Insomnia

This is the backyard of the studio – amazingly beautiful
I couldn’t sleep tonight
I had all kind of thoughts in my head, a lot of them was about the album and the songs. Yesterday I was back in our rehearsalroom to work with melodies before the vocal recordings who maybe starts on wednesday. All songs and lyrics [...]

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Bassrecording

I took my bike to the studio today
It is a ride for about 30 minutes from home, it was very nice weather today. When i got there Samuel and Davíd was very busy with bassrecordings. I did my best to get them in the mood for masterpieces It sounded really good!
I also took some [...]

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I promised you some pictures

And here they are!
I think most of us mammuths was a bit tired after the 4 days in fascination street, we had worked very hard and long days and it was a well earned rest.
The status right now is that Backman have gone away on a vacation for a week with his wife to Turkey [...]

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The end of the first recordingsession

Now it’s time to go home
We have had 4 good days in the studio and all the drums are recorded and some other stuff too!
We are very tired but we have a good feeling.
Next session starts on monday next week! But before then I’ll update with more pics!
Take care and God bless!
//mammuth. Tuesday June 19, [...]

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Live update: The next to last song…

This is a live update of the recording of “samuels song”
16:26
We start on a new song, Samuels sång. The last song “I am” went good!
We have some arrangement changes on this song. hopefully it will take about 2,5 h to finish it!
we have to find the feeling first before we start to record…
16:48
We are [...]

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A tour of the studio

This is a very special guided tour
Right now there is thunder outside and we have recorded two songs and ordered pizza!
I think we are on schedule again!! And this video is a guided tour of the studio while we are recording a song with the working name ” a blessed zombies [...]

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Third day

 Hello from the studio!
Right now the time is 24:00 on the third day of four of recording drums. When we stopped last night we thought that we had everything under control. We had recorded 6 songs and we were on schedule. 
But at this moment it’s a bit scary. A couple of songs have taken more time then we anticipated, [...]

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Tomorrow…

This is a picture from our last recordning ” Die to Rise in spring”
Tomorrow it all begins!
Unfortunatly you will not get any blog updates until Sunday because I am not able to be there until then. I’m going away on a camp with my job. But the first day is pretty boring anyway   [...]

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A day of rest

Today is a day of rest
We have to rest to be in perfect trim for the recording. It is almost like athlets do before a championship, have a period of very heavy practise and the days before the competition they just do lighter practise… 
Yesterdays rehearsal was really good but we miss Micke who had to [...]

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A sweet souly recommendation

I just have to recommend our friend and exlabelmate Samuel Ljungblahd
listen to the song “easy” from his latest album on his myspace… It is Totaly amazing!!!
And the good news is that he isn’t only a extremely talented musician. He is a great and very humble man as well.
Go now and buy his album!

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Random pics, random thoughts

3 days to go…
I start to have a hard time sleeping because my mind is full of songs and lyrics and thoughts. But I don’t complain because this is, even if it is a hard time, very very funny!!!
Some nights when i go to bed i think that this is not going to work, that the songs [...]

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Grace and lyrics

We had an interesting talk on the way home from rehearsal today.
a lot of our lyrics is about the fact that we live in a fallen world and that we as humans are incomplete.
even though everybody would agree that it is true the question that came up was about if the lyrics focused to much on this and [...]

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Less then one week to go

 
 
Today we’ll have a full afternoon and evening in the rehearsalroom!!
Can someone turn down the heat????
We have narrowed the material down to 13 songs, and it is 13 amazing songs. We will rehearse them all for recording but probobly we won’t use them all on the album. One of our ambitions for this record was to [...]

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Germany part III – Rock im Step in

The sun is shining and We have started the last phase of th preproduction
And that basicly means that we don’t have much time to enjoy the nice weather, we’ll be hanging in a hot rehearsalroom with some hot songs =)
but there is still some time to give you a couple of more photos from the [...]

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Deedfestivalen – a taste!!

I don’t have much time right now
But i’ll give you some tasters from the deed pics…
We had a lot of fun playing in our hometown. A big thank you to all who were there, and thank you to my wife Paula who took the photos!
More pics later!!
/D
 
I love my hair on this pic!

This is our [...]

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Mammuth 20:00 at Deedfestivalen

For all you people close to Örebro
Don’t miss a great festival at Kulturhuset/Café Deed. Mammuth will play at “B-salen” at 20:00 tomorrow at the swedish national day! 
See you there!!
/Mammuth 

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Germany Part II – Mammuthcam

We try to use the camera a lot when we are on the road
And not all of the pictures are from conserts. Here are some pictures that might gice you a little more insight about who we are when we’re not on stage! 

This is the kind of things that we think is very funny, a swedish [...]

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Germany Part I – Small rockstage

 
Here are the first pictures from our Germanytrip last weekend
There is a lot going on right now, we did just get home from germany and tomorrow there is another gig, but we also have the recording to think about, there isn’t much time to blog. But I’ll do my best.
We had a great time in [...]

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