Cry Out Loud

Music & Lyrics: Leo Kapfer

One morning, bad temper, I woke up feeling bad
Without any reason I started being sad
Unable to talk ´bout I was isolated in silent fears
My life felt like drowning in swallowed tears
What has come over me
Maybe I’ve worked too much lately
All those wasted years
Bitterness surrounded me

unsolved conflicts – bad emotions – on the run
cheerless childhood – bad emotions – lack of love
All my sadness – restless sleepless – bleeding heart
being angry, feeling empty – overburden – I can’t breath

(You better) Cry out loud
And shout it out
(You better) Cry out loud
And shout it out

Its dawning, the moon shines, I try to fall asleep
Echoes of thoughts are going through my head
My heart beats, I can’t stand the sound of emptyness
All these high expectations let me loose my mind

What has come over me?
All that leakage of energy,
all those wasted years,
dark matter surrounded me

unsolved conflicts – bad emotions – on the run
cheerless childhood – bad emotions – lack of love
All my sadness – restless sleepless – bleeding heart
being angry, feeling empty – overburden – on the run

I take a breath, I try to sleep
I cry out loud, I shout it out

I can’t sleep, I even can’t speak,
I even can’t think, I even can’t breathe,
I even can’t … I even can’t …

Cry Out Loud - production blog

8.10.2017

The song Cry Out Loud has been around for a few years. I wrote it about 10 years ago after my first experience of depression. Somehow, however, it never really came together to properly implement the song. But with Dark Matter Symmetry it finally worked out to realize the song first as an instrumental prog metal song and later with vocals. Even if it is not immediately obvious, there are numerous odd and poly meters hidden in the progressive parts. And also the partly complex harmonies as well as the total running time of more than eight minutes provide a real prog feeling.
The song deals with the different mood swings as well as the course of a depression and tries to put them into an adequate musical garment. Feelings of self-doubt, anger, despair and the depressive downward spiral of depression were musically processed in Cry Out Loud. Therefore, the song is naturally very close to my heart.

Cry Out Loud - production of a progmetal song
Production-wise, we learned a lot with Cry Out Loud. Polyphonic vocals, various keyboard tracks - including the initial use of the really fat SonicProjects OP-X PRO, an Oberheim clone, new drum plugin Superior Drummer with different routings, various sounds from Native Instruments' Komplete11 library, numerous guitar tracks with GuitarRig and experiments with spoken vocals together with effects. The list can be extended at will. Tom also chose a reamping bass sound this time with GuitarRig. We used the Komplete Audio 6 audio interface, also from Native Instruments.

If there is interest or questions about more extensive details of the production, I would be happy to go into more depth in a separate report. Whereby I would like to note that as amateurs we have approached the subject of audio production exclusively self-taught and we can certainly still improve a lot. So we are definitely happy if you can give us constructive feedback or even tips so that we can further develop our progrock/progmetal sound and production style. We look forward to a lively exchange with you, keep in progress 🙂.

Author: Leo Kapfer