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  1. 28 Nov 08

    Singar The Chimairian

    hey everone

    i hope our friends in the US and A had a good holiday.  i spent the night tracking.
    i am a little behind schedule but there is good reason. i haven’t really spoken much about the lyrics and songs and themes for this record so i figured i’d let you in on a couple things.

     

    i intentionally came into the studio without one lyric or vocal idea. The majority of the songs written for this record were written on the fly by us jamming in the bus. Two hours later we had a song. After touring we continued that spontaneous style of writing and it was an amazing feeling feeding off of each others ideas and just seeing where the riffs would take us. i feel this is chimaira in it’s purest and most vulnerable form.

     

    i felt that i wanted to harness that same raw talent on the microphone as well.  I basically freestlye over a song, find patterns i like or words i might say and then build from there. I construct the lyrics and then go in to track it. After that I sit on it for a day, and then come back and fix things here and there.

     

    i’ve done this method in the past with songs like Power Trip, Severed, Paralyzed, Down Again, Pure Hatred, etc.. so it’s not a new thing for me.  But to do an entire record like this, that’s a first.

     

    i have four songs left at this point and i wish i had more. this is the most fun i’ve had doing vocals for a record ever.

     

    i also wanted to talk about how cool chris’ samples are coming out. he is taking these songs to another level. he has always been able to do that with our songs, but this time around he is really prominent and some of his parts carry parts of the song rather than just adding a layer. we even have one song where it’s just him and i for a couple of parts. It’s definitely different and exciting.

     

  2. 22 Nov 08

    Busy Bees

    we are still working hard over here

    all the rythm guitars are done, bass will be done monday

    and the next 2 weeks will be solos, vocals and samples.

     

     

    a bit of good news for you all. the record release has been pushed up a week. The new release date is April 21st!

  3. 19 Nov 08

    Slacker

    I moved into the studio last monday.  Things are moving at a slow pace.  It’s taking me about 2-3 days per song.  I have one full song done and about 3 other songs at about 60% complete. 

     

    As you read in Matt’s post, I had the pleasure of slacking this past weekend.  It ended in rager fashion on Monday night in Buffalo.  Thanks again to Drew “Crazy Town” Stafford for showing Matt and I a wonderful time.

     

     

     

     

  4. 18 Nov 08

    Update

    we have been working in shifts to get this record done. jim starts in the morning, rob and matt (when he’s not off at regional sporting events) track mid afternoon -early evening and then I have been coming in to do vocals around 8pm. we are about 40% done tracking right now. chris and i still have a lot of work left but we are confident we’ll finish it this year…haha hopefully by the middle of next month.

     

     

    we got a new camera and are having a bit of difficulty logging some of the footage so be patient on the webisode front. todd “dead-eye” bell has returned to do some more filming so he should be able to help the problem. 

     

    oh yeah, we have been filming for a dvd to come with the new record. 

     

    time to battle the arctic wasteland that used to be cleveland and hit the studio, write more soon.

  5. 16 Nov 08

    Day Off

    Chris and I decided to take a day off and go to Pittsburgh yesterday to see my Penguins play the Buffalo Sabres. Pens ended up winning 2-5. Sick game! Thanks goes out to our boy Drew Stafford for hooking up the tickets. Was hard to root against ya bro! Go Pens!

     

     

     

     

  6. 13 Nov 08

    Progress

    yo

     
    so we are moving pretty fast
    rob and matt only have 2 songs left to track on guitar, 1 song will be particularly irksome for them i’m sure.  jim and chris each have about 4 done and i have 2 completed.

     

    expect a webisode this weekend along with more updates.

     

     

    other than that i have been busy working on all of the packaging ideas for the release. even though it’s not until april everything has to be planned now to ensure it all comes out on time.
    while you are waiting for a new webisode feast your eyes on this for a a while…

     

  7. 09 Nov 08

    Riffs Week 1

  8. 08 Nov 08

    Low End Time

  9. 04 Nov 08

    Dear Diary

    Things are going well here at the ol’ studio. Today I finished working on the fifth of fourteen songs we’re recording, and Matt is working on number six right now. My opinion on how things are sounding is….”HUGE”. You really never fully understand how technically demanding a riff is until you try to lay it down for good. A lot of this stuff is hard man- but totally catchy at the same time. I think it was Mr. Eddie Van Halen who once said, “Man I wish we could tour first, and then record the record”! And thats because after you’ve been on the road month after month, playing the songs over and over again, you’re always much better at them individually, and as a band, then you are when you record them. But oh well… we’re trying our best here, and I think everyone is going to appreciate it come April.

  10. 01 Nov 08

    Tracking Day 2

    Hell yeah, man!

     

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