Singled Out: Opensight

"Deleted Scene" is the most complex song on "The Voice of Nothing" and is a great example of it. I was listening to an old videogame soundtrack and laid down the verse riff which sounded heavy, so I came up with a clean version of the riff to place before the verse, in order to build anticipation and to get a violent contrast as soon as the verse started.

The intro of the song was inspired by movie soundtracks, the James Bond soundtracks in particular which use a lot of chromatic sequences that give a cool dramatic effect. The little clean guitar solo on top sounds a bit jazzy and it fits very well. I demoed it and realized I wanted an Ennio Morricone kind of guitar sound for the chords, since I'm a huge fan of the ambience created by those western soundtracks. When we were mixing the song in the studio I showed Nancy Sinatra's "Bang Bang" to Engineer/Producer Daniel Gongora and told him I wanted that kind of sound for the section (Not a very rock/metal kind of choice, hehe). I heard that song on the movie "Kill Bill" and always found Tarantino's approach very inspiring. I identify very much with his passion and his respect for influences.

The midsection of the song is an odd tempo riff that sounds massive thanks to the keyboards and the kind of chords I chose. It makes me think of something out of a war film, like theme song of the movie "Where Eagles Dare". Iron Maiden wrote a song about the movie and used the theme song to open their concerts way back (on the "World Piece Tour" I think). "Deleted Scene" has lyrics that deal with the bad times in your life that you want to forget about, so the name points to it right away and also serves as a reference to movies in general, which are a huge inspiration on the song and on Opensight's music overall.

So there's an Opensight song. Movie soundtracks, contrasts, a couple of high pitched riffs, some heaviness, introspective lyrics, clean passages here and there and some drama, but still catchy! At the end it doesn't sound like all the stuff I mentioned, I tried to emulate something and got a different result, and I love that!