Born an abomination 2012 compilation

https://bornanabomination.bandcamp.com/album/nostalgia-demo

born an abomination was the project I had with my friend tony we started in 2012 after we discovered DSBM and wanted to make some of our own. anyone with ears though will quickly be able to tell that DSBM is hardly what we played at all.. I had an extreme tendency to combine many different influences into something that truly, did not make sense. I say that honestly. back then I didn't think anything negatively about being ecclectic in this way but nowadays I think it's very strange what we ended up doing, but not in a bad way. I like being weird, and plus I wasn't even trying to be strange. I just simply made music that I thought would be cool. the thing is aside from dsbm I was also discovering "post black metal", I was already very heavily into powermetal and folk metal, and I had been a huge fan of emo pop, emo, dnb, technical death metal, progressive metal, classical music, symphonic metal, doom metal.. and really a trillion different things and naturally I wanted to combine all of my influences. so the idea of making a "dsbm" band didn't work out as planned. although you can hear many dsbm moments in a lot of the songs. this was when I started to consistently record songs and upload them to the internet. the first song I uploaded to the internet that was recorded with guitar was the instrumental for "I can't live like this anymore". this was all the way back in around july 2012. born an abomination consisted of me and my friend tony. tony would be in charge of lyrics and vocals and i would make the instrumental side of the songs. I had multiple projects during this time (2012-2013[since this is when all of born an abomination songs were written]) but at least until sometime in 2013 I considered BAA to be my main project. all my days consisted of going to school, coming home, recording music, sometimes hanging out with tony or going on walks outside, and repeat the cycle. these were truly pure times and are very dear to me. I truly made music all the time, probably every single day (not unlike any other moment of my life because I would be making music constantly basically ever since then) and a lot of it would go into born an abomination. some of it would go into other projects, and some of them were never finsihed (see my unused music compilation). tony was my only friend at the time and we hung out most of the time. often times he would come to my house directly after school and record vocals on the spot to a song I had made the day before. the way we worked was very improvised and care free. we took ourselves seriously but never made it a tedious process to make music. we just made music. out of the simple desire to make music. all of these songs (instrumentally at least) would have been made in a day, maybe a couple more, but mostly in that day. the vocals were definitely always finished in that same day (however long the song lasts because the vocals were just hit record and sing something)  this album doesn't include EVERY song from 2012, but all the ones that weren't included in another bandcamp album. these are literally the most primitive recordings you'll hear from me (basically all of my music before this was made with midi). so these are literally my first attempts at mixing music recorded off of live instruments. as you can imagine it's very bad. but in a charming way. I remastered all of the songs but only slightly, I just fixed the literally unlistenable aspects and made sure they were loud enough. I didn;t bother "properly" remastering this because 1: there is no saving these recordings (unless maybe I REALLY tried my hardest but that is way too tedious) and 2: I want to preserve just how raw and primitive this is. I wouldn't dare erase something as pure as my first "black metal" recordings, in all their honest glory. I won't have anything to share about the concepts or lyrics of these songs because they aren't mine, I just made the instrumentals. if you truly would like to know you can contact tony hicks. all of these songs were improvised and unplanned, made up as they went along. I still make music in this exact same way where I sit down and start building a song in order of how it happens with no plan or structure, and at the end the song that comes out is entirely unexpected. Tony would do this too, he would come over and record vocals over the song without ever hearing it before, often with his notebook of lyrics but sometimes he wouldn't even have lyrics and just improvse it. my biggest complaint about these old songs it that I used to think it was a good idea to add guitar solos...  "Forced apathy" Saturday, September 8, 2012 at 5:30 PM

"Ambushed With Melancholy" Wednesday, September 12, 2012 at 5:05 PM this song must've been one of the songs that I made and then the very next day tony came over after school and recorded his vocals because according to the file it was last modified Sunday, September 30, 2012 at 4:34 PM  "autumn rain" Thursday, October 4, 2012 at 3:23 PM  "recordando el invierno" September 13 2012  "autumn forest" Monday, October 8, 2012 at 7:22 PM  "Illuminated black" Tuesday, October 30, 2012 at 6:48 PM  "Beviltiškas" Tuesday, October 2, 2012 at 7:37 PM this song whenever it was time for vocals literally we hit record and sat in the room and made a bunch of random sounds. our friend raven was with us that day. I don't even know what bevlisktassdle means  "rain the reflection of my pain" Saturday, December 8, 2012 at 11:20 AM the ending of this song is made of riffs that i came up with in early autumn 2010. I remember i would spend hours in my basement with my headphones connected to my amp and playing that riff on repeat for hours and loving it  "Choking on life" Friday, December 7, 2012 at 4:57 PM  "Showered with RAzors" Saturday, October 27, 2012 at 11:07 AM so the fact that the date says saturday is strange... I remember making this song with tony one day after school... maybe it wasnt after school and he came over in the morning, but I truly remember it being after school.... this song was made entirely from scratch in the most improvised way posible. I think tony came over and wanted to make a song and i somehow matched what he wanted to hear with the first guitar intro, a few minutes later I finish the song and he gets onthe mic and starts singing improvised lyrics and that's how the song was made  "september : SUicide" Saturday, October 13, 2012 at 1:31 PM the verse is one of my best compositions especially at that time  "spring" Sunday, January 27, 2013 at 9:31 PM this is kind of awkward I just realized that this song wasn't made in 2012 at all... I already sent the album to spotify.. oh well. finished Sunday, January 27, 2013 at 9:45 PM  "emptiness" Saturday, December 8, 2012 at 2:15 PM  "summer" Sunday, November 18, 2012. that doesn't sem right.. but this is also awkward because I just realized this song was included in the full lenght album we made.. too late now