A big thank you!

To all we met and played for in Oskarshamn, Motala and Helsingborg!
we had a great time and since this was our last three shows in 6 month we will remember this gigs with joy!
If you were at the conserts and took some pictures we would love to have some of them!
So send them to daniel.jakobsson78 [...]

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Tourinformation

Thursday 00:00 – Strandfestivalen, Oskarshamn
It is our second visit at strandfestivalen, the first was 5 years ago, and we remember a nice backstage, beutiful location and last but not least swimming in the ocean while listening to metal (oblivion)
Thursdays lineup includes intohimo  and two band I haven’t heard before. Our gig is a outdoor event, so we [...]

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The recording sessions are officially over

I’m listening to the songs unmixed in my ipod
With all the vocals finished we are close to the final result, close but also very far away…
The mixing always does a lot for the songs and with that in mind I’m pretty amazed of how good it sounds. The songs are awesome and some of them are pure magic if you ask [...]

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Between takes

Hi again!
I’ve had some days of rest from recording but tomorrow we’ll go back in the studio. 
We have still a lot of vocalharmonies to record and also some percussion, for example tamburine and shaker.
In sweden we call it: “the dot over the i” =)
Anyway. our plan is that everything will be finished recording on sunday except [...]

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Last vocal day… not

This was supposed to be the last vocalrecording day
and we have some hours left on our 16-17 hour day but there’s no way we’ll be able to finish all songs.
But since we are dealing with the best studio in showbuisness we can have a couple of more days when we can record some harmonies on [...]

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I forgot to take pictures

But we had a great day in the studio yesterday!
Jens has a great ability to make me sing at the top of my capacity and on the three songs we worked on we got some really good vocals.
The songs were Piece by Piece, Samuels låt (possible new name: “Coins of compassion”) and Erased.
the only minor [...]

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Jens – The monsterproducer…

Today Jens Bogren is in charge for the vocalrecordings
Jens produced our first two albums (shine and embraced) and I really liked him as a vocalproducer så I’m glad that we have at least one day with him.
we are going to focus on three songs today and we start early (8:00), probably because Jens is newlywed [...]

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My head hurts…

8 hours of vocal recording today
and probably 4 more before we call it a day. 
my voice is not really the stamina problem, it holds up very well. But my head hurts a lot when i’m singing and screaming long notes because of lack of oxygen.
It really hurts for like 5 seconds after the note and [...]

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Vocal recording

This is a picture from Greenbelt festival, england. It is our friend Emmanuel Ingelsten who took the photo.
Today starts the vocalrecording
and this time it is for sure. We had to reschedule the vocals since the guitars was not finished but now it is time.
It has been a bit scary because I need to stay healty [...]

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The first day of vocalrecording

Today we start to record vocals
For a couple of days I have been in our homestudio in our rehearsalroom to work with melodies, harmonies and lyrics. The songs really are taking shape now.
In our rehearsalroom i’ve put up a lot of texts from the bible as a inspiration for the lyrics and the vocals.  I’ll tell you more about [...]

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