tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-86603216164178458162024-03-13T22:08:45.090+02:00Ever Circling WolvesAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07159325307201694980noreply@blogger.comBlogger25125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8660321616417845816.post-73408846548747930522017-02-13T12:00:00.000+02:002017-02-16T20:09:20.994+02:00Of Of Woe or: The conclusion of the behind the scenes series<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">Now it's time to wrap up this series of blog posts. We hope you've enjoyed reading these texts as much as we did writing them, and we also hope we can keep up the posting, not quite as often as lately, but every now and then, so that it won't be years between posts. But without further ado, the last two tracks on the album, the shortest and the longest.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Otto: The last song to be written for the album. I remember thinking that the
closing track of the album, "These Are Ashes", began too abruptly –
especially if it was following the delicate outro of Lenore, like we originally
planned – so it needed a mellow, quiet introductory part of sorts. A short
moment of peace and tranquility to catch up your breath before the final song.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">This is a peaceful little piece composed really with nothing more than several
overlapping guitar parts, followed by a few rumbling bass chords that serve as
messengers of what's to come.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">What I really enjoy in this
little song is how naturally the first part flows despite being played in a slightly
odd meter (one whole phrase lasts for a 15/4).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">These Are Ashes, These Are
Roots</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Otto: Clocking at over 15 minutes, "These Are Ashes" is a real
behemoth of a song. This song is truly a Frankenstein's monster, built piece by piece,
sometimes picked apart, sometimes built again with the same pieces but in a
completely different order. Although superficially it is a rather simple piece
consisting of just parts 1a, 1b and 2 (the last one played entirely in 6/4),
its structure is tremendously complicated beneath the surface. Taking its
complex structure, occasionally really odd time signatures and long playing
time into account, it’s hilarious we managed to play this song correctly from
the first notes to the last ones not later than in our third attempt to
rehearse this song! Somehow the different parts just flow smoothly from one to
another so I must say it's surprisingly easy to play a song consisting of 20
parts (most of which are never repeated) without thinking about it much.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">I also must say that my favorite part of this song is that proggy, heavily
syncopated, off-beat bass-driven part I came up with one time when a big
thunderstorm struck us. As the thunders started rumbling, I took my bass to the
balcony and just sat there, playing different melodies off my head and looking
at the thunderbolts flash all around me. That specific bass melody just stuck
with me and I quickly came up with a guitar lead that somehow both follows and
contrasts the bass melody. It fit this song like a glove.</span></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Henri: I absolutely nailed the vocals on this
one, I must say. I mean, I like my performance on the other tracks as well, but
this one just sounds so massive. Also, at this point I’d like to give a
standing ovation to Olli Hipeli, who played the keyboards on the album:
throughout the album, he brought out just a bit more from each of the
songs, but nowhere more so than here.</span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">Otto: Hear, hear. I must echo that opinion: Olli really did some real magic
tricks to this album. "Of Woe" is definitely not a keyboard-driven
album, but his parts really are really vital to the atmosphere of many songs,
furthering their sonic depth and complexity tremendously.</span></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Henri: The final rumbling part after the clean
guitars bit was fun to record. We just kept adding guitar tracks with slightly
different tones like “this tone starts here and eight bars later we’ll add this
one and then that one.” I’d just gotten me a Black Arts Toneworks Black Forest
overdrive/fuzz pedal and while it was used on all my distorted guitar tracks, I
recall here we did one (or maybe even more) of these rumble bits with my amp
and pedals and Otto’s guitar.</span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">And then the choral shouts, I think I came up
with the idea. We basically had everyone who came by the studio (rehearsal room,
basically) do some takes. I was actually quite surprised when we recorded Otto
growling, he’d never really tried it as I recall, but his voice was awesome.
Others who contributed included Ykä and Antti from <b>IA</b> and Jere from <b>Desecrated
Grounds</b>. In the end, we had something like 15 tracks of screams, shouts and
growls. Can’t remember if we ever played the song live before starting to
record the choir bits, but afterwards we’ve had Otto and Sami do the choir
shouts. And the audience, if they’re awake and willing (so far, we’ve managed
to get only one audience to scream along).<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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Love the Gloom</span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> is out now on our <a href="https://ecwdoom.bandcamp.com/" target="_blank">Bandcamp page </a>as well as Spotify, Google Play, iTunes etc.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07159325307201694980noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8660321616417845816.post-52274384451940815682017-02-11T12:00:00.000+02:002017-02-11T12:00:18.206+02:00Of Of Woe or: How do we manage these song structures, really<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">We are not ones to write straight verse/chorus/verse material, and if you've listened to our songs, you know that already. This time it's time for one of the most progressive song structures on the album and the penultimate part in our behind the scenes series.</span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: FI;"><br /></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: FI;">Lenore</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: FI;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: FI;">Otto: This is definitely one of the most impressive things we've done.
