The Writers Block, Frustration is killing me! Options

[Zezima940]

Hey! I am getting really lost into the writers block. It have been this way since the summer vacation which is 2,5 months. For 2,5 months I sat down and tried to write riffs I could use in a song, but I am thinking too much about the characteristics of a genre that everything I write becomes generic. Even when I try mixing things I can only think of things that have been done before!

I want to play Melodic Death metal without playing Melodic death metal. I mean that every melodic death metal riff I make is TOO MUCH like IN FLAMES, so I want to do something new within the subgenre... problem is I don't have a clue what to do... If I try changing a chord progression or harmonize or something it switches to another already-invented-subgenre.

It's easy to play in another band's "style", and everything I do is too In Flames-ish and I feel like a copycat even if it have a different structure.

If you maybe have any tips that could help me out of my writers-block I'd be grateful!

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