Ode to Nosferatu

"Bury the lies, I'd rip my heart out just to prove to you now, we're meant to be! Screaming the cries, the fire within, aches in me now, beyond belief! Hell in these eyes, it burns to begin as sickness unveils upon innocence...!" Excerpt from "COMMUNION (IN BLACK) by Scars Of Envy

Ethan Murphy - Fading Away (acoustic)

Wrote this music a little while back. My friend Lou got a hold of it and added his vocal embellishments to it. ENJOY! (You can pause the music player at the bottom of the page to hear this track)

ABOUT THIS PROJECT

We're making an app, 3 videos and a poster that will help you turn your guitar, bass, piano or ukelele into a musical light saber by connecting it to the Force. Well, the Circle of Fifths and Nashville #'s. You'll still need a music teacher to become a Jedi but the app, vids and poster are guaranteed to raise your musiclorean levels.

By backing this Kickstarter you'll help cover the costs for:

Video 1 How to Play the Grammatika/Music Theory in Plain English

1. How to play the instrument/Warm Up
2. 3 separate songs/most common progressions
3. 4 most common key changes
4. Light Side (R.O.Y.G.) and the Dark Side (I.V.) and how 5ths work
5. The 2-5-1 change and how it opens the circle of 5ths

Video 2 Turn plain English into Musical Nomenclature

1. Scale Degrees
3. Modes and Modulations
2. Major and Minor Keys/Chord Qualities
4. Solfege System
5. Circle of Fifths, Nashville Numbers, Accidentals, Key Signatures

Video 3

1. Use the Grammatika Fingering Map on your Guitar or Keyboard
2. Chord formulas and Inversions
3. Diminished Chords (Darth Maul's Light Saber)

The app itself combines the Circle of Fifths and Scale Scale Degrees and creates and a fingering chart that will turn your instrument into a light saber. Disclaimer: "Jedi" and "light saber" are owned my Lucasfilm but the Force belongs to all of us. May it be with you, always.

ABOUT THIS PROJECT
People Of The Moon! We are finally recording our long-awaited debut album Neo-Primal. The production of the project requires $10,000 to be completed. We will meet and exceed this requirement using our greatest strength; You. As always. You will be commissioning, becoming the investor, the patron of the music you want to hear. As a thank you, we will make sure everyone has a copy of the album with all original artwork and we will play an exclusive live show of all the included songs and more at our private studio the Goldskull.
Let's show the world that to create and amazing album, all you need is people that want to hear it. One While we work hard for the album, enjoy our newly released single and our First Music Video "Army Of Slaves"

A Pneumatic Guitar Is the Worst Kind of Air Guitar

If you suck at guitar, there are plenty of solutions. Give up, practice more, or maybe just join a punk band where nobody will notice. Whatever you do, don't get a pneumatic guitar like this one to play for you. Put together by Clippard Instrument Laboratory, this guitar uses 62 pneumatic cylinders that work together to finger, pick and strum the gutiar's strings, as well as creating percussive sounds along the way. Hey, it's even controlled by an iPad! Stop this madness, Clippard. It sounds and looks awful. This is a great example of people throwing technology at a problem that doesn't exist; a waste of time, effort, money and resources.

Design News TV: Clippard Demonstrates Pneumatic Guitar from UBMDeusM on Vimeo.

Scars of Envy | Forsaken Me | CD Baby

Currently we are streaming one of our tracks, "Bred To Conquer" on ourofficial website www.scarsofenvy.com and all the studio tracks on our Facebook page on the "My Band" ReverbNation tab.

Our full-length album titled "Forsaken Me" is available online from: CD Baby, iTunes, Amazon.com and in over 2500+ retail stores nationwide.

The cover art selected, created by Dorian Cleavenger keeps us in awe of his talent. The paintings for both the front and back of the forthcoming CD "Forsaken Me", were created specifically for Scars Of Envy by Dorian Cleavenger. Dorian is best known for Vampirella /Lady Death, the series Art Fantastix and numerous covers for Heavy Metal Magazine.

