OldSchool
Production Thoughts
When I started recording oldscool I went in with a different mind set. I wanted a Metal album. No synth's or anything industrial related
for most of the songs. But, not only that I wanted a pantera kind of style in memory of dimebag, who was the guitar player that influenced me the most. Even though my favorite band is overkill. I also wanted to avoid doing anything with classical music. If I was going to do any covers they had to be converted to metal from what ever style of music it was originally. Not only that but the album was not going to be an instrumental one. Maybe 3 or 4 instrumental pieces, but that's it. The production was going to be straight forward with not to much craziness. Simple metal record with honest vocals without so many effects. Traditional sounding guitars with a Solid State Amp from the 90s. Noticeable bass and drums with a lot of bottom and guts. Simple.
Equipments Used
Peavey Special 112 Combo Amp
BOSS GT100 Guitar Processor (4 cable mode)
Carvin DC727 & NS1 Guitars
Roland VS1680 Expanded Workstation
Digitech Vocal Processor
BearStar Chinese Instrument Cables
AKG Headsets (K99 & K240)
Carvin Tube Mic CTM100
Dunlop Cry Baby 535Q (Rock it out of your system)
Gemini Monitor Speakers
Carvin DCM200L Power Amp Monitor
Zoom 234 Rhythm Machine
Yamaha Keyboard Genos 76 key (Enjoy The Silence)
D'Addario Electric Guitar Strings (EXL110-3D)
Hannabach 815 Classical Guitar Strings (Super High Tension)
Roland GR-55 Guitar Synthesizer
Dunlop Jazz III Picks
OldSchool
01 WWII (part 1)
02 Western Anger
03 Assassins of Freedom
04 WWII (part 2)
05 Picasso Trigger (skrew)
06 Lost In My Own Mind
07 Murika
08 Rock it Out of Your System
09 Just Another Day
10 Last (NIN)
11 Planetoid
12 Covfefe
13 Society
14 Bella
15 Enjoy The Silence
(Depeche Mode)
OldSchool Lyrics
Assassins of Freedom
Religion is our main cause of pain
why do we keep doing this to ourselves?
Kill after Kill in the name of god
anything that's free since the dawn of time
Forcing fear in our eyes
seems like their only way to sale us the lies
War upon War is the price we pay
for being so stupid of trusting their faith.
No more (Lies)
No more (Hate)
No more (Fights)
No more (....)
Godless without guilt or fear
Will open our way to a saint frontier
Over and over we must reject
The filth they preach to the human race
Stand up to fight for your rights
Before it's too late when there's no human rights
There is no heaven nor there is a hell
This is our only chance so live it well
No more (Lies)
No more (Hate)
No more (Fights)
No more (Death)
Guitar Solo
No more (Lies)
No more (Hate)
No more (Fights)
No more (Death)
Guitar Solo
I was born into a Jehovah's witness family I never believed a word they taught me and always felt this way about religion. So I wrote this song from my experiences and points of views. This is something I firmly believe. All religions should be abolished from the face of the earth.
Arsenio Oro 03/25/2012
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Just Another Day
Here I go waking up
expecting new but there's none
same old shit every day
hoping for good when I give none
go to work like machine
without joy an empty void
eating inside day by day
stressing out without release
(His Thoughts)
Help, help
get me out of this hell
why wont you see that I'm not doing well?
Laughing and talking behind my back
is all you do & there's no need for that
reach for me and give me your hand
All I need is someone to understand
help me & get me out of this hell
why wont you see that I'm not doing well?
going home maybe Ill relax
watch tv everything sux
dinner time but no one to talks
cant go to sleep I lost the night
here I go at it again
the same bullshit till the end
No One listens to my pain
I hear voices Im insaine
(His Thoughts)
Help, help
get me out of this hell
why wont you see that I'm not doing well?
Laughing and talking behind my back
is all you do & there's no need for that
reach for me and give me your hand
All I need is someone to understand
help me & get me out of this hell
you know what? fuck you, I'll see you all there!
