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One Flesh, One End is now released!
“One Flesh, One End” is an album that took thirty months to finish. It’s an album about a girl who loves bones, who loves another girl who IS bones, who is loved by another girl who has a thing for two handed greatswords. This is gothic necromance about friendship bracelets, cows watching sunsets (man), mustache rides, and most importantly…soup.
This was the most difficult, ambitious album that I have ever had to work on from a logistical standpoint. When I began writing this LP I was living a completely different existence, in a different time, place, country, world.
The most important thing any of us can do in our short lives is to give ourselves enough acceptance to say “No.” Especially “No” to the things and people who hinder and cloud our ability to be the very best version of ourselves.
I had a lot of fun doing this one.
Fuck snake cults. Yorkies rule. Go Loud.
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It is Done
In March, I gave myself a hard deadline of May 1st to get the new album complete. Today, I am happy to report that by implementing a hard deadline for the album it helped me to finally cross the finish line.
I started writing this in October 2022 shortly after the release of Lacrimorta’s self-titled debut. This album took 30 months or 2 and a half years to complete, which is to say, a long time. So much has changed since that time in my life. Since then I have left a snake cult, left the mainland, left my job, left my apartment, sold off my vehicle, and took the plunge. I pointed somewhere on the map that was attainable, got myself, my yorkie, and two cats on a plane and uprooted myself from everything I have previously known. This album perfectly encapsulates the energy of leaving while also being a fan project of the highest order.
For a variety of reasons, this album has been the most difficult piece of Art I have ever completed. This album is very operatic and lyrical. And let me tell you, writing a goddamn opera isn’t something that can happen overnight. Vocals are always problematic, and for this album I wanted to do something different. I think that I have achieved that on multiple levels, and although it doesn’t match my original vision I believe it surpasses what I thought this album could be, would be. It serves as a clear step up from what I have done previously and I believe it will connect with whoever it was meant to connect with.
In my opinion producing wholly instrumental music is a simple matter. It takes guts to add live instruments and live vocals to our music in the time of “perfect” AI artwork and music. Last summer, I spent a good deal of time investigating those avenues, and EVERY SINGLE TIME AI fell short for me on multiple levels. I am not threatened by AI. I believe, and several of my fellow Artists (with a capital ‘A’) believe is that what we humans produce is an artisanal delight that absolutely can’t be packaged up and shipped in a month sent off to die and be consumed, thrown away, and forgotten. Why would you willingly want to consume McDonald’s when you can eat something…fancier?
What I do takes, so much emotional energy, so much time, so much sacrifice. Bringing a completed work into being means sending my darlings out to die, but it also serves as a time capsule from the period of time that work was created in. This is what makes this album and all the other albums I have written so special. Get on if you wanna hear some cool ass tunes, or be left behind. I don’t care.
So yeah, it’s coming. It’s finally coming. And I am proud of it. It isn’t perfect. But it doesn’t have to be. Because Goddess knows, I am far from perfect.
I hope you are ready for some bone marrow soup.
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Pain
One of the most painful parts of creating a new album is post-production. The creativity shifts to another mode which can be fun, but also feels extremely tedious in practice. My ears become my worst enemy in so many ways as the physical fatigue of listening over and over again begins to take hold. This fatigue makes me hear things that aren’t there which can ruin a days hard work in five minutes.
In the ideal world this is where I’d bring in another set of ears to assist in making the best product I can, but the world isn’t ideal.
So into the breach I go.
Bouncing hundreds of tracks also really sucks. But here we are…doing the Necrolord Prime’s work. Maybe I’ll do some pushups. Or work on some Japanese.
これは楽しくないです。
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Immanence, an Update on the New Album
2024 was one of the most challenging years for me physically, geographically, and creatively. Moving to the other side of the planet is, in so many words, NOT something I want to do again soon. It takes a tremendous amount of emotional energy to completely upend every aspect of your life and move so very far away.
I finally got settled here in April of 2024. Despite having worked on the new album for a year and a half at that point, I didn’t realize just how much MORE work it was going to take to finish. As it stands here in March of 2025, I officially only have bass guitar to add to the album and then I get to begin the arduous process of mixing and mastering the album. Obviously, since I am doing those two things myself this time, the finished product might not be exactly where I want it to be when I finish it, but let’s be real, is Art ever truly finished?
I can without a doubt say that it is going to be a good album. I enjoy listening to it! It stands somewhere in the same neighborhood as the Self-Titled album from 2022, but it is also a departure from that vibe as well. The new stuff is MUCH more energetic. The lyrics are extremely focused. I absolutely push the limits of vocals while staying familiar enough to reinforce my signature style. The guitars are definitely a step up in both vibe and performance. I should mention that there aren’t as many guitar solos, but when they’re there they absolutely fucking rock.
I heard you wanted to know if there’s pipe organs on this album? Oh fuck yes there are.
