In the Studio

Hey Lovely Spellsingerites!

Yep, we are back on the studio, and buckling down for twoo whole weeks of nothing but recording, writing, re-writing and practicing.  So far, we had eight tracks scratch tracked (vocals, simple percussion and guitar tracks that are used just as guidelines until the final tracks can be layed down) and from there, things are moving along, slowly but surely. 

We were working on the tracks for one song in particular, "Black Goddess," a song about the Black Madonna, empowerment and Goddess energy.  Welp, after several attempts at trying to find just the right guitar sounds, tracking and re-tracking bass, vocal, guitar, percussion, string and piano tracks, last night we came to the decision to... well, scrap the entire thing, and start it all over Monday.  The reason?  The tempo.  I had thought, initially, that the speed of the tune, slow though it was, was just perfect, but I was operating under the assumption that it would sound the same with the lead guitar lines on top of it.  After finding just the right sounds last night for the lead electric guitar on the song, it was apparent that the song needed to be sped up, significantly. 

In fact, we may look into speeding up quite a few of the songs for the same reason.  Though these songs may not sound quite the same when we play them live, we realize, we are going for a certain sound (I think the words I finally settled on were "Darkly Haunting Gothic Metal"), and speeding up the lead guitar lines on them is sounding real good right now.  Luckily, we have Johnny to add his thoughts and his own personal guitar techniques in certain places here and there (and honestly, on whole songs).  It is really adding to the sound of the songs, and I am hearing a final song in there somewhere now... seeing a vision.  So, though there is obviously plenty of hard work ahead of us, and it may not happen as soon as I would like, but at least we are off to a good start.

I ask for good energy from you, your thoughts and creative visualizations that will help us see this through... so that we can bring it to you in its completion by this summer, in its perfect yet imperfect state of blissful rockingness. (please please pretty pretty please, Universe...)

Yours, in Love, Light and Darkness,

Beltana Spellsinger