Every album you worked on was a work of gold . Glad you’re still playing . If you did a play through of last breath I’d probably shat my trousers . Hope life is treating you well 🫡
Oh my god, Mr Stafford!, it’s honor to see that after your exit from Chelsea Grin and seeing you later on still killin it on the guitar is just absolutely phenomenal, I’ve started getting better at Chelsea grin songs especially with some parts that included sweep picking. Much love to you man and I hope you are still killin the game!🖤🫶🏽
Thanks so much for uploading this! I hope life has been treating you well, over the years! Your contributions have added a lot of value to my life and I really appreciate all the work you put in and sacrifice you made to bring this to us in a live setting, as well!
Though my guitar playing I’ve always looked up to shredders and guys who can rip. But when I discovered My Damnation, particularly this song, and I learned how to play it, I realized how important and crucial having tight rhythm was, and what it can do. This is still my go-to song for when I’m dialing a nice beefy chuggy tone. This and Cursed. Never thought I’d have the chance to say this to you, though RUclips lol, but thank you for helping me develop my rhythm chops. It really went a long way for me, and plenty others I’m sure.
Lyrics (now you can try practice vocals instrumentaly): My damnation Look through my eyes And you decide if I'm a human being My soul was ripped from me, take me away I'll go down to the depths of this nightmare made real Taunted by demons their voices so shrill I can feel the agony of the tortured souls tormenting me Exhume my mangled flesh and take me away from this death Liberate me, please This wasn't meant to be Oh dear God, my eyes burned through my head Why can I still see? Stop the flow of my beating heart Suck the air from my blackened lungs And now you can see what I came to be You too will die and forever burn with me Burn with me, make my soul cease to exist My damnation, follow me to the depths My damnation now My damnation, cleanse my soul of sin Oh God, please save me Cleanse my soul of sin Fuck, take me away from this
Finalmente achei seu canal. Você é incrível cara, CG sem você e os demais da formação original nunca mais foi a mesma. Gostaria de ver mais músicas suas, tente entrar no ameonna 🔥
Dude your songwriting improved so much on My Damnation and it forever hurts me to know we will never know where the band could have gone if you had been around to make a sequel to that album. Jake keeps telling us on Reddit that you basically came up with everything on your own and if I recall basically wrote the album in one month. That said I can't blame you for stepping down as that band's schedule was so intense with zero breaks.
That's nice of him to put a good word in for me. A lot of that album was just ideas I had that we didnt have much time to build on as a group. Most of our best songs from that album were the ones we did collaborate on though. Ive actually been writing lately and have a song pretty much done, but I want to make music to bring people closer to God. Seems like those guys arent really down for that. Besides that I'm living in another state so theres that too...
Hey bro long time no see! Thanks and I'm happy to hear from you. Hope you're doing well too. I think I saw that you had gotten married? Congratulations my friend!
@@StaffordM801 thanks man! With kids now too. Hope to catch up and hang out with you someday if life permits but , whatever you do I hope you stay active, and I know people will support you in this platform I know you deserve so much more!
Idk if you’re still in touch with Alex but, it would be cool if you could feature on one of their songs for their new band! Idk if you’ve heard but Alex, Jacob, and Pablo formed a band called ameonna
if i do it probably wont be a full playthrough like this. just showing some parts or something. what songs or parts would you want specifically to see?
This is one of the greatest deathcore songs ever written. Love your guitar playing style. Did you write most of this song? Also, any thoughts of joining Ammeona?
@@StaffordM801 Insane that Revenant and False Sense of Sanity were barely played live and I don't think Cast was until 2016 when they did the album in full. Shame cuz Those are my favorite cuts from the album next to Human Condition and Sonnet.
Hey brother, I’ve been a fan since 2010, happy to see you making music again. I even remember when you uploaded this song the first time before it ironically got copyrighted. Jake said Alex reached out to you about a Ameonna collab but then later said it unfortunately isn’t meant to be. Is it true?
Alex did reach out, but there wasnt really mention about Ameonna. I asked if he was still making music and he said he thought about it sometimes. This was a while back so maybe it wasnt a thing then. I also dont live near them anymore so that might make a collab challenging.
