CATARACT - Im Studio
Die Schweizer befinden sich derzeit in den dänischen Antfarm Studios und schrauben mit Tue Madsen am neuen Album. Auf der WebSite unter www.cataract.cc folgt täglich ein kurzer Studioreport.
Hier die ersten drei Teile:
"Cataract - Studioreport 2007 Dänemark!
Okay buddies, we're online, as of Tuesday, the 13th of November. We had a little trouble hooking up to the internet but lets just say we had better things to do, actually! Here's what we did so far:
Day 0
Drove up to Denmark, 1225kms more or less straight with a completely packed Volkswagen Sharan; tons of drum accessories, cymbals, pedals; a collection of guitars and amplifiers plus four bags full of Swiss bread, milk and chocolate so we don't starve in the home of the fluffy bread. We've met Tue, moved into a nice flat which will be our home for the upcoming days, made some pasta and more or less went straight to bed.
Day 1
This day meant basically getting ready for recording the drums. We went back to that place Feedback Studios where we've been for the "triumph" sessions and where Knuckledust and Moonspell just did their drum tracks. We're using a smaller room though, it makes the drums sound amazing just as such so it's less work on the desk and more sound on the record. If you care, we're using Tue's own pearly white Yamaha Set which sounds as nasty as it looks, it has coated skins giving a lot of attack; a 14"x 5" metal snare nicely smashing eardrums, plus the usual variety of cymbals including a amazingly noisy 20" china. No amps on the guitars, they are just plugged in and sent through some guitarizer or whatever you may call it. Most time we spent setting up, sound checking and rehearsing. We ended up starting with the recordings, did one song and got started on two more, but then called it a day as we still were battered. By the way we will try to add some pictures. I guess they will be up on myspace pretty soon and later also on the webpage.
Day 2
Today meant business. Ricky turned the drums to ashes and we recorded four songs that we're really happy with, you people will love them. We also did a first take for two more songs but frankly, after six hours of noiseâEUR¦. we will decide whether they're good or not tomorrow. So we're looking at the basics for five songs and we're f'ing happy with them to say the least. You people will love them. They're polite death metal. We'll evaluate what that exactly means as soon as we know more about it."
