The Mix

A big fat hullo and how do you do from Hannover!

We're heavily involved in the mix and it's already clear that Mr J-Dawg is laying down the most brutal EmilBulls mix ever. It's the BOMB!

Matthias Mineur popped in for a Metal Hammer Studio report today. And even though the mix isn't quite through yet, we had to give him a little something of what we've been up to here. And as we were talking about the album I realised how far we've come from the beginnings in our mountain refuge in the south. Cut off from the world, we were writing the heaviest Emil Bulls material ever, or rather they just oozed out of our fingertips. We didn't plan for it to be so brutal and were actually quite surprised. But we liked it and there was nothing we could do about it anyway.

Countless conversations, discussion, demoversions, considerations and so on, and now we're here sitting in Hannover and the sound coming from the speakers screams a "Hell Fucking Yeah!" at us.

That's pretty cool. Still it's time to call it a day for now. There's that point where you don't hear properly anymore, right?

That's why it's enough for now. We'll be back for more tomorrow. I can't wait!

All the best

Chrissy

Pledge Allegiance To The Damned (The Unseen One)

The demosong "Pledge Allegiance To The Damned (The Unseen One) is waiting for your ears at www.myspace.com/emilbulls !

Listen and Comment please. We're very excited!

High spirits = Great vocals

Even through the glas separating the the desk from the vocal booth

And as were all having such a great time, the others can join our choir (Benny, Thomas of Butterfly Coma and Chrissy).

And to keep it up there's those excellent fast-food-junk-whatevers from time to time.

Today's the last day of vocal recordings. Those little "fuck"s and "hey"s and "aaah"s and "oooooh" are just being finished before the vocal tracks will be taken to Hannover, to be placed in Jakob's Mix. This is a quit a logistic task, but hey it's all for that one purpose: the album of the year.

Attention, hold your breath, here we go:

Tonight by about 9 PM CET we'll upload yet another demosong for "THE BLACK PATH" to our Myspace page (myspace.com/emilbulls)!

"Pledge Allegiance To The Damned (The Unseen One)" is waiting to bust your synapses and generally rock your socks off. 

Yeehaw!

Adios

Chrissy

The Hex

We're in the final throes of our vocal recordings and it's awesome. Seriously!

I'm feeling a bit worn out due to the large amounts of delicious wine I tried at Benny's place yesterday. But it's not my job to do the singing, so I can just sit and enjoy the masters voice. At the moment we're creaming a song called "The Hex". A monster of heaviness. "The darkest evil arrives!" it says. My head and stomach agree without hesitation.

Benny is learning Bavarian and goes "Jawoll!" all the time.

Hooooooo-ha!

Chrissy

Why it's the stage for me

I'm currently trying to distract myself from not having heard a single note of singing so far. So I went out to this club "Glockenbachwerkstatt" yesterday to see "Gordon's Tsunami Week", the "Droon" keyboarder's excellent other band. If you caught us on The Southern Comfort Tour, you probably saw Droon opening for us. The concert was really impressive, 'cause "Gordon's Tsunami Week" are almost an orchestra. Three guitars, bass, keyboard, drums, a violin and a mandolin played by seven guys and two computers started fireworks in this tiny club. It was great.

I was a bit curious about this strange guitar they had. A Fender head on a Gibson body and only one string!?!? I took a picture but its kinda hard to see.

Not only is the picture all blurry, I accidentally photographed  myself too. The flash was on and I just hate live-pics with flash. So when I noticed, I turned the phone around and for some reason flashed directly into my face.

So here's the reason why I'm on stage and not down there with the photographers.

And hey, the albums going to be the bomb. I already know the songs :-)

Later

News from the vocal-booth

Yeeeeeeesssssss! Done! 

All vocal-parts referred to as "clean" vocals are finished. "Clean" vocal-parts being the parts that are sung as opposed to parts that are being screamed. 

With the utmost focus we go through our list. 

It's 24 7 singing, experimenting and checking the results.

Christoph is doing really extremely well here. It's a "feeling first" approach. And Benny and I once again found that making music is mainly about feeling. Not about   technically measurable nonsense people would like to call "correct" because that's what they learned somewhere or because the display shows a certain number. To get the feeling across you need a well lubricated throat. So there's a lot of tea. 

We're at it!

Chrissy

Calling Mühlheim

Actually I wanted to pick up Christoph in Mühlheim to go to Switzerland. Since we're apparently not going I will show you what the vocal recordings are really like:

This is not a fire, It's the insane lights on Izmir's Kebab! 

