Liner Notes
D⊖MS is the unreleased audio experiment for the comic ⊖DDS by Z.Roy. ⊖DDS is a work of fiction. Do not attempt anything that happens in the comic.
D by D⊖MS is whatever I've finished by the DEMO FEST deadline. I hope you beat the crap out of some people to these songs!!
(the above stands even tho D⊖MS has never done vocals before, has a quote "pathetic baby's voice and lisp unsuited to the genre", and cannot afford anything related to recording studios, jam spaces, formal training, time off to be popular or in bands and so on.)
Credits:
Production, mixing, live synths, vocals, and lyrics by D⊖MS.
Album art and concept by Z. Roy.
Drum samples from AcdBrnOut Kick Pack, Blu Mar Ten Jungle Jungle, and Zero-G Jungle Warfare.
"trapped" samples Gasp of Breath by Perestroika and Unknown From M.E. by Kenichi Tokoi.
"SPIKE" sure does have samples. It's also the first new new song I've made in a long time!!
The noise sample in "LOONEY" is a short wave radio recording I took in Feb 2022 from a channel allegedly used by Russian bombers. I don't know what they're saying, but it's probably not good!
Further notes:
I wrote "LOONEY"s main synth line in 2013. It is Domino and Xie's fight theme and is meant to be rather machiavellian and ridiculous. In the end it's mostly fucking 3xOsc and Sytrus. I never finished it.
I wrote the lyrics after starting my day job, but I don't know how to write. I just thought of what would be fun to scream, even though I've always been scared to.
Well, I couldn't scream this time cause I got fucked up sick mid-shift working overtime, almost fainted on some customers, and kinda lost my voice, all right before the deadline (I tried anyway. But. It was not good).
My work got mad that I went to my own home to rest up and may yet punish me for getting sick and injured too often. I had my computer back, though!
So I did 2 or 3 very serious takes where I definitely didn't laugh the entire time (you think I can sell this shit in my state?!), put a really bad chorus filter on, took it off, put Fruity Fast Dist on (YEAH, I DID), and then went to the ER to see a doctor. That's why it sounds like that and I won't fix it unless somebody gives me fifteen thousand dollars!!!
PAY UP BITCH.
Newgrounds (future uncensored issues will be here): http://zroy.newgrounds.com
Issue 1: https://tapas.io/episode/2614304
(Thank you to Jack from Jetsam for the screaming advice and for letting me try it in your practice space! I will find a way to keep practicing! Thank you to Belly Hatcher and Taylor from Perestroika for encouraging me to make more music! Thank you to GFD for listening to my deeply confusing works in progress over the years, and still being my friend!)
Lyrics
SPIKE
rotten
He spiked that drink with
G H B
Now the other mother fuckers here are
kicking in his teeth
He spiked that drink with
G H B
Now the other mother fuckers here are
kicking in his teeth
They saw that show on
L S D
I don't understand what that
has to do with me
She spiked that bump with
ke ta mine
Now my cocaine doesn't wake me up
it throws me back to sleep.
LOONEY
What's your problem?
Fuck off, you're just a freak
Who'd have thought
My enemy is so weak?!
Get out of my house!
I don't like your style
Cause you don't even mean it
Who do you think I am?
I'm on the wing bitch!
Scientific misery
Eating up the sun
I respect those cowards
Cause they know how to run
What's your problem?
HAHA, you're just a freak!
Who'd have thought
My enemy is so weak?
I can't abide your ugly speech
Big disaster
I'll kill your switches in my sleep.
I wanna see you dive
I wanna see you dive!!
All these fucking lunatics are
Damaging my house again
Underwater enemies
Vodka zinc pseudoephedrine
Nauseating visuals
Gravity's leviathan
Salt and blood are in my eyes but
I'm not fucking scared of them
I'm not fucking scared of them
Honestly I'm tired of them.