I spent much more time workshopping than I have on previous albums. The songwriting is more concise, and breaks away from some habitual conventions I have adopted over the years. And whereas I recorded everything on previous albums in one fell swoop, I recorded this album in stages. Doing this gave both my ears a break, and also time to meditate on what I did without absolutely killing myself.
In some ways, this has been the most relaxed album I have ever worked on. In others, it’s the most difficult. I am very proud of the work I have done here.
Look forward to its release in early May, but if for some reason that doesn’t work out, it should be out by Summer.
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Mirrors
Today I finished demoing the fifth song from the forthcoming Lacrimorta album. How am I feeling about things over all? I am pretty excited!! Not only will this album be a slight departure from what I’ve done previously, it will also mark a milestone for me. The milestone of simply wanting to have fun with music. This album has been a slow burn for me–amidst some rather crazy upheaval in my life, but I have been granted the opportunity to actually sit down and finish this thing, so that’s what I am doing. I have three or four more songs to demo out vocals for before I start working on the guitars. As mentioned previously, there will be some straight up heavy metal on this album, but most of the album is more on the electronic side, and not necessarily on a side that is particularly postmodern. As a an album with a clear concept it will be vocal heavy, but it also won’t be presented in the way that the self-titled album or PAINSYNC was presented. This album is catchy, bouncy, snarky, at times heartstring pulling with an organic vibe. The self-titled album to me felt very focused in one direction, and because of this it felt cold occasionally, at least to me. I am trying to vary this new album up with more sonic elements whilst maintaining some level of emotional and lyrical coherence.
I am getting so excited to actually hear this thing come together and I absolutely can’t wait to share something different, fun, but still familiar to the kind of thing I like to do. As a side note, I am going to be sharing a lot of my process this go around after I release this thing, so please look forward to it. I am hoping that I can finish this for a September or October release, but who knows what’ll happen, it could be sooner. This album has been falling out of me in the last several months.
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State of the Album
みなさん こんにちわ!
I’ve been listening to the new songs over the last week or so. As a whole, the new album has a full skeleton. I hope to begin working on lyrics/vocals this week.
In terms of how it sounds–as mentioned before, it will be a step up sonically. I think that there are aspects of it reminiscent of the self-titled. Most of it, however fringes on an entirely different genre that I don’t want to reveal quite yet. There are three symphonic metal/fusion/gothic Visual Kei tracks. There are four other songs that are a fusion of Gothic Visual Kei, and a final lengthy instrumental of a completely different genre that also retains aspects from everything else on the album.
I had a ninth song written but it doesn’t gel with the rest of the album. In total it clocks in at about 40 minutes, but it may increase slightly in length depending on my desire to add an intro to one of the songs. I may also add some interludes as well–we’ll just have to see.
I did want to note that if you want to get a copy of the self-titled album on vinyl, now is the time. I am moving out of the country in the next couple of months and will be unable to fulfill orders for that item for an indeterminate amount of time.
Get inneth whilst thee canst.
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6
Another song in the bag. This one is much more metal. I figured I needed another metal sounding song to fill the otherwise electronic vibe of the album out. That makes three straight up metal songs, a dancey instrumental and three dancey vocal based tracks done. I endeavor to do one more. I am thinking a ballad.
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5
I have been trying all week to get a song going that I can feel in my veins. I even went so far as to fully commit to a false start (about 8 hours of work) before I decided to move on. The vibe that’s working for me this time is straight up metal. Heavier than anything on the self-titled but still fully in line with the vibe of this one. I felt the album needed another metal song! Anyway it’s certainly going. And I am pushing. Oh am I pushing. I really want at least nine tracks on this next album. And good golly molly I am going to make the attempt.
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Studio Report 4
I got another track in the bag today. I have seven tracks completed for the next LP. The music can be best described as uplifting, energetic, electronic, and different than my previous output. There are two metal tracks on the album but they may get dancified. We’ll see.
From a sonic point of view this stuff goes into another direction. I am always looking at improving my formula and I think definitely goes above and beyond what I have produced before. There will be guitars, but it wont be full on metal per se like the debut LP from 2022. There’s a lot more to listen to, and more variation, as well as beat dropping.
Vocals will probably be completely different than my previous two albums. There are a couple of reasons for this but the primary one being that I have a very specific concept to this album and the vocals need to accommodate that. This is by far my favorite phase when it comes to producing a new album. The keys are less MIDI and more played ideas captured via MPE and the Linnstrument.
I am going to continue writing tracks for this until I feel I have enough to keep me busy for the rest of the year.
And hopefully by year’s end Lacrimorta 2: Electric Boogaloo will rear her very good bad girl head.
Anyway—I am excited.
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Studio Journal 3
Worked on a sixteen bar groove today and yesterday. Very spacey. My main focus for the next Lacrimorta album is to have it sound, well, on the level. I was thinking about doing singles for this round, but hey maybe not, who knows.
I read about one hundred and fifty pages in Dust of Dreams and did way too much driving. Tomorrow, I do it again.
Lacrimorta 