Hi guys.
Yes, it is me singing and playing all the instruments, and I'll make a proper announcement about that in full later on... It's great people seem to like the track though
This track is a demo or "demonstration" of the song, meaning it'll almost all be re-recorded for the actual record proper. Lee and me dialed in a really good mix for the demo tracks so the songs can be fine tuned and listened to, so it sounds nearly as good as a full album (unless you listen on myspace where it sounds like ass due to their compression).
Moving on to The Senseless:
There's no influence from The Senseless on the guitars in this track as I wrote almost all of the riffs in this particular song before Shadows was completed, a year before Sam and me started jamming and I really started listening to the debut The Senseless record. Anyway, I'm almost incapable of taking on any new influences, which is why Mithras is "so boring" haha. If I just took influence from whatever I was listening to the most, I think 99% of you would be sickened and horrified at the direction Mithras went in
To my mind the debut album 'In The Realm Of The Senseless' has a little bit of a Mithras influence, and obviously we share some common influences, and Sam has others all of his own. Sam and me both use parts of similar scales to generate main melodic movements and this affinity is part of the reason Sam got the spot in Mithras.
However on the new The Senseless album 'The Floating World', the only thing Mithras-y is a bit of the drumming, the record is quite different from the debut as you'll hopefully soon discover