So… hi? Last post from April 2011 huh? How to put this… Time flies? Just so you know, we’re not dead. Not even in a coma. We’ve just been busy…
After coming back from our Scandinavian trip with Upright we started to think about our next step. Quitting didn’t feel right yet, writing a new full length did. We had a couple of songs / ideas laying around, but not much. So for the remainder of 2011 we talked, wrote songs and jammed. It should come as no surprise to the people out there who own our previous releases (we would like to thank the both of you), but the new stuff sounds pretty different once again. It’s boring to write the same record twice and we like to refer to this one as our ‘rock’ record. Uhuh.
Anyway, while jamming and recording ideas we talked about actually recording this album ourselves. We already were recording ideas in rehearsal and since Stef and I could talk for hours about recording we decided to give it a try. Heck, our last recordings were done in a rehearsal room too and they sounded great! Ok… it might helped that Nico (aaaaight!) actually knew what he was doing, but you gotta keep things interesting right? Well, a mic or 40 later (I pretty much bought any mic that looked old for a while…), lots of testing and trying stuff, we thought we were ready. More or less.
So in April we started tracking. Drums first. Murphy’s Law kicked in right away. Pretty much everything that could go wrong, went wrong. Injuries, equipment malfunction, personal stuff, clicktrack battles blablabla. We saw it all. If there was such a thing as the “longest recording session ever” record we’re pretty confident it’s ours already.
BUT, the drums are recorded now. Hell, even Stef’s guitar parts are nearly recorded (we might actually finish them later today). But no worries, we’re still taking forever. Done, when it’s done. Like Duke Nukem Forever… Maybe we should focus more on the “Real artists ship” mantra…
Anyway we just wanted to give you an update, a sign of life. So here’s a 1 minute, crappy video of us recording drums that gives you absolutely no clue at all how everything’s going to sound. What you’re hearing is a (part of a) raw, unleveled, unmixed, unmastered, unEQed, un-everything-ed drum track that might or might not end up on the record. Let’s not even talk about what you’re seeing…
It’s not much, I know, but I will promise that the next update isn’t going to take another 1,5 year…
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– Pim
PS > Listen to Nibiru & Twitching Tongues. And the Bad Brains. Always listen to the Bad Brains.