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

Tuesday June 26th

We worked pretty hard today. Arvid did some great sounding bass on the tracks that weren't recorded live and we did a great moody live take of a slow song called Accept The Risk. We put up a big empty oil can in the recording room and put a microphone inside it and got some crazy sounding reverb and ambience out of it. We even decided to record the pouring rain (it has been raining almost consistenly for the past week), we'll see if we're gonna use that. At this point all the drum tracks for 11 songs have been recorded. We might do some percussion here and there but the basic stuff is done. Almost all bass tracks have been done too. It feels pretty fantastic to have come this far in the process. So now it's up to me to get the last guitar stuff and the vocals recorded.

By the way, some photos added in the earlier posts. New photos and hopefully a little video on the way too...

Mikkel / Barra Head

Monday June 25th

Udo was still sick today and unfortunately we lost valuable time with some technical issues. Tim worked like crazy the whole day trying to fix things. What a great guy. We talked with Udo that promised us an extra day or two if we fail to make it in time. We listened to the takes we've done so far and got pretty confident, though... they are really great takes.

Mikkel / Barra Head