VOCALS & BASS

Monday 110228:

This week it´s time for Fredrik and Robert to make miracles.
Fred picks up his black Music Man bassguitar for the first track. Sounds good.
He´s fast and the first song is ready in a blink of an eye.

           Why the sad face Freddy? You´re doin great!!

To the next song Fred wants to try another bassguitar, his Sandberg California. If the Music Man sounds good, this one sounds bloody amazing!!
Freddy is a good bassplayer and this song is also done lightningfast.

Lunch

                 Me and Freddy shoot some pool.

After the lunch and poolgame it´s time for Robert to lay down some vocaltracks.
It sounds great as usual and a couple of hours later, this first song is well on it´s way!

                         Robert in action

It feels good to be in the studio. The songs are beginning to take shape for real now and we´re a little anxious to get the new shit out soon... =)

see ya tomorrow!
//Tom

ROCK N ROLL

FRIDAY 110225:

So, a week has passed and we got 4 new songs (+ 1 old) ready... Good work!
We rehearse the 4 new songs for a couple of hours and then we leave for home.
It´s been a really good week in many ways and now we´re looking forward to the studio next week.
I´ll keep you updated with more info then.
As a nice closure to this day´s blogging I present to you a sweet picture of pålle the bassman.

                        Isn´t he sweet?

Thanx for stepping by!
See you next week. Over and out.
//tom


THURSDAY 110224:

Hey... long time no see.... =)
Today I presented one of my strangest ideas for a takida-song.
It starts out with a soft riff as intro and verse followed by a heavy bridge, so far so good.
We take it back to the beginning again with soft verse, heavy bridge but then... the chorus... we played a hillbilly blues yesterday and today it´s.................. WALTZ!!!! Yes, that´s right.... waltz.
WHAT THE F**K! you might think right about now... but I guarantee it´s going to be awesome!

            Krille seems excited about the new song

It´s all for today. We´re only here for like 5 hours but we got the job done and we´re pleased so... See you tomorrow. Friday. weekend. Like it!


WEDNESDAY 110223:

We start out with rehearsing the first two songs. It sounds better now and it begins to shape up.
Later we try out a couple of new riffs but before we dig into it, lunch sounds better. =)
After lunch everybody is a bit tired and the lack of inspiration is a fact.
HOWEVER... we get a fuelinjection as we put a rock n roll/blues/hillbilly song together... probably not a albumtrack but it got us on our feet again.

We take some photos posing with our new cool sunglasses from DIRTY DOG. They´ve got really cool shades so go ahead and check em out!

                 Matt and Tom with Dirty Dog´s!

That´s it for today.
See ya tomorrow!

2 NEW

THUESDAY 110222:

Today we started out earlier and by the end of the day we actually had 2 new songs!
Actually, one of them is a idea that we had for the last album but it really didn´t fit in there. Now it´s got new blood and I think it´s going to be awesome!

         Robert is presenting a new idea for an old song.

The other song is from one of pålles ideas. It´s another heavy one. A lot of the new shit is heavy.
Don´t worry... we´re still (and always will be) suckers for slow anthem-like 80´s-smelling rockballads too so... it´s still tAKiDA.

      Pålle´s eyes is revealing the true nature of the song

Tomorrow I´ll try to put some new pictures up too.
Now it´s time for bed.
See ya tomorrow!

AT IT AGAIN...

MONDAY 110221

Hey we´re back!
We return to Ånge and our rehersal room for another week of creating.
We´ll spend a couple of days here and hopefully there will be a handful of new tracks ready at the end of the week.
It´s a soft start and we´re only at it for a couple of hours but we actually got a song ready.
It will probably face a few adjustments during the week but it´s a good start.

                   Tom and his rehersalguitar

We wrap it up with a nice hot cup of coffee in the kitchen and discuss a few simple ways to rule.

                  Looks like matt´s got a plan

MONSTER

THUSDAY 110210:

Me and Mattias continue with guitar all day and in the end of the day I come to the conclusion that we have another dark monster in the bank.  It starts out with a heavy riff, followed up by fast guitars and a cool melody on top.   Everything is working just fine recording like this and it sounds really good already.

        Mattias is playing some heavy shit on his Gibson...

Chris wife makes an awesome lasagna for lunch today. It´s the best tasting one I´ve had so far. THANX.
Afterwards it´s back to business (and business is good).
When it comes to recording in the studio, chris is the greatest. He makes you feel relaxed and you get to try every idea even tough it might sound weird in the beginning. If we try it, we might like it. We love him for that (and for alot of other reasons).

             This guy´s wife makes the best lasagna.

We call it a day (week) and leave the studio for now. We´ll be back soon to WRECKORD some new stuff. See ya!!

         - oh.. and Nemo the hamster died today. R.I.P -

BACK IN THE HOLE

SUNDAY 110123:

It´s been a while now and you might think we´re lazy... however... that´s not true.
We´ve been to the rehersalroom in Ånge to put some new songs together for example.
We also like those breaks with coffee and food. Here´s a picture to proove it!

            Pålle likes Billy´s pan pizza (original)

We spend a couple of days here and then we´re off to BOXROOM for recording next week.


MONDAY 110207:
Here we are! Back in the studio again.
Krille begins  his drumrecordings for the songs ment to be recorded this week. Sounds good.
We get a visit from our sweet manager Lord Kviman and together we make some evil plans how to conquer this planet.
On this picture, Tomas succesfully brought out the true face of our Manager.

                    Yes. He really IS evil.

TUESDAY 110208:
Still recording drums.... fat f---ing drums by the way!
Had a lunch at our "favourite" pizzaplace where we also met up with our sound and lightengineers.
Two guys from the best crew in the world. They follow us down to the studio to listen to a couple of new tracks.

            Goran (master of lights) seems to like it.


WEDNESDAY 110209:
Time for the stringbenders to get to work!
Mattias and Tomas is all over the guitars and makes it even more fat!
Tomas is using is grey schecter diamond for the dropped tunes and it sounds just great.

                   It makes your head spin.

We´re pretty sick of pizza and kebab now so today we actually make our own lunch.
Macaronies in white sauce with sausage is tasty. And it makes you tired too...

       Krille got tired and fell asleep on his drumkit.

Oh, yeah... I almost forgott.
We found the nicest note today at chris house...

          There´s no funny way to translate it so I won´t.

However, the note was about a coffeemaker anyway so... It kind of left a little to your imagination.
We´re giving up for today and leaving for home.
see ya tomorrow!