Dirty Beloved

After a long summer of tracking and mixing, we’re finally at the point where the mastering for our 2011 EP is complete and the CDs are due back in a week or so. Plenty of time for them to be ready for our November 12 show at Cafe Dekcuf where we’ll be performing these songs for the first time in Ottawa. The EP features the title track of the upcoming 2012 release “Brain Bleeder” as well as “Rise & Shine”, “No Guide” and “Cleanse”. In addition to these songs, we’ll also be playing a number of other tracks that will be included on the upcoming 2012 full release plus a few old favorites. It’s going to be a great night of music so we hope to see you out.

For those of you who just can’t wait until the show, follow the links above to either Facebook or Myspace where the songs are available now for streaming. Heck, if you drop us a line or reach out to us on the blog, we might even share a download link with ya so you can have these tracks wherever you go!

See you all November 12.

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We give Mike’s Zoom Q3 a test as we work our way through a new instrumental.

Quick preview of the band trying out a new song at last years field-fest Set It All Alight

Celebrating their 10th anniversary this year, the BWL organizers in conjunction with Radio Rock Cafe set up 3 days of music to close out the 5 day event.

The band headed out to St-Calixte, Que. on August 6 to help kick off the music.  We took the opportunity to do a final road test of some of the tracks that will be on our next CD  and response to the set was fantastic (recording starts early this fall but we’ll be posting more about that soon)!  We cannot wait to get this music out to you all.

Caught some great bands, saw some great bikes and made some new friends.  We had a blast!

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Warming up for our set

Long weekends and outdoor festivals are two things that are meant to go together.  This weekend we took out some of our new material for a road test at Field Fest 2010.  Despite some technical difficulties at the start of the set with the generator, the feedback was overwhelmingly positive once we got underway.  We can’t wait to get started with our sessions this fall (more on this soon) so we can get the new material out for mass consumption!

Next on our schedule though is Bike Week Lanaudiere where we’re going to put our new tracks out for their final preview before we hit the studio.  We’re on at 6pm sharp on August 6.

Hope to see you out!

Continued Progress on Third Album

Currently there are 10 tracks being worked on with plans to write another 2 to 4 songs before we hit to studio. The plan is to record everything and then choose what will make the album, most likely 10 or 11 songs. The rest we’ll post on the site for a free download.

One of the new tracks is “The Priests of Hiroshima” which we have debuted at a few of our last shows. This song was one of the first written for the third album and I think defines the general direction of what to expect. It is killer to play live.

I am still working on the best way to intro the song. I have tried a few different ideas, such as a building a roll on the snare to match the phrasing of the guitar, then going into the verse. The second idea, which is what is used currently, is to start the track with some chokes to build the energy and then lock in for the verse. Seems to work, but we’ll get it figured out for the CD. The songs about 4:15 in length.

From a drum point of view it is hard driving all the way through with double kick virtually from start to finish. I get a chance to try some new techniques I have been working as well, such as double stroke rolls with my feet. This song usually plays around 210pbm, so moving for a DB song with double kick to match in the chorus, solo section and end riff.

The guitar for this song is totally driving from start to finish with a riff heavy verse, chorus and bridge section. It features some incredible vocals, with a 100 word a min vocal flash in the pre-chorus (with some great backing vocals) and some great harmonies over the bridge. Of course no DB song is complete with a killer lock between drums and bass and this song has it, seen certainly in the solo section.

To give you an idea of what it sounds like a comment was made at a recent show indicating it is in the same vein as “Painkiller” by Judas Priest.

Definitely fun to practice and play live.

I hope this to be the start of a weekly entry on all the new material for the third album. Each week we’ll talk about the structure and background on one of the new songs being worked on, maybe even post a demo of it for you to check out.