(Voices in His Head)
Look at the people in your life
No one likes you
They wish you were dead
your boss thinks youre nothing
your family thinks youre loser
your kids hate you
your own dog doesnt even respect you
you should.....KILL THEM ALL!!
who's laughing now, pieces of shit
wont be bothering me now with bullets in your head
you had this coming and you paid the price
But this aint over till I make this right
slowly I took the gun to my face
I ended my life wasnt my fate
this was my end I chose it this way
but none of it matters cause is just another day
Fictitious story about a typical American dad that loses his mind after working hard to provide for his family while dealing with Political Correctness at work and stress from his coworkers.
Arsenio Oro 09/2016
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Murika
Always the same bullshit
Acting like if they care
Sticking their nose where it doesn't belong
Policing the world like if everyone is wrong
Telling countries how to behave
Enforcing rules they never obeyed
Buying everyone to get their ways
Is just what they do, is the American way
without regards of what you believe
They'll defile your culture with money and greed
Whoring your country till there's none for you
Feeding of your wealth and your youngness too
Some may think that what they're doing is right
Now don't be a fool and clear the lies from your sight
They only care about money and power
Fighting is the way to defend what's ours
Lies, lies... fucking lies
Enough with the bullshit we se thru your disguise
Out, out... just get out
This isn't your problem, you better butt out
Stop, stop... you're out of control
Get a hold of yourself you can't have it all
HELL NO, we won't listen to you
Your country is not perfect and neither are you
This is nothing new we've all seen it before
Every empire ends up wanting more
They expand and take every land and men
But, the always have a very gruesome end
You would think they learn a thing or two from the past
Is like, they have their heads buried in their ass
Ignorant fools need to understand
That is not about one nation lead by only one man
Think of others before your self
Lead everyone to prosper and wealth
Erase the lines that divides us all
Then we will have what was given to us all
An earth free from all evil oppression
Is just a dream now in this hell of a aggression
Hoping and praying will get you nowhere
You got to do what's right and get us all there
Solo
If you don't care about what I've said
Then you're part of the problem in this USA
You treat the world like a piece of shit
Screaming you are better while you hold a fist
Then you wonder why the world hates you
You don't give a dam about the rest except you
You box yourself tuning everyone out
While the world moves on and you're the one left out
Yeah you know who I'm talking about
Is that dying breed of American kraut
Hating everyone that don't look the same
Hunting everyone cause they're going insane
Soon those idiots will be long gone
Then maybe America will move on
They are the problem that's holding us back
We've got to change and never look back
Lies, lies... fucking lies
Enough with the bullshit we se thru your disguise
Out, out... just get out
This isn't your problem, you better butt out
Stop, stop... you're out of control
Get a hold of yourself you can't have it all
HELL NO, we won't listen to you
Your country is not perfect and neither are you
Lies, lies... fucking lies
Enough with the bullshit we se thru your disguise
Out, out... just get out
This isn't your problem, you better butt out
Stop, stop... you're out of control
Get a hold of yourself you can't have it all
HELL NO, we won't listen to you
Your country is not perfect and neither are you
This song was inspired by the Ukraine's Russia invasion of Crimea. The lyrics were written from a foreigner point of view. From people I know around the world in the internet. It has nothing to do with my point of view on politics. Truth is, I love America to death and fact is Obama is actually my favorite president. I just used his voice in the recording cause he happened to be our president during the time this event happened. I am an artist and I write about everything in life even if I disagree with it. On top of that I feel a lot of empathy for others and it is easy for me to put my self in their shoes.
Arsenio Oro 01/01/2015
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Western Anger
Hear me out
This time we're falling hard
Must wake up
Before they kill us all
Suicide
Is their will, but not ours
We are strong
The'll never break our power
Take control
We have to win this war
They must die
If we want freedom home
Guitar Solo
Crush em down
To hard is not enough
Move the ground
With cannons going off
Infiltrate
Kill, kill, kill them all
We will win
No matter what it takes
That's who we are
We'll never change our ways
WAR!!!!
This song was written right after 911 happened. I am not a pro war person. But, I was one of the many americans that wanted blood after 911. Someone had to pay for this. It was a western anger.
