OK folks,
Time to breach the long silence and see what's happening in the TOD land:
We are soon entering studio to record the drums and some miscellaneous instruments for the upcoming sixth album. The recordings will take place early May in D-STUDIO at Klaukkala, Finland. We have carefully selected and refined seven songs which might potentially appear on the upcoming album. We have put quite a lot of effort on these songs; a lot of hours spent at the rehearsal place playing ...and drinking beer and thinking about the compositions and structures. I might even dare to say that we have never put so much effort and thought on these things before. I would also like to mention that the band is in a state which you can only achieve with years of dedication and hard work. The spirit and the motivation shown by everybody has made working with this album a really pleasant journey.
This album will be a real, natural continuum for the previous "Great Fleet of Echoes" album: progressive, layered, melancholic - the songs are even more epic and atmospheric, introducing some of the longest songs we have ever composed. And it is finally time to leave all the growling vocals behind, especially from this album, so it's only clean vocals from now on. After the drums are recorded, the recordings will continue in small sessions throughout the summer and autumn. It might be optimistic, but ideally it would be great to get the album released within this year to celebrate the 20th anniversary of Throes of Dawn.
Henri K.
TOD
