Collaborative Album

Ok, so here is my elevator pitch:

There is a bunch of talented musicians here and at least a handfull of them ought to have a song that is just aching to get finished and released on a record in a project of some sorts.
Well this is the project for that.
My plan is to release the album on Spotify & iTunes through my production company.

So what is the project?
Well I'm a singer first and foremost so it would be me doing the vocals.
I have a close connection to the bassplayer of Bloodbound (having a couple of music projects going, and living next door to each other) so my plan is to incorporate him on bass (also it's a nice boost when promoting the songs).
Since most of you have your own recording gear all this would be easy to stitch together over the internet.

But what genre then?

Well there are a few options here. Do we want to go for it and capitalize on the connections I have? That is using Anders (Bloodbound) on bass and calling in favors to have guest appearences from Markus and Karl in powermetal/vikingmetal band Gormathon (guitars and bass).
In that case we should go in the direction of power metal, but on the more heavy side of the spectrum.

Or we could just go in any other direction.
I'm just really psyched about working together with other driven songwriters.

So any takes on this?

(might not have been the best elevator pitch since I'm writing this while I'm pretending to work )

Please Allow Me To Introduce Myself

So, who am I?

Well instead of making this sound like I'm looking for a date or something like that, let's focus on my musical background.

My musical career started in the late 90s in a band called Taleswapper, it was a powermetal-band and featured Anders Broman (now in Bloodbound), Karl Svedåker (Gormathon) and Markus Albertson (Gormathon, ex-Tad Morose, ex-Bloodbound).
I was the lead singer and also the songwriter in the band.
While the other guys stayed in the same part of Sweden I moved away to a bigger city where I started sang in couple of bands until I found my home as the lead singer of a thrash metal band called Ratched. In this band I wrote the song melodies and lyrics. However I wrote less of the music than I normally did in bands up until that time. This was mainly because my riffing was a bit too simple.
After a few years with Ratched the band split up and the drummer went on to play in a black metal band (which I for some reason can't remember the name of) while the others left the music industry until recently when the guitarist released a singel with Domino Majestic.
I started a horror rock/punk band but left it when I felt that the songwriting was getting stale when the other members wanted to write songs in the rehersals, while I prefer to just sit on my own and write my songs to then add bits and pieces at rehersals.

Apart from me playing in bands, I used to run a little indie-label, had a production company (did music videos, for indie-bands as well as for swedish label Sound Pollution), as well as ran a studio for a while and helped indie-bands get on to Spotify.

As of right now I am playing guitar and singing in a project with Anders Broman from Bloodbound, this is a bit removed from our usual comfortzone and is more pure rock with a harder edge.

Why GMC? Well since my Ratched days I have felt that my riffing, more specific my picking hand, needs to get better so that I can write more elaborate guitar riffs, instead of just good songs and rely on the guitarists to create riffs around the song.
My main problem is that when I sit down to play guitar I aaaaaalways end up improvising and composing some songs, instead of working on techniques.
So my hope is to find good exercises and riffs to motivate me to train my picking and riffing.

Also a bonus would be to find people to help me with one or two of my projects, so that I can hammer out two albums this year.


Oh, and I'm 34years old, living in Härnösand in Sweden.

Some of the stuff I've done:

Me in Ratched (doing the singing, writing the song melodies and lyrics, did the video) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zx4CNMZrnIc

She Gods of Shark Reef (first of all, I hate the guitarsound and mix on this one, but that's how it goes with a band demochracy I wrote the entire song and I do the singing on this recording and I also did the music video) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8ly7WTmMus

And here's the same song in an acoustic version, I like this better just 'cause it's without the horrid sound of the studio version https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6YErOqsxCQ

So yeah, nothing of me playing guitar. But that's what we are fixing herer, right?