Ryan Wiseman

Thank you to everyone who streamed my music this year!!! Sometime you feel tiny in a neverending sea, and then you learn people in total spent about 15 days streaming your music

1 week ago | [YT] | 3

Ryan Wiseman

Funnily enough, after completing my most recent album (coming out the 21st of this month), I wrote another and a little EP that follows directly after. They both focus primarily on piano, with the album being this super emo ballad album and then the EP being dedicated toward more of my instrumental side. It'll be a nice way to finish off this year if I don't get further inspiration.

Currently, I have two produced albums in the works, but my mind tells me, "NO, you can't touch this until you write other stuff first." And hence you get sidetracked in a good way. I hate holding on to old music, but I also want to be in the mental space and have the free time to finish these, since they are like 80% of the way there

1 month ago | [YT] | 1

Ryan Wiseman

A little cool update!!! My next album is soooo close to being done. Like it's so tempting to just finish mastering my most recent song and then publish the album: because it has some of my best, most recent songwriting. So far, the album has 10 songs, 10 amazing songs

2 months ago (edited) | [YT] | 2

Ryan Wiseman

So some fun stuff going on with the music I am writing. I'm working on an album that is 35 tracks, all of it is pretty piano/ambient (mostly instrumental) music and focused on falling in love, and that entire feeling. There are some sadder moments on it, but I think it just captures how love can mend over the years, especially if you have a long history with said person. It's probably one of my greatest works so far, and I wanted to finish this before finishing a black metal album I'm also working on. And so in the process of writing a lengthy ass piano/ambient album, was born an album within the album. This meta album deserves its own release, and will be the mini trailer to the entire album it's from, plus a song that is just too screamo for the bigger album.

I'm trying to be super delicate about these next few projects, because I really want them to be a step up from some of my most recent works that I consider gold. One of these projects is releasing next Friday, which is where 'the day you left...' is from

4 months ago | [YT] | 0

Ryan Wiseman

One of these days I'll unveil the music video behind this screen shot. The live performance is even better than the screenshot

9 months ago | [YT] | 0

Ryan Wiseman

Here's Update #01 to my blackened deathcore album. Something I'm calling 'THE BLACKENED SUN'. This is a series of songs that experiment with much of contemporary music, and takes an entirely different direction in how blackened deathcore music is written. No matter how many genres I pull influence from, including noise, it still holds that image of being a blackened deathcore album, and it checks off all the boxes of what I find cool in an album.

So here are some of the tracks I've worked on recently that are fun to talk about:

MXVCID is one of these odd tracks that breaks any expectations you have about the genre. Starting off as an ambient track that devolves into an experimental soundscape of sounds, the vocals pull in that Bring Me The Horizon 'Count Your Blessings' style approach. It is a tragic song in terms of themes, and it works so well. I take a lot of inspiration from those song flips like what you find with SZA or Tyler The Creator, and the song decides to do a section flip halfway through. The two songs merge together perfectly, with the ending being a chaotic end that is hard to top.

Stardust is a production of mine that as rough as it currently is, is one I carefully touch. This is the first song I recorded on this album, with me spending weeks on the instrumental production. I'm most likely going to end with this track, because it has some notable Methwitch influenced whistle tone screams. Unless I produce a better guitar tracked song with even better vocals, this song still holds up as one of my favorites. I get really picky on the final song to finish an album, so I want to make sure it ends on the strongest note possible.

THE BLACKENED SUN (Interlude) is where we get into the true chaos that blackened deathcore is known for. This has so many cool blast beats, extremely complex drum fills, and a level of energy that the production has been the hardest nightmare to complete. It is one that requires me to be extremely picky about how I produce over it, and is also one of the few songs with clean vocals of any type. Eventually, these vocals will become a cluster choir and play into the rawness and oddities that underly the track.


This album currently has 8 songs that are mostly done, and I refuse to rush any part of this album

9 months ago | [YT] | 2

Ryan Wiseman

Every year I take a drastically different approach in how I write music. From my notable alternative classics to gorgeous piano albums to avant-garde; every year is a new journey.

The first half of this year is all about my best acoustic songwriting skills, from sad emo songs to acoustic deathcore and all the in-betweens. And to finish off the year/potentially next year, two highly produced albums that are complete opposites of one another. 

'We Were Nearly Lost Forever To The Sand Of Time': this is the ambient + dreamcore album I've slowly been working on. While it can be sad in a melancholy way, it also is an album about lost love, romance. This is something I cannot rush, because it means something entirely different to me. And if it takes 20 tracks to convey my ideas, so be it. It's a bit like finding a ray of sunshine through the shit of fuck life all, an album I only want to work on if it means putting my heart and soul into it.

Following that is an unnamed album that will be of a blackened deathcore sound and other metal subgenres. Every song written (so far) is incredible, and during a playtest with several other people, the feedback was overwhelmingly positive. With already an album worth of music, I refuse to release this until it's as perfect as can be possible. It is worth waiting for this album given it is the first to show off my whistle tone screams.

I tend to play in a lot of different genres, because it helps me explore new soundscapes, and this year will be no different from my drastic ventures. You will find that if you listen to an album like Metamorphosis II and compare it to my unreleased 'SEE YOU IN HELL', there is such a drastic difference within the types of metal I write. And if you were to compare it with my much later unreleased album 'whatever.', you will notice a giant contrast in the songwriting and how I do my scream vocals.

Every album is my own journey into something different, and you'll find that will each acoustic album planned. This is my songwriting in its most raw state, the type of singer/songwriter vibe that got me into music in the first place. Except this time, I wanted to be a basis to get people into a highly technical style that slaps super hard. This is why if you listen to the piano for albums like 'SEE YOU IN HELL' and beyond, it's some of my most fierce and complex metal writing. This is the type of insane note shredding I enjoy, and it accentuates the intensity of my music perfectly.

It sets up everything perfectly for the next album idea. Which is why with 'whatever.' being my final acoustic album, it is songwriting bridge into this new maximalist album.

Get ready for these next few years.

10 months ago (edited) | [YT] | 2

Ryan Wiseman

I REALLY love how this album artwork turned out to one of my albums scheduled for November. I use a difference layer setting on the image that merges with the glass vase of lemons, and it creates this really cool full spectrum sensor look on parts of the album artwork.

1 year ago | [YT] | 0

Ryan Wiseman

On April 11th, my album 26 will release on all streaming platforms! The entire album will also be uploaded at 4 PM PST on YouTube, so stay tuned for that! As an independent artist with no label backing, the more you share around this album helps. Labels have such an advantage compared to artists like myself, and maybe one day, I can pursue my own music for a living instead of needing to pursue getting another degree.

At 26, my 26th album, with 26 songs.

You can pre-save the album here:
distrokid.com/hyperfollow/ryanwiseman/26

1 year ago | [YT] | 0

Ryan Wiseman

There are only 10 songs remaining for me to finish for my newest album '26'. While I wish to post more videos, this album requires most of my time. In these next few months, I'll be able to finally unveil one of my best albums. There are not only music videos planned, but music videos post-release. Many of the songs are studio produced and will eventually receive a music video.

26 has some notable songs like 'Memories of Color', 'Maybe', and the rest of the album is just as powerful as these tracks. Every single song has been my best work, as I've spent 8 months cutting songs off the record to do just that.

Thank you so much for all your patience. It has been so tempting to release half to almost all of the songs, despite my urge to do so. '26' is not the end, there is a lot more planned that I'm excited for too!

2 years ago | [YT] | 1