The Music of Bandwhore
*early artwork for Bandwhore by Mark Cooper.
I. “Artforms of Butchery”
II. “Self-Fulfilling Prophecies”
III. “Epoch of the Ancients”
“Artforms Of Butchery”
“AOB” is a set of 13+ full album variations.
***AOB is made up of several variations of the first 13 song album***
Artforms Of Butchery
“Self Fulfilling Prophecies”
“SFP’s” consist of 4 more albums/13 songs each
-with the same song orders and titles as the AOB sets,
—with completely different song structures and musicians.
Ancient Boundless Evil
Prophets Of Doom
Alchemy Of Horror
Cataclysmic Burial
Self Fulfilling Prophecies
“Epoch Of The Ancients”
“EOTA” is a black/death metal album written in more of a traditional repetitive format.
1 album set featuring 9 songs.
Epoch Of The Ancients
The song order and titles are identical across the entire project
(except for EOTA). Each song also belongs to its own ‘song album set’.
***Cover Art for each song below- each song gets it’s own album. All art by MarkCooper.
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(AOB)
ArtformS Of Butchery
Variations
AOB I (1 hour 9 minutes)
…early guitar TAB cover art design
Artforms of Butchery is 13 tracks of brutal death metal, with elements of, black metal, thrash, slam, grindcoreprogressive, and atmospheric styles mixed in with equal parts: virtuosity, brutality, and insanity. There are 4 variations of drums which are interchangeable across this entire AOB set. So you get 4 x 13+ albums. This is the first album of the entire project.
AOB2 Stages of Decomposition
(1 hour 9 minutes)
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Stages Of Decomposition is the exact same drums as “Artforms Of Butchery”, but with completely different riffs, vocals, and solos.
AOB3 THE ArchaIC ABYSS
(1 hour 9 minutes)
The Archaic Abyss
The Archaic Abyss is the entire set performed in a more minimalistic sort of way. The result is an album with a heavy, slower, doom laden feel.
AOB4 PRETEXT OF A DEAD CIVILIZATION
(1 hour 9 minutes)
Pretext Of A Dead Civilization is similar to the doom set in that it uses a more minimal approach, but the picking and overall speed is still intact with this set.
AOB5 Warped AXIS OF THE VOID
(1 hour 9 minutes)
Warped Axis Of The Void is all the same timing and note selection.
A crazy sample set with electronic drums/ and heavy on effects.
AOB6 Morbid Whorchestral Debaucheries
(1 hour 9 minutes)
bandWhorchestra is is the entire AOB1 set scored for Symphonic Orchestra instrumentation.
AOB7 BROKEN String Elegies
(1 hour 9 minutes)
Broken String Elegies aka: Stringed Whoretet is basically the same as the Whorchestra set, but it’s the AOB1 set played with a traditional stringed quartet rather than a full orchestra.
AOB8 Deviance Rituals
(1 hour 9 minutes)
Deviance Rituals is a version with all nylon/acoustic guitars and percussion
and all 100% in synch with the AOB1
AOB9 deATHSEED
(1 hour 9 minutes)
Deathseed
is what might have been the official BANDWHORE album, if we had not decided to make this the huge collaboration it has become. This could be considered ‘demo’ tracks.
AOB10 Dissolution Of A Dead Cause
(1 hour 9 minutes)
Horrific Overflow Of Consequences
is a mix of “outtakes” alter versions, and extras.
AOB13 Inversus
(1 hour 9 minutes)
Reverse is based on song13 reversal themes
AOB14
Eternal Vomit Of Death
(1 hour 9 minutes)
AOB16 Dialectic Paralysis
(1 hour 9 minutes)
AOB11 L`APPEL du vide
(1 hour 9 minutes)
L`Appel du vide could be described as a dark, atonal jazz-fusion set. Complete with odd voicings, and jazz/fusion instrumentation
AOB16 Scars AND Grotesque Vanity
AOB16 Expulsion Of The Vestigial Twin
(1 hour 9 minutes)
(1 hour 9 minutes)
AOB16 Scabs AND Self Torment
(1 hour 9 minutes)
AOB16 Ritualistic Deformity OF Will
(1 hour 9 minutes)
AOB16 Derek Roddy Sessions
(1 hour 9 minutes)
AOB16 Shaun Black Sessions
(1 hour 9 minutes)
AOB16 Jim Ross Sessions
(1 hour 9 minutes)
AOB16 Constant Morphic Nausea
(1 hour 9 minutes)
AOB16 Beating Heart Cadaver
(1 hour 9 minutes)
Cross Contamination is set of mixed fragments of all of the AOB sets.
AOB15
RITUAL CONTORTION
(1 hour 9 minutes)
Ritual Contortion is a series of drum variants. There are 4 drum versions: the original drums from AOB1, the Doom drums from AOB3, Dani’s drum tracks from AOB
AOB16 ALCHEMICY & TRANSFORMAT
(1 hour 9 minutes)
Alchemical Transformations is a series of drum variants.
The (EOTA)
Epoch Of The Ancients
AOB III (1 hour 9 minutes)
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THE (SFP)
SELF FULFILLING PROPHECIES
AOB II (1 hour 9 minutes)
Self Fulfilling Prophecies is 4 albums of 13 songs.
52 tracks of sick, heavy, original metal music.
Each album has a different drummer playing on every song.
***same song order as all of the AOB sets***
Self Fulfilling Prophecies I:
SFP1 Ancient Boundless Evil
is 1 of 4 from the SFP collection.
Self Fulfilling Prophecies II:
SFP2 Prophets Of Doom
is 2 of 4 from the SFP collection.
Self Fulfilling Prophecies III:
SFP3 Alchemy Of Horror
is 3 of 4 from the SFP collection.
Self Fulfilling Prophecies IV:
SFP4 Cataclysmic Burial
is 4 of 4 from the SFP collection.
Epoch of the Ancients is 9 songs in the vein of black/melodic/death metal.
These songs are simpler arrangements, with less emphasis on technical writing, and more on atmospheric, dark feels. Featuring Derek Roddy on drums, Paul McBride bass, Jim Ross guitars, vocals, synth, Erik Sayenga, Joe Lachapelle, and Gruesome Gorejuice backing vocals.
EOTA (1 hour 9 minutes)
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*disclaimer: the art shown is not the finished product
Artforms of Butchery AOB-
Self Fulfilling Prophecies SFP-
Epoch Of The Ancients EOTA-
