HATE ETERNAL | BEHOLD JUDAS | GUITAR COVER

A lot rawer than what you're usually seeing on this channel!

Another one off my bucket list! I've always wanted to record a Hate Eternal song. My personal choice would've been "The Victorious Reign" but that one was not included in their best of tab book. Damn shame! So yeah, I got that tab book the other day. My guitar was still tuned to C# from a yet unreleased Decapitated thing, so I thought I should do that long overdue Hate Eternal song next.

I had four favourites from that tab book. Those were Powers That Be, Bringer Of Storms, Whom Gods May Destroy and this one here. I was thinking about doing a medley instead of just a single song, because all of them have parts that drag on a bit too much, but that would've been more work than I'd be willing to do right now. (Some other day!) Instead I decided to do a multi-camera-angle video.

I was already thinking about it when I was recording Decapitateds Winds Of Creation. That song is super fun to play but as a viewer I thought it was a bit boring in some parts. With different camera angles it would've been more engaging IMO.

So that's why I'm back doing multiple camera angles. Like in some previous videos it's "What you see is what you hear". It's basically three seperate playthroughs edited together. It's a lot easier and less time consuming recording those than trying to get an almost perfect one-take. IN THEORY.

Ego still got the best of me, so in the end I'm still trying to get one very tight one-take. Not sure, for some reason it feels wrong to just glue some incomplete clips together. So the front camera take is basically my main playthrough take that I spend most time with.

Another drawback, which I noticed afterwards: some parts are not as tight as want them to be. For different reasons. I was probably more chill about my playing because I knew I was going to have different takes. My guitars volume was also a bit lower in my headphones. I thought this would make it tighter timing wise haha. It's a very busy song and mix, sonically, which I actually only really noticed afterwards. And that brings me to the last reason: because I had a tab I didn't spend any time with the actual playing on the recording, so I didn't notice how certain things are articulated. Which basically makes it an even bigger mess lol

But at the same time, I'm actually sastisfied with the end result. It's a very raw and brutal band, and the playing should convey this as well. A low gain super tight kind of modern playing wouldn't fit as much IMO. And yeah, I have a lot of gain on my guitars here too. Though I think a big part of Hate Eternals sound comes from quad-tracked guitars, and not because they use a lot of gain.

I've already filmed another multi-cam video from a band I only recently discovered and immediately fell in love with. It's basically Stick To Your Guns but with actual metal riffs lol