THANATOSCHIZO Preparing To Enter Studio

July 7, 2009

Portuguese avant-garde maniacs THANATOSCHIZO will enter the studio on July 22 to begin recording their fifth full-length album. This time, the band will work in two different facilities: Teatro de Vila Real in their hometown, Vila Real; and the group's own Blind & Lost Studios in Santa Marta de Penaguião, Portugal. For the first time, the bandmembers will assume the production duties themselves and will be assisted by sound engineers Pedro Cabral and Paulo Almeida.

Commented THANATOSCHIZO guitarist Guilhermino Martins: "We now feel mature enough to face this challenge in our career and it's also a way of the band going full circle, since we have recorded our first demo in Vila Real in 1998. Since then we've been working with Luís Barros (drummer of TARANTULA),learning a lot through the four CDs and one EP recordings at Rec'n'Roll Studios, but now we feel sufficiently confident to step ahead alone."

The as-yet-untitled semi-acoustic CD will contain reworked songs from all THANATOSCHIZO albums — "Schizo Level", "InsomniousNightLift", "Turbulence" and "Zoom Code" — featuring an even more avant-garde approach with ethnical and progressive distinctive touches, already hinted on the band's "regular" releases.

Guilhermino added: "Well, we have been working at our studio on the pre-production of the songs since last summer and I feel this will be a very special album not only because of its not-so-common approach but by the way we feel so confident in walking this path, playing smoothly and incorporating so many different elements in our music."

The CD will be released by Major Label Industries and will contain some collaborations that the band will announce in due course.

THANATOSCHIZO's fourth album, "Zoom Code", was released in March 2008 via My Kingdom Music (Recital Records in Portugal). The CD was produced by Luis Barros (TARANTULA) and was mastered by Tommy Newton (CONCEPTION, HELLOWEEN). It features guest appearances by Svein Egil Hatlevik (ZWEIZZ, FLEURETY, ex-DØDHEIMSGARD) and Timb Harris of ESTRADASPHERE/SECRET CHIEFS 3.

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