Name: Toccata and Fugue in Dm
Channel: Bach

metal poetry gothic art black occult doom gloomscry ashtorath

Darkness, etched upon the night winds of aphotic creation in orchestra scale compositions; the end result being a unique sound of Gothic, Doom and Black metal w

Good Evening! GloomScry is the result of several years of instrument and studio development beginning in 2003. After familiarization with drum programming and engineering for metal in Ashtorath, I thought I would step it up a notch and start playing/recording this sort of neo-classical progressive black metal. Many influences for this work which I pay homage to, this is the manifestation of 'Vampiric Hymns of Things to Come'

Song Info

Genre

Metal • Goth Metal

Charts

#380 in subgenre Peak #7

Charts

Peak #101

Author

Bach

Uploaded

April 01, 2006

Track Files

MP3

MP3 8.1 MB • 128 kbps • 8:50

Story behind the song

Bach's Toccata and Fugue was to be the first of several adaptations from keys to electric guitar - the undertaking began around 2000 by first learning to play lighter versions of this piece over a six string.  It was then gradually shifted over to three guitars with assistance from the California Guitar Trio. (My thanks to Bert Lams and Stan Funicelli for allowing me to study their recordings.)
In the end, I chose to port my version of this piece back to keys.  Ironically the more I studied it and played it on guitar, the more I came to know that its atmosphere could only be fully realized on an organ.
The process of restoring my adaptation to keys was a simple matter of playing it in the same small sections I had transcribed for guitar.  
It took roughly three years to decipher.

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