BATTLELORE Check In From The Studio

BATTLELORE Check In From The Studio - "The Sound Of A Real Cello Is Amazing, And It Truly Brought The Perfect Atmosphere To The Songs"










Finland's BATTLELORE began work on their new studio in early June at Sound Supreme Studios (Finland) with Janne Saksa. Following is a studio update from Week #4:

"This week started off with Jyri's final adjustments for his songs on the guitar. Jyri and Kaisa had an evil and smart plan for this - Jyri did his guitars in the mornings, so that Kaisa had enough time to get her voice opened up and working as good as possible before hitting the singing booth. After the first couple of days, Jyri's guitar work was done and Kaisa was off to a brilliant start with her vocals! The best thing about this was that we didn't have to hurry - a few songs a day was the perfect pace to get things done in the best possible way; enough time to really focus on the details of the songs and try to achieve perfection without having to compromise due to lack of time. Kaisa had done some amazing arrangements for herself, really great ideas on the demos of the songs, and with Janne's (Saksa, the producer) 'golden ears' the ideas and details were perfected until the end result was just what we all had wanted.

On Wednesday we had a visitor in the studio. Pretty much every time we've made an album we have been hoping to get real instruments to give the orchestrations and classical instrument 'solo' kind of parts the right atmosphere and feeling - Maria has played her flute on all the albums, but that has been pretty much the only classical music instrument we have been able to use - and this time around our dream came true. Markus Vuoristo, an incredibly talented young cellist, came to the studio with his cello to play for a few songs on the album. The sound of the real cello is amazing - and it truly brought the perfect atmosphere to the songs. Besides the more solo kind of parts, he also did some guitar stuff with a cello to bring them a nice touch as well... We love it!

This week was really nice and relaxed - Jyri finally got to play minigolf after the series of unfortunate events with Maria that led them to end up in a bar instead, when Kaisa took him to play. More pinball tournaments, but still Jyri hasn't been able to kick Henri's ass and beat the 14 million points' record... We think he'll have to stay in the studio. Maybe we'll see him again the next time we hit the studio

During one the last days there was a problem when one of the cables mystically broke down on its own. It sounded like Kaisa would've been breathing through her singing (which, knowing human physics, shouldn't be possible) or like someone would've been whispering or breathing directly to the microphone while she sang (which, unless one believes in ghosts, shouldn't have been possible either, since there was no one else in the booth but Kaisa). It took a while to find out what the problem was, but luckily Janne is such a smart guy that he figured it out before anyone started calling the ghostbusters...

All in all, the week went on by perfectly and the songs got done much quicker than anticipated, so at the end of the week Tomi came to the studio to start on his singing and growling parts as well. So, after week 4, Kaisa is finished with her singing parts, Jyri is finished with the guitars, the cello parts are done and Tomi has started out with his stuff! So, next week... More of Tomi, and a bit of flute with Maria."

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As previously reported, the legendary Dan Swanö (EDGE OF SANITY, BLOODBATH) has been tapped to mix the album; and early fall 2010 release is expected. Check out the band's latest video blog from the studio below: