tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-44584812392860910482024-03-05T18:02:21.206-08:00MEGA BEARDOVideo Games + Metal + BeardsUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger65125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4458481239286091048.post-49785694104936600122023-01-02T12:12:00.002-08:002023-01-02T12:12:53.696-08:00BYZANTINE RELEASES NEW EP "BLACK SEA CODEX"<span style="font-family: verdana;">I'm stoked to share that Byzantine has released our new EP "Black Sea Codex," available everywhere digitally and on CD. This is my first "official" studio recording with the band, and we couldn't be more happy with it. We released this independently, as our record label Metal Blade was very gracious to allow us to do, so 100% of the money goes back to the band. <br /><br />Grab your copy here: <a href="https://byzantine.bandcamp.com/album/black-sea-codex">Bandcamp (digital and CD)</a></span><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">This EP came about during the height of COVID when we wanted to keep busy and celebrate the 20th anniversary of the band. Long-time fans of Byzantine will notice that 4 of the 6 songs are re-recordings of the band's earliest demos. The very first Byzantine song I ever heard was the demo of "Unhook Me" back in 2002, so to record bass for these songs was a trip. We also recorded two covers of "Red Skies" by The Fixx and "Sirens" by Coroner.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">This EP was a great way for the band to get warmed up for our next full length album, which we finished writing as of December 31, 2022. We will be hitting the studio in a couple months, and Metal Blade plans to put the record out in the spring of 2024. Believe me when I say it will be well worth the wait. <br /><br />Thank you kindly for the support in 2022. As for Mega Beardo music, I plan to be more active on YouTube this year and have a goal of releasing one track per month, both covers and originals. So I would appreciate subscribing to my YouTube channel and following me on Spotify so you don't miss anything!<br /><br />See you in 2023. </span></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8R_XzMu2gUUWezCF5Tpl9sRizJfOSVE_GU7_s6KglvAxw5uQTv4PJ4PbDs67KOLKcz821BRW4uqQFKjy8RWvNktJjBSrJ6aaq_HjyngoLdJ65ttRcXLzyLBS7SMEdJlIe_wISZXyGFugN29PvViyu5eWp8Ql57MEQ6UC650pe-Vm_BKyh84ZfNA7GAg/s1600/eP1FVuYo.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1600" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8R_XzMu2gUUWezCF5Tpl9sRizJfOSVE_GU7_s6KglvAxw5uQTv4PJ4PbDs67KOLKcz821BRW4uqQFKjy8RWvNktJjBSrJ6aaq_HjyngoLdJ65ttRcXLzyLBS7SMEdJlIe_wISZXyGFugN29PvViyu5eWp8Ql57MEQ6UC650pe-Vm_BKyh84ZfNA7GAg/s320/eP1FVuYo.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4458481239286091048.post-26997456525507191642021-05-25T06:49:00.002-07:002021-05-25T06:50:57.868-07:00"FROM BEYOND THE GRADIENT": the New MEGA BEARDO EP is Out Now!<p><span style="font-family: verdana;">My new chiptune prog-metal EP "From Beyond the Gradient" is now available for streaming and download on all major platforms!</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">The EP consists of five-tracks and is inspired by my admiration for the VHS era, especially when it comes to home videos. The idea came to me while I was backing up old family VHS tapes from the 80s and realized that doing so was like being visited by the ghosts of family members I hadn't seen in decades. As if I was walking through a graveyard of tapes. It was a bittersweet feeling, and I felt that it summed up these tracks nicely.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">I hope you enjoy these tracks. Some have been laying around since 2006, when I first had the idea to do a chiptune album. It only took me 15 years to get that final push!</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Like always, your support is appreciated. Here is the bandcamp embed, but it is also available on Spotify, iTunes, Amazon, YouTube, you name it!</span></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /><br />I am stoked to finally say that <i>Belmont 2</i> is available for download now! It has been nearly three years since I publicly announced I was working on this album, and I obviously didn't mean for it to take this long. I had originally wanted it out in October of 2016. Hoo boy, did I miss that deadline.<br /><br />Frankly, I'm glad it took three years because it gave me an opportunity to really refine the songs and tell the story as I intended to tell it. The first <i>Belmont</i> was easy to write. I knew exactly how many songs it would take and what each song should sound like. <i>Belmont 2</i> had to be done differently, and it took a while to crack that code. Some songs were re-written multiple times, while others were combined to make one. And the longer I kept working on the songs, the darker they got. I can't quite put my finger on what happened in November 2016, but my outlook got quite bleak at that point. The lyric "When darkness exists, we must resist" came out while re-writing "Shadows of the Hell House," and it set the course for the tone of the album.<br /><br />I have to give special thanks to the five people who helped me make this album whole. I've been wanting to work with Angel "Masikus" Hernandez again ever since we did <i>Ledjent of Zelda</i> together in 2013. He's just <i>so good</i> on drums, so I knew I had to get him on <i>Belmont 2</i>. I also brought in my good friends Amanda Lepre, who has been partying hard on the road with Andrew WK, and Erik "Viking Guitar" Peabody for some guest vocals for The Maiden and Dracula respectively. Brian Pickens, my frequent collaborator, absolutely <i>killed </i>the artwork, and my good friend Terry Smith, once again, mixed and mastered the album. I told them I wanted it to look like the <i>Castlevania 2 </i>cover of Nintendo Power and sound like a Mastodon record, and they 100% delivered.<br /><br />Thank you for all your support and patience for this record. It is good to know there is an audience for my silly Castlevania concept records.<br /><br />Download from bandcamp <a href="https://beardomusic.bandcamp.com/album/belmont-2">here</a>, or stream below:<br /><br /><iframe seamless="" src="https://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=2739067858/size=large/bgcol=ffffff/linkcol=0687f5/tracklist=false/artwork=small/transparent=true/" style="border: 0; height: 120px; width: 100%;"><a href="http://beardomusic.bandcamp.com/album/belmont-2">Belmont 2 by Mega Beardo</a></iframe></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4458481239286091048.post-17151948700175252772018-07-26T11:22:00.000-07:002018-07-26T11:22:36.518-07:00Big Changes Call for a Massive Update!<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I think every post I've made on this site for the last 2 years has started with "I forget I have a website." Well, here we go again! I forget I have a website.<br /><br />But now seems like a good time to give a quick update on all the things that are happening. If you've followed my instagram and twitter posts, you will know that I am a whip-crack away from <i>finally</i> finishing BELMONT 2! That's right, this album that I have blabbing about for years is inching closer to completion. I just have a couple pick-up takes to record and some general editing, while my friend and Ledjent of Zelda contributer Masikus is working on the drum tracks.<br /><br />To say I am excited to finally get this album out is a huge understatement. I can't tell you how many times I wanted to throw the whole album in the garbage (self-doubt is a hell of a thing). In fact, I re-wrote a couple of these songs 2 or 3 times. The ideas for these songs span many years, so it took a lot of re-tooling to make the whole thing sound cohesive. The lyrics were challenging at times. The first Belmont was easy to write because I can spew words about the Universal Monsters all day. Belmont 2 had to be internal. It had to get inside Simon's rotting brain. I used the uncertainty of our current real world discourse to fuel the fire a bit. Musically and lyrically, it has a much darker, heavier vibe than the first record.<br /><br />So my general timeline is to get thing out to the world sometime in October of 2018. That is the 7-year anniversary of Belmont, which is fitting since the first two Castlevania games take place 7 years apart. That worked out quite well, wouldn't you say?<br /><br />But that's not it! My bro from another coast, Viking Guitar, is moving from California to Pittsburgh in August, which means I will be joining his "Viking Guitar Lite 2.0" performances. These will consist of the two of us performing the same Viking Guitar material you've been hearing at our other events, like MAGFest and PAX. This will allow us to play other cons and festivals on the east coast while hopefully playing some local venues in Pittsburgh more often. I love Erik, and I can't wait to perform more shows with him!<br /><br />And I'm saving my big news for...later. It will deserve its own post. But believe me when I say it is life-changing for me. The experience I've gained through the past 20 years of playing music has brought me to this point, and I can't wait to share this news with y'all/yinz.<br /><br />Until then, take care of yourselves. The world is in a rough place. Be excellent to each other.</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4458481239286091048.post-6934816606330387452016-04-05T10:12:00.002-07:002016-04-05T10:12:29.224-07:00New Splatoon Cover! And Other Updates.<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Howdy! It has occurred to my busy little brain that I haven't updated my site in *checks last post*...a year?!<br /><br />Let's catch up, shall we?<br /><br />2015 was the most stressful year of my life, and it is still kinda dragging on. We uprooted from West Virginia and landed in Pittsburgh. We absolutely love it. But personal stuff (work, family deaths, buying a house, sick pets, dealing with slumlords, etc) have made things a wee bit stressful. I like stress. GOOD stress. It motivates me. But bad, venomous stress has a way of making you feel like you're trapped in carbonite.<br /><br />I have tried to work on my own music. I dedicated 2016 to finally getting <i>Belmont 2</i> finished and released by Halloween. Now into the fourth month of the year, and I only have one demo mostly finished. Stress is a hell of a brick wall.<br /><br />But I have found that my favorite way to bury my stress is to mindlessly drown it in INK. I have played a lot of Splatoon. A lot. And when the latest <a href="http://dwellingofduels.net/">Dwelling of Duels</a> Brevity Month came up, I figured it would be a good excuse to record a quick cover of "Now or Never!" from the Splatoon soundtrack. Check it!