Mainly this song is based on a structure by Henri, which the rest of the band
fleshed out.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: FI;">Lenore really includes some of my favorite moments of the album. The part
about two and half minutes in, where we use some odd time signatures, rhythms,
syncopation and whatnot, was great already in its original form (and it beats
the hell out of me how Henri ever came up with it!), but once Niko started
playing a small part of it with a laid-back back beat groove, it transcended to
being just simply awesome. Furthermore, how this part ends with an extended
drum fill going well past the bar the riff ends up with was originally an
accident: Niko never got the hang of it how the riff ended and when the next
riff started, so he always started to play this extended drum fill towards the end
of the riff in order to catch us up once the next one started!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: FI;">Henri: I named the aforementioned part “the winner riff” when writing the
song. It was years ago, so I’m not exactly sure why, but it might’ve had to do
with the feeling I got from the riff, like “Yeah, I’m a winner! Huh!”</span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: FI;">Thematically sort of related to Coeur, musically also follows the
philosophy of “go anywhere, return if you feel like it”, although decidedly
less of a quilt composition. At some point in time I realized we are pretty
progressive with our song structures. And hey, that works for us. Also, I
remember the first time we played this song live and when the 5/4 outro kicked
in I saw a couple pairs of eyes brighten in the audience along with an audible
“OOOOOHHHH!”</span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Otto: I'm not surprised by
their reactions; after all I, too, find the outro of the song really great.
That 5/4 melody seems to flow with remarkable ease despite the odd time
signature and our album version just gets better once the acoustic guitars kick
in. I really love that folky atmosphere of the outro when two acoustic guitars
play the lead melody an octave apart while a 12-string acoustic guitar keeps up
the harmony backdrop intact with its almost mandolin-like sound.</span></div>
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Love the Gloom</span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: FI;"> is out now on our <a href="https://ecwdoom.bandcamp.com/" target="_blank">Bandcamp page </a>as well as Spotify, Google Play, iTunes etc.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07159325307201694980noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8660321616417845816.post-9290055128568211132017-02-08T12:00:00.000+02:002017-02-08T12:00:05.821+02:00Of of Woe or: Chapter V...<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">...in which the protagonists talk about a song called "Deeper", which is probably the song on the album you didn't expect would be on the album.</span></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: FI;">Deeper</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: FI;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: FI;">Otto: This song is in the album because I felt we needed a more mellow song
somewhere in the middle of this album, so that the record would have more
dynamics and nuances – it needn't be just full blast doom metal from the
beginning to the end, like our previous effort, <i>The Silence from Your Room</i>. I wanted to write a song that would
employ no distorted guitars nor growled vocals, yet be doomy and atmospheric
enough to fit the album.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: FI;">Henri: I
feel the need to point out “Silence” wasn’t just full on doom through and
through, since it was punctuated by the grind of “Dear Eva pt. 2” and the noise
of “Beasts of Flesh and Iron.” However, Otto’s point still stands, since those
two tracks didn’t relent from the oppressive feel into something mellower. So,
lots more dynamics this time ‘round.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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Otto: Good point, Henri. Anyhow, this is a song I pretty much wrote and played
through and through. Of course, Henri rewrote a major part of the original
lyrics I had written and sang half of the vocals parts while Niko of course wrote
and played his drum parts, but other than that, this is pretty much just me,
doing the guitar, bass and vocal parts.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: FI;">Henri: While Otto is an excellent writer, he was a fledgling writer of
poetry at the time he came forward with this song </span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: FI;">(Otto: I'm
afraid there has been very little progress there!)<i>, composition and text and all. I had nothing to add to the music, but
the words I thought I could improve upon. The result was a continuation of an
ongoing narrative through “Dear Eva”, “In the Trench” and “Challenger Deep”,
where we’ve now progressed to utter despair, so there’s no option left but to
sink to the bottom of bottoms. The title also references “Challenger Deep” quite
directly. We often try to be witty like that.<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: FI;">Otto: I was inspired by several songs when I wrote this one, but my major
influences were "<i>Steel That Sleeps
the Eye</i>" by <b>Baroness</b>,
"<i>Harvest</i>" by <b>Opeth</b>, "<i>Comfortably Numb</i>" and "<i>Wish You Were Here</i>" by <b>Pink
Floyd</b> and "<i>Tonight the Sky</i>"
by <b>Sun Kil Moon</b>. "Harvest"
served as the inspiration of what I set out to achieve; the intertwining vocal
harmonies were inspired by the Baroness song; the C part with the classic "Iron
Maiden" chord progression (VI-VII-i) before the final solo was influenced
by the powerful C part in Tonight the Sky; and the idea of using a clean guitar
solo to close the song came from Comfortably Numb. And finally, overall I feel
that the song is like a gloomy, dark take on "Wish You Were Here".<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: FI;">I think that the thick bass sound is really great here, giving the song a
very colossal feel. The sound is not just Rickenbacker 4003, but it's also
doubled by a guitar part that has been transposed one octave lower, just to
give the bass sound a nice Fender VI Bass kind of ring to it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: FI;">I'm tremendously pleased with the vocals here. Even though Henri is not
much of a clean singer (although he is getting better by the day! (<i>Henri: Too bad the vocals were recorded in
2013.</i>)) and I am even much less, the end result is definitely something you
can listen to without cringing. Much, at least. I'm especially happy how we
tackled through the intertwining vocal harmonies, which were quite challenging
a task for beginner-level singers, to say in retrospect. Yet they sound pretty
great and give the song nice harmonic complexity I enjoy very much.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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as a blending element between the C part and the final solo: the last vocal
lines descend and at the same time the first notes of the guitar solo ascend.</span><br />
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Love the Gloom</span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: FI;"> is out now on our <a href="https://ecwdoom.bandcamp.com/" target="_blank">Bandcamp page </a>as well as Spotify, Google Play, iTunes etc.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07159325307201694980noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8660321616417845816.post-71044433785969787622017-02-06T12:00:00.000+02:002017-02-06T12:00:10.706+02:00Of Of Wow or: A glimpse behind the curtain, part 4<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: FI;">Challenger Deep</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: FI;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: FI;">Otto: One of those songs I came up with almost during one single sitting. I
just sat at my computer with my guitar and bass and the song really wrote
itself. Completely instrumental, this song rather obviously betrays my love for
post-rock and post-metal.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: FI;">Henri: If my memory serves me, we had this idea of a song that would be
sort of like a continuation of “In the Trench”, and we even had the title
ready: moving from the Mariana Trench into Challenger Deep, the deepest point
on the surface of Earth. Wasn’t long when Otto came up with this thing.
