Old news:
So, instead of re-coding my homepage with some fancy scripts, I just manually pile up the old news feed on this hidden page. Have a nice day.
- Gammis

News 3rd Mar 2023:
The first update of the year! Hi, it's time for another album to get dropped! This time it was Detached Ignorance turn, which meant a lot of production work for me. I'm happy with the result though, and I think that I've reached jet another level in my mixing and mastering knowledge. I got a new record with the song "Who are You", but not the kind of record that I'm proud about. I saved it as 40 different versions before I finally got tired and released the album even if I felt that "Who are You" could be mixed and mastered better still. I am proud of the guitar solos on that track however. Big thanks to everyone who helped me listen to the sound of the tracks and even bigger thanks to the guest artists: Promise To Panic, Ahnna Guthler and Lemonride. Thank you!

Same as You:

Various Rock, right?
Songs written in 1999-2021, released in 2023.
- Gammis

News 30th Dec 2022:
Happy new Year!
Another year is coming to its end and as per usual it’s time for me to summarize my achievements. The first feeling that comes up is happiness. 2022 has been a joyful year for me as a musician. It has been a creative year. It has been a productive year. It has been another year full of learning. There has also been a lot of feedback and some fun surprises when it comes to my audience.

The numbers:
I’ve taken a slight step backwards in productivity compared to last year when it comes to finished song projects - with 33 songs finished (2022) compared to 44 (2021). But I have a lot of songs nearly complete that will get finished in 2023 so that number is a bit misguiding. Some years are more about finishing existing projects rather then starting new ones, but I feel like 2022 have been a year of both. I’ve officially released 4 full albums, 2 EPs and one single over the year. All songs released this was: 52. I’ve started new song projects in logic 149 times in 2022. That is one more song started in a DAW then the year before. The numbers of ideas recorded on my Dictaphone are too many to count at this time. The most frustrating part of the year (but still pretty fun at times) has been trying to sort all those Dictaphone ideas.

The Songs:
Some songs released in 2022 have reached their full potential and made me really happy. Some didn’t deliver what I hoped. Some songs became dearer to me after release when others showed their appreciation. 2022 top three songs for me:
1.    New wave of Fire
2.    Full Circle
3.    Ronny Cyklar till Norge
Most disappointing was: Den Sociala Hierarkin, a song that I released just to get done with the album rather than taking my due time with all the tracks.

The Response:
The first time I ever tried to promote any of my songs via a promotion service was in 2022. Because of this, my audience have grown with several hundred percents for a couple of projects, namely Gammis and Detached Ignorance. But one funny thing is that Detached Ignorance started to grow a lot even before I used any service because of one the songs making it into some playlist in USA all of its own. Another funny thing is that two other projects - that I haven’t tried to promote yet (Nerd Chills and KondensKungen) - have made themselves an audience on their own throughout the year. As of today, Detached Ignorance has a growing group of listeners in Brazil, USA and in Japan. Nerd Chills grows the most in USA and Germany. KondensKungen grows the most in USA, Australia and France. And Gammis had 88 different listeners from my neighbouring town Stockholm the last month. I will always produce music since it is my passion. So it’s not vital for my music to get recognized. But it is cool. It especially warms my heart when someone reach out and write to me about what one of my songs means to them – thank you again!

The Tech:
I have become more familiar with my new mastering program: iZotope Ozone. It has helped me to complete my tracks a bit faster then before and made a slight improvement in sound. The biggest step I’ve taken as a producer this year, however, is not in the mastering department. I’ve finally reached some core understanding when it comes to fabfilters Pro-Q 3 and its dynamic EQ side-chain possibilities. This great revelation came late in 2022 so none of my previous releases have any of this. In my coming releases, however, I hear the technique in action clearly.

The Future:
So, looking forward, what are my thoughts about next year? As a producer I still have a long way to go until I reach the perfect sound for all my songs, but the latest step with dynamic EQ side-chain will be a game changer to many of my rock songs. I will try to learn a bit more when it comes to stereo mixing, mainly how to bring some sounds out to the sides while vocals, bas and core drums still cling to the middle. I will try reaching this using the pro-Q 3 and a new program for me: the bx_solo. I will not say for sure, as these things have a way to change over time, but I see a couple of releases for both Nerd Chills and Gammis during 2023. The first release, however, belongs to Detached Ignorance. And that’s a promise.
- Gammis

News 8th Dec 2022:
Hi, again. Wow, yet another album released. But first I need to thank everyone who listens to my music, I got my spotify-wrapped yesterday and was blown away. I got a lot of positive statistics for all of my projects. So, thank you!