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">So that's my belated 2015 update in a small nutshell. I still worked on a good bit of music and collaborations. Check out my Discography section for a full list of everything that I have recorded. And as always, I'm updating stuff via twitter (@megabeardo) more than anywhere else.<br /><br />Will I finish Belmont 2? I really don't know. Most of the time, I don't have the energy to work on it, which sucks. It will be six tracks, so a swift kick compared to the first record's 70+ minutes. Just finding enough time in my limited free time to 100% dedicate my brain for creating stuff is very difficult these days. I'm doing everything in my power to better the situation (finding a new job is my #1 priority right now). So hopefully, my next update will be a little more cheerful :)</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4458481239286091048.post-20865560501804393692015-05-22T22:26:00.001-07:002015-05-22T22:26:26.645-07:00"Basement Demos": A New Collection of Old Originals Now Available!<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Download "<a href="https://beardomusic.bandcamp.com/album/basement-demos">Basement Demos</a>" on <a href="https://beardomusic.bandcamp.com/album/basement-demos">bandcamp</a> for free/name your price:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />When you take a look at my <a href="http://www.megabeardo.com/p/discography.html">discography</a> and <a href="http://www.megabeardo.com/p/other-bands-and-projects.html">past music career</a>, you will notice that I've been in a lot of bands over the years. Sometimes these bands go on for a long while, play live on occasion and release an album or two, and other bands never quite make it out of my basement.<br /><br />That's what <i>Basement Demos</i> is. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Dating back to 2009, I have stockpiled songs that I wrote for bands that I started and could never get off the ground. It happens. Life happens. People move away and people get busy. The band dissipates and you remain friends, but those songs just sit there and gather dust. I've tried re-purposing these songs for other projects with admittedly not so great results (<a href="https://beardomusic.bandcamp.com/track/lilac">this song in particular</a>). So there they sit, collecting more dust and taking up space in my brain.<br /><br />And then my wife and I decide to move out of my home state of West Virginia for work. I have lived here for every second of my 33 rotations around our sun, so transplanting ourselves into Pittsburgh is fun and scary and exciting and stressful. A move like this can be a catalyst for a much-needed recharge. It also gives you a chance to sort through the boxes of stuff in your basement. See where I'm going with this?<br /><br />I bought my home in 2009, the same year I became a college teacher. It was a monumental year for me. "Hey, I'm an adult now!" This house also had a pretty cool partially finished basement area that I turned into my music and gaming space. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This is where Mega Beardo was born.<br /><br />Within two months of living at this house, I started tracking my Mega Man 2 Guitar Tribute album. I was also writing Belmont at the same time. The house was like an injection of adrenaline and creativity. I came to spend a lot of my time in that basement studio. I adorned it with all the nostalgic crap that made me feel like me. It was a home within a home. And now I'm moving out of it.<br /><br />While packing up the stuff in this basement studio for the move, I began thinking "Man, I've written a lot of cool songs in this basement that nobody will ever really hear." It mirrored my current packing activities as "Well, do I hold onto these things that I keep boxed up and never look at, or do I sell them or give them to Goodwill?" While I'm clearing out this basement studio, why don't I go ahead and just release all of the unheard songs I wrote in this basement studio? So I'm clearing out my basement both literally and metaphorically. It's like when old Rocky Balboa says he can't stop thinking about fighting because he still has stuff "in the basement." Not only do I want people to hear these songs, but I just need to clear them out of my head and focus on the future.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So that brings us to <i>Basement Demos</i>. This is a collection of songs I wrote for the bands Last Level, Clobber, and Karate Balboa (aka Bulletproof Tiger, aka Gotham City - we never really did settle on a name). These are all instrumental tracks. Though I was the singer of Karate Balboa, I didn't think it would fit to have 7 instrumentals and 2 non-instrumentals on the same album. Some of these songs, like the Last Level ones, were already recorded and close to album ready. With the others, I had to go back and update the old demos from 2009-2010 to make them all match, sound quality-wise. What results is (what I hope) a collection of punk, hardcore, and southern metal songs that represents a fun part of my life with my good friends, and I want you guys to hear it too.