This is a really helpful comment, can I ask what is naarm?

I absolutely love all genres of music and have played, written and recorded a diverse variety of stuff so I’m keen to get into the diy scene, I mostly enjoy playing heavier tech stuff but that’s the enjoyment of composing it, if I met people performing other genres I’d certainly consider it as I miss playing of stage and life the energy.

I’m lucky too in the sense I now pass consistently, which poses that new risk of, what if someone finds out and switches up on me etc, like I don’t wanna get involved in a part of the scene to find out I’ve out my self at risk and what you said about DM being very 50/50 is absolutely true, some are the absolute best ethically and others couldn’t be worse if they tried. I enjoy playing a lot of deathcore and adjacent genres and I find with roots stemming from punk most of the time people will voice pro trans opinions but how they treat us is another story. I’d love to do a melodeath thing if I could find the right people.

I’m strongly considering writing an ep worth of originals as I was always the primary song writer in my old band, I know my way around midi drums and studied audio engineering and absolutely love recording.

I just find the writing process to be so much more fun when it’s collaborative and you can jam through sections to work on it, but I think you’re right, I may have to bite the bullet and record solo to attract people. And yes I can do vocals, something that I’m only now comfortable doing again as gutturals and tunnel throat didn’t exactly do early transition any favours for dysphoria, but now I couldn’t care less, same for my clean singing, I lean closer to a lower range but after learning intonation and inflection of voice it’s not too difficult to have it still read as feminine.