Kill The Romance - studio blog 2010

mika & tomi
Some marvelous thinking going on...

mika
Tracking down..

19.09.2010 - ALBUM READY

Our second album is now ready!! Goddamn!! After 6 month process everything is now ready!! We had a small sneak peak party last saturday for the guys who have been helping us out on the road during the last years. It was blast and it seemed that everybody liked the album and of course the booze.. Now we start to work to get the best possible label/distributor to release the album. As soon as we have something information about the release, you'll hear it!

28.07.2010 - RECORDINGS READY

Yeah, everything is ready for the mixing now. We just spent 3 days with Vellu from Pressure Points and now all the keyboard layers are done too. Vellu made amazing job and everything sounds so damn good now. Mixing starts next week, so the album should be ready in August.

A couple of pics from keyboard sessions added to the gallery.

20.07.2010 - VOCALS

It's been a while.. but anyway Ville finished his vocals a week ago and now almost everything is ready. We had to do some schedule changes and Vellu from Pressure Points will help us out with some keyboard layers within next week.

And remember! We're playing in Saturday 31.7 with Grendel in Dante's Highlight in Helsinki!!! Don't miss that.

28.05.2010 - VIDEO ADDED

A new video from the bass sessions online.

23.05.2010 - DRUMS, GUITARS AND BASS DONE

Yeah, Miku finished his bass lines yesterday, so now all the basic instruments are done. Ville has finished half of the vocals and he'll continue soon after a little break. Mixing process is going on all the time and next we'll going to spice our soup a little bit with some "background" synthesizers. We will add some video stuff from bass recordings soon.

23.05.2010 - VIDEO ADDED

Finally a video from the guitar sessions uploaded.

14.05.2010 - PROGRESS..

Olá! We have been a little lazy to update anything but that's just because we have been really busy with the record. We have a shitload of video material from these recording sessions but none of us have time to edit it now. Hopefully soon. But anyway, mixing has already begun, altough we haven't recorded all the stuff yet. We're doing this now in three different places. Ville has already done a lot of vocal lines and next week Miku will finish the bass lines. Wäinö Komulainen, the master sound guy started to mix drums and guitars a week ago in Keuruu and now as all the equipments have been moved to Lahti I will continue with him. And by the way, we're playing tonight in Liberte, Helsinki, so hope to see some of you there!!!

-Mika

04.05.2010 - VOCALS

Ville has finished 3 songs and things are rolling smoothly. Miku will start to deliver some low frequencies today. Video from guitar sessions is late but it's coming.

28.04.2010 - VOCALS..

Ville started to make some noise yesterday. Things are rolling.. video from guitar sessions will be out before end of the week.

23.04.2010 - GUITARS DONE..

Guitars are now ready.. and now when we have a little bit flesh over the bones, it's rewarding to hear how good everything sounds. A new video will be online soon!. We decided to do vocals before bass lines so Ville H. will start next week.

11.04.2010 - VIDEO ADDED

A random shots video from the drum recordings added. And by the way, we'll be playing 14.5 in Club Liberte, Helsinki with Pressure Points and Foul Circle. This is a one-off gig during the studio time so make sure you'll be there!!

10.04.2010 - GUITARS..

Tomi has played his "basis" guitars and is now adding some lead layers. Patrikainen will continue tomorrow. So far everything sounds damn good. A couple of new pics added to the gallery.

05.04.2010 - MISSION GUITAR SOUND

Mission "guitar sound" accomplished. This time we have Peavey 5150, Krank revolution series and ENGL powerball amplifiers with us and oh boy, so far it sounds good. Tomi will start tomorrow and Patrikainen will join for the fun in the end of the week. Yep, video from drum recordings is late.. some problems with uploading. Hopefully it's online soon.

30.03.2010 - GALLERY ONLINE

Hi, gallery online! check it our every now and then. At the moment pictures from the demo sessions and drum recordings are online. A new video from drum recordings coming up. We decided to wait until Patrikainen is back in town so most likely shredding will start within few days.

-Mika

21.03.2010 - RECORDINGS STARTED

It's finally time to give you some news! Yes, we have started to record our upcoming second album. We promised to give you some videos from the demo sessions but as we all already know, it didn't happen. Anyway, now we have launched this studio blog and from here you can find some photos and even some videos about our progress. The first video is a short compilation about our demo sessions. It's not a visual piece of art but who cares.

