Rich Davis Solo Project

Released March 2015

"Alpha Waves" my 2nd release was the first introduction to my new logo and my first song that I started creating a piece of art that I thought fit the felling of the song.

Released February 2019

Holly shit, what a crazy video. What a tricky video this was because most of the video was to be shot at twilight and this was the end of December so thats only about three hr of workable time. This was a three day shoot starting with the shots at Loch raven reservoir. Now let me remind you it's at the end of December in Maryland and I needed to get completely under water. lol. It was so cold my head was frozen. It totally sucked but I wasn't getting out until we got the shots... I had a drone flying about three feet over my head and Andrew shooting on the bank of Loch Raven.

Day two was shot on my friend Dave Thompson's farm. There is an old spring house that I used there. I figured what a perfect place to lock up a gimp. Some cool things that I did in that shot was I ran a hose up the gimps back and out the eye sockets and filled the hose with baby powder and hooked the other end up to a air compressor. When he looked up I was off camera and hit on the air hose. I did the same thing with the mask as the powder shoots out its eyes.

Actors: Tom Shea (The Gimp) and Dave Thompson (The Guard).

Released December 2015

"Believer" is a song I wrote poking fun at religion. It seems like a lot of religious people I know are some of the biggest sinners out there. If you want something to Believe in. Just Believe in yourself.

Released November 2017

"Big Bad Wolf" was a song/video about what I felt at the time was the true Big Bad Wolf- Women!

This is one of my favorites. No unfortunately I didn't have these girls up to my condo to shoot all the video. What I did was once I had an theme for the song, I started storyboarding the video parts, like what did I need to shoot and what I would "pay" for HD footage. Anybody can do it. Thats what those sites are for. Whats hard is trying to make all the different video clip work together to tell the story. And this is a good story.

Releasesd April 2016

"Cancer" featured on the Terrorizer Magazine Fear Candy #157 cd compilation. I really let some people have it on this one. Each verse is about someone different but I'll never tell who...

Released September 2017

"Control" was the first song written right after my move into my new condo. And the vocals were actually tracked in my truck at the top of my parking garage.

What I learned about moving my recording studio to such a tight space was - you just have to learn how to adapt. I was way past the miking guitar cabinets shit and needing to use anything but headphones - at this point I know the sounds. I just track all the parts and fill in all the tone shit last.

Released February 2017

"Death Star" was shot in my garage with my Marshall stacks used in the Mystic-Force days. Notice the two tv screens showing the guitar harmonies. Again I shot the first video for the tv screens then shot the main video with the tv playing in the background.

Released May 2016

"Dr. Jekyll" is a song that I wrote after purchasing my Ibanez SD 5 string bass guitar. No guitar on this song, all bass.

Released June 2019

This video was shot at an old meat smoking plant down in Baltimore city. This was a one day shoot, but I made every prop used in the video and that took me about a month to do. So funny, My apartment must have looked so crazy as I was building all this stuff. I had the gurney with two different monsters and all the props sitting out. It was a lot of stuff. It took me two days to stage everything at the place, then the one day of shooting. This was the first time I needed the pro lighting. Andrew brought in Devin Mclaughlin and a truck full of expensive gear. It was so cool to watch. Unfortunately I had a prosthetic mask on all day so I couldn't see shit. LOL Although it was one location I had four different rooms all set up with different props. The coolest of all the props was the monster from the "Re-Animated" video. I had 4 cases of wine pumping through all the tubes in that one and as we were shooting I was pulling the hose out and shooting it into my mouth, by the end of the night I was just a little loopy.

Released August 2016

"Evolution" another instrumental The video shows all the art used for all the prior songs and also my studio at the time.

Released December 2020

Eyes Colored Black - For the fist time I feature the drum mastery of Ashley Maccabee. This high energy song takes about dark issues relating to unhealthy relationships and the possible suicide solutions for either ending ones life or getting out of the relationship via a game of Russian roulette.

Released January 2017

"Faceless" Is the first video I did that actually had me in the video but like the song talks about letting the music tell the story, thats why my face is covered. Its actually a shirt that I cut to cover just my face. Notice the tv screen plays to the music. I shot a video inside the video.

Released January 2021

After the recent passing of William Wren in March of 2020 and Bobby Hicks in 2013, I reflected back to the days of my original band "Mystic-Force" that we started back in 1984. Within the 25 year lifespan of the band and all the music and touring, these were the singers and frontmen that pushed this band to the level of recognition that had led me to where I am today as a musician.

I wrote the song "The Fallen" in dedication to both Bobby and William "my fallen brothers" just to show my respects to them and to the talent level that they both had. To the great times we had and the laughs we shared. They made a mark on this world. Even some may say a small mark but a mark no the less. So in my words I wrote "The Fallen" to at least keep their names alive for the moments that you listen to this song...

R.I.P Bobby Hicks and William Wren.

Released March 16

"Frequency" is a song that I wrote using all different sound samples even different guitar samples.

Released September 2015

"The Immortan" is the very first time I ever attempted to sing or shall I say scream. lol This was written about the Mad Max movie "Fury Road" and the Immortan Joe character. I think the lyrics turned out really cool but the production on this one really sucked.

