Thursday, July 23rd, 2009
Report from Tobben!
“Well well…
Honestly, it started out great this morning with setting up the gear with Mats of Senseless Recordings in the Vomitory rehearsal room. After some miking up my drumkit and a few cups of coffee we were set to go. I think we began recording around 11:30 and the first song out was “Eld och Plågor” which is by far the slowest one on the new demo. So it was pretty easy for me to nail that one. A couple of takes with some shitty fills in the middle later, we had the final version. All great so far!
The second song was “Heretics! Now!” which has a somewhat slower blasting tempo than what I’m used to, so this one proved to be a little tougher than I thought. Sure, I rehearsed everything pretty well yesterday and thought I had it all sorted out, but as usual, I tend to get a tad nervous as soon as I know “the tape is rolling” (in this case, Mats’ Mac). So this fucker took a lot more work than the first track. But I knew it would, since it’s the hardest one for me on this demo. For a second, I nearly freaked out completely but I managed to keep calm, had some more coffee and a banana and then continued blasting. So finally “Heretics! Now!” turned out as great as I hoped for!
By now the time was about 13:30 and I had “Traumatic Inhuman Severance” left. I thought this one would be a lot trickier since it’s fast and I played all the songs to a click track (first time for TD). Man, was I wrong?! The tempo in this one is where I like it best, around 120 bpm, and I just did one full take and a couple more with crappy beginnings before we had the final one. I’m really happy with this one ’cause it turned out really distinct, powerful and overall awesome! So, that was it!
I’m really happy with my effort this time around!
We took a few pictures and a couple of video clips, but I won’t post them until tomorrow night. Stay tuned.”
Keep an eye out on the forums, fuckos.
Torture Division