10 years today: 正∞胞体 (SEIMUGENHOUTAI) - S/T 20 Jul, 2025
First of all, huge thanks to those who truly connected with my music. Next, I will write a "longread" about the album, so if you’re not in the mood for an old man’s ramble — thank you for the support! Made the album -50% off on BC for a week or two. Enjoy!
Woke up today to be reminded that today is 10 years since my first official music release and thus the start of my "professional" musician career. Don't wanna say a cliché phrase "feels like it was yesterday", but literally, it still feels recent.
It started with me having a lot of tabs I liked riffs from but never liked the songs I ended up with, left them unfinished until better times, since I had a habit of not writing songs, but putting every riff I wrote at the moment in one file next to each other. Meanwhile I started doing demos with my music player, which recorded audio through 3.5mm from my Roland Cube-20X; the player allowed recording with layers and on top of existing audio files (files like drums I wrote in Guitar Pro and exported as mp3), felt like peak DIY, it was 2010. Back then I recorded 7 test snippets just for fun, and "Test 6.mp3" ended up being the intro for "正百二十胞体 (120-CELL)" but was later changed to fit the purpose of my freshly bought 8-string guitar.
After playing around with riffs and just writing tabs to get a sense of good composition in general I got the feeling that I was close to finally having enough good riffs to make an album, but wasn't sure. And then came THE moment of realization that "now it's on" — it started after I came up with the riff that ended up in the 1st song and was imprinted on my Instagram (www.instagram.com/p/zKb5H0v2vJ/ ).
So at the beginning of 2015 when I had already learned and dived into advanced stuff like Cubase, EZ Drummer, POD HD 500, I started listening to all the tabs I had, cropping riffs I liked and putting them separately. It was a 100+ pile of rookie junk with great ideas, a couple of finished songs like "線 (LINE)" and "正六百胞体 (600-CELL)", really old tabs from 2009 and fresh ones.
My idea was to make something I personally liked and couldn't find anywhere else. At the time I listened a lot to Psyopus, Viraemia, Dionaea, Journal, Heaven In Her Arms, Uneven Structure (original "8" album), and wanted to combine everything in a cool journey-like way: Mathcore + Tech Death + Djent (or more like Math-Metal with Djent's sound) + Post-Rock + Ambient, which is just a linear story that loops at places. It wasn’t the goal goal, but the general direction was heading that way. It was next to impossible to find such a deadly shake back then anywhere (at least I couldn’t).
So I started to combine riffs into songs. The most "Frankenstein's monster" of a song is "正百二十胞体 (120-CELL)", being sewn from 5 different songs with freshly made riffs in-between, starting with the 2010 demo riff, then Jan 2015 song right till 2:50 with transition, small riff till 3:03, then 5+5+5/8 + 7/8 riff (I didn’t have an 8-string at the time so just lowered 6th string back in 2009), ending with yet another old riff. On paper — a horrible idea, but the song turned out to be really complete and like it was meant to be that way.
To explain the timeline, it'd be something like:
2nd: 2010;
3rd: 2015+2011("what.mp3")+2014;
4th: 2011+2014 clean part in-between;
5th: 2014+2015 riff I wrote days before the release because the song seemed too short (this one had a different Post-Rock ending ("5 (Post End).mp3");
6th: 2013+2012 Post-Rock/Mathcore/Tech Death part + 2012 Rhythmic improv I later arranged around;
7th: 2010+2015+2012+2009+2012;
8th: 2011.
Where are the 1st and the last ones? Here's the interesting part: they are both two sides of the same coin. Let me elaborate on this.
Song 9 — made within a day at the end of 2014. Had my first semi-serious troubles in life, salty taste of friendship/relationships: all that kind of yummy life presents, so to ease the pressure, I was just lying on the floor in my room with my 8-string plucking the string, playing around with presets of POD HD 500 (one of which was "Broken Toys" I believe) and improvising with 2–3 notes. And within 45 minutes, I had a complete karaoke song for me to mumble into the mic, which I did. And that was it. Wasn’t planning to include it until someone told me it had to be heard. But it didn’t fit the album... I asked myself — who makes the rules anyway? And just added it as the ending one. Turned out to be the saddest and darkest one.
Song 1 — made within a day. Two separate dates, to be exact. Once I figured out that riff is the way to the top, I just sat and made this happen. Got so inspired by the riff that I just nailed the song in one go. Felt amazing. Turned out to be the happiest and most energetic one.
