Ladies and gentlemen, we have a record.

A State Of Constant Change is finally ready. It is mixed, it is mastered and we're ready to roll. Oh man, what a journey this has been, but it has been worth it. I mean, if this is the only album I'll get to record during my lifetime, it's ok. SOCC is everything we hoped it to be and more.

We'll add the final video to YouTube in the near future. Now we've been busy with creating the cover artwork (which also will be quite remarkable, Migu is really something when it comes to painting and drawing), promotion, street team action etc.

We just can't wait to set this monster loose. To ease this we'll release some stuff from the record on our website, as well as at MySpace and Mikseri.net. We're looking forward of hearing what you like of the new stuff!

Remember that you can pre-order the album at our webiste and Record Store X. We thank all of you who have visited here, please do check out the new single. It'll be online later today.

One journey ends, another begins. Now it's time to hit the stages. the tourdates can be found at MySpace, welcome to join the mayhem! Cheers!

The final phase is ready to begin!

Here we go! After tons of blood, sweat and tears we are ready to move to the final phase. Jassi The Man is starting to mix the whole mess to a more sensible form. I can't say that I envy the guy: if one song has something like seven vocal tracks, 33 guitar tracks, lots of weird effects and a violin it must be hell to put 'em all to their places. But like Tapsa tends to say: it's too late to whine if you've shat your pants already.

Jassi has done some work on a couple of tracks (nicknamed Kerava and Ähtäri) and, well, what can I say? The dude knows the shit. The sound is really something unbelievable. It's brutal, it's powerful, it's promitive, it's beautiful and most of all, it's fucking massive. Say bye bye to the nice and rocking sound of the old IR and hello to the wild and exploding new IR.

We have a lot of new video footage in store, and when we'll get time to edit it you'll see the horror and madness that has plagued D-Studio for the last couple of weeks. Sorry that we've written here very little recently, but there has been so, SO much to do. Sleeping is for sissies, if you know what I mean.

We'll keep ya posted. Cheers!

-Ukas

Still going, not much, not fast, but we're going

..... Last weekend.... tough. I'm pissed off that I got sick and could not complete my vocals. It's allright, but it sucks. We've just been pushing, and pushing, recording, composing, recording, editing and pushing even harder to complete this monster! It's HUGE! It's beyond and uncompromising in every aspect. It just reflects EVERYTHING we are.

Luckly my voice is returning a little all the time. The recording of the vocal parts will continue on wendsday and go on all the way till friday morning. Friday morning is going to be an interesting part of the week, want to know why? Well because that will be the last time we will be recording anything on this album. For real! We have to get all the shit done by then.

I'll list you the things missing:

Bass - The ending of Kihniö & editing of Kirkkonummi
Guitar - High cleans throughout. Some leads and a few solos (like JHK from DSF)
Acoustic - Outro, and Pieksämäki
Synth - Everything else but Two Sides & Ähtäri
Vocals - Don't even get me started

But considering that the list in the beginning of this process would have been over 180 items long, this is allright. So the last days in D-Studio are going to be somewhat fucked and full of sound.

Again, yours truly

Lamantine



ps. I'm really trying to edit some video, but as the heat grows up, it's getting harder to pull it off. Stay tuned!

Bow down before the might of female vocals

Another restless night, another productive day at the studio. The vocals are starting to come together and we have been priviledged to witness the work of many extremely gifted guest singers. Jules and Galzi were fantastic, just like we expected (and they will return here for more!), and a couple of songs have also been blessed with very, VERY beautiful female vocals by Saara. "Within" has become one of the favourite songs of the whole band, and this is mainly because of Saara's wonderful singing. Three cheers to this lovely lady! The same song is also the IR's first song ever to have a violin solo. Full respect to Valo for that. We owe you big time.

We have filmed some mean footage of the last couple of days, so you can expect more video here soon. This means that you too can witness Jules & Galzi in action, as well as other kinds of abnormal behaviour. Here there is no such thing as "another day at the office". Sometimes I come to believe that this whole experience is some kind of a dream that has no ending. Just when you think that you have finished something you realize, that you have ten other things to do. If I have sometimes wondered how some bands spend months after months in studio perfecting some album, well, no more. I presume that if we didn't have a deadline and had lots of money, we would spend here the whole spring. And would check in to the nearest asylum the minute we would walk out of here.

Ok, that's it for now. Take it easy. Silmät harottaa. Ei pysty.

