Biography
The results from the combination of a 18 year old Northern Irish NEET, Guitar Pro 6, and a large amount of boredom. His youtube account is TheyAreNext, where he will, among many things not at all related to Zombie King Tanner, occasionally upload previews/works in progress for upcoming albums, as well as remixes of other peoples work, likely primarily Touhou related. He has been considering making a second account for the project, but is leaving it for now.
The project was started in April 2011, primarily as a result of boredom. Just under two months later, on June 5, 2011, Obstacles, the project's first album, was completed and released via Last.FM. The creator has never really been fond of Obstacles, considering it to have terrible flow and to be random and bad in general. The day after its release, he posted an early beta of the title track for his next planned work, Desolation. The song was initially slated to have vocals, however this never happened due to the creator's vocal condition being poor.
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A mere two days after Obstacles' release, the creator released Remakes Make You Blind, consisting of remakes of 'Sinner on the Frozen Sky', 'The Spiral' and 'Who Am I?'. From there, things more or less stayed quiet until December 9, 2011, when Desolation, the project's second full length release, was posted. The title track was revised from the beta version due to the lack of vocals, and the album also contained remakes of Head Ahead and (Avarice/)Awakening, as well as a remake of an untitled song previously only released via youtube in the early days (The Dangers of Knowing Danger) and another remake, extended this time, of Sinner on the Frozen Sky, under the title Freeing of the Frozen Sinner. Overall, the creator was happier with how Desolation turned out, but still felt it lacked flow, and that it was still too short.
Ten days later, on December 19, an early alpha of This is an Issue was released via youtube by the creator in an effort to better motivate himself. Later, on February 22, 2012, two planned tracks, 13.4 and 2^128, were uploaded together to youtube. These two (13.4 and 2^128) were later consolidated into a single track.
On March 27, work on Thou Must was completed, and it was released proper on March 29. The album suffered some audio issues due to the creator's failing computer compressing the tracks poorly. In addition, the wrong version of 13.4 was used, the incomplete version that was earlier posted on youtube being accidentally used in place of the correct version which used different sound-fonts. Despite these issues, the creator still considers this much better than his previous two works, and intends to remaster the album when he gets a new computer.
There are currently two planned albums for the project, The Free Form and A Display of Faces. Both are concept albums. The Free Form has been notoriously delayed, having initially been intended to be the project's second album. Progress on both is currently frozen, due to all relevant files being on a currently inaccessible hard drive.
As of May 21, 2012, the creator has begun posting Touhou remixes to his youtube channel under the Zombie King Tanner moniker. So far, as of this edit, two of these have been created and posted.
Biography text from Last.fm, available under CC BY-SA.