So those were the two I wrote from scratch. Samples were used in the 1st from a TV report about some Christian cult living with the corpse of a priest’s wife he had proclaimed a saint, with a cultist yelling 'Mother!' while being taken away. The scream was truly amazing. Sample on the last song was just something cringy I found online and after a while couldn’t picture the song without the sample, because now the album starts and ends with the same spiritual story of insanity.
So, where does this story lead? What's the moral of the story? Maybe I can explain with the idea of project's name 正∞胞体: change perspective, a dot becomes a line, do it once more, a line becomes a square, and so on. From something small to something immense. Follow your dreams, son. Be dedicated to your craft, be honest with yourself, burn in your art, let it eat you alive.
I hope this was an interesting story to read. Maybe this gave you a new perspective — on my music, or on your own work. Didn’t expect myself to be such a Redditor Andy, but hey, it’s either silence or this. 0 or 100, just how I like my music.
Howdy, Odd Timers! We (Lee Fisher from Fawn Limbs, Chad Kapper from Frontierer) are dropping new music at December 2024. Pre-release single is already out, check it out! UNIKNEIM — C >>> unikneim.bandcamp.com/album/c <<< Here we grind!
Hi guys! You've been asking for tabs and here they are!
I've decided to create page on Patreon and put some tabs there monthly. I have some I made but don't feel like making a cover vid on those, so feel free to check my page and see if there's something you'd like.
The reason it took so long to make those is the fact I make those super-detailed, I hope this will be appreciated by you guys. There are free and paid ones, check the posts section for mp3 samples of the tabs.
Dmitry
10 years today: 正∞胞体 (SEIMUGENHOUTAI) - S/T 20 Jul, 2025
First of all, huge thanks to those who truly connected with my music. Next, I will write a "longread" about the album, so if you’re not in the mood for an old man’s ramble — thank you for the support! Made the album -50% off on BC for a week or two. Enjoy!
Woke up today to be reminded that today is 10 years since my first official music release and thus the start of my "professional" musician career. Don't wanna say a cliché phrase "feels like it was yesterday", but literally, it still feels recent.
Now about the album itself. I included some audio files on Patreon so you can hear how it sounds. (www.patreon.com/posts/10-years-today-s-134579441)
It started with me having a lot of tabs I liked riffs from but never liked the songs I ended up with, left them unfinished until better times, since I had a habit of not writing songs, but putting every riff I wrote at the moment in one file next to each other. Meanwhile I started doing demos with my music player, which recorded audio through 3.5mm from my Roland Cube-20X; the player allowed recording with layers and on top of existing audio files (files like drums I wrote in Guitar Pro and exported as mp3), felt like peak DIY, it was 2010. Back then I recorded 7 test snippets just for fun, and "Test 6.mp3" ended up being the intro for "正百二十胞体 (120-CELL)" but was later changed to fit the purpose of my freshly bought 8-string guitar.
After playing around with riffs and just writing tabs to get a sense of good composition in general I got the feeling that I was close to finally having enough good riffs to make an album, but wasn't sure. And then came THE moment of realization that "now it's on" — it started after I came up with the riff that ended up in the 1st song and was imprinted on my Instagram (www.instagram.com/p/zKb5H0v2vJ/ ).
So at the beginning of 2015 when I had already learned and dived into advanced stuff like Cubase, EZ Drummer, POD HD 500, I started listening to all the tabs I had, cropping riffs I liked and putting them separately. It was a 100+ pile of rookie junk with great ideas, a couple of finished songs like "線 (LINE)" and "正六百胞体 (600-CELL)", really old tabs from 2009 and fresh ones.
My idea was to make something I personally liked and couldn't find anywhere else. At the time I listened a lot to Psyopus, Viraemia, Dionaea, Journal, Heaven In Her Arms, Uneven Structure (original "8" album), and wanted to combine everything in a cool journey-like way: Mathcore + Tech Death + Djent (or more like Math-Metal with Djent's sound) + Post-Rock + Ambient, which is just a linear story that loops at places. It wasn’t the goal goal, but the general direction was heading that way. It was next to impossible to find such a deadly shake back then anywhere (at least I couldn’t).
So I started to combine riffs into songs. The most "Frankenstein's monster" of a song is "正百二十胞体 (120-CELL)", being sewn from 5 different songs with freshly made riffs in-between, starting with the 2010 demo riff, then Jan 2015 song right till 2:50 with transition, small riff till 3:03, then 5+5+5/8 + 7/8 riff (I didn’t have an 8-string at the time so just lowered 6th string back in 2009), ending with yet another old riff. On paper — a horrible idea, but the song turned out to be really complete and like it was meant to be that way.
