Promo Erectus: She Said Destroy recording, Day 1

Snorre, SSD

As part of our neverending quest to alienate music listeners all over the world, we are now in the process of recording a 25 minute long doom/noise/J-pop masterpiece. We are no strangers to giving our dedicated fan base what they want, so as a gesture to the 7 people that bought our last record we are going to tell you all about how we are going about making this one.

We've gathered all our equipment and brought it to beautiful Cellan, Wales. We did this utilizing the technique of log driving, only instead of logs we moved musical equipment and instead of a river we had thousands of sheep. Eschewing our normal recording process of tracking every instrument separately in a studio, we have instead decided to get down and dirty and are recording us playing together as live as possible, just as we said we would never do 5 years ago. So here we are, with our unnecessary amounts of equipment and an unhealthy obsession with distorted bass.

Getting to Wales in the middle of the night in the worst storm of the year and with more than 100 flood warnings in the area was not the most pleasant of experiences. However, a few pit stops on the way to get some healthy food gave us energy and helped us stay fresh and alert.

Pictured above: Freshness

We arrived at 8 in the morning, and after way too little sleep we went to work. Our bass and drum sound is now the filthiest thing ever, and we cannot wait to start tracking tomorrow. Thank you, Sindre Bjarne Skeie, for letting us use your drum kit. And thank you, Baby Jesus, for Orange Amps. We want more of them. Please give us more amps, Jesus.

Anyway, we would make Steve Albini proud with this record. No clicky typewriter-sounding kick drums, and most importantly no thousands of overdubs on the guitars. I guess all those people that I have been shaking my head over, all those people talking about "capturing the live feel, the sound of four guys in a room" were really onto something. Am I getting old? And possibly more ugly? Probably.

While what's left of my youth and beauty is rapidly fading, our handsome and talented engineer, Corin, is climbing on walls and ceilings, putting microphones in unorthodox places, ensuring that at least one serious injury will occur during this week. Dangling expensive electronic equipment from old wooden structures 3 metres above the floor? Why yes, of course. Anything to make the drums sound just a little bit less like they belong on a metal record.

We'll be back with less rambling and more information tomorrow, when we have actually recorded something, and probably also when things, as they always will, start going wrong.

Every bass player should at least once in his lifetime try and hook up two amps together and distort one of them.

Also, more people should speak with a Welsh accent.