After a well-deserved break, we’re back at the studio. We finished acoustic guitars and solos late Saturday night (or early Sunday morning) and headed back to Helsinki barely awake, trying to keep company to Edu who was behind the wheel. Having slept most of yesterday myself, we just drove back to Hämeenlinna with Sami this morning. Edu and Jake came here last night already and listened to the tracks making notes on what’s missing and what needs to be fixed.

Janne started mixing the songs early this morning and we’ve been mostly staying out of his way, since the first step is to clean up the drum tracks, which is mostly mechanical work and best done without a bunch of monkeys chattering in the background

Apart from two small fixes to lead guitar tracks, from this point on it’s all about making the record sound like the massive opus it is in our heads. Most of the music we’ve written is pretty straightforward in the sense that there’s only two rhythm guitars (often playing the same thing), bass, drums and vocals. But then there are sections that have grown to quite epic proportions, with many different vocal things and a “choir” of guitars going on at the same time. Let’s see how they turn out in the final mix!

Exciting times,

Jari / Embreach