<br /><br />I didn't do this all alone. Some of these tracks were a collaborative effort, particularly the Clobber tracks. Everyone in that band had a part in writing those songs in one form or another, including the late, great Eric Kesner, who wrote the absolute cheesiest, catchiest, and best vocal/lyric verse hook I've ever heard for "Peace Pipe." I represented it by playing the melody on guitar, but it simply doesn't do it justice. I'll be singing that song in my head until the day I die. Thanks, Eric. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I also got my buddy Tony Rohrbough (formerly of Byzantine) to lay down a solo on the Clobber track "Ice Wizard". I had an open spot for a fun solo, and I've always wanted to collaborate with Tony. I strongly feel he is the most under-appreciated guitarist in modern metal, and it blows my mind that he played a solo over one of my riffs.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Dunzo! It feels good to get these out. I have a few things heading your way later this year. Viking Guitar Live will do some more recording, and LonelyRollingStars is prepping our next album. I'm also finishing up a track for a Chrono Trigger album. All that leads up to me finally sitting down to write and record <i>Belmont II</i>. I don't have a timeline for that, but my preference would be to get out it by Halloween 2016, as it is an appropriate time of the year and would also mark the 5th anniversary of <i>Belmont</i>'s release (holy crap).<br /><br />Until next time!</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4458481239286091048.post-21865744802742193782014-12-14T05:35:00.001-08:002014-12-14T05:39:46.236-08:00You Ready for Every Track I Released in 2014?<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Now that 2014 is coming to a close, I feel it's time to compile all the music I released into one post, because there's A LOT. I said I was going to take it easy in 2014, and I ended up releasing 41 tracks on various projects, so I'm a big fat liar. Regardless, I'm super thankful that I get to work on so many great projects with so many awesome people around the globe. You guys are the best.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Logan Venderlic - <a href="http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/loganvenderlic/logan-venderlic-heart-heavy">“Heart Heavy”</a> (not available online)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://audioschmaudio.bandcamp.com/album/cpu-up-your-ass">3-Hole Face - “CPU Up Your Ass”</a> (I did lead vocals for this)</span><br />
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<a href="http://dwellingofduels.net/dodarchive/14-07-Free/01-Mega%20Beardo-Alien%203%20(NES)-Giger%20I%20Don't%20Even%20Know%20Her!-DoD.mp3"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Alien 3 (NES) - “Giger? I Don’t Even Know Her”</span></a><br />
<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4458481239286091048.post-7081609612732901992014-06-16T21:03:00.004-07:002014-06-16T21:09:46.389-07:00New EP "Black Ice" Now Available!<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Before I begin, holy CRAP am I terrible at updating this website. Between facebook, twitter, youtube, instagram and blah blah whatever else, I sometimes forget I have an actual website! Though I mainly use this as a central hub to include everything I'm a part of (there's only so much you can do on crappy facebook). I will be including an official discography soon, because I released a lot of stuff last year, and I'm releasing A LOT of stuff this year.<br /><br />Speaking of which...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">1. World 666 (Super Mario Bros. 3)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">2. Ov Ice and Sloth (The Goonies II)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">3. Serpent on a Mountain Cold (Snake Rattle 'n' Roll)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">4. Blue Burrr ft. Stemage and Viking Guitar (Sonic the Hedgehog 3)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So what is <i>Black Ice</i>? It's a short, four-song EP of video game ice level music fused with black metal flavorings. You see, this past winter was coooold. It sucked. It was miserable, and it put me in a weird mood. One day, I started messing around with the Super Mario Bros. 3 World 6 theme in a sort of Behemoth-style snippet to test some new guitar tones, and it all clicked. Within a couple of months, I had the thing arranged and recorded.<br /><br />My past three albums (Mega Man 2, Belmont, and Ledjent of Zelda) had their ups and downs while writing and recording them. Broken fingers, ripped vocal chords, writer's block (I had major writer's block on Ledjent). For some reason, <i>Black Ice</i> was smooth sailing from the beginning. I think part of that was knowing exactly what I wanted to do and how I wanted to do it. With Ledjent, it was like "oh, I've got this great pun and a few riffs! This'll be great! --- 6 months later --- uhhhhhh crap what was I doing?"