It's been a while, but I wanted to wait until there's something tangible to write and I knew that around these parts of the month there would be something. Now I'm happy to tell all three of you (optimistic number) who might be reading this blog, that the next Crib45 album has taken some very serious steps of progress. This week we'll be hopefully setting the tentative schedules for the studio to confirmation, we have also decided on the tracklist, possible even on the order AND also I'm about 6-8 lines short of completion of the lyrics on the whole album. Nice! Like I previously told you, previously for the past decade, in worst cases I've still been writing the lyric in the vocal booth while laying down the vocal tracks and we've been recording the verses in that order which is ready first while I've been still writing on the other ones. Usually the lyrics are ready about 5 minutes before entering the vocal booth.
So now when the album has taken it's form, what will it be like? Dark. Heavy. Rough. Those three more than others and those three things are definitely more evident on this album than on Metamorphosis. We've made some progress when it comes to music and like I previously told you, this album will not have any Ghost Among Me's or Passage's. So in a way it'll be harder to approach, but it still will have it's softer and easier moments. Vocal harmonies has increased, not in the most typical common way tho, but they are more on the background as instrumental choirs instead of in your face lyrical layered vocal leads. We debuted majority of our album earlier this month at our gig in Club Semifinal and sadly because of the messed up schedules, we had to give on the last song and cut the evening short. What's there to say, except that the audience seemed to welcome the new songs with open arms and after the show all the people who came to talk seemed to have only good things to say, which naturally is nice and heart warming to hear after stressing about how will you guys who like our music receive it. So far, so good, but let's hope that we don't fuck things up in the studio, but I'm sure that we won't since right now we are stronger than ever and our current lineup is filled with so many absolutely talented musicians, that I feel humbled and thankful to have a chance to make music and perform gigs with such lineup. I would say that absolutely love every single person in this lineup, but I don't want everybody to get too proud of themselves, even tho I absolutely do :D
The lyrical themes are going through pessimistic disappointment in mankind, who seems to be drifting towards devolution and dark age of humanity. Other half of the album is going through some of the most personal things I have ever written, about deaths and losses of some of the important people in my life, about regret and search for deliverance. About entering a state where you have lost the ability to see forwards and you can't look backwards without encountering what you and everything else might have been. Fun stuff...
So, what does the schedules and tentative tracklists look like?
We will be hitting the studio a bit over two months from now, in May and we will be locked in there preliminary for a month, including the mixing and such. Hopefully we'll get it mastered as soon as possible, in June and as soon as we figure out who will be releasing it we'll get out for you guy, hopefully around August/September. All this is still a preliminary plan and not confirmed in any way. We try to get the actual studiodates locked down this week, after that we know better. Also the tentative tracklist will look like this:
1. Gathering The Storms
2. Catharsis
3. Waiting For Deliverance
4. Marching Through The Borderlines
5. Towards Perdition
6. Fading Hope
7. Into The Abyss
8. Clearing The Eye
9. Transcending
Album artwork is well on it's way and I'm pretty stoked about that one too, since once again it'll be something unusual and looked as a piece of art.
I have to say that I am in extremely good mood about this album, it will something that I will be extremely proud about when it's finished. Hopefully you will be too...
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