Van Helsing

MikeStoner

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A moody/atmospheric number based on a couple of piano loops, with two guitars 'battling' over the top.

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MikeStoner

I play guitar with the mighty ROUGH JUSTICE and this site is for my sideline of various instrumental doodles. Basically I find a backing track that I like, normally about 2 minutes long, and then I blast guitar over the top of it. I've never been one for "taste" and "restraint" so my style can (and has) been described as "fast and furious". If you like loud fast guitar playing then have a listen...

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Genre

Beats • Beats General

Charts

Peak #64

Peak in subgenre #7

Uploaded

January 16, 2007

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MP3

MP3 2.1 MB • 128 kbps • 2:18

Story behind the song

I took the Van Helsing/vampire stories as my start point. I grabbed a couple of piano/bass/drum sections out of Blue Oyster Cult's song "Nosferatu" (see how it's all coming together?) and played over that. There are two distinct guitar parts - one for Van Helsing and one for the vampires. Hopefully you should get a sense of them battling throughout. Occasionally the dark side of Van Helsing is hinted at when the two guitars briefly drop into harmony and then split off again. Towards the end a heavy four note guitar riff signifies the stakes being hammered into the vampires and this is interspersed with their responding cries of despair. Then, right at the end, the mournful tapping licks represent the vampires crumbling away to dust.  Pretentious, moi?

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