ANATA: Studio Update

July 26, 2005

Swedish technical death metallers ANATA have entered StudioMega in Varberg, Sweden to begin recording the follow-up to last year's "Under a Stone with No Inscription", tentatively titled "The Conductor's Departure". Songtitles set to appear on the CD include "Complete Demise", "Downward Spiral Into Madness", "The Great Juggler", "I Would Dream Of Blood" and "Disobedience Pays". A late 2005 release via Earache Records imprint Wicked World is expected. Bassist Henrik Drake checks in with a report on the progress of the recording sessions so far:

"As of today, bass guitar and guitar (including clean guitar and additional guitars but excluding guitar solos) have been recorded for nine of the ten songs for 'The Conductor's Departure' album. Still to be recorded is the 8-minute long title track of the album.

"We feel very satisfied with the guitar and bass work so far and when listening to what we have recorded so far I feel that this album is truly a more powerful performance than our earlier works.

"We have all been very well prepared and the recordings have proceeded smoothly. It is quite obvious that we all have progressed a lot on our instruments and since the album is partly complex all these parts have come out as audible as they deserve.

"Speaking for myself, I must say that this is my best bass performance on any ANATA album yet. The bass is, as Fredrik Schalin said earlier, a big part of the melodies in the new ANATA material and it has been a pleasure to listen to how nicely the guitar and bass lines work together along with Conny's tight and intense drumming. I started to record the heavy and quite slow 'I Would Dream of Blood' and then I recorded 'Downward Spiral Into Madness', which is partly kind of tricky on bass guitar. On the instrumental 'Children's Laughter' I played most of the tracks without a pick, which was a new studio experience for me, but playing finger style really added that extra feeling to the song.

"On most of the tracks, especially 'The Great Juggler', 'Cold Heart Forged in Hell', 'Renunciation' and 'Better Grieved than Fooled' the bass lines partly differ a lot from the guitar melodies which adds an extra dimension to the music and the harmonies."

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