SCARS OF ENVY @ HORNS UP ROCKS - QUEENS METAL MELTDOWN 08.13.11

Nightshade

.It's cold and dark and very still and silent out here.... my thoughts wander to what unseen creatures lurk beneath these shadows that surround me.

I sense a presence within my midst, a faint deep breathing shutters my beating heart. Round I turn and gaze into the black stain facing my stance... like a dark spectre, surreal in its supposition, I unwillingly become drawn to this apparition. As if by some divine rite, an apparent girth of the being's density forms its dimension. In terrified awe, I look upon this entity and engage it with a sense of weightlessness that froze my thoughts to hollow emptiness. Where eyes would have been set... blank, dark spheres glisten the evening moon's ambient glow. I am paralysed in a horror only that can be understood by an innocent, helpless creature bound to await it's own end.

In my silent cognition, I reprieve an apologetic penance. One that recalls ages of forgotten lore. Embraced by a distressing emotion aroused by a perceived threat, my skin becomes saturated with a translucent type of ash, but not with any matter of sustenance.

In the latter hours I wake drenched in perspiration and with a torn withdrawal of my previous affairs. Succumbed with discontent of a moment either I fathomed or was had lived upon in a wretched embrace, I recall on the whim of what encounters that my night had just foretold. To my saddened demise of sullen wits, my hands raise to my sight and I ponder that soot-like film that covers me. Once again my heart clenched,

...  and I am still in hallowed torment.

'Nightshade'

- Ethan  Murphy

new band website-front end

just got song 3 75% finished. This is the link to the hosted site while its still just digital dirt, unflourished and non-demented.



and this is my 1st Final draft 'bout 10 broken hours later.

Not too distant future: A Zombie Homage

Each day we draw closer to our doom, whether it by government corruption, extermination of our species by war games or through means of our own nature. Many of us believe there is a fate that lies dormant until science and ignorance combine and breathe undead life into mindless, flesh-hungry creatures once part of the human race. My brother had a theory regarding the culmination of zombies that I thought was quite profound in itself. Quoted from "11 Ahead 7 Behind" blogspot: "The inevitable Zombie Holocaust is another matter altogether. The recent breakthrough of creating stem cells from adult skin cells using viruses to rewrite it’s DNA almost makes this a lead pipe cinch. And you know what? The majority of these cells end up cancerous. From what I understand, cancer cells are virtually immortal. Didn’t these guys ever play Resident Evil? I mean what the fuck were they thinking? Do they WANT there to be zombies rising up and consuming the living? Unless of course that’s where they got the idea to begin with. You can rest assured, if something, no matter how repugnant, inhumane and evil, is possible, somebody somewhere is already doing it.

Regardless of what these knuckle-heads had in mind, the shit is going to hit the fan when it all goes down and Milla Jovovich ain’t gonna be around to save your fat, lazy latte slurpin’ ass this time. You want to cure America’s obesity problem? Fuck Jenny Craig, fuck Weight Watchers and fuck Richard Simmons; you just unleash a bunch of unstoppable ghouls craving human flesh on the public and you’ll see big waistlines (and the people attached to them) disappear over night. Why? Because overweight people can’t climb ropes and neither can zombies. That’s an interesting coincidence, huh? I know where my happy-go-lucky ass is going to be when the dead rise; up a frigging rope with a gun somewhere. Zombies (traditional ones anyway) can’t run, and surprisingly enough heavy people tend not to be too light on their feet either. You will never see Nike pay millions to an overweight, pasty-faced World of Warcraft champion to endorse their new line high-tops for the indoor athlete. So just keep stuffing your face with Hot-pockets and pizza-rolls and you might as well tattoo ‘Zombie-Chow’ across your forehead."

This theory sheds new light on the subject for me. Are we ready? If an outbreak occurs, where will we go? Will the viral infection be blood borne, passed onto another host by means of physical infection or will it become airborne? Many thoughts surround this. I know that when and if the day comes, I won't be the one holding a revolver. My weapons of choice will be long range weaponry, close encounter defense weapons like shotguns, shovels, machete's or crowbars.

A storm is coming people, the days of playgrounds and promotions will be a hollow reflection of our past.