Just noticed this thread. I'm 27 years old. Run my own business, but music is my main passion

Mostly been hanging around the production forum just trying to learn about different aspects of production. I listen to a wide variety of music with metal and electronica (industrial, psytrance, dubstep, etc) being the main genres I'm into these days. Also listen to a variety of blues and rock. I play guitar and am starting to get the hang of my oxygen49 as well for soft synths

I try to pull inspiration from everything I listen to and try to shape the sound I'm searching for. Been playing blues and rock on guitar for a while now and decided to move to metal a few months ago. Also, got into recording around the same time. Here's the first attempt at a song I recorded which was more of a heavier rock song
https://soundcloud.com/axxessdenied/the ... new-rhythm. I did a cover of one of my favourite death metal songs (
https://soundcloud.com/axxessdenied/ope ... n-progress) which was really intense I must say since I wasn't used to playing at around 200bpm and not on a 13+ minute song at that hah! One night I was listening to the Army of Mushroom album and I decided I wanted to stray away from doing metal and try messing around with some electronica and maybe merging some heavy riffs with some awesome trancey / euro-trash / dubby kind of electronica. That's why I'm hanging out around here a bit now. Trying to expand my horizons and learn, because holy fuck there is an assload of shit to learn when it comes to mixing / mastering even something that sounds half decent.
Here are my first two songs in my crusade of finding that combination I've got in my head. Still got a long journey ahead of me
https://soundcloud.com/axxessdenied/pro ... thout-fear
https://soundcloud.com/axxessdenied/fir ... d-problems