Today was the first day of the recording process for the next album. Christoph recorded his parts in an old school Vampyrouss fashion, using a keyboard (a Yamahahaha keyboard at that!!!) for the basic demos.
Hopefully next week we will re-record the drums on his real kit, but we needed some tracking drums for recording over the next couple days. It's amazing watching him play keyboard drums, as he is almost as good as he is on a real drum kit!
We also celebrated Fireworks night with some sparklers that were pretty much impossible to ignite!!
November 6th 2009 (Day Two: Backing Keyboards)
Day two of recording and it was the turn of one Reverend Rejon Munchausen.
Things went pretty smoothly again, no problems to mention. Between recording the kind Reverend baked us a Milky Bar Cake. The songs are starting to take shape now, the backing keyboards in our songs often forming a crucial rhythmic relationship with the drums.
November 7th 2009 (Day Three: Bass Guitar)
After three days with next to no sleep it has started taking it's toll on me and we had a couple problems hooking the mixer up for some reason.. mumble mumble... but once that stress was out of the way we had a pretty easy time recording the bass parts with Robert.
Everything is starting to fall into place now, although we'll have to wait a while before we can record the guitars with Padraich as he is still recovering his hand at the moment. In the meantime we'll record the vocals and lead keyboard parts and start sequencing the demo in album form the way we want it to sound as a whole.
November 8th 2009 (Day Four: Tracking Vocals)
Day four and I actually got some sleep last night. After a morning of lining up the last couple days files and wading through various takes I started recording some vocals. As usual I had to record by myself, but luckily Lazerous (ex-Vampyrouss guitarist and co-creater of the band) popped over for a social visit and ended up doing the button pushing for me, allowing a less stressful environment.
The vocals have been sounding pretty brutal, a lot of passion and energy in them, although we only recorded 1 take for each song and a couple overdubs at the end, afterall, these are only the basic tracking vocals for us to follow when we record the real thing.
So, four days and we're about halfway through the demos. I can see us finishing it in the next 2 weeks. At that rate I would hope we will be able to start recording the final album versions of the songs by December!
Keep your eyes peeled for more updates, photos and other content!
- E.S.L. Kazraine Ruthven Maars -
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