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New Song - The Day That Never Comes
In the far recesses of his bedroom Alex McGery had a dream, a dream to write a song that returned to his rock roots yet stayed faithful to his new found musical pompousity. Subsequently the song became fusion of simple catchy riffs and melodies, with far more daring musical concepts such as 'pretty good voice leading', 'key changes that actually serve a purpose other than to make a boring, senile song sound slightly less boring and senile', 'Gflat(sharp11,flat5) chords, hitherto known as 'The Alex McGery chord' and '3 part harmony that doesn't contain any parallel fifths!'
The song could best be described as 'excellent'.
Showreel
Have put together a short showreel with 30 second excerpts of various tracks. The showreel focuses on electronic work although I couldn't resist adding a brief demo of my latest acoustic work 'Lament for Strings' at the end of the mp3.
Music for Trailer - The Sixth Girl
Directed by Liam Maccarthy, the Sixth Girl is a thrilling take on the tale of Jack the Ripper. Created for his graduation project at the University of Buckinghamshire.
Rome Total Realism Iberian Conflict , Released
Take on the fierce tribes of the Iberian Peninsula as you conquer this land for your people - and of course your own coffers! Defend your homeland from the Carthaginian invaders as the Celt-Iberian player.
The Rome Total Realism team, creators of the acclaimed Rome: Total War RTR 6.0 Gold mod, bring you "The Iberian Conflict". This is a fully playable, full conversion of Rome:Total War, Barbarian Invasion. It's the first of many fully-playable campaigns that will eventually make up the team's full release of RTR VII.
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Rome Total Realism, The Soundtrack
During last year, I was kept busy writing 30+ tracks for the highly anticipated game Rome Total Realism(RTR). RTR is a modification of Creative Assembly's ever popular Rome Total War. The main goal of RTR is to improve upon the realism of the Rome Total War series.
Two tracks from the soundtrack are soon to be featured on ign.com
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The Awakening Reviewed by PlanetHalf-life.com!
Click here to read the reviewExcerpt from the review: "Another major strength that is worth drawing particular attention to is the music. The Half-Life series has never been well known for its musical scores, often down-playing the need for a full orchestral accompaniment in favour of a more atmospheric tone. Whilst Awakening does produce this in spades, it also has the unique inclusion of a fully realized soundtrack that is both welcome and inspiring. There's no greater feeling than encountering the Combine whilst an action-track plays triumphantly in the background. It's the sort of thing that if it isn't done really well, it fails outright. In this case it succeeds, with a flair and bombast that adds another level of excellence to the mod. While the short running time means you won't be coming away humming the tunes to yourself, whilst playing the mod they work together with the whole experience so well it's hard to imagine it without them."