The end of what never started

IN SHATTERED SILENCE, just about a month before our first show was set to begin, has gone on hiatus. I don't know what the future of the band will be. The music is too good to leave alone, but we are not sure if we can move forward due to reasons that are difficult to explain. I only wish I could have done at least one show after dedicating every Sunday for the past several months to this band, and all the time I spent at home writing lyrics and working on my vocal parts.

Hopefully there will still be a future with some of the musicians I have been working with, in whatever manifestation it may take. I will keep all of you updated... all two of you who read this.

-Nick

I love it when you call me Big Poppa

Writing progress for Whispering Woods

So, as any of you frequent readers know, I am working on my own sort of "solo project" tentatively titled Whispering Woods (ooh double alliteration!), on the side of singing for the upcoming CT prog metal band In Shattered Silence. I've got music and lyrics down for four Whispering Woods songs, and recently timed them. For some reason, that excited me and made me want to make this post. Here's what I got:

"What Still Remains" 3:50
Heavy, dark, eerie, moves between fast and slow a lot. Vocals will mostly be harsh and death metally, but with some screechy falsetto stuff too.

"Lady In White" 5:16
A bit prettier and more melodic, but still spooky. Will feature more singing than harsh vocals, but a bit of both.

"Ember In A Dark Shroud" 3:50
Kind of a pounding, unrelenting song. Sometimes black metal-ish, sometimes thrashy. Probably some 'gravelly singing' and harsh vocals.

"Projected Visions In Sleep Paralysis" 4:30
My darkest, creepiest one yet. Very slow and doomy, but with random fast parts to freak you out. Probably all harsh vocals.

My guitarist friend who's also named Nick will be featured in this project for some guitar harmonies and leads/solos etc., since he's a way more capable guitarist than I. I'm fleshing out the 'skeletons' of the songs and writing the lyrics and stuff, and he's helping me BAMF it up!

Anyway, hope you'll all be interested in hearing this some day when it gets recorded (who the hell knows when that will be). Warning: not for wussies!!!

-Nick

WWW X: Woman of My Dreams

Words from the Whispering Woods X:
Woman of My Dreams
4 March 2010

I know who you are.
Your face disguised
And darkened hair
And aged features
Fool me not.
Woman of my dreams,
My complementary soul,
Tell me what reason
I should have
To experience this deja vu?
What is this place?
You bring me to a room,
A place indoors but outdoors,
A place I have never seen;
A place hauntingly familiar to me.
Is our future
Being cast before me
As a series
Of quick-moving, blurred images?
I believe you know
Exactly what this means.
I believe you manipulated
This surrealist sleep.
Tell me we will be together.
Tell me this bliss
Is waiting for me.
Woman of my dreams,
Find me.
I know who you are.