Hey folks,
first of all, a happy (late) new year to all of you.
We are done, the album is recorded,
mixed and mastered in its entirity. Now we need title, artwork and
layout – which we are working on – and someone to release it.
Needless to say, I'm also working on the latter.
But back a bit. Initially, mixing was
to start in November already, but Rene and I both had busy schedules
with band, work and university, so that obviously didn't happen. Rene
did quite a bit of work over the holidays, so a pretty good rough mix
was already done when I returned to Darmstadt in the first week of
January. The work on all the details took up the whole of two weeks,
though. We had a pretty relaxed schedule, but still, Rene worked his
hours in the studio every day with either Sperrfeuer or me present at
almost all times. We used the one time DTM showed up to record some
gang shouts for „No World To Win, A Life To Lose“ (still
affectionately know by its working title „The Panzer Song“) which
turned out to be a great addition to the song. Well, not much more to
say about the mixing process... Rene did almost all of the work, and
a good job too, while Sperrfeuer and I were mostly there to annoy him
and make coffee and food. Steve, the guy who actually owns most of
the equipment in the studio, showed up a couple of times and gave
some valuable advice from his techno / electronic background which
Rene was able to make good use of, even when mixing a black metal
album.
Mastering was done rather quickly, so
the album is complete now. Needless to say, it sounds awesome.
Through the live recording, it retains the raw power trio feeling,
but isn't even close to necro sound rehearsal recordings in any way.
The production satisfies Sperrfeuer's need for a hard hitting metal
production as well as my preferences for dirty old school sound and
DTMs desire for a heavy bottom end. Be prepared!
We'll keep you updated on all progress
concerning the release, but it might still take a while. As there
wasn't that much to say about the last two weeks in the studio, here
are some pictures I took during that time.
Yours
Mithras
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| Starting the mix! |
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| Getting a kebab at 5 in the morning after the first session. |
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| Panzer crew ready for the gang shout recordings... |
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| This can't be the solution... |
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| ... but this! |
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| Rene and Steve mixing drums |
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| Mithras taking a weekend off, skiing... |
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| Blashyrkh approaching!! |
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| Final mastering. |
