For your leisure, ladies and gentlemen: the first official studio video report featuring the recording of the drumparts!

Enjoy and let us know what you think!

Here are some pictures I took while being in the studio. Some are very silly and most are even far more silly then the others.

Here you go …and please do not hesitate to share your reaction with us, we do actually really enjoy that

Cheers!

It's pretty funny that this five days of recording end with me having to wait for the train for 25 minutes in the rain at Rotterdam Noord station. But I do so with a mighty content feeling!

We re-did some tracks (26 and 25 for those who speak Obsidian) which ended up much tighter and more 'in the groove' them the earlier takes, which is really cool!

Today we where joined by Gerben who say this recording session come to a successfull ending. And we celebrated it with a nice Chinese diner and a couple of Black Adder episodes.

It's done (for my part) and for anything, the drums are going to sound killer! Thanks to Hans of the Excess studios for the help and the nice atmosphere to work in.

Stay tuned at the Obsidian website and myspace pages for the official studio video report. And now I'll only have to wait ten more minutes for my train to arrive…

Cheers!
Melle.

After a good night sleep in Amsterdam we returned to the studio and arrived at around 11.00 with our spirits refreshed.

Today we where going to record two of the most atmospherical songs (with some grandiose build up's in them!) on the record and some of the parts where not yet fully written and it would take some experimenting and find tuning to see where we would end up with.

With the precise and (positively!) yet slightly hungover help of Sjaak we managed to record some very cool takes with which we are very, very happy!

In the evening we listened to everything we recorded so far, 'cause we recorded all the tracks in the rough, and we decided which takes we are going to re-record in order to see if we can still improve them a bit.

We ended the day with Eddy Murphy's show 'Raw' and a good feeling in our heavy heads.

We're almost there! See you later!
Melle.

This was a very tough day in the studio's. We started of recording the drums for one of the most merciless tracks of the upcoming album and it really was quite a fight! But, thanks to the ever so kind and loving help of Simon and our USB-gnome Robbe, I managed to pull it of!

After that we had a long break with a short visit to the nearby Feedback Musicstore (just for fun) and we started the recording of another track (nr. 27). That went pretty smooth and we wrapped it up at around half past six and headed for Amsterdam, to enjoy a nice night at home.

Still two tracks to go and that means we have a lot of time to check and recheck everything we did and to re-record some things when we think it's needed. One thing is for sure: it is really really nice to have the luxury of time during recording, no stress at all and all the headspace and room to get into playing, really enjoy it and to relax! Great!

As promised: three little snapshots of the aforementioned personae and a bit of video (all from mobile phone, so do not expect any World Press material ).

Cheers!
Melle.

Today was a different cookie in the studio: mr. Robbe arrived in the afternoon but before that we already nailed one track!

During the rest of the day we laid down the tracks for two other songs and for the interlude. At this moment (0.00 hrs.) Simon is finishing it in a rough edit.

It was a mighty productive day today with a lot of fun and good meals in between Tomorrow we'll continue and then we're going home for one night to return saturday and sunday to finish up.

Stay tuned! (and enjoy the pictures if I manage to get them online… )
Melle.