Instrumental, so the theme is carried on in name only, but it’s picked up in
words also in the following song.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: FI;">Otto: I enjoy how this song contrasts really massive and heavy parts with
parts that are quite light and airy, yet never feeling too abrupt.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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times to tackle this song through in our rehearsals, I really doubt that this
song is ever going to be a mainstay in our live shows. The album version is so
moody, I find it hard to replicate the song's crushing atmosphere live.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: FI;">Of Woe or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and
Love the Gloom</span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: FI;"> is out now on our <a href="https://ecwdoom.bandcamp.com/" target="_blank">Bandcamp page</a> as well as Spotify, Google Play, iTunes etc.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07159325307201694980noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8660321616417845816.post-39019319393478750832017-02-03T12:00:00.000+02:002017-02-03T12:00:10.354+02:00Of Of Woe or: A third look behind the scenes with ECW<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">This time the topic is the official old song on the album. It's so old it was on our 2011 EP, Chapter III, already. That, however, does not make it any less good or it wouldn't have been included on the album. We're not entirely daft, you see.</span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">In the Trench</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Otto: The first song written for this album – I remember us jamming this
tune back in early 2009 with Arttu, our previous bassist.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">This version differs from the earlier EP version with some minor additions:
there are some keyboard parts there adding some depth and harmony and there's a
gong. Yes, gong. As we were recording the drums for the album, we discovered a
great big shiny gong in the studio, so we decided that we definitely need a
gong in our album. We recorded several good hits so that we could use one as
soon as we had any idea where would be the best spot for a gong. Ultimately, it
found its place in this song.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Henri: Another obvious difference is the addition of the subtitle "(Dear Eva pt. 3)" to the song title. Now, this has always been a continuation of the Dear Eva narrative, and I can't recall why we decided to drop it from the EP, but we did. This time we decided to include it to easily differentiate between the two versions as well as to make the relation to the other tracks explicit.</span></i><br />
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">What we retained from the EP version, however, is that the second
“verse” (“swallowing the brine…”) is one repeat (counting by the guitars)
shorter than the first. This is because Niko, who recorded and mixed the EP as
a school assignment, accidentally cut one repeat out and we didn’t notice until
later. It would’ve been easily rectified, but we thought hey, why not give it a
try like this? The lyrics were so sparse, I didn’t have to cut a single word,
just shorten the long “LOVE” scream, which I couldn’t scream as long as I
wanted to anyway.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">I remember the thing that got me started on the lyrics in this one was
accidentally getting some water down the wrong pipe. While coughing the water
out, I thought of the line “I need you like I need the water I breathe”, i.e.
not at all. Thematically, this is a sequel to “Dear Eva” (both parts) on our
first album, but here the longing of part one and anger of part two have been
replaced with bitterness. The theme then carries on to the two following
tracks.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Otto: Oh, in the case you have
wondered about the structure of this song, it's: Country - Moon - Naut*-
Country - Moon - Cowboy**- Naut - Conflict - Slowdown - Astral*** - Slowdown.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">* Henri: It refers to a band called The Naut<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">** Henri: The name of this part is after the movie Midnight Cowboy, which I
was watching when coming up with the riff<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">*** Henri: This part is directly lifted from “Dear Eva pt. 1"; while
the rhythm of the lyrics is otherwise different, the “Dear Eva” line is intact;
hence the song's subtitle “Dear Eva pt. 3</span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Love the Gloom</span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> is out now on our <a href="https://ecwdoom.bandcamp.com/" target="_blank">Bandcamp page </a>as well as Spotify, Google Play, iTunes etc.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07159325307201694980noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8660321616417845816.post-76097798411978519882017-02-01T12:00:00.000+02:002017-02-01T12:00:00.239+02:00Of Of Woe or: The second look into our brand new album<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Last time we talked about one of the oldest songs on the album. Turns out this one is nearly as old, but it feels more fresh to us and it certainly sounds more fresh. Read on to find out why.</span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: FI;">Haunted</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: FI;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: FI;">Otto: I originally wrote this song pretty much verbatim how it ended up in
the album, excluding the extended outro part. Originally the song just faded
away once it transitioned from the main riff to the clean part. However, as we
rehearsed this song, it tended to end up with extended jam parts and whatnot,
so we figured out that there was probably some room to expand this song. What
resulted was a bass solo, an extended guitar solo, a clean vocal interlude and
a new, more powerful outro.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: FI;">I remember originally
presenting this song to Henri and he just discarded the idea off the bat, as
the song didn't sound like us, according to him. I disagreed, but decided to
wait. The next time I presented the song he was totally open to the song and we
took it into our rehearsal regime.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: FI;">Henri: I like to think we grew into the song, Otto just happened to be
ahead of his time when writing it. In any case, I, too, am glad we added it
into the repertoire</span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: FI;">.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: FI;">Otto: Currently this is
definitely one of my favorite songs of the album, if not even THE favorite. And
why wouldn't it be? After all, in addition to being doomy as hell, it has got
two very distinct guitar solos, a death metal part, a goddamn bass solo, really
odd time signatures (at times even several different meters going on at the
same time) and great clean parts. It's really one hell of a song.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: FI;">Henri: I think the death metal part is more like thrash metal, though that
