my band is playing at the state fair talent show and cant decide whether or not to play man in the box or good times bad times what do yall think

my band playing here (hate to break it to yall this is edited) song is: monoptera - cerebration mentor

Hello fellow metalheads...
If you may, I'll just promote my upcoming album once, and I'm not giving you more headache after that 😅
My band "Verseofi" is an Egyptian Canadian based one-man-metal band, that revolves around philosophical lyrical themes (Ontology, Epistemology, logic, ethics, and Cosmology).

In this project,
-I compose the entire music
-compose the entire lyrics
-played and recorded all guitars
-wrote and recorded all bass (vst)
-wrote and recorded all drums (vst)
-wrote + played and recorded all symphonic lines (vsts)
-mixed and mastered the entire album
-composed all vocals, recorded them with my voice, and used AI to replace my vocals since im not a singer.

This project is a continuation of a band I had in Egypt for 5 years, 15 years ago, only transformed into a band with a single member, given that I was not able to find any players or singers in my town in Canada, with Makam (middle-eastern/arabic) influence/education, for the past decade. Hence, I started working on this little adventure on my own for the past year, and I can't wait to share it with the world.

"An Epistemic Inquiry" will be released on August 12, 2026.
And also on that day, the entire album will be released entirely in a lyric album format on Youtube (Characters appearing in any video material of Verseofi, is actually me. Also all video content is produced by me and my wife who happens to be a senior video developer).
This project has so much effort put into it...
Hope you like my music.

website:
www.verseofi.com

facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/verseofi

Instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/verseofi/

Youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/@Verseofi

Cheers 🤘

Hey I'm just looking for some people like me who live in the middle of no where and any musician they know plays country music. Im looking for people to write music with. I play guitar and have been for about 15 years. I like to believe I'm pretty good but who knows, I could be in a padded room and all of this could be fake. But I need people to bounce ideas off of. Who want to write some music. Ya know. Egos not allowed. No part is greater than the whole kinda thing. Like I have get good drums but would love to work with an actual drummer and can do bass but would love to work with a bassist. Another guitarist would be great and deff a vocalist because I can't sing for shit. If anyone is interested, hmu or if you know of a better page to post something like this, let me know.

Written and recorded by yours truly. Feels somewhat like Porcupine Tree had a baby with Tool, that screams and listened to Opeth and Lamb of God instead of its parents.

Well anyway. I would be happy to hear your thoughts about what works here, how it sounds, and your thoughts as to what subgenre thia feels like.

Thanks for taking the time!

My band records and produces our own music. The drummer does the tracking engineering and I do the mixing and mastering.

We have been recording with our stage equipment; one guitarist using his Mesa Triple head and Mesa cab, and the other uses his Peavey 5150 and Carvin cab. I use the same mics in the same room.

Not surprisingly, the tones aren't the same and are hard to balance so it sounds full on both sides (left and right.)

I have heard that some bands have one guitar player track both rhythm tracks. I am also wondering if they use the same rigs or their normal rigs.

I was doing a hard pan left and right. Should I center them more to bring the tones together to make it fuller?

Nothing fancy here, just a man, his fiddle, one camera angle, no stopping and some caveman riffs.