<br /><br />Really the hardest part was picking the tunes. I can say that there were some Zelda and Mega Man tunes that were on the short list, as well as a Metroid Prime 2 track. But I felt what I chose was a solid slate of classic themes and deeper cuts (how fuckin' rad is that Snake Rattle 'n' Roll tune?). Also, a huge thanks to Brian Pickens for the amazing artwork, as always -- to Stemage and Viking Guitar for laying down such slick, beautiful solos on Blue Burrr -- and to Terry Smith for mastering the hell out of it. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Stream the album below.</span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://beardomusic.bandcamp.com/album/black-ice">Download <i>Black Ice</i> right here!</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">At MAGFest, I will be joining the mighty Viking Guitar's live band along with Stemage, Adam Henry, and Travis Morgan. We'll be hitting the second stage. It's going to be awesome, and you should be there. Here's a taste of what's to come:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Oh yeah, new tunes. So what compilations are they? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">1. Spectrum of Mana</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">You may have heard about this little, tiny project that has been in development for quite some time now. It is a tribute album with a ridiculous amount of people involved, and I feel lucky to be a part of it. I did an interview for the project that explains a little about my music background and my involvement with "Spectrum of Mana."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">2. Vampire Variations II</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This year's "Vampire Variations" album is two discs worth of Castlevania remixes. The first disc is all "Rondo of Blood," while the second disc is "Bloodlines." I'll be contributing a Rondo track, and you can hear a little bit of it in this trailer below (second song in):</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And what's the third album, you ask? We'll just keep that one a secret for now :) Let's just say I'm not remixing a video game song on it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">This is a leftover idea from the "Ledjent of Zelda" writing sessions. I
originally planned to end the album with this song, but I felt it would
ultimately mess with the overall tone and cohesive statement of the
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As a 'thank you' to all you awesome people who have supported me all the
way through my "Ledjent of Zelda" EP, I wanted to give you guys a
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in return. So, THANK YOU and ENJOY! This one's on the house (free free free).<br /><br /><a href="http://beardomusic.bandcamp.com/track/fanfarewell-legend-of-zelda-whistle-song">Download link</a></span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com24tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4458481239286091048.post-37721188953944794042013-05-28T20:22:00.000-07:002013-05-28T20:22:13.323-07:00I Randomly Recorded a Journey to Silius Track!<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Howdy, BeardHeads! It may seem like things have been quiet around Mega Beardo Land since the release of <i>Ledjent of Zelda</i>, but I can assure you this isn't the case. I've got a couple non-Mega Beardo related projects in the works right now, which I plan to update you all on very soon. But in the middle of all that, I randomly picked up my acoustic guitar and starting jamming on one of my all-time favorite VGM tracks, and this happened...<br /><br /><br /><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/mQbHa1L6_n8" width="560"></iframe></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I've always felt like tackling some of (if not all of) the <i>Journey to Silius</i> soundtrack, and this seemed like a cool way to do just that. I may revisit this soundtrack in the future, but I can tell you I have a bunch of other ideas I'd like to tackle too, and that includes more original material. We'll just see what I feel like doing first.<br /><br />Anyway, enough rambling. If you want to download this track, head on over to my <a href="http://beardomusic.bandcamp.com/track/journey-to-silius-stage-2">bandcamp page</a>! I've made it part of my ever-growing <i>Extra Lives</i> album of random B-sides.<br /><br /><a href="http://beardomusic.bandcamp.com/track/journey-to-silius-stage-2">Journey to Silius - Stage 2 (download)</a></span></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4458481239286091048.post-32764224166514463912013-04-11T15:28:00.000-07:002013-04-11T16:11:31.862-07:00Footage of My Old Band 3-Hole Face Emerges!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">You may have seen through facebook or twitter that I'll be recording vocals for a project called 3-Hole Face. Well, 3-Hole Face was an industrial metal band that lasted from 2000-2004, during which I was the lead guitarist. Terry Smith, the mastermind behind 3-Hole Face and the dude the masters all the Mega Beardo stuff, has stockpiled a bunch of new tunes that he wants me to sing on. So <i>that's</i> happening this year.