Lets start with some facts. We wrote a plenty of songs for this album, it was somewhere between 17-23. In the final record, there's going to be 9. We don't have a title yet but I have spoken with Ville about the lyrics and we have a some kind of concept or should I say redline in our minds about the cover, song titles and so on. This time we actually have a co-producer with us in the first time of KtR's history. Janne Tolonen who is best known from Misery Inc. is co-producing this album with us.

This blog comes a little bit late because all the drums have been already recorded. We started these sessions in Am I Blood's leader Janne C. new studio in Kerava. So at first, the soundchek and other shit as always. Nothing special. But this time I had my brand new Pearl masters MMP with me and I have to say it sounds damn brilliant. Tomi was there to play demoguitars for me and acting as a night guard also because he slept only a couple of hours in the whole weekend, he has endless batteries. We finished 6 songs in saturday. Friday was dedicated to soundcheck because we were already late when we arrived. Anyway, in sunday morning we decided to continue in our own DarkFilth Brothers studio because we had some duties in Lahti. Actually we had planned to record all the guitars, bass and vocals anyway in our DFB studio so it was all good.

So after one week we continued with the drums in the DFB studio. This was first time for me to record myself. A couple of days Tomi was behind the desk helping me out but all in all I worked by myself. It was really nice to play and record without any timetables. Actually when everything started to roll we decided to record all the tracks again because as always, we had some new arrangements for drums and for some songs. So because we weren't in any rush, I recorded my parts whenever I had a good feeling. It was pleasure to play but It was hard to act as a engineer in same time. But anyway, pretty nice session I would say. If someone is interested about my setup, in this recording it was: Pearl Masters MMP drums; 22", 10", 12", 16", Mapex black panther 14x5,5" deep forest walnut snare & Pearl Ultracast 14"x6,5" snare. I used a lot of different cymbals but primarly sabian & zildjian.

About the songs, in my opinion, this time we have a lot more different kind of parts in our songs if I compare to "Take Another Life". We have some fast stuff, aggressive parts, middlle tempo songs, a lot of melody, acoustic parts, even some keyboards, so I'm pretty sure this is going to be interesting mix.

Now we have a little break and we'll continue with the guitars in next weekend. Stay tuned!

