Wednesday June 27th

With Mikkel in the studio recording guitar the whole day I have decided to step up and start writing a blog entry. So here we go. And what happened yesterday? We recorded bass on Gradiska and started doing guitar. We recorded Gradiska once before for a single that was released about a year ago, but this time we really wanted to give the gloomy feeling in the song more emphasis. The song is inspired by an experience the band had on tour in ex-jugoslavia where we were held back at the border for 24 hours because of bureacracy. I have always regarded that experience as something out of a Kafka novel, and for me it was important that this edgy and eerie feeling got back into the song. And I think it has now. After that Tim and Mikkel started working hard on the guitar - only interrupted by Tim now and then sarcastically commenting on the relentless pouring rain. "Hey guys, guess what... It's raining!!". On the bright side the weather at least isn't giving us the urge to leave the studio. Things are progressing nicely and the songs are really coming to life here in the studio.

Arvid / Barra Head