About recording of "Secret of the runes"
2001-05-11
After many turns with testing all kinds of guitars, guitaramplifiers and other equipment, we are finally ready for recording. No Therion albums has ever been close to as well prepared as this album, so I have very high expectations my self.
The album will be a concept album, but I'm not gonna give any closer details on that, you'll have to wait and see. But as the title indicates, it has a nordic theme. How it will sound musically is as usual nothing I talk about before the albums are recorded. Wait and see. But I expect most of you fans to sheer my enthusiasm over it when it is out - it is for sure not "just another Therion album" coming just because it comes so soon after Deggial. I am amazed my self how quick it went to write it, but the result is better than ever! The line-up is the same as on the last album and I think you guys will hear that we have had time to play much together now and that we sound better because of that. The other members have grown into the band and are giving more of their own personalities into this record and Kristian has also written some music this time.
We are starting to record this weekend and the recordings should be done by the end of June. We have already booked the Finvox studio for the mix, which should be finnished the second week of July.
The reasons for not mixing at our own studio are two; one is that we don't have output capacity for such an amount of channels. We can record IN up to 96 tracks or possibly even more, but OUT we have at the moment "only" 24, which is enough for most bands, but Therion will need 64 tracks.
The other reason is that even if we have good equipment, there are always other studios that have better. For recording our stuff is excellent (we have stuff among the top of the line products regarding micophones, mic pre-amps DA-konverters etc), but the mix is the most important part of making the album, so therefore we go to a place that have a better mixingdesk. We have a good one our selves, but even so, it can't be compared to the biggest studios with mixingdesks in the priceclass of $400.000 (DM 1.100 000) and similar. We concidered to mix at Woodhouse, but thought we would like to try something new again. We also want someone with more experince to mix it as it is not an easy task to mix such a complex record. But we will produce it our selves this time and our drummer Sami will engineer it. We will consult an advisor for the classic recordings though.
As I get the question quite frequently about if we will record other bands at our studio so I'll give a comment on that too. Yes, we will. Sami will work with other bands there when there is time left from his duties in Therion. BUT, it is a private studio and not a commercial one, so we might use much of the avalible time there to record projects and stuff of our own, meaning it will be much harder for interessted bands to get studio time there compared to a commercial studio. The good part of that though is that the bands that do get time there will get a more relaxed and different studio enviroment (it is built in a more "comfortable" way as it was designed and built for our selves) and they get a more personal attention as there won't be dozens of new bands in and out and out all the time. And the name of the studio? Modern Art.
The album is estimated to be released in October.
The album will be a concept album, but I'm not gonna give any closer details on that, you'll have to wait and see. But as the title indicates, it has a nordic theme. How it will sound musically is as usual nothing I talk about before the albums are recorded. Wait and see. But I expect most of you fans to sheer my enthusiasm over it when it is out - it is for sure not "just another Therion album" coming just because it comes so soon after Deggial. I am amazed my self how quick it went to write it, but the result is better than ever! The line-up is the same as on the last album and I think you guys will hear that we have had time to play much together now and that we sound better because of that. The other members have grown into the band and are giving more of their own personalities into this record and Kristian has also written some music this time.
We are starting to record this weekend and the recordings should be done by the end of June. We have already booked the Finvox studio for the mix, which should be finnished the second week of July.
The reasons for not mixing at our own studio are two; one is that we don't have output capacity for such an amount of channels. We can record IN up to 96 tracks or possibly even more, but OUT we have at the moment "only" 24, which is enough for most bands, but Therion will need 64 tracks.
The other reason is that even if we have good equipment, there are always other studios that have better. For recording our stuff is excellent (we have stuff among the top of the line products regarding micophones, mic pre-amps DA-konverters etc), but the mix is the most important part of making the album, so therefore we go to a place that have a better mixingdesk. We have a good one our selves, but even so, it can't be compared to the biggest studios with mixingdesks in the priceclass of $400.000 (DM 1.100 000) and similar. We concidered to mix at Woodhouse, but thought we would like to try something new again. We also want someone with more experince to mix it as it is not an easy task to mix such a complex record. But we will produce it our selves this time and our drummer Sami will engineer it. We will consult an advisor for the classic recordings though.
As I get the question quite frequently about if we will record other bands at our studio so I'll give a comment on that too. Yes, we will. Sami will work with other bands there when there is time left from his duties in Therion. BUT, it is a private studio and not a commercial one, so we might use much of the avalible time there to record projects and stuff of our own, meaning it will be much harder for interessted bands to get studio time there compared to a commercial studio. The good part of that though is that the bands that do get time there will get a more relaxed and different studio enviroment (it is built in a more "comfortable" way as it was designed and built for our selves) and they get a more personal attention as there won't be dozens of new bands in and out and out all the time. And the name of the studio? Modern Art.
The album is estimated to be released in October.
