David's new album Cosmic Mind  is an instrumental guitar tribute to the works of HP Lovecraft.

The dark overtones and aggressive musical journey found on this recording are reflective of Lovecraft's stories and otherworldly folklore.
There are plenty of angry moods, unexpected shifts, and interesting musical directions with this release.

As with many of David's recordings, Cosmic Mind continues David's musical layering techniques, where mutiple parts combine different melodies, harmonies, and sounds to create one musical idea or statement.

Instead of relying on flashy tricks, licks, and "shredding" - David prefers to create music that centers on a specific mood or feel, and is more interested in creating expressive and interesting music using a theme or a subject, rather than blindly displaying his skills and "showing-off."

The album was released on 2.15.13. 

 
The digital version of 'Cosmic Mind' is available on iTunes, Amazon.com, CD Baby, BandCamp.com, and a variety of other websites.

 
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David's album 'Terrestrial Planet' is an instrumental guitar tribute to the original Doom video game.

Aside from David's musical interests and influences, he's also a long-time gamer.  
The first time David found and played Doom, he was blown away and became hopelessly addicted to it.  The groundbreaking combination of a first-person shooter blended with graphic images of horror and science fiction, struck a chord with David and it fueled his newfound obsession with Doom.

Many years later, David began working on new music and was inspired heavily by listening to metal bands such as Lamb of God and Mastodon.  
The songs were born metallic, angry, dark, and twisted in nature. 

Eventually, the decision to record and release a tribute to Doom ('Terrestrial Planet') was decided, and David began finding common ground areas where the music and the video game could come together.
'Terrestrial Planet' is a dark and aggressive musical journey, vividly bringing the themes, images, and moods that are also found in the classic video game.

The digital version of the album was released on October 19, 2012 on Bandcamp.com.

 

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 ‎"Music, when combined with a pleasurable idea, is poetry." - Edgar Allan Poe

David's album 'The Raven' was released on Halloween 2011.

The album is an instrumental music tribute to the works of Edgar Allan Poe.

'The Raven' was recorded using David's "no-budget" approach to recording.  His approach involves handling everything himself (including the recording, mixing, and mastering), using a modest recording set-up in his private studio.

David likes to work with a concept or an overall theme with his instrumental music, and create interesting moods and ambient musical statements, as opposed to just mindlessly shredding through an entire album. 
He also likes to create "guitar choirs", where multiple guitars create the entire musical picture or statement, through layering and stacking multiple guitar parts together to create a wall of sound.

A friend of David's once called his music "instrumental metal guitar trance" - which is a pretty accurate description of what his music normally sounds like - looping layers of guitars and melodies, creating a twisting sonic-adventure of sound.

'The Raven' is a blend of instrumental guitar angst, ambient sonic bliss, spoken word segments, sound effects, and much more.

 

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David's 2009 release 'The Outer Sanctum' is a instrumental guitar tribute to a group of horror films and directors.  
Using David's "no-budget" approach to this album, he creates an unusual soundscape of screams from his guitar and a wide-range of horror flavored delight. 

The album is an "audio horror movie", as each song represents a different horror/sci fi scenerio - ranging from zombie movies and the devil, to UFO's, creepy doctors, and stalkers calling on the phone.  Occasionally, the guitar takes second-stage as random horror filled "skits" play out, only for the guitar to roar back into action, creating some interesting guitar moments.

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Vertigo   (2004/2012)

David's 2004 all-acoustic release 'Vertigo' is David's first 'no-budget" recording approach, as it was recorded/edited/mixed/mastered directly to a Gateway desktop computer.

The guitars were recorded using the microphone that came with the computer, and it was inserted into the soundhole of the two acoustic guitars that were used for this recording.

A melodic and trace-like musical journey, 'Vertigo' is a warm blend of nylon and steel-string acoustic guitar sounds, featuring plenty of ambient moments and layers of acoustic guitars sounding and strumming together to create a unique and expressive musical release.

'Vertigo' was re-released in December 2012 - entirely remastered with new artwork, and three unreleased bonus tracks.