I hope the soft ringing chord at the beginning is actually part of the song-- kind of a good bait and switch to go from that to the really angular and aggressive opening bars (it is also a very nice chord).

Also neat how a lot of the kind of off-kilter-time stuff still fits into an 8 or 16 beat frame. FREE-FORM-STRUCTURE/STRUCTURED-FREE-FORM WOO or something. (still often have a random one or two beats in every couple repetitions just to keep the listener on their toes, though)

It could be. Like a segway from one song to the next. It was unintentional as I hit record and had to go back to sit down.

Yeah. I'm rather fond of that "odd-timing" stuff come back around full circle into a regular 4/4 sort of structure. Rhythmical fuck-u-lations someone once called it. Thanks for the comment daddy-o!

Gotta love those old school black metal squeals.

Damn right

Looads of cool shit going on here. I like all your passages and they seem to go together well. But I'll have to listen again when I've had a beer tonight. It sometimes goes into dissonant, melodic stuff that reminds me of stuff we both like so, right on :D

I just sat down with a beer for this tonight.. I have to relearn some of it again..