kingforaday Posted June 21, 2015 Share Posted June 21, 2015 (edited) The band broke up about 8 years ago but we still had 4 songs we never got to record. Problem is I've always hated leaving anything unfinished! These things tend to play on my mind... I used to play the tracks on bass all the time and had listened to very incomplete rehearsal recordings, on and off, for years. I decided to book some studio time to record them myself but quickly realised I'd never do the guitar and drum tracks justice (the drum intro and guitar solo/outro on the track 'Save me from myself' for example... talented chaps). In the end I tentatively contacted the other guys and to my surprise they jumped at the chance to get the tracks recorded! so after 4 rehearsals we went into the studio and recorded together again. We later went back and added vocals which was an interesting experience! The band had had numerous lead singers over the years but a pretty stable lineup in terms of the rest of the band. We decided against contacting one of our old singers and instead had a stab at doing it ourselves. This meant we got to do things our way and in the way we'd always intended; to only put vocals where we felt it really needed it. We often used to get told we should just be an instrumental band but I think this approach works well, It's quite minimalist but I really like how it's come out. We've uploaded the EP to bandcamp where you can listen/download it (it says 'name your price' but I'm pretty sure putting '£0.00' means it's free) [url="https://wishlistuk.bandcamp.com"]https://wishlistuk.bandcamp.com[/url] This won't be everyones cup of tea of course and if you're not a fan of heavy rock/metal at all, then maybe just give the last track ('A thousand words') a spin as that's the mellow one! Thanks for reading this and (hopefully) giving the tracks a listen, overall it was a really great studio experience and I'm really happy to have finally got the tracks out of my system! Here's a little 'teaser' video we made from reworking pictures from our old album artwork [url="https://youtu.be/SOjZMC7pIxM"]https://youtu.be/SOjZMC7pIxM[/url] And a little bit of studio footage: [url="https://youtu.be/ZGNMaV2zvQE"]https://youtu.be/ZGNMaV2zvQE[/url] Edited June 21, 2015 by kingforaday Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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