DETERIOR

Been pretty busy. All recording is done—guitar, bass, vocals—and the album is fully arranged and everything. The only bits left to do are tweaking the drums, adding samples and effects, and final mixing (though the preliminary mixing I've been doing while putting together the recordings has been sounding really good). I was thinking about posting a teaser clip, but it's not quite ready for that yet. Maybe in a couple days. But on the other hand, the whole thing will be ready in about two weeks anyway. There's no album title or artwork yet, though most of the songs are titled. We're looking at eight tracks, in the vein of Torchbearer with a bit of Primitive Circuitry thown in.

Honestly, not much to report. I've been spending most of the time meticulously arranging guitar tracks—chopping the takes up into little pieces, fixing up a few sloppy bits, and gluing them together into four huge tracks. Since I finished that I've been busy with other stuff, but I have been rehearsing and making final arrangements for vocals, which I'll start recording tomorrow (then bass is next week, I think?) Hopefully I'll have enough stuff prepared to post a teaser of some kind by then, as well. My attempt to schedule everything out on a day-by-day basis turned out to not work so well; at least, things take a bit longer than I plan and real life tends to get in the way. Regardless, everything should definitely still be done early next month.

Just finished three days' worth of laying down some guitar tracks. I've giving myself an extra day to record any supplementary stuff, but for the most part all the guitar work is done—three hours' worth of raw recordings as of now. I'm moving on to recording bass guitar late next week, but not before a million hours of chopping up those guitar takes and arranging the best ones into something that sounds relatively cohesive. I actually have a schedule drawn up for all the work that needs done, and it's pointing to sometime in mid-August for an actual release. But there's quite a bit to be done before that will happen. I repurposed part of my basement into a studio for the time being. I just got this desk and there's already too much crap for it to comfortably hold...

It seems like no amount of extra writing and honing arrangements is going to make me totally happy with anything anymore, so regardless of what happens I'm going to record this damn thing in July. Once I have some actual tracks down it'll be easier to actually piece things together. Also hi, yeah, second post for 2014, all right, getting the hype train moving at sonic speeds.

Well, you know by now that I don't really ever post here unless I have something worthwhile to say. As usual, in the last six months the blog has been quiet I've been doing other things, like my other blog, real job stuff, real life stuff, boring stuff. I never really took much of a break; I started back up with writing stuff for Deterior in about August or September and have been trucking along since. Got four or five new songs down so far, will probably get another one or two in. Still very very early in the process and I'm taking things very slowly, like last time.

Recently I did an interview with the fantastic sludge metal blog SLUDGELORD, the first interview I've done in four years. In it, I talk about all sorts of stuff, like my writing process, personal life, etc. It actually went up last week but I haven't had a chance to post a link here since I've been out of town. Read the interview here!

It's out today. Sounds less like it was recorded with a vacuum cleaner. The old version is no longer available (not like you'd want it anyway). Men Like Gods by Deterior