WOW! This is REALLY good; definitely the type of music I like. Do you have a website? Are you the lead singer?

What are the titles of the songs?

Damn, we have some talented people at FOFC.

[Icy]

I'm really glad that you like it, we have a website, but i'm so busy to design it so just uploaded a simple index with the CD cover. Now that i look at it i have proposed myself to upload pics of live shows, songs, lyrics etc this weekend :)

http://www.swamioms.com/

I'm not the singer, i play guitar only, the singer is also the bassist.

Here are the titles:

Song 1: Un dia mas (Another day)
Song 2: Vencido (Defeated)
Song 3: La celda (The cell)
Song 4: Ajeno (Other people's)
Song 5: No quiso mirar (Didn't want to look around)

[vex]

Sounds good, now if I only knew what it was saying...:)

[Icy]

Originally posted by vexroid
Sounds good, now if I only knew what it was saying...:)

LOL, we used to sing in english before, as 99% of the bands we listen to sing in english. But 2 years ago we decided to change to our main lang and we like it, also the spanish public now can underestand our lyrics as mostly of spanish don't speak english. The funny thing is that we still compose in english and then translate it to spanish. :)

[Easy Mac]

Fucking spaniards... learn some english... I learned spanish for you guys.

[Icy]

Originally posted by Easy Mac
Fucking spaniards... learn some english... I learned spanish for you guys.

Hehe EasyMac i did :)

The funny thing is that last summer i went for bussines to Miami and all there was in spanish, even the signals and messages voices at the airport. I felt like at home at restaurants etc, while mostly of the other guys at the convention (from the rest of europe and usa) where complaining :)

[Draft Dodger]

those sound pretty cool (although I can't listen without picture Antonio Banderas singing, and I have no idea why - or how to make myself stop).

[Deattribution]

Originally posted by Draft Dodger
those sound pretty cool (although I can't listen without picture Antonio Banderas singing, and I have no idea why - or how to make myself stop).


I have the same problem.

[Joe Canadian]

Very nice! Can't understand what is being said, but that's my problem not the bands.

[mckerney]

Originally posted by Icy
LOL, we used to sing in english before, as 99% of the bands we listen to sing in english. But 2 years ago we decided to change to our main lang and we like it, also the spanish public now can underestand our lyrics as mostly of spanish don't speak english. The funny thing is that we still compose in english and then translate it to spanish. :)

You have a perfect chance to try and convert Spain into an English speaking country and you blow it. :redface:


:D

[Gallifrey]

Sounds good Icy. Spain is a great place, my wife and I love it.
Good luck on your CD sales.

That is my business too. I have moved from the band-tour circuit to studio only. Up to 17 released now. Here is the latest.
http://www.stevenrbrooks.com/
http://www.cocktailrev.com

[Drake]

Icy, that music is very easy on the ears. Outstanding work. It reminds me of early Faith No More (well, except it's in Spanish).

[CycloneSteel]

Really good stuff man!! Also in a band, here is where you can listen to our new cd...

http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/salamagundi

[Leonidas]

Originally posted by Icy
LOL, we used to sing in english before, as 99% of the bands we listen to sing in english. But 2 years ago we decided to change to our main lang and we like it, also the spanish public now can underestand our lyrics as mostly of spanish don't speak english. The funny thing is that we still compose in english and then translate it to spanish. :)

That's really a nice hook to go to Spanish. Spanish is very poetic and translates very well to music, much like Italian in opera.

I was thrown off a bit because I recognized some of it as Spanish, but it was just beyond my grasp to understand it. Then I saw on the post you were from Spain and realized that of course, this is Castillan. I once had a NATO job with a Spaniard working for me and could never understand him, but I can understand Hispanics in the US with no problem. Just the dialects I'm familiar with.

BTW, very good music. The world needs more Rock.

[mckerney]

Originally posted by CycloneSteel
Really good stuff man!! Also in a band, here is where you can listen to our new cd...

http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/salamagundi

Just curious, have you ever run across the band from Iowa named Set Apart?

[CycloneSteel]

McKerney -no I haven't? We only play locally -and no more than once a month, gotta keep the day job ya know...

[sabotai]

Cyclone, what's your role in your band?

[CycloneSteel]

Sabotai --I am the keyboards and backup vocals (sing one track -#13 on this cd)

[sabotai]

Maybe we need a "Band" forum so everyone can pimp their stuff. :D

On a related note, it's good to see Yossarian's band (driverdown) is getting work. Headliner even!

http://www.dicelines.com/index.htm

[Kokoshin]

Yeah, some good Spanish Rock !!

Icy, show the world that we know how to handle a guitar :)

One of these days I'm going to burn my old 4-song EP from a punk band I had in the early eighties. Vinyl, of course ;)

K.

[tucker342]

Hey CycloneSteel,

sorry to be off topic but the Hawkeyes are better:D;)


Anyways, I'm really impressed by the abilities of alot of the members of this message board.:)

[CycloneSteel]

haha tucker! But the hawks aren't even better than UNI!?! :)

[Noble_Platypus]

Dude, I cant get the song links to work, it just brings up a blank page. Anyone else having this problem?

[ShovelMonkey]

Icy,

Nice sound. When I listened to the first file I expected some salsa sounding bullcrap. I've never listened to a Spanish metal band before. It's superb, a pleasant surprise.

Not that it matters, but you've been officially added to my Winamp playlist...;)

[sabotai]

Noble, try right clicking on the link and saving it to your harddrive.

[Noble_Platypus]

Thanks Sabotai