Thank you for the reply! You’re still one of my favorite guitar players to this day. I love the simple leads you used to write. Deathcore is so chuggy now a days and boring. I hope we get the chance to hear some more of your music through this channel or any other project. I’m curious, was any of the vocals from you on the recorded albums or did you only perform them live?
@ZS-et3zc nah just a few low screams live to double a couple parts. only started doing it towards the end of my time in the band. Ive been working on a song for a while now and i think its close to finished besides the vocals and then mixing. probably will be a good while before i release it though
Did you join the band before or after they changed the name to Chelsea Grin? Just wondering if you were part of the music they released under the name Ahaziah!
I joined while it was still called Ahaziah, but i think we changed it before I helped write anything for the band. We changed it when Andrew joined the band which was not long at all after I joined.
Please, please, please join the new band of old CG members. You are THE sound of old CG. EDIT: I listened to the teaser they put out, It sounds like modern deathcore/djent. I prefer your Hungarian minor riffs over that. I hope you release your own music some time
didnt know they had a project going until you just told me haha! ive been workin on some stuff that I was thinking about having some of them in on maybe ill hit them up and see about a collab
@@StaffordM801 I hope you can do something with them. I miss what you added. I dont know why nobody in deathcore does those evil melodic top line leads anymore, its all just the chugs by themselves and nothing else and then shred parts
This is the member of Chelsea grin that made the Chelsea grin sound. This band turned to shit after this guy stopped writing and playing with the group
@ThotdFan127 im tryin bro. i sent him the demo and he seemed like he was down to do some drums for it but i haven't heard any updates lately. i know he's busy with his kids and all
rhythm guitars all using preset 82 with very slight eq to taste. the solo is preset 38 with the reverb and delay on, and turned up the mid, treble, presence to cut through a bit more.@@user-cb2hk2rh7d
Every album you worked on was a work of gold . Glad you’re still playing . If you did a play through of last breath I’d probably shat my trousers . Hope life is treating you well 🫡
It's real humbling to see and hear you playing so many years later.
Thank you for the music, brother!
the break i took was far too long. time to get to work!
@@StaffordM801 you should join Ameonna!
@@henrywylie8978 I'm interested to see what they come out with!
Oh my god, Mr Stafford!, it’s honor to see that after your exit from Chelsea Grin and seeing you later on still killin it on the guitar is just absolutely phenomenal, I’ve started getting better at Chelsea grin songs especially with some parts that included sweep picking. Much love to you man and I hope you are still killin the game!🖤🫶🏽
Thanks so much for uploading this! I hope life has been treating you well, over the years! Your contributions have added a lot of value to my life and I really appreciate all the work you put in and sacrifice you made to bring this to us in a live setting, as well!
I didn’t realize who this was. I was like “wow he plays this really good”
Thanks for uploading this, Michael! I just got my first 7 string and this is the first song I learned 🤘
Though my guitar playing I’ve always looked up to shredders and guys who can rip. But when I discovered My Damnation, particularly this song, and I learned how to play it, I realized how important and crucial having tight rhythm was, and what it can do. This is still my go-to song for when I’m dialing a nice beefy chuggy tone. This and Cursed. Never thought I’d have the chance to say this to you, though RUclips lol, but thank you for helping me develop my rhythm chops. It really went a long way for me, and plenty others I’m sure.
Glad to see you are posting this dude. Hope to see some more play throughs from the desolation of Eden album and my damnation as well 🤙🏽
More to come!
You are the reason I play 7 strings now😊
Amazing seeing you playing the riffs you created man! 🤘🏻
You were the soul of Chelsea grin man it's great to see you out here again
I also noticed your fcb1010 do you have that hooked up to your DAW? If so I'm rocking the same setup
@caleb-gw8oo good eye! ya i use it here and there. been kind of a pain using through the DAW though. usually only use it with stand-alone
@@StaffordM801 standalone huh? What are you controlling with it?
Lyrics (now you can try practice vocals instrumentaly):
My damnation
Look through my eyes
And you decide if I'm a human being
My soul was ripped from me, take me away
I'll go down to the depths of this nightmare made real
Taunted by demons their voices so shrill
I can feel the agony of the tortured souls tormenting me
Exhume my mangled flesh and take me away from this death
Liberate me, please
This wasn't meant to be
Oh dear God, my eyes burned through my head
Why can I still see?
