Apparently EBM has been around since the 80s??? Never heard of it before and I listen to a fair amount of electronic music.
EBM, or Electronic Body Music, is a genre of electronic music that emerged in the early 1980s in Germany and Belgium, characterized by its hard, minimalist, and danceable sound. It fuses elements of industrial music and synth-punk with electronic dance music, featuring repetitive, sequenced basslines, driving machine-like beats, and often shouted vocals. EBM is known for its aggressive and energetic style and is considered a precursor to genres like techno and New Beat.
I’ve been enjoying OU lately. Being a huge Devin Townsend fan, they came on my radar a couple of months ago. I love the djenty progressive riffing, weird time changes and just general weirdness of it.
So, I’ve been playing a lot with Suno again over the December period. I created a virtual band called “Half Held” playing some emotional post-rock, grunge-influenced punk music. This is the first video I created for the “band” after toying with music video creation tools as well. Leave a like if you enjoyed the song! I’ll upload the second song a bit later when I’ve toyed with the music video creation some more…
EDIT: I completed the second video and uploaded to YouTube.
I actually enjoyed those! In many ways this is a new medium of poetic expression, you are not trying to hide the fact that it is AI created. The music/lyrics is a medium of expression for you and it is very effective.
Thanks! It is indeed very personal to me. I’ve always been more aligned to the musically creative side of life, but time and circumstances don’t allow me to participate in a band. I’ve played drums in a church band and have an electric guitar that I toy with when I have some spare time, but it doesn’t give me the fulfillment that putting together a whole song with a full band does. Many, many years ago I also messed around with DAWs and prerecorded clips to try and compose full songs, but tools like Suno just amplify my ability to quickly “produce” a song.
I’ll be delving into their more advanced editor features soon and consider exporting each stem from the generated songs to master them in a DAW for a more professional sound. But at the core it will remain AI generated music, which I’m fine with.
I made another one… This time a song inspired by Zagreus’ ascent out of the depths of the underworld to confront his father, Hades. I’ve been playing Hades II recently and was inspired to do a blackened death metal song about the first game. The style might be a bit heavy for some, but I enjoyed it! I also spent way more time mastering the song, as it generated with a lot of inconsistencies. I ended up generating stems for each instrument (and vocals) and mixing and mastering them in Audacity, before exporting the final mix.
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