'Revelation Dream' Is Available FREE

'Revelation Dream' is available as a free download on Bandcamp

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Revelation Dream (Recurring)

Revelation Dream - by Shanny Boy - The best home videos are here

This is the last time I'm gonna re-make this song/video... I promise! I re-recorded the vocals and then completely remixed the music and I think the whole thing sounds better now. The new video is a higher quality and the music is in WAV format so it shouldn't lose as much quality when it uploads to youtube and metacafe. (That's if the fucking youtube video even uploads. I swear I've tried to upload it 3 times now and it fucked up the first two times and is still "processing" now... If you've ever uploaded a video on youtube you probably know what I'm talking about.

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My 'Revelation' In Music

I wrote this song when I was about 15 years old. It didn't sound like this back then though. I used to just play the rhythm on an acoustic guitar and just sit and play 10 minute versions of it.

I found a bunch of old tapes I recorded back then and realize now, while listening to them, that I must have been really really high when I recorded them. If the me that's writing this met the 15 year old me that made those recordings... I'd probably have to beat the shit out of myself.

16 years later and I've added a bass, drums and some string instruments. I re-wrote all new lyrics (with a few lines from the original) and re-recorded it and I honestly believe it's an amazing song now.

The musical composition is nowhere near as complex as the rest of the stuff I've written over the last few months - especially songs like If There Is A Day or Mr. Frost - but I think it's simplicity is part of it's appeal.

Lyrically, I used the violent imagery of mother nature and a falling civilization to describe the musical flow and vice versa. When I say "everything stops and time stands still" the song goes into a break, and when I say "stars fall out of the sky in madness" the strings come in behind the main rhythm.

Interesting side-note (maybe) - The King Is Dead started out as a remix of this song before I decided to make it a follow-up/sequal and (hopefully) put it on the same album.

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Revelation

This is another song I wrote. This is just a preview of the backing track until I can get the equipment to add the guitar and vocal tracks.

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Countdown to Armageddon

I just watched this documentary called Countdown to Armageddon on the history channel that talks about all these signs that the apocalypse is near. It's fun to watch but at the same time it's a little silly to be honest. But after watching it I started looking around the internet and found a bunch of sites that talk about the same themes.

This site has an interesting FAQ section that talks about planetary alignment within the Solar System that occured in 2000. Unfortunately, they haven't updated their site since around the time that most of their predictions didn't happen.

This one claims America will fall in 2008. Only 8 and 1/2 months to go, folks! Dress warm.

And this site came up in a search for "Countdown to Armageddon" It's a fun site. I learned I'll die on March 7th 2064. That gives me just under 56 years. Make the most of the time you have, folks!

This site sums it up nicely.

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