By Guffy guffin Bandcamp guffy3 SoundCloud Guffy_Wuffy Twitter Guffy__Wuffy YouTube theguff.in Other ← Oracular Envoy Previous track by this artist.
Cover art by vintagegamebro vasterror Bandcamp vintagegamebro Twitter.
Released 3/23/2023.
Duration: 3:25.

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• Oracular Envoy by Guffy

Artist commentary:

Guffy:

i have many thoughts about this track lets see if i can put them into words

this is a heavy version of Oracular Envoy.

firstly: nobody asked for this. i just did this on my own. i had very recently been listening to a lot of doom eternal/GoeffPlaysGuitar stuff (specifically his Dancing Mad cover)

i was sitting here going like. "oh this has funky time signatures. i could fuck around with this." i had been itching to make some heavy doom-ish style music for a while and making this cover (remix? version?) was the perfect outlet. shoutouts to argent metal. i need to get better at it

at its core, chucked this at like double speed and doubled up every section. moved things to synths, swelled things.

the guitar i used was an 8 string fucker. its so unnecessary. but i wanted this track to be big and loud.

i struggle so much writing drums in like, any context, hence why they mostly loop in places. sorry yall im not a drummer!

but yeah since I used an 8 string guitar i couldnt do anything incredibly intricate with the bass. i had a synth bass running along mostly on one note until i brought in an electric bass to double down on the melody

im literally only just realising this now but including the choir and keeping the tubular bells in this version actually keeps the theme of Church Vibes from envoy, which i didnt actually think about in the moment but here we are

god i fucking love using that choir! i did it to fit in the vibe of how some of the doom eternal tracks have similar stuff too, but this specific choir library i hear everywhere. i dont use it enough so i put it in this fucker!

the compound signature section is the big reason i did this version in the first place, i really wanted the synths to just run wild throughout it. make it feel like they're moving chaotically, with no home until they're reset in place. figuring out how to do the drums here was a nightmare though whoops

i figured i should keep SOME of the original instrumentation from Envoy so i brought over the delayed bells in the 3/4 section. keeps it ominous in the background.

i very much bullshitted a transition between the 3/4 and 4/4 sections there lmao i couldnt smoothly make it change without that odd thing

i did add a completely new section missing from Envoy in the middle of the 4/4 outro, explicitly to throw off people who thought they were listening to a 1-1 translation of the original. get fucked. in that section i adore how you can feel it getting tense again in the first half, but after the harmonic hit the bass and the rest of the drums kick it into a new intensity. love it. coming down after it for an actual outro was rough though but i got it including the choir and a last hit of the bell :)