That’s right folks. Terrorence here with a monumental update. Firstly, let me apologize for our absence from the project journal. We've been writing and recording just about every weekend for several months. Things have progressed so well that I’ve been more concerned with getting HMT’s tasty guitar and bass licks down on tape rather than keeping y'all informed of our progress. Alas, a project update is way overdue and now is the perfect time for it.
Yesterday we completed bass tracking and are officially finished writing and recording most of the new album (minus vocals)! We have drums, guitars, and bass complete for 12 solid mind dominating songs that are sure to make you mount a llama with sword in hand and ready to slay the world. I can’t even begin to elaborate how thrilled and proud I am with the new product. Every single song on this album is a masterpiece. Their structures are more complex, drumming is more creative, and the guitar riffs are beyond catchy. We’ve integrated so much depth in to this album-- guitars are quadruple tracked (at the minimum), bass is multi-tracked with direct line and mic feeds, and the list goes on.
During my downtime, I’ve also been focusing on learning the art of mastering. I don’t intend to master this album myself and will more than likely still ship it off to a professional mastering studio, but understanding the mastering process has really helped me to develop my mixing skills. I can confidently say that our abovementioned songwriting and my refined studio engineering and producing skills (tracking/mixing/etc.) combined with even my most rudimentary mastering attempts have already resulted in a sound that is 10 times better than the last album.
However now that HMT’s pieces are complete, the pressure is on me. I have to write and record vocals for nearly an entire album. How will I do this? How will I inspire myself to write so much poetry? Well, as HMT mentions below, don’t expect a sorrow-filled emotional catharsis to be expressed through the art of vocals on this new album. That’s retarded. First of all, you won’t understand them anyways (the new album will be primarily death metal vocals). Second of all, who the hell listens to heavy metal music for therapeutic content? I recently read an interview with Lemmy (of Motorhead). When asked how he came up with the concept for the lyrics he wrote for a song, Lemmy responded: “I wrote the lyrics in about ten minutes. . . It's rock & roll, you know. It's not one of those complicated things.” That pretty much sums it up right there.
Stay tuned fans. There’s more destruction to follow.
Outtake from a guitar tracking session back in September. This one didn't make it to the new album, so just imagine the ones that did!
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