Overture Music Video - War Cries

 Overture is a Progressive Melodic Metal Band who has a fresh prospective on high intensity, melodic, haunting, thought-provoking music and vocals with a deep perspective of the world. With depth of substance, the songs take you on a journey of the mind, highlighted by intense melodic rhythm. Overtures invites you to come on a journey with us and submerge yourself in theatric, melodic, rhythmic, stimulating, interesting, perceptive, and provocative songs that will have you thinking about who we are, where we are going, what is happening around us and who can we be.   Who Is Overture? We were originally founded in 1993 releasing multiple Demos, EP’s, and Albums. Overture went on hiatus back in 1996, in September of 2020 Guitarist Christopher Young reached out to Vocalist Michael Goldsmith with a few song ideas. We found that the chemistry and passion that was there before was not only still there but had grown expeditiously.  This tuned into Christopher and Michael picking up and bearing the torch of Overture and forging ahead with creating their first album after all these years.  This chemistry grew when we started to work with accomplished,  highly talented, and amazing studio musicians Diego Palma (Keys - band: Lord Devine), Peter Albert de Reyna (Bass) and Jonas Schütz (drums - band: Sacrosanct).  Follow us on Spotify, because this is only the start of a long journey, we would like to take with you. , or our Facebook site @overturesmusic.  Rock on Overlords!!!!

Overtures second streaming now

Hello Overlords of Overture! Our second album "World Beyond" is live on social media platforms. This is our second album and is a major progression to what we are doing today. Most importantly it is the perfect segue to our upcoming 2022 album. We hope you enjoy this album. 

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A little history about our album World Beyond:

We are IMMENSELY proud of what we accomplished with this album. We feel this album is absolutely unique (pictures below). We recorded this in our rehearsal band house, which is also where our drummer Joe and family lived at the time. Our signer is a trained recording engineer (Recording Workshop), so we took advantage of that.  We were lucky to have multiple rooms, our main rehearsal studio was a great dead room, so we tracked the drums from there. We put our guitar player Chris’s Marshall cabinet in another room, and same with the bass players cabinet, far from the drum room. Since the drummer was in another room, and guitar and bass cabinets were in another room we used an 8 channel pre-powered carver rehearsal studio powered mixer to feed a multi-channel headphone mixer that was fed to each room so all 5 of us could hear what we were playing. For recording we put Chris-guitar player, Scott-bass player and Allen-keyboard player (direct line into the mixer) in the control room. For the control room we cleared out a bedroom and used that as the control room (do you love the blankets we hung up for sound treatment . 

For you techies and engineers you can see in the pictures that we used Michael’s-signers portable studio gear, a Fostex R8, and a Fostex 12 channel, 8 subgroup mixer. Tons of rack gear, such as SPX90, Hush II, BBE Unimax, multiple EQ’s, he loves the Alesis micro gear and has a few microverb’s, limiters and compressors. The mics we used were a combination of the SM57’s, SM58’s, PVM38’s, PVM380N and PVM580TN’s.  We ran all this through to Yamaha Studio Monitors using a Yamaha amplifier.   The computer speakers and the large Carver field monitors you see in the pictures were used as secondary monitors for contrast in listening back to the tracks, but also to test the mix.  Since we only had 8 tracks to work with. First Michael used all twelve channels of the board to mix the drums down to two tracks on the R8, when recording drums all other band members played live to a passive mix so Joe could lay all his drum tracks down for all the songs. After we got the right mix for the drums, we recorded Keys, Guitar and bass to 3 more tracks, then solos and tidbits down to another track, leaving two, one for lead vocals and another channel for backup vocals. 

Putting down all the tracks took about a week and mixing another week. We often talk about how special the experience was and how proud we were with the final product.  We hope you enjoyed this history about World Beyond. You will see more post like this in the future. Keep on rocking Overlords!!!