Stop the flow of my beating heart
Suck the air from my blackened lungs
And now you can see what I came to be
You too will die and forever burn with me
Burn with me, make my soul cease to exist
My damnation, follow me to the depths
My damnation now
My damnation, cleanse my soul of sin
Oh God, please save me
Cleanse my soul of sin
Fuck, take me away from this
thank you for one of the songs that made me fall in love w deathcore. ur riffs is one of my biggest inspirations thank you for all you do!
I'm glad to see you playing again.
This is so awesome dude! This song is why I started playing guitar
Finalmente achei seu canal. Você é incrível cara, CG sem você e os demais da formação original nunca mais foi a mesma. Gostaria de ver mais músicas suas, tente entrar no ameonna 🔥
Dude your songwriting improved so much on My Damnation and it forever hurts me to know we will never know where the band could have gone if you had been around to make a sequel to that album. Jake keeps telling us on Reddit that you basically came up with everything on your own and if I recall basically wrote the album in one month. That said I can't blame you for stepping down as that band's schedule was so intense with zero breaks.
That's nice of him to put a good word in for me. A lot of that album was just ideas I had that we didnt have much time to build on as a group. Most of our best songs from that album were the ones we did collaborate on though. Ive actually been writing lately and have a song pretty much done, but I want to make music to bring people closer to God. Seems like those guys arent really down for that. Besides that I'm living in another state so theres that too...
What's your new project? Forgive me if it's right in front of my face somewhere@@StaffordM801
Awesome! Thank you for uploading this
Amazing, thank you for this🤟🏻
Favorite CG album and song
So Sick - hope to see more
so good it hurts, the greatest sound, end of story
Keep the videos coming man.
thanks brotha! hope to see some from you soon too! just dont get cancelled again 😂
very grateful for this and for the tabs! thank you 🙌
Ain't nothing better than seeing covers from the original musician, would you be able to cover Calling in Silence?
@GweiloKrreto haha I've had a couple requests for that one so I really should. I have it tabbed out already so that's a start at least
Genuinely happy to see you active! Hope you’re doing well!
Hey bro long time no see! Thanks and I'm happy to hear from you. Hope you're doing well too. I think I saw that you had gotten married? Congratulations my friend!
@@StaffordM801 thanks man! With kids now too. Hope to catch up and hang out with you someday if life permits but , whatever you do I hope you stay active, and I know people will support you in this platform I know you deserve so much more!
@ZarianPalma nice bro happy for you to start a family. ya we should! im in Northern California now so if you're ever out this way let me know.
The goat is back 👌🔥
Idk if you’re still in touch with Alex but, it would be cool if you could feature on one of their songs for their new band! Idk if you’ve heard but Alex, Jacob, and Pablo formed a band called ameonna
ya i checked it out and i dig it! I have recently been in contact with jake and alex, but it seems like a collab will not be happening.
@@StaffordM801 ahh dang, well one can hope🙏🏻 that band is sick and I think your riffs and solos would really compliment them nicely
Chelsea Grin needs you bro
maybe if they went Christian 😆
best song chelsea grin.
Sick ass play through! Can we get some more playthroughs of your work on desolation of Eden? I love the guitars on that record!
if i do it probably wont be a full playthrough like this. just showing some parts or something. what songs or parts would you want specifically to see?
@@StaffordM801 I would love to see your favorite parts of sonnet of the wretched! Song is a banger.
My damnation is the band's finest hour along with the first ep (imo).
You're a fucking legend man
Yeah buddy!!!
Woahh, this is so good
Cheyne Stokes please 🔥🔥🔥
it's good to see you again.
This is one of the greatest deathcore songs ever written. Love your guitar playing style. Did you write most of this song? Also, any thoughts of joining Ammeona?
My Damnation was probably the song we collaborated the most on as a band for that record. It was the first song we wrote for it too
i love this riff from 0:30 - 0:39 i wish it lasts longer such a banger
@StaffordM801
btw i was 0,1 % of the Spotify chelsea grin fans last year and that before also!
