The Lustrate Process
About the recording
After “In Hora Mortis Nostrae” the writing for “The Lustrate Process” started. But not as usual, Petter S. Freed didn’t seem too inspired to play with TPH anymore so K and Anders Bertilsson began writing material for this masterpiece without Anders even being in the band. All of a sudden and many drunken nights later all the songs for this 6th blasphemous offering were completed. 7 songs of the finest material possible. Petter found it best to quite the band since he hadn’t contributed anything, the spark for TPH was lost. It was natural to ask Anders to come on board, which he did. Due to conflicting schedules drummer Mojjo left as well and in stepped Thomas Ohlsson, recording the drums to perfection over 4 days. Bassist Michael was not able to record for this album due to various reasons so K took care of the bass (for the first time since “HDCE”) on top of his normal duties as guitarist and whatnot. All vocals were recorded in Stockholm (Jörgen) and Örebro (Jonna) while guitars and bass were nailed in K’s home studio The Dungeon. The drums were tracked in Studio One, Örebro, Sweden. Everything was mixed and mastered by Dan Swanö at Unisound, and the whole thing was being produced by K.
About the title
K thought this one up but can’t seem to remember where it came from. The title represents the lyrics as a whole and goes hand in hand with the magnificent cover that long time artist and friend Marko Saarelainen created.
About the cover
Usually Marko draws inspiration from song titles or the actual album title, but this time around it was different. There were no titles for anything when work commenced for this artwork, yet it turned out to be one of the best covers gracing a metal album ever. We don’t know how he does it, but we are very happy to have this man’s work on our stuff. A relationship made in hell, perfectly portraited on “The Lustrate Process”.