is open for discussion. And that gives me a segue to mention that due to Niko’s
insistence, we bumped the tempo up a notch in that part. We’d practiced it a
bit slower and the increase in tempo made it quite hard for Otto and me to
properly downpick the riff, not to mention how Otto was in a bit of a rush
during the solo.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: FI;">Otto: Despite these
tempo-related difficulties, I'm pretty glad how the guitar solos turned out to
be. I wanted this faster first one to be short, abrupt and somewhat atonal to
suit the feel of the aggressive death / thrash metal part, whereas I wanted the
second one to contrast the earlier parts by having more of an airy, Pink Floyd
vibe to it with a clean guitar tone and some nice, soulful bends.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: FI;">Henri: I tried to remember if I wrote the lyrics to this first, or this very
short piece of prose (in Finnish) that was basically the same thing. Had to
check it and the lyrics came first. Probably would have been cooler the other
way around, but oh well. The clean bit at the very end was added considerably
later, though, and that is also where the album title originally comes from,
“icy fingers creep in slow / the ever-circling wolves of woe”, though later we
decided to add the subtitle.</span></i><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><i>Of Woe or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Gloom</i> is out now on our <a href="https://ecwdoom.bandcamp.com/" target="_blank">Bandcamp page</a> as well as Spotify, Google Play, iTunes etc.</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07159325307201694980noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8660321616417845816.post-89419142174904124812017-01-30T12:00:00.000+02:002017-01-30T12:00:00.624+02:00Of Of Woe or: Behind the scenes with ECW, part 1It's been nearly five years since we began recording the album called <i>Of Woe or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Gloom</i>, and now it has finally been unleashed upon the public. To commemorate this joyous occasion, we thought we'd share some insight into how the songs on the album came to be, since it's something we ourselves would be interested in reading, coming from bands we like. Furthermore, we decided to do it piece by piece, or rather song by song. In this first part, we'll, however, cover the intro track as well as the first song proper, Cœur.<br />
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Sunrise Has Gone<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Henri: This, the intro track, sprung forth from the soft arpeggio it
starts with and the idea that it would get progressively louder, until becoming
overwhelmed by distorted guitar, which then, in turn, becomes overwhelmed by
noise that carries it over to Cœur, which we were already at the time playing
with Otto making noise in the beginning. The original version was something
like 7 minutes long, but we edited it down to less than three. I can’t recall
who thought of the bitcrusher drums or why, but they were added because we
could.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Otto: I have a vague memory that the idea of
using bitcrusher drums was your idea, Henri, and your reasoning behind it was
"because we can". I found no remarkable holes in that plan.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Henri: Yeah, that’s probably it. I recall programming them with this app
I had on my phone. It turned out surprisingly good.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Otto: It did. I'm especially content how my idea
of having a chromatically descending chord progression in the background turned
out: it could've ended up sounding just pure wrong, but instead it added this
kind of nice, jarring kind of effect to the song. A little bit of dissonance
has never killed anybody, right?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Henri: The second song to be written for this album, thrown together from
previously written riffs from here and there, some added to tie the whole
together and the result works rather well.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Otto: As this was one of the
oldest songs of the album, having been written probably already in 2009 or
early 2010 and also recorded for the first time during our drum recording
sessions as a studio live take, I felt the version we were recording for the
album needed some retouches here and there. Probably the most obvious part is
our poor man's "choir" which is used for a few times here. I came up
with this background vocal part while we rehearsed the song, originally singing
those vocal lines just by myself. Once we were recording the vocals, I introduced
this background vocal idea to Henri and Asa (our recording engineer) and then
asked them to do nothing more than just come stand next to me by the mic and
sing whatever they wanted to in the key of C# minor, us all three together. I
think that the result worked really well (<i>Henri:
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<a name='more'></a><i>Of Woe or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Gloom</i> is out now on our <a href="https://ecwdoom.bandcamp.com/" target="_blank">Bandcamp page</a> as well as Spotify, Google Play, iTunes etc.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07159325307201694980noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8660321616417845816.post-36291659612685711092014-05-27T01:35:00.000+03:002014-05-27T01:37:44.626+03:00Farewell, Hell HoleWinds of change are a-blowin' in the ECW camp. We're currently in the middle of moving out of our long time rehearsal space, lovingly dubbed Hell Hole. This was the place where the line-up came together, finally. This was the place where Ever Circling Wolves as you know us were born.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">An ancient shot from early 2008, before Arttu, Otto and Niko joined.</td></tr>
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This space, or rather a part of it, was first inhabited by my former band, Morg (who called it quits in 2010 or so), in the summer of 2007. Although Ever Circling Wolves basically already existed at that time, with me having recorded the demo ep, "Picturesque, Petrified" in the spring, it was with the acquisition of a better rehearsal space that my quest for an ECW line-up truly began. Late 2007 and most of 2008 saw lots of people try and find the motivation to learn to play my (in some people's opinion) obnoxiously slow and boring tunes. Then, along came Arttu, then Otto, then Niko, and suddenly we were an actual band.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Niko, Otto, Henri and Arttu, November 2008.</td></tr>
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It was here that we honed the tracks that would become our first full-length album, "The Silence from Your Room". It was here that we practiced for our first live performances in the summer of 2009. And every time we practiced, someone was always hungover. And that was quite okay, hangover doom is great.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Setting up for practice, March 2009.</td></tr>
