Thank you! Funny you bring up King Crimson. They were one of the bands I was referencing for that really tight, almost lifeless late 60s- 70s snare tone but I really didn't end up getting that close. In terms of the time signature, I wrote the bass part first and it just happened to be in 7/4 (or more accurately 4/4 + 3/4 (or even 8 + 6 as you said)) and then 7/8 for the B section. I find when you write music that just so happens to be in an odd time signature, it tends to work out better than music written in an odd time signature just for the sake of it (although I do in fact do this sometimes).
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Woah, writing something that just so happens to be in 7/4 is such a crazy idea to me. Thats really cool though! The last game jam I wrote music for was a rhythm game and we went out of our way to use non 4/4 time signatures for most of the songs. It was really fun. Normally when I improve or write down what I hear in my head it's almost always in 4/4. I gotta listen to more math rock lol