Vocals, finished!

Hi there, today we've recorded all the remaining vocals and can now consider us completely finished with the vocal parts. Isn't that kinda nice? I (Stefan), David, Micke and Victor met up around noon and started by eating a looong brunch in the studio - consisting by various microwave-heated soups, American-style chocolate cup-cakes, coffee, Gorby's pirogues and lots of other unhealthy stuff. After about an hour of intesive eating, we headed for the first recording session of the day!

Today we let Victor arrange a lot of the vocal parts, especially in the verses (still working on TACTILE). Otherwise, Mikael usually is the one working those out. It didn't take an awful lot of time for Victor to both arrange the parts and to actually record them. Incredible! We also recorded a few overdubs on the choruses to make it significantly "fatter"! Sounds really nice.

After having nailed TACTILE in a couple of hours, we started mixing the songs very rougly. Said and done. We signed off for the day around 6.30 pm and went to the store and bought chips and some beer for the World Championship (hockey) semi-finals between Sweden and Canada. Needless to say: great game!

Vocals, continued.

Picking up where we left it last time. Recording the final vocal parts was on our agenda today and we don't have much left to record, actually. Before we parted last time, we stretched Victor's vocal capacities to its maximum, leaving us with a vocalist who couldn't perform at all on the last day of recording, last session. A mix of two days worth of screaming, and one night of beer drinking with da boyz, probably did the trick... Anywho, we picked up where we left off last time. Having one verse left remaining on DISSOLVING SOUL FRAGMENTS (DSF) and another whole song, we started by setting up our recording situation, since the whole facility's been renovated, everything was disconnected since last session.

After some warming-up screams from Victor, we rapidly went on and started to record the remaining verse on DSF. Victor performed flawlessly and he soon had nailed that verse. After that, we rejoiced for a while, listening to various music and planning somewhat for the last song: TACTILE, a song which Mikael hasn't recorded a recitative on (which actually means that Mikael has recorded his lyrics and vocal ideas with some kind of rhythmic talking, only to give sime hints for Victor on how to scream it). The music enjoyed for the evening was: Tool, Chicago, Yoshi, Baron Bane, U.K., Tribal Tech.

Mikael's looking semi-mad

Proceeding with the last song, TACTILE. Started off by recording the choruses, which really are going to be a classic, hard-hitting, in your face, hit-chorus! Also recorded some other stuff and leaving the verses to be recorded today.

Be sure to check in later for some insane video clips! See ya!