As mentioned in Paragraph 8 of “What Is Traditional Folk Metal?” the recordings on this website are live with no overdubs.

However, during the COVID pandemic, I had pulled out some of my dusty cassette tapes with my early (Christian) recordings from 2002 and 2003. Unfortunately though, when a dog gets tangled in the power cord of your only remaining cassette player, which is sitting on the table in the middle of the room – and said dog panics and rips the cassette player off the table in his panic (before you can grab it) – your only remaining cassette player tends to wind up smashed into 20 pieces or so when it hits the floor.

So, my family purchased me another gift. This one was a small cassette player with a USB cord, which could be plugged into the computer in order to save the cassette tape music onto a program called “Audacity.” And as I was using it to pull some of the songs off of the cassette tapes, I noticed that it had multi-tracking abilities. I didn’t need that though just to pull the music off of the cassette tapes.

Then one day it dawned on me that I could use this program to take the songs I had already recorded (live) and fuse them together into what the Suites were originally intended to be…. One continuous track of music containing different segued songs together.

There was no way I could have possibly recorded these different pieces completely and altogether at the same time. But now I suddenly (finally) had the capability to run them together the way I had envisioned!

The Daniel 9 and Isaiah 6 Suites are found on TFM Album #6: Ebenezer Stone – Part 2 – Buying the Field in Anathoth. These were previously separate tracks, but now have the various songs overlapped at the beginning and end to run them together as two big tracks. I made minor adjustments to the volume to some parts in the Daniel 9 Suite in an attempt for congruity of the song volumes throughout. I also added a short instrumental piece from Album #6 to the beginning of each Suite as a Prelude. Otherwise, there are no other changes to the original recordings and no overdubs whatsoever.

The Isaiah 55 Suite is a little different because I chopped up pieces of the tracks called “The Former Rain” and “The Latter Rain” and laid them under some of the other parts for effect, rather than including them separately. I also added the song “Showers of Blessing” at the beginning as a Prelude to the Suite (which comes from Ezekiel Chapter 34).

One of the basic principles of Christianity is waiting for the Lord. The Bible instructs us to do this in numerous places. Isaiah 30:18 says:

Therefore the LORD will wait, that He may be gracious to you;
And therefore He will be exalted, that He may have mercy on you.
For the LORD is a God of justice;
Blessed are all those who wait for Him.

Psalm 37:4-5 says: