While I was waiting for the other artist to complete their tracks, I wrote some doom metal tracks and I was going to have SYNTAX A perform vocals, to create a very black doom metal EP.
Then the freaking virus hit, and Syntax A and I weren't able to collaborate locally, so i did my own vocals for the doom songs.
At the time i was listening to lots of LYCIA, and new dungeon synth, so i thought it might be unique to attempt that type of whispered/rasped vocal style. It turned out to be more difficult than i imagined. That type of strong whispering is really hard on the throat, and getting the right recording sound also served a serious challenge for me.
SYNTAX A did drop by once during the quarantine and recorded some great stuff on a new song called TACHYON SPELL that could almost be a new SATAN'S ALMIGHTY PENIS track because of it's weirdness and nastiness.
When the split was cancelled, i decided to write a few new tracks and just release a new full length album, something i really didn't intend to do again for WBSS. Plus, i had sold my previous amplifier, so had no way to get the same guitar sound. I was never smart enough to record a backup direct guitar signal, so i just had to forge ahead with a new recording setup. I had found an old PALMER guitar amp load box/ speaker simulator on ebay and was now recording guitars without a microphone. It was awesome, but i could not get it to sound anything like the previous songs.
oh well.
I have always put the songs before the sound, so whatever. I believe that music has to be spontaneous and passionate and you aren't gonna get passion from a meticulously computer-edited recording. So, NO, i wasn't going to re-record guitar tracks just because they had a different sound.
I decided instead to use the transformation in sound throughout the album as an artistic statement: the sound evolves just as the music does along the length of the album. To hell with all these perfection-obsessed recording artists. Just make some damn music already!
I've always respected Quorthon's recording methods: Use whatever the hell you have to record your music. Just get that shit on tape no matter what.
Anywho, so TRANSMIGRATION may be a bit varied mix-wise, but i assure you that Jori Apedaile performed an incredible mastering job on the whole thing, making me wonder why I even worried about this issue.
In conclusion, TRANSMIGRATION consists of the songs from the planned black metal split, some newer songs using lot's of synth elements, a new intro sequence, and the entire DUNGEON METAL EP previously only on cassette tape.
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When Bitter Spring Sleeps "Transmigration" is available now at PaganFlames.com and Bandcamp.