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Thursday, May 23rd, 2013
And the demo is at Unisound for the mix!
Now it’s just a matter of time for Dan Swanö to find some free time in-between his regular paid work since he’s been doing our mixes for free for as long as we’ve worked with him. We can never, ever thank him enough for giving this many shits about Torture Division, and we salute him for being awesome. As soon as we know how everything’s going we will inform you all.
Stay tuned for death metal supremacy, coming your way in a little while. We might even reveal the cover we’ve recorded as well as the other thing we’ve talked about, the split that is not with Asphyx. More about that later on…
Wednesday, May 22nd, 2013
AWOL Finnish cover artist – where the hell are ya at?
Some 20 hours or so ago we announced how we have managed to forget the name of the Finnish hero who hand painted (important information) our coming demo covers, remember? Well, we haven’t heard anything from him yet so if this continues we’ll just have to leave that information out on this release – and that would suck.
So, if you’re reading this – get in touch with us ASAP so we can put you in the liner notes with the rest of the people who have helped us construct this series of demos.
torturedivision@gmail.com
Tuesday, May 21st, 2013
And… the vocals are DONE!
It took but 42 minutes for J to nail the remaining three tracks today. Now K is waiting for the files so he can prepare everything for the mix that our beloved Dan Swanö will do, as always. Now, people, now we are close.
Tuesday, May 21st, 2013
To the Finnish guy who sent us the hand drawn cover a few months ago!
While being extremely (drunk) busy working on the new trilogy we have managed to completely forget the name of the Finnish superhero who’s hand painted our artwork that we have decided to use for our coming trilogy of demos. Without giving away too many details, you know who you are. Please get in touch with us asap at torturedivision@gmail.com so we can credit you accordingly.
Tuesday, May 21st, 2013
J checks in from the studio!
“J here. After a nice ride home on the iron horse I now have a glass of red to celebrate this evenings session. I first did the cover song, then went on to the 2nd song of the new demo and by then my voice was warmed up so to say and sounded like I normally do so I went on to record the 1st song for the demo and then I did the cover song once again as I thought the voice was sounding better than at the first take. Then I started with the 4th song of the day and I guess it sounded ok but my head was pounding like a head that is pounding really bad so I decided to try out tomorrow instead. Wise decision by someone who has been there a million times before, haha.. I still nailed three songs within an hour so I am happy with that result.
So why do I do that you might ask? Because I hate being in the studio?
Absolutely not! I just love the idea of going to the studio, well rehearsed from sitting in the car and repeating the song to a CD, and then nail a first take. A first take is the most honest and rawest piece of material you can work with..
I could probably re-do a few lines here and there to make them sound like the rest of the lines but I have done that for years and years so now I just say fuck it! Give me the microphone, set the levels and a decent sound in the headphones and go. I dont even have all guitar tracks, drum tracks, bass on separate files, K sent me a rough mix of the song and that is what I use, hahah.. Sometimes it is really hard to get the tempo cause I cant hear shit what they play but fuck it. If I cant do it in headphones then how the fuck can I do it live I usually think.. better get used to it, right?
Anyway, a short update and insight of how I work.
Thanx to Tobbe Sillman for recording me this time!!
Cheers,
J.”
Torture Division