Archive for October, 2008
Wednesday, October 22nd, 2008
And the guitars are done!
The Lord finished up his work today and will now ship the files to Mr. Sandström so he can further enhance the world’s best death metal. We are not completely sure (aka not sure at fucken all) when he will put down his stuff but are hoping for some time soon. K wants to thank his wonderful Ibanez Xiphos for once again answering to the expectations one can have when it comes to guitars. Yes, that was a shameless plug. While we are at it, thanx to the MT2, the DS1 and the DBX compressor thingie for giving K a killer sound as always too. Oh, and the Korg tuner. Can’t forget that one. Stay tuned for more information on the recording process.
Tuesday, October 21st, 2008
Drums and guitars done!
Yep, only some double checking to do with the guitars to see that everything is fine and there are no drop outs or anything in the sound, after that the 3 songs are off to Mr Sandström för his insane vocals and bass. We are getting closer to completing the first trilogy now…
Monday, October 20th, 2008
The process of recording…
Now we are smokin’. Or something to that extent. The drums have been delivered to The Lord and he’s currently busy putting down guitars for this piece of the world’s best death metal. Things are going extremely well and there’s but one more song to nail for this third demo, something that will be done this week as soon as time allows us to. This is shaping up to be a fantastic slab of death metal once again, like you have come to expect from us and all. You will need to keep yer eyes open over at our forums and at this site coz one of this days – BANG! – you might be dead. Or even have the chance of downloading the last chapter in trilogy one, the choice is yours. We don’t even know what that means but it sounds kinda death metal to bring up death and whatnot in a news post.
Stay tuned, fuckers… You don’t even know what’s about to hit you in the fucken face, big time…
Saturday, October 18th, 2008
The drums have been recorded!
And here are some words from Tobben himself:
I was so fucken excited to record this third demo. A couple of days earlier I had rehearsed everything and it felt really good! No mistakes or any worries for the new material at all. But once Mats hit the recording button, all hell broke lose in my brain and in my left leg/foot. My idea was to record the new songs to the click tracks that K had prepared for me (his guitar + click track), but since I’m not so used playing to a click track it didn’t really turn out that good that I had imagined it would. Not even remotely close. Not even in the same fucken universe to be more specific! I also have this constant sciatica pain in my left leg since a couple of months back, and it usually gets worse when I’m playing drums. Thursday night was no exception. Then when the pain started to increase and my brain was working too much with the click track, instead of feeling the music, my playing went down to the level of a mongolid amputee. I got really irritated and discouraged, and I know more than well how that too affects my playing. It’s like a downward evil spiral…
After struggling with two songs (and not even finished the second one!) for nearly three hours, I decided to call it quits at 10 p.m. Before I went to bed, I decided to try everything again the next day, without the click track – just like I usually do when recording drums.
Friday was the complete opposite story! After warming up for some minutes, we began recording again at 3 p.m. – without the click track – and after 30 minutes I had nailed all the three demo songs. My playing was soooo much better than the night before, you could not think it was the same drummer if you had heard it! Mats can approve that! I’m really satisfied with how it all turned out. I can now also reveal that I recorded two more songs which will NOT be on the third demo! I had to do a few takes on one of the two, while I nailed the last one on the first take. So after two hours on Friday we were done with five songs and had put down all of Mats’s recording gear. Fuck, that felt nothing but great!
Now we are waiting for Mats to send the drum files to the Lord, which will happen during this weekend, then it’s time for K’s and J’s magic to complete this closing chapter of the first trilogy.”
We are now waiting to get the files so K can start to record his guitars, then everything will be shipped to J for vocals and bass. After that the shit is off to Mr Swanö.
Thursday, October 16th, 2008
The recording of demo 3 is in process!
Yeah, as we type this – drummer Tobben (aka Golden T, Golden Spider, Gollum, Gordon, Gudrun – you name it) is recording the drums for the last part of trilogy one. After having to push the recording date forward a month it feels great to finally be doing it. We have longed to close this chapter of the first trilogy, to kind of tie everything together (no shit?) before moving into trilogy 2 territory. After Tobben is done with his drums it’s about time for K to put down the guitars in his home studio with his new, fantastic equipment that was purchased some time ago. It feels nice to be able to do that, for sure. We will keep you updated on the process as soon as something happens but for now we want you to spread the word about Torture’s coming deed.
Mr Swanö is ready to put his magic into the mix as soon as we have completed everything, but we guess we need to have J do his vocals and bass first after the guitars before we can hand over anything to Dan. Or at least that’s how it feels. And no, we don’t even know why we brought that up at this early stage. Pretend you didn’t read it.
So, you’ll have to hang in here for a little longer (actually, you are allowed to go away from the computer if you feel like it, just make sure to check in often) before we will announce the title of the third demo, as well as the cover and songtitles bla bla bla…
And we have more shit to announce when the time is right, but for now our mouths are sewn shut.
Torture Division