To explain the timeline, it'd be something like:
2nd: 2010;
3rd: 2015+2011("what.mp3")+2014;
4th: 2011+2014 clean part in-between;
5th: 2014+2015 riff I wrote days before the release because the song seemed too short (this one had a different Post-Rock ending ("5 (Post End).mp3");
6th: 2013+2012 Post-Rock/Mathcore/Tech Death part + 2012 Rhythmic improv I later arranged around;
7th: 2010+2015+2012+2009+2012;
8th: 2011.
Where are the 1st and the last ones? Here's the interesting part: they are both two sides of the same coin. Let me elaborate on this.
Song 9 — made within a day at the end of 2014. Had my first semi-serious troubles in life, salty taste of friendship/relationships: all that kind of yummy life presents, so to ease the pressure, I was just lying on the floor in my room with my 8-string plucking the string, playing around with presets of POD HD 500 (one of which was "Broken Toys" I believe) and improvising with 2–3 notes. And within 45 minutes, I had a complete karaoke song for me to mumble into the mic, which I did. And that was it. Wasn’t planning to include it until someone told me it had to be heard. But it didn’t fit the album... I asked myself — who makes the rules anyway? And just added it as the ending one. Turned out to be the saddest and darkest one.
Song 1 — made within a day. Two separate dates, to be exact. Once I figured out that riff is the way to the top, I just sat and made this happen. Got so inspired by the riff that I just nailed the song in one go. Felt amazing. Turned out to be the happiest and most energetic one.
So those were the two I wrote from scratch. Samples were used in the 1st from a TV report about some Christian cult living with the corpse of a priest’s wife he had proclaimed a saint, with a cultist yelling 'Mother!' while being taken away. The scream was truly amazing. Sample on the last song was just something cringy I found online and after a while couldn’t picture the song without the sample, because now the album starts and ends with the same spiritual story of insanity.
So, where does this story lead? What's the moral of the story? Maybe I can explain with the idea of project's name 正∞胞体: change perspective, a dot becomes a line, do it once more, a line becomes a square, and so on. From something small to something immense. Follow your dreams, son. Be dedicated to your craft, be honest with yourself, burn in your art, let it eat you alive.
I hope this was an interesting story to read. Maybe this gave you a new perspective — on my music, or on your own work. Didn’t expect myself to be such a Redditor Andy, but hey, it’s either silence or this. 0 or 100, just how I like my music.
Peace!
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Dmitry
Everything Is Noise on UNIKNEIM — C: "Awesome, heavy-ass project... Shit slaps." Thank you, guys!
Album: linktr.ee/unikneim
EIS article: everythingisnoise.net/features/the-noise-of-decemb…
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UNIKNEIM - C (2024)
FULL ALBUM IS ALREADY OUT!
unikneim.bandcamp.com/album/c
Be ready for your Friday the 13th's dark gift, where evil itself will hold you by your neck and choke you for 15 minutes straight.
Chad Kapper - vocals / lyrics / recording
Lee Fisher - drums / composition / recording
Dmitry Polyakov - guitars / bass / composition / recording / mixing / mastering
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Howdy, Odd Timers! We (Lee Fisher from Fawn Limbs, Chad Kapper from Frontierer) are dropping new music at December 2024. Pre-release single is already out, check it out!
UNIKNEIM — C
>>> unikneim.bandcamp.com/album/c <<<
Here we grind!
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Dmitry
made a TAB and cover on wombscape — 枯れた蔦の這う頃に
TAB: www.patreon.com/posts/wombscape-ku-ni-94959517?utm…
Cover: www.instagram.com/p/C1DVhAmxhEF/
check it out!
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made a TAB for Le Scrawl "Think For A Minute", check it out
ska-jazz grind = fun
www.patreon.com/posts/le-scrawl-think-94267217
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tomorrow
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Tabs... Tabs? TABS!!!
>>> www.patreon.com/c/DmitrySMHT <<<
Hi guys! You've been asking for tabs and here they are!
I've decided to create page on Patreon and put some tabs there monthly. I have some I made but don't feel like making a cover vid on those, so feel free to check my page and see if there's something you'd like.
The reason it took so long to make those is the fact I make those super-detailed, I hope this will be appreciated by you guys.
There are free and paid ones, check the posts section for mp3 samples of the tabs.
More tabs to come, so stay tuned!
Pɪss~!
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