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">BUT check this out! I was doing some spring cleaning and happened upon a pile of VHS and cassette tapes that I squirreled away for some reason or another. On one of those VHS tapes was a 3-Hole Face show from 2002 that had no audio. And on one of those audio cassettes was the <i>soundboard </i>audio from that very show! So through the wonders of cheap modern technology, I was able to sync them up and post a couple of the tracks on Youtube for your viewing pleasure. This is a good chance to get a good idea where I got my start. In case you don't recognize me, I'm the dude with the long hair, the black SG, and the Dimebag Darrell beard.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">As far as I know, we were pretty much the only industrial metal band in West Virginia at the time aside from another awesome band called Screw-Worm (and I haven't heard of any since). Needless to say, coming to a show and seeing some small-town boys all painted up with highlighters and playing crazy industrial metal was something quite different for the Morgantown scene. Unfortunately, we had to call it quits after 2004, although <span style="font-size: small;">w</span>e played a one-off reunion show in 2010 to help raise money for cancer research. But you'll get new 3-Hole Face tunes hopefully by the end of the year! So there's that.</span></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4458481239286091048.post-86417335124673526622013-03-19T20:12:00.002-07:002013-03-19T20:12:44.323-07:00Ledjent of Zelda is Finally Here!<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Ladies and gentlemen, the time has come. My new E.P. <i>Ledjent of Zelda</i> is finally available! Along with the usual bandcamp download options, I also have CD copies available for pre-order. I hope to start shipping those out by the end of April.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Enough blabbing. Here's the bandcamp link!:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4458481239286091048.post-66328610322527751942013-03-14T20:10:00.001-07:002013-03-18T13:56:19.076-07:00Ledjent of Zelda Release Date! It's Real Soon!<div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">
<span class="userContent">Oh, hey. ALBUM RELEASE ANNOUNCEMENT.<br /> <br />
"Ledjent of Zelda" will (finally) be released on Tuesday, March 19. It
will be available for download (pay what you want!) at <a href="http://beardomusic.bandcamp.com/">beardomusic.bandcamp.com</a><br /> <br /> The 25-minute E.P. consists of four tracks with these goofy titles:<br /> <br /> 1. Triforsphere<br /> 2. Labyrinths of Fragmented Wisdom<br /> 3. Ganon Lives!<br /> 4. The obzEnd<br /><span class="text_exposed_show"> <br />
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date. They come with an instant download of the album, per usual.<br /> <br /> Album cover art coming soon! Keep dem eyeballs peeled!<br /> <br /> P.S. If you want to hear the E.P. one day early, come on over to the listening party at <a href="http://www.alphaomegaradio.com/" rel="nofollow nofollow" target="_blank">www.alphaomegaradio.com</a> at Monday, March 18, at 8PM Eastern. Here's the facebook event page!: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/163919620431559/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.facebook.com/<wbr></wbr><span class="word_break"></span>events/163919620431559/</a></span></span></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4458481239286091048.post-44065157073705127012013-01-27T08:14:00.001-08:002013-01-27T08:14:34.377-08:00A "Ledjent of Zelda" Super-Update Post!<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Judging by how infrequently I have updated my own website, you can sense that things have been quite busy here in Mega Beardo Land. Not only have I been working on my soon-to-be-released <i>Ledjent of Zelda</i> (a modern, proggy metal take on the original LoZ OST), but I am working on contributions to some really awesome compilations coming out this year. PLUS, I am getting a couple of new projects off the ground.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">With that said, let us get a quick rundown of the status of <i>Ledjent of Zelda</i>, shall we?</span></span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Rhythm guitars are <i>completely finished</i>. The only thing left is to do lead guitars, clean guitars, and bass. Lead stuff is next on the list!</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">There will be 4 tracks all adding up to be 25 minutes in length (this is an <i>EP</i>). </span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The EP is still projected to be out to you, at least in downloadable form at <a href="http://beardomusic.bandcamp.com/">beardomusic.bandcamp.com</a>, by March. Physical copies in the form of those archaic music depositories known as <i>compact discs</i> are also in the works. </span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The artwork will be handled by the ever-incredible Brian Pickens, who did the artwork for all of my albums up to this point.