Arsenio Oro 9/11/2001
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Picasso Trigger (Cover)
Skrew
What's my crime
Now I crossed the line
You convicted me
Well I already done my time
You're the judge, you're the jury
Sing me my song
C'mon pull my strings
I'll try to dance along
I'll play the part
Feed me my line
You're the director
But you ain't got that much spine
Typecast in a role
Since day one
Should have read the label
Handle like a loaded gun
Itchy trigger finger
Curious all the same
C'mon baby, stroke me once
I'll only bring you pain
Flower leper kings
Dreams you dream
Into your heart
Shoot you full of my misery
Just like Picasso's trigger
Paint your portrait in shame
Put it all together
Bullet holes will sign my name
Cold gun metal love
Me now equals pain
Add it up your science says
Only true equation
One last kiss I leave you on a pool of humiliation
Accept my life it's trials and tribulations
You all look on with a morbid fascination
Well it's alright you'll all get by
Like fans of a bad car crash
See me burning down in flames
Twisted metal life and death
You won't even remember my name
Flower leper kings
Dreams you dream
Into your heart
Shoot you full of my misery
Written By Skrew
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Enjoy The Silence
(Cover)Depeche Mode
Words like violence
Break the silence
Come crashing in
Into my little world
Painful to me
Pierce right through me
Can't you understand?
Oh my little girl
All I ever wanted
All I ever needed
Is here in my arms
Words are very unnecessary
They can only do harm
Vows are spoken
To be broken
Feelings are intense
Words are trivial
Pleasures remain
So does the pain
Words are meaningless
And forgettable
All I ever wanted
All I ever needed
Is here in my arms
Words are very unnecessary
They can only do harm
All I ever wanted
All I ever needed
Is here in my arms
Words are very unnecessary
They can only do harm
All I ever wanted
All I ever needed
Is here in my arms
Words are very unnecessary
They can only do harm
Enjoy the silence
written by MARTIN LEE GORE
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Lost In My Own Mind
Sitting here, Looking at the world
Making sence of the simple things
Thinking of the past regretting what I've done
Worrying if I ever make it back again
feeling so longly in this world Im in
No one to ask for help No one to lend a hand
fighting on my own with nothing but time to spear
Victim of my own mind slave to this world Im in
Every day I wake but still feels like a dream
Can't control the thigs I see or feel
Reminding my onw self what its fake or real
Waiting for one day when I walk away from this
feeling so longly in this world Im in
No one to ask for help No one to lend a hand
fighting on my own with nothing but time to spear
Victim of my own mind slave to this world Im in
Pain and Fear sets in
nothing will stop this but,
time will pass and heal
My Mind
Slowly I'll awake from this, I know
Never will I walk that destructive path
Stronger I will be away from the life I had
I will take this chance to right all wrongs I've done
feeling so longly in this world Im in
No one to ask for help No one to lend a hand
fighting on my own with nothing but time to spear
Victim of my own mind slave to this world Im in
Solo
This song was inspired by what happened to my father in Cuba. He was part of an anti communist and anti Fidel Castro movement in his younger years. Him and his friends carried out an attack on the communists and went to jail for it. He escaped only to be capture soon after. They tortured him and gave him 20 electroshock therapy treatments to the point that he wouldn't remember who he was. The video of this song is about something very different. Problem is that I didn't have the budget to go to Cuba and reenact the events with an actor and this footage had a lot of what I wanted to show in the first place.
Arsenio Oro Dec 31st 2016
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Last (NIN)
gave up trying to figure it out but my head got lost along the way
worn out from giving it up my soul I pissed it all away
still stings these shattered nerves
pigs we get what pigs deserve
I'm going all the way down I'm leaving today
come come come on you've gotta fill me up
come come gotta let me inside of you
come come come on you gotta fix me up
come come gotta let me inside of you
still feel it all slipping away but it doesn't matter anymore
everybody's still chipping away but it doesn't matter anymore
look through these blackened eyes
you'll see ten thousand lies
my lips may promise but my heart is a whore
come come come on you gotta fill me up
come come gotta let me inside of you
come come come on you gotta fix me up
come come gotta let me get through to you
this isn't meant to last
this is for right now
I know it's getting away and it comes to me as no surprise
I know what's coming to me is never going to arrive
fresh blood through tired skin
new sweat to drown me in
dress up this rotten carcass just to make it look alive
come come come on you gotta fill me up
come come gotta let me inside of you
come come come on you gotta fix me up
come come gotta let me get through to you
this isn't meant to last
this is for right now
here we go now
I wish I could put the blame on you
I want you to make me
I want you to take me
I want you to break me
then I want you to throw me away
hwa come on now
written by Trent Reznor
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