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As you might remember, Arttu left the band in 2010. Arttu was replaced by Sami and at Hell Hole he made the decision to join the band after playing with us a couple of times. It was here he said after something like a couple of moths in the band that he still didn't have an idea about what my voice sounds like live, due to the shitty PA we had at the time. Anyway, with Sami on board, we hung out at Hell Hole honing new tracks and some old ones and in early 2011 out came "Chapter III" with one new track and one old track.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">First pic with Sami, October 2010.</td></tr>
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In April 2012, we began one monolith of a project: the recordings of our sophomore full-length album, "Of Woe", which is yet to be finished. The lion's share of the album was recorded at Hell Hole, with the exception of drums. We spent 20-ish long days spread over 2012 and 2013 in our homey basement tracking, tracking, tracking. The tracking bit is pretty much done now, thankfully, and we've taken a piece of Hell Hole with us, in those tracks. And so, when the album is finally finished, we'll be able to share Hell Hole with you.<br />
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P.S. Here'e some shots from the recordings.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Laying down some guitars, July 2012.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">And then some more guitars, August 2012.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">And bass too, October 2012.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Testing vocals with GhettoBooth™, January 2013 – it worked, this is how we recorded the vocals!</td></tr>
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07159325307201694980noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8660321616417845816.post-88423968018147323222013-03-08T01:18:00.003+02:002013-03-08T01:18:49.637+02:00It be the sound of yer doom: Henri's gearThe other day I happened to stumble upon a blog post on a friend's band's blog, where their bassist talked about his gear, so, I though, why wouldn't we do that too? I know I would love to read posts like these from the bands I like and I bet there's some folks out there who are like me and happen to like our music. This is for you.<br />
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<a name='more'></a>First of all, I'd like to introduce my main tool, which is, of course, my guitar, a <i>Gibson SG Standard</i>. It is, to put it simply, the best guitar I've played so far, fits my hand like a glove. It's relatively new to me, though. The first recording you can hear it on is our <a href="http://ecwdoom.bandcamp.com/album/live-studio-2012" target="_blank">Live at Studio web EP</a> from last summer. On <a href="http://ecwdoom.bandcamp.com/album/chapter-iii" target="_blank">Chapter III</a> I played another Gibson, an <i>SG Special Faded</i>, and on <a href="http://ecwdoom.bandcamp.com/album/the-silence-from-your-room" target="_blank">Silence</a>, I had a <i>Jackson Kelly</i>. The Kelly had active EMG pickups, and while they sound good, I found since that I like passive pickups a lot more. I think both the SG Special and SG Standard have the same pickups, only the Standard has them covered with those cool-looking chrome covers. The finishing on the Standard is also a lot better than on the Special. I string my SG with D'Addario EJ22s (jazz medium gauge) and tune to C# standard. I like a wound G string.<br />
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As for the pedals, on the left you can see my pedalboard with a cable going nicely across. The top row is between my guitar and my amp and the bottom row is in the fx loop of the amp. Pre-amp goes as follows (right to left): <i>Korg Pitchblack</i> tuner, <i>Boss SD-1 Super Overdrive</i> for clean boost, <i>Black Arts Toneworks Black Forest Overdrive</i> for crunch and buzz, <i>Electro-Harmonix Big Muff Pi</i> (seldom connected) for a different kind/addition of crunch and buzz. The fx loop, on the other hand contains (right to left as well) <i>Electro-Harmonix Stereo Clone Theory</i> (chorus), <i>Electro-Harmonix Nano Small Stone</i> (phaser) and <i>Electro-Harmonix Deluxe Memory Boy</i> (delay). What do you mean I seem to like Electro-Harmonix? I do though. And I need to get myself a SuperEgo from them. This configuration will make its recording debut on our upcoming album (or rather, has made, since we've already recorded all the guitars). I think the Live at Studio ep had me using all of these except the Black Forest (and the songs didn't need a chorus, so the Clone Theory was unused, but present). They've also seen live action on all our gigs since last May (which isn't that many). As far as past recordings go, I don't really remember what I used on Chapter III. I probably had a ProCo Rat II (reissue, has been sold since) for boost, an EHX Small Clone for chorus (if there was need for it, can't remember, but it has also been sold since). I do remember that I had the Small Stone and Memory Boy that are in the picture, though. On Silence I had fuck all, but we used a Boss HM-2 Heavy Metal for distortion and pretty much everything else was done with plug-ins.<br />
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And now, largest for last, my amp (and cab). I'll start with the cab, since it's the simpler affair of the two. It's a cheap 412 from Hartke and it may have Celestion V-30 speakers or it may not (are those even a real thing or did I combine some things?). I bought it second hand from my friend who bought it second hand and, via my friend, I've known it for seven-ish years. The newer addition is the head, <i>Laboga Studio Reverb</i>, a 50W tube amp made in Poland. It has two JJ ECC 83s in the preamp and I can't remember what the power tubes are because I haven't had to replace them. I got the head second hand on New Year's Eve 2009 and it has been used on Chapter III (I think we used it for Otto's guitars as well), Live at Studio and on our upcoming second album.<br />
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I think that about sums it up. If you have any questions, though, don't hesitate to ask (by commenting here or on our <a href="https://www.facebook.com/ecwdoom" target="_blank">facebook page</a>)!<br />
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P.S. Sorry about the shitty photos. I meant to take them with a better camera, but its battery had died.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07159325307201694980noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8660321616417845816.post-86551176118147723782013-01-06T15:44:00.000+02:002013-01-06T15:46:56.417+02:00The best albums of 2012 according to Ever Circling Wolves<div style="text-align: justify;">
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<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Henri:</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><b>Author
& Punisher </b>– <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Ursus Americanus</i></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">If you’re
not familiar with this one-man-band, the situation must be remedied instantly!