While it felt good releasing the last album to get some closure of the 4-album project I had, this release feels GREAT! It feels like a gust of fresh air flew through my creative process and it gave me even more hunger for a productive future. I've been really exited about these song since the very first day I played around with a rework for the first of them. It's been a long lasting dream of mine to be able to release some of these songs in a fashion that does them justice, and I think I just made it. The most important song for me is #1, "New Wave of Fire". This song was originally made for my grunge-metal band Mutual Edification. We rehearsed it a few times back in 2001 and I still remember how to play the guitar riffs and the melody. Some songs just suck with you like that, I guess. While we had lyrics back in the day I figured I'd try something different just for fun, making it a more game-friendly "Megaman-like" metal. I got so inspirited while working on it that I started to remake several old songs as well. A few days later most of the album was already done. Many of the songs are new versions of old tracker-metal releases from 1998 (find them at modarchive.org). The song "Give Me Power" have been hiding in my unfinished projects folder since 1998. I also have to mention "Leaving Myself", a song made for the band One Future Plan back in 2002. It also had lyrics back then, but I think this version works better. Even the cover art is a rework from a old drawing I did in my early teens.

Metal Droid:

Reincarnated Megaman-style Metal!
Songs written in 1998-2022, all recorded in 2022.
- Gammis

News 3rd Nov 2022:
And here comes the last piece of my five year old project! Success! Yeay!
           

I started out in 2018 with listening to almost all song ideas from my Dictaphone marked with the "random Swedish song" marker. The first step was to write all the lyrics, which gave me a lot of additional inspiration. After having around 80 finished lyrics I started to sort the projects after different feelings. The red album (2019) was to be the sad one, the yellow one (2020) got the crazy songs, the blue one (2021) had all the songs that I associate with work and then there was the green one (2022) that supposed to contain angry songs. Some songs were added late in this album and some songs were moved to other projects not yet released, but the core idea of fitting these songs into four different albums with different feel is still there. And then I recorded most instruments in "bulk", having days where I recorded half the albums vocals - for instance. But wait! These four albums doesn't combine 80 tracks!? No, some are still coming later and some might never get finished. I hope you enjoy this scrappy album. :)  

En Självbiografi på Tre Ord:

Pro tip: Avsluta alltid dina skivor med en sångtitel likt detta: "Jag borde hållit käft!"
Songs recorded 2018-2022.
- Gammis

News 7th Aug 2022:
It's time for another release! This time it's Detached Ignorance's turn. When planning this release I realized that it was better to focus on a few songs at a time instead of making it a full length album. Perhaps this is something that I will implement more often in the future. The songs are pretty straight forward even if I feel a bit confused about what to answer when asked the genre. I'm feeling OK with how they turned out even if I think I could make them sound even better if I put in a couple more hours work. This is, at the end of the day, just a hobby and not my main occupation. The biggest adventure of the Bombardment EP was, however, the cover. It took several months and engagement from a few sources that didn't deliver anything to the final product before I got the help I needed from my dear friend David Guvå (who had to remake his work 2 times due to hard drive errors and re-installations). I edited his rendered picture and added a more dirty feeling to it using vector tracing and coloring. Hope you like the songs!

Bombardment:

Rock on!
Songs recorded in 2022.
- Gammis

News 11th Jul 2022:
A lot have happened since I last updated the site. The albums keep lining up and this time it's another Nerd Chills project that's up: Full Circle. I started to play around with vocoder synthesizers back in 2018. I made a few songs that I liked and came back to the theme from time to time until 2021 when I decided to make a full album out of the songs. Now I'm really pleased with a few of them. Hope you like them to :)

The next release I hope to get out soon is one with "Detached Ignorance". The music is done but I've had some problems with the album cover, trying to outsource the work without success and getting help from a friend who sadly deleted the files mid work in a hard drive crash while rendering 3D art. I'm in no hurry though.

Without actively searching any game projects I've managed to get another freelance gig. A cool little game with an arabic theme - something I've said that I would like to work on some day. Currently I've done two long (10min+) tunes for that game. I've also fixed up some old songs that got used in different sources. Another game that I've been involved with for some time now as well as a Counter-Strike tournament. Check them out here: @Matth33w_Dev and esportstudion.se .

The amount of streams on my song about Ronny @cyklaforlivet keeps on building and I hope to give him a few hundred for his cause. So thank you for listening to that song!

Full Circle:

Vocoder fun.
Songs recorded in 2018-2022.
- Gammis