-Mika



Some marvelous thinking going on... Tracking down..	19.09.2010 - ALBUM READY Our second album is now ready!! Goddamn!! After 6 month process everything is now ready!! We had a small sneak peak party last saturday for the guys who have been helping us out on the road during the last years. It was blast and it seemed that everybody liked the album and of course the booze.. Now we start to work to get the best possible label/distributor to release the album. As soon as we have something information about the release, you'll hear it! 28.07.2010 - RECORDINGS READY Yeah, everything is ready for the mixing now. We just spent 3 days with Vellu from Pressure Points and now all the keyboard layers are done too. Vellu made amazing job and everything sounds so damn good now. Mixing starts next week, so the album should be ready in August. A couple of pics from keyboard sessions added to the gallery. 20.07.2010 - VOCALS It's been a while.. but anyway Ville finished his vocals a week ago and now almost everything is ready. We had to do some schedule changes and Vellu from Pressure Points will help us out with some keyboard layers within next week. And remember! We're playing in Saturday 31.7 with Grendel in Dante's Highlight in Helsinki!!! Don't miss that. 28.05.2010 - VIDEO ADDED A new video from the bass sessions online. 23.05.2010 - DRUMS, GUITARS AND BASS DONE Yeah, Miku finished his bass lines yesterday, so now all the basic instruments are done. Ville has finished half of the vocals and he'll continue soon after a little break. Mixing process is going on all the time and next we'll going to spice our soup a little bit with some "background" synthesizers. We will add some video stuff from bass recordings soon. 23.05.2010 - VIDEO ADDED Finally a video from the guitar sessions uploaded. 14.05.2010 - PROGRESS.. Olá! We have been a little lazy to update anything but that's just because we have been really busy with the record. We have a shitload of video material from these recording sessions but none of us have time to edit it now. Hopefully soon. But anyway, mixing has already begun, altough we haven't recorded all the stuff yet. We're doing this now in three different places. Ville has already done a lot of vocal lines and next week Miku will finish the bass lines. Wäinö Komulainen, the master sound guy started to mix drums and guitars a week ago in Keuruu and now as all the equipments have been moved to Lahti I will continue with him. And by the way, we're playing tonight in Liberte, Helsinki, so hope to see some of you there!!! -Mika 04.05.2010 - VOCALS Ville has finished 3 songs and things are rolling smoothly. Miku will start to deliver some low frequencies today. Video from guitar sessions is late but it's coming. 28.04.2010 - VOCALS.. Ville started to make some noise yesterday. Things are rolling.. video from guitar sessions will be out before end of the week. 23.04.2010 - GUITARS DONE.. Guitars are now ready.. and now when we have a little bit flesh over the bones, it's rewarding to hear how good everything sounds. A new video will be online soon!. We decided to do vocals before bass lines so Ville H. will start next week. 11.04.2010 - VIDEO ADDED A random shots video from the drum recordings added. And by the way, we'll be playing 14.5 in Club Liberte, Helsinki with Pressure Points and Foul Circle. This is a one-off gig during the studio time so make sure you'll be there!! 10.04.2010 - GUITARS.. Tomi has played his "basis" guitars and is now adding some lead layers. Patrikainen will continue tomorrow. So far everything sounds damn good. A couple of new pics added to the gallery. 05.04.2010 - MISSION GUITAR SOUND Mission "guitar sound" accomplished. This time we have Peavey 5150, Krank revolution series and ENGL powerball amplifiers with us and oh boy, so far it sounds good. Tomi will start tomorrow and Patrikainen will join for the fun in the end of the week. Yep, video from drum recordings is late.. some problems with uploading. Hopefully it's online soon. 30.03.2010 - GALLERY ONLINE Hi, gallery online! check it our every now and then. At the moment pictures from the demo sessions and drum recordings are online. A new video from drum recordings coming up. We decided to wait until Patrikainen is back in town so most likely shredding will start within few days. -Mika 21.03.2010 - RECORDINGS STARTED It's finally time to give you some news! Yes, we have started to record our upcoming second album. We promised to give you some videos from the demo sessions but as we all already know, it didn't happen. Anyway, now we have launched this studio blog and from here you can find some photos and even some videos about our progress. The first video is a short compilation about our demo sessions. It's not a visual piece of art but who cares. Lets start with some facts. We wrote a plenty of songs for this album, it was somewhere between 17-23. In the final record, there's going to be 9. We don't have a title yet but I have spoken with Ville about the lyrics and we have a some kind of concept or should I say redline in our minds about the cover, song titles and so on. This time we actually have a co-producer with us in the first time of KtR's history. Janne Tolonen who is best known from Misery Inc. is co-producing this album with us. This blog comes a little bit late because all the drums have been already recorded. We started these sessions in Am I Blood's leader Janne C. new studio in Kerava. So at first, the soundchek and other shit as always. Nothing special. But this time I had my brand new Pearl masters MMP with me and I have to say it sounds damn brilliant. Tomi was there to play demoguitars for me and acting as a night guard also because he slept only a couple of hours in the whole weekend, he has endless batteries. We finished 6 songs in saturday. Friday was dedicated to soundcheck because we were already late when we arrived. Anyway, in sunday morning we decided to continue in our own DarkFilth Brothers studio because we had some duties in Lahti. Actually we had planned to record all the guitars, bass and vocals anyway in our DFB studio so it was all good.

	So after one week we continued with the drums in the DFB studio. This was first time for me to record myself. A couple of days Tomi was behind the desk helping me out but all in all I worked by myself. It was really nice to play and record without any timetables. Actually when everything started to roll we decided to record all the tracks again because as always, we had some new arrangements for drums and for some songs. So because we weren't in any rush, I recorded my parts whenever I had a good feeling. It was pleasure to play but It was hard to act as a engineer in same time. But anyway, pretty nice session I would say. If someone is interested about my setup, in this recording it was: Pearl Masters MMP drums; 22", 10", 12", 16", Mapex black panther 14x5,5" deep forest walnut snare & Pearl Ultracast 14"x6,5" snare. I used a lot of different cymbals but primarly sabian & zildjian. About the songs, in my opinion, this time we have a lot more different kind of parts in our songs if I compare to "Take Another Life". We have some fast stuff, aggressive parts, middlle tempo songs, a lot of melody, acoustic parts, even some keyboards, so I'm pretty sure this is going to be interesting mix. Now we have a little break and we'll continue with the guitars in next weekend. Stay tuned! -Mika