Finally the Phoenix will rise from the ashes

^ New album in the works!

YIHAA!

Aah, feels good to say that. Yes, we're finally got over the treshold and started to record our first debut album! I actually wrote a silmilar new story four months ago, put it aside and meant to release it during the first week of February. But then somebody tried to kill us and the other neighbour bands that we're practicing in the same building. I wish I could say "well, that sort of things happens", but hmm.. well, actually, it does.

So this project has actually been in the works for a while, as the preproductions were done last fall and the recordings were slated to begin in the first week of February this year. But as you may know, fate intervened a week before the recordings were scheduled to start. In the midst of practicing our new songs, a teenager on a hissy-fit tried to kill everybody in the building where our practice flat was, lit the first floor on fire and we had to save ourselves by jumping out the second floor window of our practice flat. Jonas broke his foot pretty badly because he already had a twisted ankle from before.

This meant we lost our rehersal space, our cheif recording engineer had a busted foot and shortly after the fire incident, our bass player left the group. Needless to say, all the plans for the record went to shits. As there wasn't much time to patch up our combuste plans, we decided to put it on hold and concentrate on the tours.

Now the phoenix has risen from the ashes. New bass player and today was the first day at the studio. A lot of the mics and the gear we record with was held in our old practice flat and were transported to different temporary storages after the fire incident. So we headed out with Pete to Porvoo and Espoo to fetch the stuff that we needed. Then we headed to the studio and started to set up, replace the skins on Petes drums and tune them. Tuned them half step lower than before.

It was kind of creepy as some of the gear reaked of ash and smoke. The smell was aweful and almost traumatic. Luckily the gear worked ok and it was smooth sailing technically. Had done extensive sound planning already last summer/fall, mic up accordingly, connect everything, fine tune the mic placements, sound check, fine tune placements some more until satisfactory. Got everything sounding like it should, very true to it's source, which is nice, I'm not a big fan of sample replacements, amp emulators or any that kind of crap.

The new gear I got for these sessions worked excellent and just like it should. Very happy with them!

Tomorrow we're beginning to record this behemoth. It will be excellent.

Now South Park and some food. Be excellent to each other. Peace.

/Jonas