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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!

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.

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.

We just returned from transporting all drumstuff to the Excess studio's and everything went fine! The studio log will be starting in a day or so, just keep an eye on obsidian.nu/studio (or via the Obsidian MySpace Blog page).

Now let's try to get some sleep before the party really starts…

'Till later!
Melle.

As you might or might not yet have noticed: coming week is zero hour! We'll enter the studio and record all the drums for Obsidian's upcoming CD. We have some titles and song titles in the works, but we can not yet reveal any of that. But anyway, here's a little overview of what will happen the coming week. (more…)