Not much has been said for the last 2 weeks, so a quick heads-up is in order, no?
Things are going great mixing wise, but there’s still A LOT of work left before I’m done, so the planned “late summer” release is intact. As mentioned before, I work a 9-5 job, so during the weeks I can’t devote as much time to mixing as I’d like to unfortunately. That is saved for the weekends, much to my wife’s chagrin.
Not really, she’s always supportive and understanding, you know. Or we’d all be fucked.
I have pretty much adjusted the mighty Dan Swanö-production to my liking now for the complete album, which feels fucken killer! That process sure took its sweet time, so now it’s all about the details within the actual tunes. It’s quite the challenge to balance some 40 vocal tracks at times, just to name one thing, but this is work that I truly love to do, and I simply can not consider “Undivine Dethroning” finished until it all feels perfect to me.
I know you really want to hear this beast, and trust me – I REALLY want you to finally experience what you have made possible, but it’ll still be a while before that happens, as mentioned.
Go outside, enjoy the summer, wear your new TPH-shirt (and please, holler when your order has arrived!), drink Staropramen, listen to Cattle Decapitation and enjoy your goddamn life in the meantime, ok?
I’ll be inside The Dungeon, working my ass off every goddamn free minute I have until this 16th album is done.
We’ll talk again in a not too distant future, but now I have to go. I have a mission to accomplish.
Your King is out!
While Jason Voorhees is carefully watching over me inside The Dungeon, let me give you guys an update on the mixing process.
The first round for opening track “Dethroned” is close to be done. This is the stage where I take what Dan Swanö has sent over to me and I start to work with a million details to make it “right” to MY ears, and MY speakers and MY headphones. This process serves as the “map” for the remaining songs on the album.
It’s now that I go through shit like; “- this channel needs to be 0,4 db louder, that channel needs to be decreased by 0,2 db” and so on and so forth. And these changes apply to ALL the songs, meaning I spend quite some time getting it as close to perfect as I can, coz this process takes the longest. When the levels for track 1 are corrected… yeah, then the production’s ground work is done.
Dan has, as always, made a wonderful job with everything. To the point where the album could be released as it is when I get it from him. But since we are actually different humans beings, some aspects of the music need some tweaking becoz it’s so goddamn important to me that it’s all aligning with my vision. Most of you would never notice the small things I do, but it’s so fucken important that it feels right to… ME. I put that in capitals so you know I’m serious as shit.
When this part is done, when I have gotten these details to where I want them… well, the “real” mixing for me starts. I have already, in pre-production mode, worked thousands of hours making everything gel, balancing all the electronics and symphonic work, bla bla bla… But when Dan puts his magic into TPH, and actually makes the material sound as it should be presented on an album, some stuff needs to be adjusted so it makes sense to… once again… me.
The fact that Dan can even make sense of what I give him is extra-ordinary, coz there a fuckload of stuff to deal with. I just get to do the icing on the cake, pretty much, you know.
So, when I tell you that mixing TPH is a different beast altogether with it’s hundreds of channels in each song… I’m not kidding. This part must be allowed to take the time needed. I didn’t work with the material daily for over a year just to stress with the last, most important part so you can hear what we have created.
I hope to have everything completed towards the end of the summer, as pointed out before. Maybe it’ll be earlier, maybe it’ll be later… I have no fucken idea. It will be done when it’s done. When I feel I can do nothing more.
Unfortunately I only have a few hours a day during the weeks to work with the mix as I have a full time job, you know. Which means the weekends provide me with the time I really want to spend doing this. But let it be known that I work daily with “Undivine Dethroning”. There’s no fucking around. The King doesn’t fuck around. Fuck fucking around.
I have to say that I am so insanely satisifed with how it all sounds; the material, everyone’s contributions and the overall darkness and beauty that is pouring out of the speakers. It’s TPH to the fullest. This is what we are. This is what we always will be.
Jörgen, Ellinor, Dirk, Lasse, Dan and YOU who funded “Undivine Dethroning” made this possible. I’m so goddamn privileged to get to do this.
As you know, I will never, ever fucken take it for granted. But what I will do is give you 80 minutes of music that ultimately proves I have given this absolutely everything I have.
So, now you know what I am doing, and how it all works. I will speak again when it’s needed, but for now…
I HAVE THE DEVILS’ WORK TO ATTEND TO!
Oh, and by the way… that beautiful Jason lamp is made by the great Ajja Bertilsson at Betongfigurer. Check out his stuff.
Until next time, Haters!
I will let you know over at our Facebook page when the packing starts in a few weeks. Now… time to continue mixing the behemoth known as “Undivine Dethroning”.
I raise my glass to you all!
Haters!
As you know, there’s A LOT of stuff happening right now within the Hate Camp. A lesser King would crumble.
But I don’t.
First off; in case you missed out on it there are “Undivine Dethroning” shirts available for pre-ordering. This ends on Friday, 6th of June, at 24:00 CET. I wanna hand out a HUGE goddamn “thank you” to the 100 of you who have shown interest in this. I am amazed by the support and that so many of you actually wanted one (or 3!). You are fucken phenomenal, all of you! If you want a shirt, just scroll down a post or 2 for the info you need, ok?
With that out of the way, you know what else is up?
That’s right, we’re mixing the album in question, me and Dan Swanö of www.unisound.se. Yeah, you know Dan.
This very hero just sent over the opening track, “Dethroned”, for me to start the detail work with and…
I. AM. FUCKEN. FLOORED.
The production absolutely downright crushes!
It’s not easy to mix what I do with TPH, that’s for sure. There are so insanely many layers and elements (you might have picked up on that after all these years, no?), but it seems like Dan knows me fucken inside and out by now after working closely with me for over 2 decades.
I applaud you, Dan. You’re legendary status is very well deserved, and it is such a joy to do this with you time and time again.
As I have said earlier; mixing “Undivine Dethroning” will take some time and I’m only on the first track out of 6, so you’ll simply have to hang in there for a bit. I will NOT release this 16th album until I feel the mix is perfect.
I guarrantee you it will be worth the wait.
This will be yet another proof that we’re operating on a different level.
We’ll talk later on.
Be well, all of you.
And it’s on!
” – Haters!
Dirk here to tell you that the drums for the new LP were completed yesterday evening. As usual, I’m absolutely floored by the quality of Lord K, J, E, and Lasse’s musicality…
Expect another musical whirlwind of astronomical proportions!”
June is here, and with that we’re entering the final phase when it comes to completing “Undivine Dethroning”. Me and the mighty Dan Swanö will spend quite some time perfecting our 16th album, and later on this summer you’ll finally get the result. So, hang in there!
Also, keep an eye on our social media outlets for updates on the mixing process.
Now, we shall begin…