Predominantly the albums where you played guitar
@StaffordM801
Still waiting for Revenant this song is so underrated imo
@g3xp ya i really loved playing that one live. that and cast from perfection were songs i wish we played more of
@@StaffordM801 yes absolute banger Cast from Perfection has many cool vibes like the Riff in my damnation imo
@@StaffordM801 Insane that Revenant and False Sense of Sanity were barely played live and I don't think Cast was until 2016 when they did the album in full. Shame cuz Those are my favorite cuts from the album next to Human Condition and Sonnet.
So rad 🔥🤘🤘 Did you do the lead stuff on Chelsea Grin Calling In Silence?
Yup that was me. I get a lot of requests for that one, but still trying to shake the rust of inactivity off. I hope to start working on it soon
Hey brother, I’ve been a fan since 2010, happy to see you making music again. I even remember when you uploaded this song the first time before it ironically got copyrighted. Jake said Alex reached out to you about a Ameonna collab but then later said it unfortunately isn’t meant to be. Is it true?
Alex did reach out, but there wasnt really mention about Ameonna. I asked if he was still making music and he said he thought about it sometimes. This was a while back so maybe it wasnt a thing then. I also dont live near them anymore so that might make a collab challenging.
Thank you for the reply! You’re still one of my favorite guitar players to this day. I love the simple leads you used to write. Deathcore is so chuggy now a days and boring. I hope we get the chance to hear some more of your music through this channel or any other project. I’m curious, was any of the vocals from you on the recorded albums or did you only perform them live?
@ZS-et3zc nah just a few low screams live to double a couple parts. only started doing it towards the end of my time in the band. Ive been working on a song for a while now and i think its close to finished besides the vocals and then mixing. probably will be a good while before i release it though
Classic 👌
Brutal ✔️
When Calling in Silence
in the works 😅
i think ameonna need you🤘🤘🤘
Hell yes
Thoughts on Ameonna so far?
It's good! I really dig the EP they have a good sound
LETS FUCKIN GO YES
Did you join the band before or after they changed the name to Chelsea Grin? Just wondering if you were part of the music they released under the name Ahaziah!
I joined while it was still called Ahaziah, but i think we changed it before I helped write anything for the band. We changed it when Andrew joined the band which was not long at all after I joined.
Nice tone bro. What vst you using?
stl tone hub. josh middleton signature pack for this one
Brah your tone fkking rips shit up. Im getting that tone tamarra lol.
@@pattol666 do it the stock presets are good too
Please, please, please join the new band of old CG members. You are THE sound of old CG. EDIT: I listened to the teaser they put out, It sounds like modern deathcore/djent. I prefer your Hungarian minor riffs over that. I hope you release your own music some time
didnt know they had a project going until you just told me haha! ive been workin on some stuff that I was thinking about having some of them in on maybe ill hit them up and see about a collab
@@StaffordM801 I am looking forward to hearing it!
@@StaffordM801 I hope you can do something with them. I miss what you added. I dont know why nobody in deathcore does those evil melodic top line leads anymore, its all just the chugs by themselves and nothing else and then shred parts
Hey Michael is there a way for you to give me the midi drums
i could send you these drums. they arent the actual midi from the album just my recreation of them.
Could I get on these too? I'm about to start doing covers too and have spent way too long already on other songs in EZDrummer haha@@StaffordM801
what tune is this?
A,E,A,D,G,B,E 7 String
This is the member of Chelsea grin that made the Chelsea grin sound. This band turned to shit after this guy stopped writing and playing with the group
What Model LTD is that?
mh-1007et
@@StaffordM801 Thank You! Glad to see you playing old songs and doing covers. Hope we get an ep!
@zvkryblkhrt8915 its in the works mate! might have some help from some old friends for it too 😉
@@StaffordM801 I would lose it if you somehow managed to get Andrew involved in a cover on one of his off days.
@ThotdFan127 im tryin bro. i sent him the demo and he seemed like he was down to do some drums for it but i haven't heard any updates lately. i know he's busy with his kids and all
Amazing dude! Are you using a amp sim?
ya using STLtones josh middleton preset pack for this one
nice sound,,,,, what preset are using you here???
rhythm guitars all using preset 82 with very slight eq to taste. the solo is preset 38 with the reverb and delay on, and turned up the mid, treble, presence to cut through a bit more.@@user-cb2hk2rh7d
Thank you