Ashes

(Music written and recorded by Agrippa and Williams in 2009)

Ashes is the 2nd song released from Agrippa’s Laboratory.

Lyrics: Although there are no lyrics to this song, it’s intent was to musically express nicotine addiction and withdrawal.

In Studio: Ashes was produced and engineered by Agrippa. It blends Williams‘ progressive metal guitar wizardry with Agrippa’s industrial sound of electronic beats, and neurotic synths and sequences, which would later be the evolved sound of Agrippa93. The foundation of this piece was written and arranged in 2005, but shelfed for 4 years due to the lack of any creative development to the song. Agrippa presented the song arrangement as a challenge to Williams to step outside his genre comfort zone. Williams met the challenge resulting in some brilliantly executed guitar work that compliments the synthetic industrial sounds.

Ashes has a total of 5 guitar tracks recorded; 4 leads and one rhythm, which was doubled to produce a fuller sound. All guitar and bass tracks were recorded by Williams at his home workstation and brought to Sickle-Pation Studio to be imported into Logic Pro and mixed with the other prerecorded tracks. All drum sounds are triggered through a drum sequencer called Ultrabeat, of which has never been used in an Agrippa song before this song.

Agrippa – drum programming, synths, sequence programming.

Scott Williams – lead guitars, rhythm guitars and bass.