Not that this has anything to do with Darkthrone, I just wanted a good Black Metal logo for this post.

Tentatively titled “The Last Shadow,” I’m working on a black metal themed shmup game with my friend Chaz. Visually the game will be based around black metal imagery and album artwork. The music for the game will be slightly-more-melodic-than-usual black metal.

It’s possible that I could play black metal drums with a few months of practice, but I definitely have no time to practice like that. Instead, I’m using a midi based drum sequencer.

My main inspiration for using a “drum machine” is Anaal Nathrakh, who pulls of incredible sounding crust/black metal with a drum machine.

I’ve made the first 3 minutes of one song, and it’s got me pumped.

On the one hand, I’d love to make the music much more authentic black metal, ala early Mayhem, and modern day Xasthur and Striborg. But, I feel like that wouldn’t be as exciting to play a game to as a mix between the production values of the former mixed with melodies from power metal & pop black metal (Dimmu Borgir, Cradle of Filth).