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Armageddon March Eternal - Symphonies of slit wrists
About the recording
After the tragic tsunami-disaster where Mieszko Talarczyk was one of the fatalities, we were forced to start thinking about where to record our next album. K and Dan Swanö met for some reason (not anything recording-related) when Dan said that he could do it if we wanted to. It had never even crossed our minds to work with Dan again since we thought he didn't have a studio any longer. Little did we know...
When we started recording this album K and Dan said "this is for Mieszko, let it take the time it takes to make it perfect in his honour". Said and done. We recorded from the start of February to the end of May. This proved to be the ultimate way for TPH to work. With no deadline whatsoever, K and Petter did all of the guitars at K's place and spent countless of hours on the guitars, trying out million of things everywhere after the basic rhythm-guitars were done. Had we not recorded like this, "Armageddon March Eternal" would not be the complete monster it is. J's vocals were recorded in a studio in Stockholm over 2 days. 2 days of J's best vocals ever. Jo came to Örebro and worked with a vocal-coach in a small studio near K's place. This really brought out unknown dimensions of Jo's voice and what she's doing on this one is absolutely fantastic.
For the first time we decided to utilize the services of a real bassist and ended up in some drunken talks with Michael of Evergrey. One thing led to another and after having computer-problems one would only dream about, Michael recorded all of his parts at his place in Gothenburg, providing us with another level of Domination.
After this, K and Dan spent a few months mixing and perfecting the material at Dan's own studio. We have never spent this much time on a recording, never analyzed everything so deeply and never been more satisfied than this time around. There's not one single bad element on the whole recording. We believe Mieszko had something to do with it. He helped us in perfecting our sound and to push our limits on this monster. This album and everything else we will do in the future is all in the memory of Mieszko Talarzcyk.
About the title
K came up with the "Armageddon March Eternal" part whereas Derek (who came up with most of the "HDCE" title) invented the subtitle "Symphony of slit wrists", which K later on changed to "Symphonies of slit wrists", making the 8 songs on the album representing the "symphonies". We looked for a great title for quite some time and when we finally got this one thought out mission was accomplished.
About the cover
Not only did we outdo ourselves on this album, webmaster Marko did the same. Seldom have we seen such a monstrous cover and booklet. The last piece of the puzzle to complete this absolute masterpiece. Marko used the sub-title for inspiration and just let it go from there. Pure genious.