The Project Hate MCMXCIX

Archives

Archive for the 'Artwork' Category

Are you watching in silence…

As the earth turns to blood? Nothing major has happened, hence the lack of updates. As I told ya in the last report (I think) I am working insanely hard at the final details now and I’m just waiting for the last solos to come in before all the “meat” is completed. I’ll let this piece really sink in now and check everything a 100% before moving on to the mix. With the amount of time spent on this up to this point, I’m hardly just letting it go now for the sake of getting it mixed.

It will be perfect before I do so. We’re at 90% now.

Not leaving anything to chance…

I have told you loyal Haters before, but we are entering the final phases of getting everything together for the mix of “The Cadaverous Retaliation Agenda” now. This doesn’t mean that we will start mixing as soon as I have gotten the final touch-up’s for the vocals and the remaining solos. No, this means that when I have gotten all of these things I will spend all the time needed dissecting everything on a completely different level than before. I am going to leave absolutely nothing to chance. I will go thru every guitar riff, every bass line, every orchestra part, every electronic little thing etc, etc. To the extent of being on the verge of becoming insane in the process. Becoz I have to. I must do this since you guys, who participated/still donate, make this album come alive. You deserve it. I can’t even begin to explain how many hours, days and months I have spent on this recording up to this point, and now the final work starts. This last amount of work is what will bring you The Agenda as it was meant to be. And then me and Dan Swanö will finalize it with a crushing mix. It shall be madness on all accounts. A very planned and calculated kind of madness. As said, you fucken deserve this and this is our way of saying thank you for supporting us and for making this beast see the naked light of day.

Oh, how glorious it will be.

It took some 40 minutes…

And then Mr. Lars Johansson of Candlemass fame wrapped up his stuff in the studio yesterday. And man… I can’t even begin to explain what he did. So much emotion and so much passion put into his work on our coming album. I am almost speechless. This is how you play guitar. And to have Lars together with the other greats, Söderman and Tunker, is just mindblowing on all accounts. They have put in that extra thing to make this recording what it’s destined to be. A display of perfection and domination. Ruby will most likely do her last session with her vocals tomorrow to get some additional work down that I have in mind before she’s completely done too, so as you can see – we are definitely getting closer to the mixing, which is something I have longed for… To see this become the monster I envisioned when I started writing for it. The people involved… It’s just unreal. And I can never thank the fantastic Marko Saarelainen for the absolutely insane cover he’s created. It’s not just a cover, it holds more meaning than that. I suggest you pay good attention to the details in it and join in on the forums to discuss it all.

Stay tuned, more will come…

Progress and annihilation!

We are moving forward big time. In a few hours Mr. Lasse Johansson of Candlemass will enter A.R.T. Studios in Stockholm to put down his solo work and Mr. Danny Tunker is delivering his pile of stuff as well in a regular pace, impressing the fuck out of me in the process. When Mike Wead had to step down due to having too much on his hands, I knew it would be interesting to find some excellent people to help me out in this department. It’s an absolute honour to have these guys (together with the magnificent Magnus Söderman) creating solos for “The Cadaverous Retaliation Agenda”. I can’t thank them enough. I also got the only guest vocals I will use for this coming beast. This guy is someone I have the utmost respect for over the years I have bumped into him at concerts and whatnot. Mr. Peter Dolving. And how he delivered. Thank you so much, Peter. I am currently working with this latest stuff and I’m just waiting for the remaining solos to come in before we can start thinking about the mixing process.

We are getting there…

Artwork for “The Cadaverous Retaliation Agenda” revealed!

You have waited patiently and will now be rewarded accordingly. Here it is, the complete artwork for our coming beast, “The Cadaverous Retaliation Agenda”. Just click the picture to the right to get a better look at it. Marvel at the monstrous work courtesy of Marko Saarelainen. Do you fucken play in a band? Do you need some awesome artwork for your album/demo/whatever? Hire Marko Saarelainen. Understand. How many times do we need to point this out? Just contact him. So, there you go, you have the whole cover in front of your eyes. Now, say the title out loud and look at the cover. Feel it. Live it. Be it. You will eventually be enlightened.

Stay tuned for more news about the final recording sessions and how everything is coming together now. In a not too distant future you will be, as mentioned, rewarded.

Perhaps even more than you can handle?