I think I never really said much about Lontra Mark, so I'm creating this journal to explain it better and share ideas... :P

First of all, Lontra Mark is my music copyright, or you could say it's my artistic name on music, but I see it as a project rather than a nickname. I didn't put my name ''MooNique'' or other name related to my visual art because I wanted to separate my visual art from my music...

• Meaning \
  So I created the name Lontra Mark. Lontra means Otter in Portuguese, I've put it in my language to be more of a unique name since Otter Mark would sound generic or maybe someone has already used it before. The name itself means ''Otter Milestone'', and not mark as in marking something, but as in objective. I made it like that 'cause I simply like otters, they are cute, so I named it after them.

• Mood \
  Most songs have a happy mood in them... in further projects, starting with the AFTERWORLD single, I want to give the songs an inspiring, emotional and even cute mood at the same time within a heavy tune, 'cause I'm still a furry after all. The single itself starts with an uplifting vibe and slowly falls into an emotional atmosphere towards the end, ending completely different from how it started. Probably most of the songs from now on will be like this.

• Uniqueness \
  Most of the inspirations I have are from STARSET, Breaking Benjamin and Will Ryan (Mostly known as DAGames), you can hear in the Afterworld single all of these inspirations put together as well. I don't think I'll change the over all mixing that I have now, maybe on some songs that would sound better with different mixing but in general I will try to keep it sounding mostly the same if I can.

• Ideas \
  I don't have much ideas recently... After I finished the 'The Cube of Time' album, at the time, I had some ideas for other songs such as the 'SOL' album, that had 3 finished songs (Pulse of the Earth, Empty Equinox and Deep Neptune), it is still on the shelf for now, but in time I will continue it... There was also another album I was thinking on making (Also, yes, I prefer making albums over single songs, mostly because of organization I guess...). It is for a specific project I'm making which I'll not share at the moment, but it would not have rock songs, only electronic and other type of music. Speaking of other type of music, the MooNone themes will also have their own album, it will take a WHILE 'cause there is a lot of characters and probably the albums will be separated on parts, but these will also be electronic and more lighter rock songs such as the Petalle theme which is rock but it's not heavy at all and I didn't even used a guitar on it, it was just some stuff with distortion.

The genre of the songs will depend on what the story or character is. 'Afterworld' and other recent songs I did don't really have a story nor they are character themes, but Afterworld does has a meaning, marking the end of a ''era'' I had with Lerot&Zerot ('Failure 1' and 'The Cube of Time' albums) for Lontra Mark. Lerot&Zerot being my second most developed story (behind MooNone). I don't speak much about it 'cause it still on development, the albums were basically a sketch of the most important events of the story, each song from the 2 albums represent something from it. I wanted to make a comic but holy shit imagine drawing entire big ships on different angles so many times. So I rather make a literature post to tell it, I'm just afraid that I might not be able to tell it properly using English, but we'll see.

(PS: expect ANOTHER remaster of the song Black Flag soon, it will be like the 6th remaster I make of this song. Making it sound good is my martyr xD) It will be tough for my pc to do so, my songs keep getting heavier (NO PUN INTENDED), and my pc struggle to do it, sometimes dying in the process, 'cause we're talking about FL Studio after all... I literally need to close everything before opening the projects or else it will be like when you create a 10000x10000 canvas on ms paint.

But that's it for now... I also want to make faster and heavier songs (As in sound now) as well, but it's harder to make a 180bpm metal song and all... I did some before but nowadays I don't have much ideas for a riff this fast anymore.