Don't turn on the lights is a story of dimensional displacement, true love, a planet known as the other world, and a vast organic machine known as dead god, who rules the other world and uses dimensional dislpacement to pull more victims in.
Before i get too into the plot let me explain what i'm doing. I'm trying to entertain. i'm trying to make people happy. I know this album may appear dark, but under the surface it's actually pretty fun. I've been compared to Pink Floyd, Marylin Manson, David Bowie, Elton Jhon, NIN, Flaming Lips, Scissor Sisters, Slim Shadey, Audioslave, Even Frank Sinatra, but i have actually created a new music genre. but for copywright reasons, i won't tell you what it's called, for now. I need to protect my ideas before i give them away. Trust me, I don't just make rock, pop, industrial, heavy metal, rap or anything else music.
Just like classical music, and the beating drums of cavemen and the storytelling of irish celtic bards are all precoursors to soul, rock, and every other modern music genre, Just as all modern music bites a bit of style from the classics, i have a homage here or there as well, but that does'nt devalue the origionality of what i'm doing. Rock did'nt invent the guitar. Rap did'nt invent the phat beat. But they both had their own way of defining themself as legitimate Music genre's, regardless.
My music is inspired by video game music as well. Nobuo Uematsu is awesome and 8/16 bit nintendo as well as sega cd and sega genesis game music is an insperation to this day. Rockstar made a game called Bully recently for the Ps2. As much as i would like to get some of my origional work into a video game, and though i can appreciate a rob zombie tie in as much as the next chum, i appreciate the fact that Bully has an origional soundtrack.
Don't turn on the lights is a 12 track cd, with lyric sheet. buy it :)
It was late at night, and Mars was eating some crackers and cheese. He walked into the bathroom and shut the door. the darkness enveloped him, and suddenly he had the strangest feeling this he was'nt in a small enclosed room at all. he was in a field. a vast, open field. there were huge creatures all around him, not entirely human. they wanted to devour him. I have to turn on the light, mars thought. It's just an illusion, my eyes are playing tricks on me in this darkness.
Mars turned on the lightswitch, and things only got worse. The images were simply verified as reality. giant steel creatures, with muffled human moans, as if somewhere inside a real person was trapped, flanked the most horrifying thing imaginable. It was huge. It had no eyes but hovered ever closer. it was like a big building, or tank, hovering in the air. but it moaned like the human shaped ones. it screamed from the inside.
Through a large square hole with lips sarcasticly painted around it, this dead god ripped the earth apart, tree's, buildings, whole mountains, everything in it's path. and it was after Mars. It was headed directly towards him.
Standing in the vast field, Mars felt around for the bathroom wall. It has to be around here still, he thought. He felt the wall! He fumbled and found the lightswitch.
Flick.
Everything retuned to normal for awhile after the light went back out. Mars lived his life as usual, but then strange things started happening. The other world just kept peeking through. strange sounds on his radio, even when playing a CD he knew by heart, like one of his beta copy's of his upcoming CD Don't Turn On The Lights, which he had made based on his actual experience in the other world.
His girlfriend Saar dissapeared one night. She was sleeping next to him and he saw her dissapear before his eyes. His friends said that she "probably just got tired of your self obsessed attitude, and split, dude."
But he knew. She was there, in the other world, and he had to get back to her, any way he could. Mars played his CD, Don't Turn On The Lights. He lit incense in a dark room, put it on track one, the title track, and switched on a giant holagen lamp he bought at a garage sale.
He felt time and space becoming vauge memorys. he could no longer even feel his body. He traveled to the other world.
The first single will be called New Musician.
There he falls in love with a woman named brian, but she is quickly taked away from him, murdered by a manticore. Mars walks a long path checkered with neon green lines, designed by an ancient being native to the planet.
He narrowly avoids the demons and dragons, the rot of the leper and the riddles of the sphynx and ends up in a happy town where nothing bad ever happens. Mars agrees to host a play of sorts, a musical concert. Mars gives them "Mars and the space time displaced inorchestra syncphony" A grand musical method and offshot of the music genre created by himself, Transend.
It was a night that all remembered and after it was over, Mars flew back to earth...
My third album features a Video game that kills in real life (VWR) a murderer in PG, Cytokines, Uncioty, A war of many sides and views and a gay president of the united states, not to mention the ruin of most of civilized earth.
Also love songs a balad it will be a semi-happy (currently) apocolyptic science fact near future epic. It is a wartime album. It is an honest album.
Have fun, untill next time, Mars Darinder.
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