Christoph calling from Coma Studio

Hell-o

This is Christ speaking:

Whoa, what's this? I'm really writing for our blog...

You must be thinking: " Oh my god! The man can't have time for this, when he's singing for the album of the year..." And you're right. But we left the studio a bit earlier today so here we go...

Regular visitors will already know that I'm in Helge Schneider  city Mühlheim a.d. at the moment, in order to give our what it deserves vocal-wise.

My fellow combatants have set extremely high standards. And now I'm facing the huge challenge of reaching those heights. And I can modestly say that I'm doing  well. 

It's day 6 and everythings running smoothly. 9 out of 14 songs are pretty much complete and with Benny's quest for the perfect harmonies I have recorded more vocal-tracks than on all of our albums taken together. 

I can't wait until J-Dawg finally gets his hands on the mixing desk at the Horus Studio to give the Black Path it's direction. No question, it leads upwards. 

A lot of sound will meet the membrane of my little Neumann U87 until then. Therefore it's still time for extreme focus, sobriety and strict bedtimes. 

This is my day:

11:00 Wake, shower etc.

11:30 Take off to the studio via Lintorf, in order to buy food, candles or else

12:00-12:30 Arrival and an attempt at warming up while lighting candles, having breakfast and getting prepped for 10 hours of non-stop recording. 

13:00-23:00 Recording and stand-by of the brain (therefore nothing can be told about this period)

23:00 End of workday, curfew and total exhaustion... Our producer Benny shows his hottest myspace-bitches and off we go, to somewhere in the woods, where benny lives in nice house with his family and two dogs. And at the moment I#m part of this family and feel very welcome...

24:06 Time to go to bed and dream sweet dreams of magic melodies.

Over and out.

Good night Telekrüstoraffemaschinemingo

Word...

Christoph is getting the job done at an unbelievable pace down in good ol' Mühlheim. Fueled by the props we have been getting for our Demotrack "To End All Wars", of course. We put the Demo online at Myspace and 2 hours later we already had 1000 plays. Yes! Thank you for all the comments and messages.  

You should always listen to your singer and refrain from throwing anything at him. 

Ladies and Getlemen, the greatest band in the world before the 21st century:

Adios

Chrissy

To End All Wars (DEMO 2007)

To End All Wars (DEMO 2007)

Life on tour

Yes sir, that's what it's like!

Christoph is singing and I just can't wait to finally hear the vocals!

James

Guitar Hero

It's always great to see Steve Vai, God of all Guitargods. And because I was going on about musicians jerking off over their skills, here's how it's really done:



Christoph went off to Mühlheim today and is singing and singing and singing...

See Ya
Chrissy

My favorite video

This is one of my favorite music-videos. The BBQ is great and the B-ball match against Jesus is the shit!

Seeya 

Moik

Gruß, Moik

Busybusy

We're at work so here's a couple of pictures by Steffen, who came over to the studio. Steffen myspace-page is to be found at www.myspace.com/truefaithpics.

It's guitar-time. Guitar-orchestras at times.

Left to right: Benny Richter, Moik; Front: Chrissy, Christoph, RöckDög.

Seeyall next year. 

Artwork

While Christoph is preparing for the vocal recordings, we're trying to figure out the look of our album. Searching thousands of websites and books for inspiration, exchanging ideas, making sketches and talking about possible artists and designers. 

It's really important to us, that the outside of the album reflects what's inside.

Our cover for "Porcelain" is in one of those CoverArt books for it's design by the way.

Nevertheless the quest isn't quite over. And time is a factor we all constantly have in mind. The Album is due in April 2008. No time to waste. Promise.

James

To End All Wars

Happy New Year!

Our Producer-team is back at the Horus Studio-facilities, getting some 60 tracks or more per song ready to sing on.This will be the crown, the prime-cut, the cream in the ice-cream and basically the flesh on our new record's bare bones. Yeeehaw!

More than 60 tracks? You must be nuts! Well, if you ask me that's exactly what we are.  

Since Fab the Animal banged his drums to tape in only 3 days and Jamie the Monster did the job in only 1 day, the guitars were under some serious pressure at least not to take any longer than that. Like 3 days for both of us.

So what do you do when the pressure's building up? Put more pressure on! So we put on some second and third and fourth and sometimes even five extra voices, solos, licks, chainsaws, feedbacks, some this and some that, little gimmicks... Everything. 

Highly musical not to forget. No jerking off, but cunningly emphasising melody, tuning and coolness. Beautiful, brutal, wild and all together pretty good.

Plus: This madness took us only five days to record. 

...a man's gotta do what a man's gotta do.