The video is about a nightmare that "Max" from the "Mad Max" movie was having, and in the intro the girls voice is my daughter Megan. From that song on, I knew that my songs were going to get a little sick. With a lovely voice like that I knew I needed to step it up on the new one.

Released September 2015

"Into the Unknown" was my 4th release. When I recorded this song there is a part about 30 seconds in that I just couldn't figure out what was making this very strange sound. I finally found out that it was my ring hitting the strings. I kept it in the song because I thought it sounded so cool.

Released July 2016

"King of the Hill" is a hard hitting, take no shit song. The idea was to have the lyrics as cocky as the song.

Released January 2016

"Malcontent" featured on the Terrorizer Magazine Fear Candy #152 cd compilation. Malcontent is about someone who is just unpleasant and never happy and always bitching about it.

Released March 2018

"Mantra" was again shot in my condo and funny story if you notice the part where I was in the tub. Well when I leaned back to get my head underwater all the water went straight up my nose and I almost drown with the camera rolling.

Another funny thing in this video is all the reflection parts. I have this really cool-ass elevator in my building, and this one particular section of stainless steel on one of the walls did something that no other panel of stainless steel could do. LOL - trust me I checked. So the funny part was me riding the elevator at 12 o'clock at night holding the camera in one hand and my laptop in the other and mouthing the song for about an hour.

Released Marcch 2015

"Never Say Die" was my very first song written as a part of my new solo project. The idea was to come out with an all out shredder on the guitar and try to set the tone for all the rest to come. This was before I had a logo and before I started using cool art for each song.

Released March 2017

"Past Tense" featured on the Terrorizer Magazine Fear Candy # 166. Again this video was shot in my garage and the first time I used green screen for many of the scenes. The part in the subway is obviously green screen and as the subway goes by my daughter turned a fan on me to have my hair blow. LOL

As you will see if you watch Making of a Heavy Metal Song/Video - 1 thru 5, Re-Animated was, from the very start, intended to be the very first time that we would be introduced. After I scare you off. LOL

I knew that I was going to take you on a very intense journey through the crazy, scary, demented world that I live in. The basic idea for the song was that there are multiple personalities in the songs. Some are good and some not so much. If you sit down and watch the entire dvd you will see what I mean. And... Warning - Parental Guidance is Suggested. Have fun!

Release date April 4, 2020

I had so much fun shooting this video, although by far this was the most difficult. This video was a three day shoot. Again I called on my close friend Dave Thompson to help me out with another crazy video idea I had. After being in an earlier video of mine (the guard in "Beauty in Ruin") he was ready for anything, even being placed in a casket. What a trooper!!

Day one was the "viewing" scene and was shot at Marzullo Funeral Chapel on March 13th ( Friday the 13th). In this shot was owner of Marzullo Funeral Chappel, Mike Marzullo (as Himself). Owner of local Baltimore radio station 97 Underground Tom Pless (as the priest). Dave Thompson (dead guy) and Lexi Thompson as the (widow).

What a crazy was to spend Friday the 13th.. I rented the Funeral Chapel from 1pm to 6pm and just before I showed up there was an actual viewing in that room. Not only that but when I showed up for the shoot (in full makeup) I was greeted by one of the workers in full gown and gloves as he was preparing two different people in the back (right behind the wall where the casket was), so it was just a little strange. Continue reading

Released October 2016

"13" was my 13th release and perfect timing for October. My first attempt at creating a video. "13" is about a crazed murderer who decides to work at a haunted house to commit his 13th murder.

I think this will always be my favorite, other than the musical production not being that great. I love the way the song has a couple of twists and turns and lets be creative with my voice. The clown "Scourge" was a touching fit for the intro. I found it on the internet and loved it. So I contacted the designer and asked him if he would mind me using it and he was happy to have "Scourge" have a home.

Released November 2016

"Troublemaker (GTA)" is a song I wrote about a character from the video game (GTA) Trevor. I went threw hundreds of videos to come up with this one.

Released July 2017

"Tyrants of Armageddon" was written especially for a compilation "Tyrants of Armageddon" volume 2 put out by Crushing Notes Entertainment. This was the very first thing I did for the label.

Released July 2017

"Tyrants of Armageddon" was written especially for a compilation "Tyrants of Armageddon" volume 2 put out by Crushing Notes Entertainment. This was the very first thing I did for the label.

Released April 2015

"Worlds at War" features the original audio from the classic Orson Welles Halloween episode October 30, 1938 "The War of the Worlds". As you listed to this one you can really imagine the man in my picture coming to life.

Release date October 31, 2019

Introducing: A World in Kaoss

After the release of my song "Dr. Me..." I struggled for inspiration for a couple of weeks. I just felt like I'd run out of ideas. I would pick up my guitar and within a couple of minutes I'd just put it down in disgust. I honestly felt I had lost that loving feeling.

But after clearing my head for a couple of weeks was somehow I drawn back to that damn guitar, but still without the inspiration for a song. I thought maybe I should go walk around my local music store and just see what caught my eye...something that could be the hook or a direction for a song.

The owner of the store was showing me some strange things that might be what I was looking for, and he pulled out the Korg Kaossilator... Continue reading