I mean, one guy doing drone doom with instruments he made himself! And he plays
live as well! As if that wasn’t reason enough, the album is really awesome.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><b>Conan </b>– <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Monnos</i></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">It took me
until the first days of 2013 to hear this album, but from the first listen it was
clear that it would make the list. Sounds like ever so smoothly pushing oneself
through a mountain while smashing up heads of orcs with a huge axe.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><b>Kowloon
Walled City</b> – <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Container Ships</i></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">We kept an
eye on KWC’s recording progress while recording our own album and, as it turns
out, they were a hell of a lot faster than we were. The first time I listened
to this album, I listened to it three times in one go. Raw-sounding and dire, I
suppose this can be classified as sludge. I know it’s brilliant, though.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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– <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Pervertor</i></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">This album,
like <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Monnos</i>, evaded me during 2012
per se, and, likewise akin to the Conan effort, took exactly one listen to make
it on this list. My ears say it’s a mix of sludge and black metal and, more
importantly, that it sounds very good. And vile. Which is good.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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to satisfy my need for WITTR-like black metal, especially since the new
Nachtmystium wasn’t all that great. Went on my ‘to buy’ list after half a
listen to their previous effort, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The
Mercian Sphere</i>. Also tops said previous effort. I think I spent most of
December listening to this.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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Mountain</b> – <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Cauldron of the Wild</i></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">A logical
continuation of their 2011 effort, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">South
of Salem</i>. Traditional doom with a female vocalist, shamelessly devoid of
any kind of hurry. Excellent riffs, excellent beats and excellent vocal
melodies combine to make up an excellent album.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">While
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albums throughout 2012, but many of them had come out earlier. Honourable
mentions to <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Living with the Ancients</i>
by <b>Blood Ceremony</b>, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Hisingen Blues</i> by
<b>Graveyard</b> and the Southern Lord reissue of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Dopesmoker</i>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><b>Otto:</b> </span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><b>Baroness</b> – <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Yellow & Green</i></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Though
lacking in the heavy department, if compared to their earlier efforts, Green
and Yellow is still a great masterpiece. John Dyer Baizley is getting better as
a singer, record by record, and their unique brand of prog/metal/rock/southern
states stuff is as great as ever.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><b>First Aid
Kit</b> – <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Lion's Roar</i></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">This album
really blew me away; I had no idea somebody could still make so authentic 60's
folk in the 21st Century – even less by these two Swedish girls, barely at the
legal drinking age! I wish I could've made music this mature when I was 20; I
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listens more, and I was definitely stoked! It simply doesn't make sense that
this is an EP recorded and produced mainly in a living room – the sounds are of
a world-class album! And the tracks, hoo boy! There are only a couple of songs
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yet, as I've just found it. Anyways, after a couple of listens, this seems to
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07159325307201694980noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8660321616417845816.post-27695802694321944832012-10-05T00:11:00.000+03:002012-10-05T00:11:09.955+03:00Long time no studio diaryOk, so, it's been forever since we last posted about our studio progress. In fact, it's been so long, we had just finished the drum recordings. And since it's been long, we've progressed quite a bit. But of course you knew that already, since you're reading our facebook page, right? Right. Well, I thought I'd type something up in any case.<br />
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What we've mostly been dabbling in is guitars. As we're hesitant to reveal too many details about the album at this point, I'll refer to songs by their working title. We've got guitars ready for "kurozu", "lenore", "renssi", "kööri" and "ibn-qirtaiba" as well as some guitars for the intro track. At this point we're wishing we were better at playing our guitars, but also very pleased with the outcome and the sound we've managed to conjure up using the finest in awesome signal processing devices. My personal favourite is the Black Arts Toneworks Black Forest Overdrive, which I purchased just after we recorded the live at studio takes. What we've been going for is, naturally, Soviet tractors and I must say we've come pretty darn close.<br />
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There remains also some work for the guitars yet, plus, of course, vocals, and even some extra instruments such as keyboards (don't be scared, they won't be overwhelming) and acoustic guitars.<br />
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So, don't hold your breath yet, since while we've made good time, we're not nearly there yet. In the meantime, enjoy good beers and worship vibrations while the moomins circle ever on.<br />
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<i>-Henri</i>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07159325307201694980noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8660321616417845816.post-5187612117333286162012-06-25T18:26:00.000+03:002012-06-25T18:26:01.170+03:00It's alive!Alright, now we've got the other live cut from the drum sessions available for download. And it comes with a video! It's called "One Joyless Night" and it was originally on our first demo ep, <i>Picturesque, Petrified</i>.<br />
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The audio can be downloaded <a href="http://soundcloud.com/ecwdoom/one-joyless-night-live-at" target="_blank">right here!</a><br />
And the other live <span style="font-size: small;">cut<span class="editable edit-field"><i>,</i> Cœur, is <a href="http://soundcloud.com/ecwdoom/coeur-live-at-studio" target="_blank">here</a>.</span><i class="editable edit-field" contenteditable="true" title="Click to change the track title"><br /></i></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07159325307201694980noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8660321616417845816.post-5112183109743651572012-05-26T01:41:00.000+03:002012-05-26T01:41:01.883+03:00Outdoor activities<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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Monday this week, we set foot to Kruunuvuori (located in eastern Helsinki, Finland), accompanied by the magnificent Miika Karttunen (<a href="http://www.lightpictures.fi/" target="_blank">http://www.lightpictures.fi</a>) to take some promo pictures.<br />