-Saq

Tired howls and growls

Well, i've been shut in this damp hole again for a few days. The infrequent updates usually tell just one story, we're riding on a fucking high wave now. And I mean HIGH!

Yesterday was just simply awsome! I can't tell you how much I have grattitude for having a chance to work with such increadibly talented musicians like Jules (PO) & Galzi(DSF).

Jules pulled off some of the fucking greatest clean vocals I've ever heard. I really hope we will have time to do more songs with him for this album, cause his work on Kerava is just increadible. Really. It just overwhelmed me how good the stuff is starting to sound. We've got some great video coming up from those sessions. We completed one song with him yesterday and spiced it up also with little stuff from Galzi.

Speaking of Glazi, he is, has been, and will be a key part of the vocals for SOCC. He's producing all the vocals and throwing in some viciously mean cleans as well as some truly brutal growls. Today we sat down with Migu and Galzi for hours just going through the vocal arrangements and bgvocals etc. It's increadible to work (if one can call this work) with someone who shares the same vision, passion and work uncompromising work ethics as we do. He's wipping out and making the sounds of this album to be something completely unique! Hell Yeah! We just stopped recording with Galzi and I'll continue on it tommorrow. I'm a bit worried how well my physics will hang on, because this is really, really, really tough. The amount of unslept nights is just rising but my energy level is still rising! That has to be a good sing, but really this is not something I could pull off many times.

But like I said there is some awsome video coming up of Jules visit and of today. I'll have the camera runing tommorrow all the time and I'll try to edit some shit together in the evening.

3:30am
Yours truly,
Lamantine

Greetings from The Reverend

So little can words describe what has been going on...for a week I have had the honor of working with two of the most kind and creative psy-trance-musicians I know. I spent most of the week in Astroschnautzer's homestudio (wich as a matter of fact is located in the house next to my family's in Old Porvoo). This was an amazing and most satisfying trip into the world of music made with the aid of machines. Astroschnautzer is an extremely talented analog-synthesizer guru and Vishnudata complemented A State Of Constant Change with a few electric violin solos and some brutal screams and growls.

After all we accomplished in a week has now been transferred here in D-Studio all I can say is....well, nothing. Words simply can not describe the bright, queer, twisted, industrial, opening, and also crushing atmosphere that takes form in the unison of the massive sound of Insert Remedy and these mechanical soundwaves. Once again, you will just have to wait....I hope we can post some teasers soon...oh yeah...we also had the pleasure of recording some delicate, serene spoken word with our mutual friend Jsun Wallace. His beautiful Scottish accent was a cherry on top of our creating a truly unique atmosphere for SOCC.

Something little from the present. Galzi of DSF just left after assisting us in the production of the vocal tracks. He features in various songs on the album and what featuring will them Galzi's growls n' howls be, might I add!! So we're fully occupied with vocals from now on. Tomorrow we'll record the clean, intense and pretty stuff. We'll also have a visit from Saara Hannula...we're exited to have the possibility to work with so many amazing musicians. This will truly be a collective birth of a shared vision. All of it just blows my mind!!

Oh, but now I'm babbling.

So shut up. Get sum sleep. Dream worldpeace reality. It IS possible.

With compassion, kindness and a bloody kiss from my Dark Master,

The Reverend

Back in business

Here we go again - after a short break, we continue on our journey. Funny how time seems to fly when you're in studio. It feels like I just got here, and after a little work and some Xbox sessions it's 3:00 am.

Ana started on vocals today. He managed to sing/growl/scream basic vocal track on three songs before he got a headache so bad, that he was forced to leave the rest for tomorrow. As always, the ol' Lamantine squeezed everything he had out of his throat, and judging by this evening, the vocals will be GODDAMNED mean & brutal. Well, you should had seen him growling really angry while reading the lyrics from his phone, and in the middle of the song his girlfriend calls to check how things are going. "Oh hello teddy bear, are you having fun at the studio?" Damn, where's the camera when you really need it?

Galzi from Dead Shape Figure will appear here tomorrow, as well as Migu. So Ana will get some serious assistance in his work. Also Jules from Profane Omen will be here tomorrow or the day after that, so watch out! Just Imagine what will happen, when Ana, Galzi and Jules combine their forces. It will be something to remember! Hell yea!

Ok, gotta go to catch some sleep. We'll keep ya posted. Cheers!