2009-06-18

Big update! + new Video Diary! *updated*

Hello there!

Today we have a pretty big update for you. First and foremost, ALL the guitars are now done! I was nagging Chris about updating the blog to let you know but for some odd reason he hasn't.. So I will be doing this post instead. It's nice to hear the songs with all the guitars as you get a better impression of how the songs will sound like in the end. And it sounds awesome! Chris & Robert have really done well. But there is a big chunk missing... And that, of course, is the bass - which we have moved on to today!



We got up to the studio quite early this morning and did some soundcheck of Dave's amp.
But before we began he put on some new strings on his preciuos Ibanez - no dirty old strings are making their way on to this album!


We feel we have a solid bass sound now, which is good! We didn't let any time go to waste so he nailed one song pretty fast. Then we took a break due to me having to do some other work elsewhere.

We will probably head up to the studio some more today and track some more bass.

In other news - we played a very fun gig on the 6th of June here in Hultsfred, which is a while back now, but we want to say thank you to those of you who showed up and supported us! Our former bass-player Petter Gunnarsson stepped in for David because he refused to skip the Sweden Rock Festival ;) So a big thank you to Petter as well. Sadly, I don't have many pictures of the event at this time, but the ones I have I will happily share!



(Photos by: Danielle Simu, except the setlist, which was shot by none other than me)
If you have any more, please feel free to send them to us! We will post them here and give you the credit! We will probably make some more show announcements soon, so stay tuned!

And now, for the thing that all of you have been waiting for.... The latest instalment of the Video Diary! In this episode.. Well, people actually get hurt, and by people, I mean Chris! So if you wanna' see some blood, join in on the fun!
(I have to stress that he did not get any serious injuries)

Hope you enjoyed. Feel free to give us a scream (or a simple hello) in the comments!

Last but not least, I thought about changing the our name and take a totally different direction with this band. Sadly I did not.. Anyway, I did make this drawing to illustrate my inner desires!

(For those of you who doesn't understand the word "Helvete", here is a quick translation: "Hell")

See you soon!
//Rickard - Straight To Nowhere

2009-06-12

Say hello to...

Pickface!



Chris is in the studio at this very moment laying down some solos for the album. It's shaping up really good! Give us a shout in the comments if you're as excited as we are!

/Rickard - Stn

2009-06-11

RECORDING!!!!

This weekend I will try to put down the last tunes. All of my clean guitars and all of my lead parts. Since I'll take a week of heading up north to visit my parents-in-law I will try to get the work done before that.

In the meantime I hope Robert will go on with his leads and the vocals, maybe Dave feel like to nail some grooves to the tracks?

See you when I'm done relaxing ;)

// Chris - STN

2009-06-08

Video Diary part 4!

The four gringos are at it yet again! Check out the 4th episode of our studio diary!



You can find previous instalments on YouTube!

/Straight To Nowhere

2009-06-03

Chris's Clean Guitar

After hours of testing different amps to get a good clean sound for Chris we've finally found a solution. We hooked up Chris's Fender Strat to a 70's Music Man amp and a Framus speaker cabinet. Chris might be a little sad about not playing on his beloved Orange amp, but it sounds mighty yummy!

Soon we'll start tracking Chris's lead guitars. At one point he'll sing along with the solo, and for that we borrowed an old Green Bullet mic from my girlfriends dad (He's a blues man). It's bound to sound really cool!

//Robert - STN