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You may, or you may not, remember that Miika was the one who took our previous promo photos as well, and at the same location, even.<br />
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Well, as opposed to the snowfall last time, we were having one of the first warm days of the year. This was a welcome juxtaposition, for it aided us in our plan to confuse our audience.<br />
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In summation I'd like to urge you all to turn to Miika with your photography needs and of course drink beer and worship Satan.<br />
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Love,<br />
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I'm personally rather proud of it, seeing as it was the first time I've done a live recording. Or, well, we did have our first gig recorded, but not with such an arsenal of mics. And, frankly, we played a lot better this time around.<br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07159325307201694980noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8660321616417845816.post-17356745635177646272012-04-30T19:09:00.010+03:002012-04-30T20:44:33.115+03:00The Wolves have left the studio; diary, part IV<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-3X0TvEXwGbQ/T566Wre8FKI/AAAAAAAABKc/ZjWu2YsOYQQ/s1600/SAM_0029.JPG"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-3X0TvEXwGbQ/T566Wre8FKI/AAAAAAAABKc/ZjWu2YsOYQQ/s200/SAM_0029.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5737227874108970146" border="0" /></a>Well now, dear readers. The Wolves left the studio less than 24 hours ago. What were we left with?<br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /><br />-Drum tracks for seven songs, ranging in length from roughly five minutes to a whopping fifteen minutes.<br /><br /><br /><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-7ZeSyJfqCsU/T56595KsIRI/AAAAAAAABKQ/R8BSJHWl0pI/s1600/IMG_0110.JPG"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 213px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-7ZeSyJfqCsU/T56595KsIRI/AAAAAAAABKQ/R8BSJHWl0pI/s320/IMG_0110.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5737227448285405458" border="0" /></a>-Several mutilated drumsticks. I guess the majority of the drumsticks Niko brought into the studio were decimated.<br /><br /><br />-Very little time to sleep. Of the 56 possible hours (from Fri 4pm to Sun 12am), we spent roughly 40 hours in the studio! Bar our sleeping hours (3am-10am) the studio was constantly manned by at least three of us. Sheesh.<br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-F20yiiRqI9E/T567vyhbzyI/AAAAAAAABLM/P7VmYbMnulI/s1600/IMG_0103.JPG"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 133px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-F20yiiRqI9E/T567vyhbzyI/AAAAAAAABLM/P7VmYbMnulI/s200/IMG_0103.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5737229405006843682" border="0" /></a>-All of the drum takes were done several times, in the case that our human drum machine should have done a mistake. (Well, actually, he did. Quite a few. Every now and then when he was not chopping the drumsticks into wee tiny bits (he is a lumberjack and he's okay)).<br /><br /><br /><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-8czmixNUap4/T566reuZ5kI/AAAAAAAABKo/t8rmuR_SmCE/s1600/IMG_0096.JPG"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 133px; height: 200px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-8czmixNUap4/T566reuZ5kI/AAAAAAAABKo/t8rmuR_SmCE/s200/IMG_0096.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5737228231461430850" border="0" /></a>-Two studio live tracks, with video. One really slow and thick oldie goldie, reworked, and one from the new album. We were joined by three helpful gentlemen in the Sunday evening, who worked three cameras. If the videos and live takes are deemed releasable, we will treat you with a song + a video twice during the next summer!<br /><br /><br /><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-hlrvkCzwCOU/T568LuwH3GI/AAAAAAAABLY/EhrwEX_tZSU/s1600/IMG_0098.JPG"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 133px; height: 200px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-hlrvkCzwCOU/T568LuwH3GI/AAAAAAAABLY/EhrwEX_tZSU/s200/IMG_0098.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5737229885031046242" border="0" /></a>-80-100 cups of coffee and a handful of beers consumed. Also occasional fits of pizza psychosis were witnessed.<br /><br /><br /><br />-A promise of an excellent new full-length album full of some of the most intense and dynamic stuff we've created. But when will we record the rest of the stuff? And how? We've yet to decide, but the current consensus is that most likely the recordings will take place over the course of the next summer, starting in early June. The method of execution is still under discussion.<br /><br /><br /><br />Keep it groovy,<br /><br /><blockquote>Otto</blockquote><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-LWXVIZmHJ8A/T5667ofWXHI/AAAAAAAABK0/GV9xADFN32Y/s1600/SAM_0052.JPG"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-LWXVIZmHJ8A/T5667ofWXHI/AAAAAAAABK0/GV9xADFN32Y/s200/SAM_0052.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5737228508960545906" border="0" /></a><br /></div>Ottohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08410132544589500796noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8660321616417845816.post-14990111644252787022012-04-29T16:52:00.003+03:002012-04-29T16:52:58.321+03:00Studio diary, part 3(3 1/3)The drums are done, the drums are fucking done!<br />
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Roughly this time in 2007 I first had the idea of starting a doom metal band. First it was supposed to be just a solo project for me, and this in mind I wrote the first three songs, "One Joyless Night", "Loveless Moonlight/Cruel Dawn" and "Picturesque, Petrified", all of which ended up on the <i>Picturesque, Petrified</i> EP. The photo on the left is our first "official" promo shot and can also be found on the cover of the EP. If I remember correctly, I came up with the name Ever Circling Wolves, inspired by the Earth song "The Dire and Ever Circling Wolves", in the spring of 2007, before recording the EP, but after the photo was taken.</div>
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In 2009 we finally got the ball rolling properly. Our first visit to a real studio (<a href="http://www.postistudio.com/">Posti Studio</a>) ended with us recording a full-length album instead of an EP like we'd intended. We also played our first proper live gigs, first of them (pictured on the left) at Lepakkomies (Helsinki) with the ever-awesome <a href="https://www.facebook.com/temppelit">Temples</a> and <a href="http://www.myspace.com/chestbursterband">Chestburster</a>, and the second at Hevimesta (Oulu) with the very heavy <a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Wandering-Midget/60854122094">Wandering Midget</a>. Towards the end of the year, more new songs began to emerge.</div>
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2011 started for us with the digital release of <i>Chapter III</i>, along with some gigs. New songs were introduced to the live set and they've been received well. We managed to pretty much write our next full-length album during 2011 and at the end of the year also got out a physical release of <i>Chapter III</i> with Dethroned Productions. We also got to play one of the most memorable shows of our career, on a bloody cruise ship!
