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Symphobia - Hideously Traumatic

Brutal Death Metal from Indonesia

Formed in East Java, Indonesia in 2024, Symphobia feature a line-up with a wealth of experience in the brutal death metal underground; a coalition of members from Demented Heart, Perveration and Orbital Element. This elite unit will unleash their debut album ‘Hideously Traumatic’ upon an unsuspecting world on July 11th. Fiercely focused throughout, this album is an imposing invocation of purposeful destruction with devastating blast beats, a tormenting riff attack and gore-choked vocals. ‘Hideously Traumatic’ is an album that will leave lasting scars upon your mind...

1. Hecatomb 02:43 2. Monstrously 02:41 3. Heinous 02:43 4. Spurted 02:52 5. Deceased 02:44 6. Scattered 02:40 7. Convulsively 02:31 8. Incessant 02:25 9. Abominable 02:41 10. Inebriated 03:34

Release date: July 11th, 2025 via @comatose_music

So the other day I was thinking about sound design for “Creature Attack” from the musical Tarzan. I settled on a number of sound effects from Omnisphere, six individual sounds that, when coordinated just so... make for the perfect, creepy vibe. Mood being more important than melody in this one case.

The reason I went that route was because I didn’t have what the score called for: violin scrapes. So I did this other thing but then it started to bug me because I really thought I had violin scrapes. Or, at least, something like that.

A couple days later, I try this again, starting from scratch. This time, I tap into the Symphobia Library, pulling up orchestra effects. These would include hits, rips, crescendos, textures, and risers. Using the lowest C, C#, and D on the keyboard, I can instantly switch between the hits/rips, crescendos/textures, and risers.

Like I said before, I’m not sure this is the way I’m ultimately gonna go... but I do appreciate how straight-forwardly cinematic this is. 

Especially when we get into the PUD Auditorium for full rehearsals... we’ll have a pretty good idea whether sound design’s the way to go, a more traditional Hitchcock approach, or something else I haven’t considered yet.

In the meantime, here’s another take on the Keyboard 2 part of “Creature Attack”...

These are two of the six orchestra rips by ProjectSam Symphobia released in 2008. I asked Brad Breeck about which orchestra rips are commonly used and he said it was from Symphobia. Thank you for replying me back with this sample.

Heard in hundreds of TV shows, but just to give you an example. The rips were used by composer Brian H Kim in the following episodes of Star vs the Forces of Evil. "Match Maker" when Star Butterfly's math teacher, Miss Skullnick, slams a test paper on her table. And this was heard in the music cue "Field of Screams" during the football scene in the episode "School Spirit".

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SYMPHOBIA- Brand New Day - Single [ iTunes Plus AAC M4A] (2014)

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SYMPHOBIA - I DO I DO - Single [iTunes Plus AAC M4A] (2014)

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SYMPHOBIA - Noc-turn [iTunes Plus AAC M4A] (2015)