</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Last, but certainly not least, there will be REAL drums on this album! I've programmed drums for everything in the past, so this is a real treat. Drums are being handled by fellow VGM remixer Angel Hernandez (Another Black Day). You can check out his amazing remix work at <a href="http://masikus.bandcamp.com/">masikus.bandcamp.com</a>!</span></span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">So I think that brings us up to speed. Of course, always check back for more updates. I'm also on Twitter (@megabeardo) quite a bit, tweeting updates on music and just talking video games/music/movies/randomness in general. That's a good way to keep up with what's going on in my little world. With that, I shall leave you with the final two video updates for <i>Ledjent of Zelda</i>. Enjoy!</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Read the article at the <a href="http://wvgazette.com/Entertainment/201211070253" target="_blank">Charleston Gazette website!</a></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Special thanks goes to Nick Harrah at <a href="http://wvrockscene.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">WVRockScene</a> for putting this together and supporting what I do. West Virginia has a solid, awesome rock scene, believe it or not, and Nick does what he can to get the word out.</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4458481239286091048.post-89532278661877742942012-10-19T20:15:00.000-07:002012-10-19T20:15:27.827-07:00Beardo's Playing Mountain Stage?!<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">First off, sorry for the lack of updates from Mega Beardo Land lately. Things have been quite hectic around here, and it has shifted my production plans around a little bit. But in a good way!</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">You see, I'm playing Mountain Stage this Sunday, October 21, and that's a pretty damn cool thing to have on my plate. I will be playing lead guitar for my good friend Logan Venderlic, the "folk wave" mastermind, as he opens up for the great Brandie Carlile. For those of you not from the West Virginia area, Mountain Stage is a diverse live show (typically bluegrass, folk, and acoustic acts) put together and distributed by West Virginia Public Radio and broadcast via NPR. That means that if you can't make it to the show but still want to hear me play awesome/catchy-as-hell folk music, you can listen to the radio broadcast as well. When I find out when that broadcast will be, I will let you guys know!</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.mountainstage.org/" target="_blank">Click for the official Mountain Stage website for more info</a>.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Also, check out <a href="http://loganvenderlic.bandcamp.com/" target="_blank">Logan Venderlic's bandcamp page</a> for all of his awesome <i>Folk Wave</i> goodness. He's a stand-up dude, and I'm honored to be a part of this.</span></span><br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4458481239286091048.post-68967494195424580652012-09-14T20:36:00.001-07:002012-09-14T20:36:50.246-07:00Ledjent of Zelda: Video Update #2<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Ready for another update on my next album <i>Ledjent of Zelda</i>? Sure you are!</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I'll let the video below do the talking, but I would like to make it clear that the tongue-in-cheek nature of the title of this album is meant to be sort of a parody. A lot of people look down on the whole <i>djent</i> movement, and for good reason. It has become absolutely diluted and generic now. My point with this album is to not sound like all the current djent bands that are writing weird, off-time riffs for the sake of being weird and being technical for the sake of being technical. I have no interest in sounding like those bands, so the album won't sound like that. It will sound like Mega Beardo.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The title of the album came first. It popped in my head one day while in the car, and I thought, "Man, it would be a stupid, fun experiment to make Zelda music sound like djent." So I went for it.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">To me, <i>djent</i> simply means "ripping off what Meshuggah started doing back in 1994." Seriously, Meshuggah were so ahead of everyone else that it took 10 years for other bands to catch up. When I first heard Meshuggah's <i>Chaosphere</i> in 1999, it literally changed the way I thought about metal. I never really incorporated that style into my own writing. This album gives me the chance to give it a shot. And I do enjoy bands like Periphery, so I incorporate more of those melodic sensibilities that you don't really find in Meshuggah's music.