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We've been busy writing and rehearsing material for a new full-length and we've now gotten to a point where pretty much the whole album is written and we've even managed to play all of the tracks through, save for the intro track, which is still under construction. The new material expands on what we've showcased before, in terms of dark, plodding doomy goodness, and adds new dimensions and dynamics to the mix, making for a (hopefully) more interesting listen than our debut, <i>The Silence from Your Room</i>.
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First of all, as you might or might not know, we have a soundcloud account. Well, just a moment ago, I uploaded a bunch of demo tracks and such there. These are versions of songs even all the members of the band haven't heard, so rare. You can find them here: <a href="http://soundcloud.com/ecwdoom">http://soundcloud.com/ecwdoom</a>
<br><br>And then the other thing, and this is what we're mostly excited about: Dethroned productions, a sublabel of Throne Records from Spain, is going to release a limited pressing of <i>Chapter III</i> ep. It's set to come out on the 12th of December, with 20 copies (of 100) to be sold at the Throne Records distro and the rest by us at shows and whatnot.
Keep up to date here: <a href="http://dethronedproductions.bandcamp.com/">http://dethronedproductions.bandcamp.com/</a>
<br><br><i>-Henri</i>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07159325307201694980noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8660321616417845816.post-34724137899917096302011-06-01T15:04:00.001+03:002011-06-01T15:04:06.079+03:00DOOM METAL FRONT Zine #6<div><p>The latest issue of DOOM METAL FRONT Zine is out. It includes a 48 track compilation of Nordic doom, stoner and sludge, with one track from us. Also included are other great Finnish bands, such as Temples, Mother Susurrus and Horse Latitudes, to name a few. The zine itself contains reviews and interviews and whatnot. A lot of it (based on a cursory flipping through on my part) is in German, but some texts are in English. The link is below. Spread the doom over the world!</p>
<p><a href="http://doommetalfront.blogspot.com/">DOOM METAL FRONT Zine > Doom, Sludge, Drone, Stoner & Ambient Stuff</a></p>
<p>-Henri</p>
</div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07159325307201694980noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8660321616417845816.post-21148821410603795932011-05-23T15:50:00.000+03:002011-05-23T15:56:16.540+03:00New servicesAlright, now we've got some material up on both bandcamp.com and soundcloud.com.<br /><br />On the <a href="http://ecwdoom.bandcamp.com">bandcamp page</a> you can even pay for the downloads if you want to support us financially.<br /><br />The <a href="http://soundcloud.com/ecwdoom">soundcloud page</a> will feature some rarer tracks from time to time.<br /><br />-HenriAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07159325307201694980noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8660321616417845816.post-62031275986672961632011-05-17T19:04:00.000+03:002011-12-11T02:54:34.142+02:00Studio MontageOtto finally got our studio footage edited and here's the result:<br /><iframe width="540" height="349" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/pomH_33Tlvo" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br /><br />-Henri<br /><br />P.S. A shoutout to the following bands, whose shirts can be seen on the video: Kowloon Walled City, Converge, Katatonia, Fleshpress, Yup, Itkevä Tyttö, The Abominable Iron Sloth. You rock!Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07159325307201694980noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8660321616417845816.post-63817665824275373772011-05-14T00:13:00.000+03:002011-05-14T00:40:36.295+03:00Grand opening vol. 2Hello, everybody!<br /><br />I wrote this once already, but unfortunately blogger shat itself and undid the whole blog. These things happen. Anyway, the main point I have right now is that since myspace has become a royal pain in the ass (instead of just an aristocratic pain in the ass), we need a new place to post news stories concerning us, Ever Circling Wolves. This will be it.<br /><br />I forgot much of what I wrote here the first time, but the main points were there, I think. But do check out our new website <a href="http://ecwdoom.com">www.ecwdoom.com</a>.<br /><br />-HenriAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07159325307201694980noreply@blogger.com0