DAVID ROBLES feat. DIANA DEATH
After crossing paths as guitarists in the San Diego music scene, David Robles reached out to DD at the start of the March 2020 covid lockdown. He sent me some instrumental tracks and a song title, and he asked me to help him finish it with lyrics + vocals.
This resulted in our very first collab, "Free For All", with lyrics inspired by The Great Toilet Paper Panic of 2020.
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the video for our first collab
David sent me another instrumental tune, which i named "Dead Wrong", fitted with lyrics that serve as scathing commentary on conformity, collectivism, and groupthink.
our 3rd collab
"Disease" came about when i heard a riff of David's that reminded me of a song I'd written as a teenager called "God Save Me From Your Followers". I revamped the lyrics; now instead of being an atheist anthem, it's about the hostile hive mind being a disease.
"Tantrum" is our most recent collaboration. I usually try to fit the song titles David provides into the lyrics, but this time I got stuck and couldn't do it. So, I pivoted to making the song about being talked shit about + ostrasized by fake friends, with a melody inspired by female '90s grunge groups like Babes of Toyland and Lunachicks. My lead guitar parts are inspired by Brian Jones' sitar in "Paint it Black"
all photos by KP Standard + all videos by Squish Productions
