There isn’t much to say about the band itself, because it was just a folder to store all my death metal ideas. It was never planned as a band because I knew I wasn’t good enough to play death metal or thrash metal. But the songs themselves have a story and I can do my best to recall how each was written and came about. My catalog of Projection Mina has eleven songs. I am unsure if more were written but not kept.
About the name. This folder was originally called “Project Mina”, as a direct influence from the Black Legions, which had their side projects named “Project this” and “Project that”. One specific project, which was rumored to be a bootleg was named “Project Valerie”, and therefore I felt comfortable naming mine “Project Mina”. It was later extended to “Projection Mina” to disassociate myself from the black metal scene.
Digital cover made in 2015 for Bandcamp backup
Mina (2006). This was the first Projection Mina song. It was named as so because I was playing on Mina, which was usually detuned as opposed to my new Jackson Kelly, which was in standard tuning and was my main tool for my black metal band Throne of Mortality. I was therefore using Mina for all the death metal ideas. Mina was a fast galloping song with some sort of arpeggio at the end that sped up.
Nihilism Murder (2006). I believe this was the second song written and classed under this project. Pretty straight-forward hardcore death metal. There wasn’t much to this song that is worth being remembered.
Years of Sorrow (2006). This song had a great clean intro, which was eventually reworked and used as the Vision Solitude song “Solitude au loin”. But this version sounds much more emotional. It gets faster with the distortion but remains pretty much the same riff. I think this followed a similar structure as “Ballad for a Goddess”, it started with some nice clean part which which was elevated in distortion. This song was probably a predecessor to Vision Lunar.
Ode to Lucifer (2006). This, along with “Thrash Song” was the best stuff I wrote in PM. This was a great death metal riff. I had this dual guitar thing going on with a great galloping riff. It took me so long to line up those guitars perfectly, especially since I added some impromptu extra gallop hidden riff at one point. Definitely something to be heard. This song was the real start of Projection Mina and led me to re-record two old Throne of Mortality songs (James Stewart and July 8th 1947) in death metal style, and with dual guitars.
James Stewart (2006). This was just a re-recording of the Throne of Mortality song. As this was played in drop B, it sounds pretty much identical to the original version on the early 2005 demos. This song was greatly influenced by Hypocrisy overall, and the breakdown comes from their song “Stillborn”.
July 8th 1947 (2006). This was just a re-recording of the Throne of Mortality song. As this was played in drop B, it sounds pretty much identical to the original version on the early 2005 demos. What I have is only a snippet, and only one side of the stereo. My guess is that I intended to record this song in the same dual guitars style and Ode to Lucifer and either lost interested or was distracted before I could complete it.
Ghost Night (2007). This was in the summer, right before moving back to Montreal. I had this insomnia night and I was so tired I was hearing little noises around the house. I decided to play guitar to attempt to cover up the sounds. This is what I came up with. For some reason I thought the song was amazing that night, but when I played it again the next morning to record it, it was that great. But I recorded it anyway hoping my opinion would change.
Thrash Song (2007). To me, this was the best piece of the PM catalog. I was living at 2108 Bleury at the time and I had Lucy in half step down. I just started jamming something thrashy and galloping. And I came up with this sick riff. I was never into thrash but I think this was influenced by hearing the new material Eliminator was working on. This was before Breaking the Wheel came out.
Mouse (2007). I’m not sure which came first, “Mouse” or “Castle”, but both were the beginning of what would be Human Infect. To me those were hardcore songs when I wrote them, though when I listen now, its way heavier than anything hardcore. “Mouse” was a fast thrashy song that just never stopped. It was fast from start to finish, but with a perfect breakdown ending.
Castle (2007). Now “Castle” was seriously reworked into the Human Infect song “Rape and Buggery”. I recall showing this song, in its early stage to this guy I jammed with one night, and he was heavily into death metal, and loved this song.
Ode to Lucifer (2007). Just a re-recording of the earlier song, but this time played in straight C. It didn’t have the same effect.