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Another quickie…

Some Haters are asking about the production on the coming album so I decided to post a few thoughts from me, directly taken from our forums. Will the album sound like “AME”. Will it sound like “HDCE”? Or even “Lustrate”? Nope, it won’t. This is what I have been saying over at the forums in case you give a shit about these things. About an eventual “Armageddon March Eternal” production:

“Not even close. That was like 5 years ago, things are on another level nowadays. This new one has the most vicious production we’ve ever had. Easily. I could kill to have had this one on all of our past albums. I’d also kill to have the same people on all of them as on this one. Ruby and Tobben’s made TPH what it was always supposed to be, obviously. I seriously hope I will never work with anyone else at those spots in the band. I take a huge bow to them. Not to mention J… That fucken guy is not human.

In many, many ways this feels like the album I have wanted to create since day one. I have felt that in the past as well, ofcourse – but this is different. Don’t get me wrong, I absolutely love all of the stuff we have released, you know this, but the coming one is just something else. Practice makes perfect. It’s just a new level of domination, on all accounts. And I say this when we are in the middle of mixing and not even finished yet. It will just get better and better and better. It’s great to see that I (as I ofcourse knew) made all the right changes to the band this year.

We have never, ever been better. Is it our best album to date? Without a doubt. There’s just a whole different vibe to this, an underlying aura of complete diabolical atmosphere. Upon completion there will ofcourse be an in-depth analysis of everything so I’ll just stop for now coz I can’t justify the greatness of this in this small a post.  You’ll see… You just wait…”

And to further speak a bit about this matter:

“Dan actually asked me before we started mixing if I “wanted the sound of “TLP” but enhanced”. I said “No, I want a new production – a different one”. I really dig the production of “Lustrate” but compared to this one it’s very “nice”. This one is tons heavier, darker… I can’t really put words to what I am feeling, but the material called for a different production and Dan’s really fucken nailed it. And I can’t even begin to say how fucken impressed I am with the drumsound. Those toms are to fucken die for.

Dan is a genius and I sincerely hope that I will always be able to work with him for as long as TPH or Torture Division exists.”

And just so you guys know, I should get the third track today for a first check. Things are going incredibly fucken well.

Mixing process – Part 4.

Just went thru the 2nd track and made the first notes for corrections. I am completely blown away by what we are creating. This is something else on all accounts. And I fucken love it. I don’t know what the fuck Dan is on but he sure knows his shit. The bass sounds like a fucken bulldozer, by the way. 2 songs out of 6 are now completed with a first mix and it feels amazing.

Mixing process – Part 3.

I have now made the notes as for what to correct with the first tune (which is pretty much completed soundwise). Dan’s currently working on track number 2 and we decided that we’ll do all the corrections that I have at the same time to have a flow with that and not go back and forth to different songs. Smart decision, for sure. It sounds fucken amazing to say the least. This is one wicked album with an aura of darkness surrounding it for alot of reasons. You’ll see what I mean eventually, but to be this satisfied at this early a stage feels great.

Dan is doing an amazing job, just like expected, and he’s extremely satisfied with what he’s creating for us.

Stay tuned.

Mixing process – Part 2.

A little while after yesterday’s post Dan sent over a clip with my suggested changes – and fuck me, that shit sounded terrific. I guess D is now hard at work with the process of mixing this beast. I will have tons of work to do as far as details and stuff go when I get the full songs one by one, but that is something I really look forward to.

Stay tuned for more updates.

Mixing process – Part 1.

I just got the first test of the sound for the coming album, and once again Dan Swanö comes thru with the best of them. After some small things that I wanted corrected right away (higher bass was ofcourse one of them, haha) it now seems like we are getting closer to what will eventually become the final soundscape. The drum sound is real heavy and those toms sound amazing. For the first time in the history of TPH we are not using triggers for the kicks and the snare as they sound fantastic as they are. I guess it helps that Tobben plays too, haha… Since I have been listening to the raw files for some time it’s really nice to finally be able to hear everything that Tobben plays, and boy – this guy is so good it’s fucken insane. He’s making the material more “alive” than ever before.

Dan are now working on some smaller things to make my wishes (aka demands) come to fruition and I guess in a day or two we will have settled for what will eventually become it.

Regular updates will follow, both here and over at our forums.