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">To put it simply: <i>Ledjent of Zelda</i> is the original <i>Legend of Zelda</i> soundtrack played by Mega Beardo through a 1990s Meshuggah filter. </span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It's Review a Bad Game Day!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">To celebrate, I have put together a 15-minute review of Cybernoid for the NES. The video also includes a new remix from the Cybernoid NES soundtrack. This is my very first video game review, so I hope you guys enjoy it. It was tons of fun to do, so perhaps I may do some more in the future.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I'm gonna stop typing so you can get to watching. Have fun!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Much thanks to <a href="http://1morecastle.com/">1morecastle.com</a> for putting Review a Bad Game Day together. Go to <a href="http://reviewabadgameday.com/">reviewabadgameday.com</a> for tons more reviews today!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">And I'm choosing <i>Cybernoid</i> for the NES. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">So check back right here at MegaBeardo.com on August 8th to see my video review of <i>Cybernoid</i>. It's my first video game review ever, so it should be interesting to see how it turns out. You can also check out the official <a href="http://reviewabadgameday.com/" target="_blank">Review a Bad Game Day</a> site for a list of all participants. Looking at the list of people involved, it is sure to be an entertaining day! There's certainly not a shortage of crappy games, so I'm glad to see that many systems from just about every era of gaming are being represented.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I also have to give a round of applause to Eric Bailey (@Nintendo_Legend) and the rest of the crew at <a href="http://1morecastle.com/">1morecastle.com</a> for getting Review a Bad Game Day together. If you are a retro gamer and you haven't been to <a href="http://1morecastle.com/">1morecastle.com</a> yet, then what are you waiting for? It's overflowing with retro goodness. </span></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4458481239286091048.post-75920050628847399942012-06-30T16:52:00.000-07:002012-06-30T16:52:28.744-07:00"Ledjent of Zelda" Video Update #1<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Here is my first official update for the writing sessions of my new album "Ledjent of Zelda." I'm still very much in the writing/demo stages. I explain everything in the video, so I'll stop typing so you can start watching! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Also, if physical CDs are your thing, I have reduced the price of the <i>Belmont+Mega Man 2 Guitar Tribute</i> CD bundle to just $6. Here's the link: </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><a href="http://beardomusic.bandcamp.com/album/belmont" target="_blank">Mega Beardo: Belmont: Bandcamp.com</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">So what are you waiting for? Get to downloading, and spread the word!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">P.S. Look for a video update on my new <i>Ledjent of Zelda </i>album next week! </span><br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4458481239286091048.post-21237782476514079122012-06-01T08:04:00.000-07:002012-06-01T08:06:15.642-07:00OCRemix.org Welcomes Mega Beardo!<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">You may remember my remix of "Heart of Fire" from <i>Castlevania</i>. I posted the <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ui4zPwRmSFA" target="_blank">video</a> of it last year, and it is now available for free on <a href="http://beardomusic.bandcamp.com/album/extra-lives" target="_blank">my bandcamp site</a>. I submitted this remix to VGM super-site <a href="http://ocremix.org/">OCRemix.org</a> at the same time with the title "Death Tap."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">And guess what?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">"Death Tap" is now my very first remix to appear on OCRemix.org! I couldn't be more excited. I remember when I first started working on my <a href="http://beardomusic.bandcamp.com/album/mega-beardo-a-mega-man-2-guitar-tribute" target="_blank"><i>Mega Man 2 Guitar Tribute</i></a>, a couple of my friends said I should put serious consideration into submitting one of those tracks to the site. Instead of submitting something I'd already recorded for an album, I decided to take time off from writing <i>Belmont</i> to do my "Death Tap" remix specifically for OCRemix.org. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Check it out here!<a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_556633602">:</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I'm in the middle of working on my "Ledjent of Zelda" album now, so chances are I'll take a break from that and put together a (non-Zelda) remix submission. I'm not sure what game I'll attempt, but I do have a couple in mind. I would like to give some credit to a lesser-known NES gem.</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0