An Outer Body Experience...

30th March 2008.
We're taking up this Sun(ny)day to rest some hours. We've been on studio recording and we have already 4 tracks completed with drums, bass and keys. I'm starting my recordings this monday and we're aiming to have 6 tracks done until next week. The rec times of our schedule are perfect.

So far we are really happy with the performances and the sounds.

C-ya soon with more news...

regards
7hawk

Bass recordings

Hi,

just a quick note to let you know that our bassman recorded 'Flashback' and 'Phenotype' during his first 5 hours session on studio. The bass sounds amazingly tight and there are new details popping here an there. Nuno is a fantastic musician!

During this weekend we're editing drum and bass tracks, next song that follows is 'Dopplegänger' on bass and keys.

I preview to attack my guitar recordings on the end of the week.

More news soon...

stay tuned;)

7hawk

Strings - 7th World

Hi,

today Mike is on studio recording keyboards for 'Phenotype', seems he did a great work on 'Flashback' which was recorded yesterday. I'm at home preparing myself for the new step which is: recording! This album has a different level of technique and precision so I'm burning my fingers up to the metronome:)

Today I also got my guitar strings for this album, D'Addario XL-7 string .009-.054

Pic of the day...the fucking strings:)

best
7hawk

Iron Cobras - the evil twins

We took the morning to rest a few more hours than the usual and we entered studio on the afternoon for 5 hours of work around drum tracks for 'Flashback' and 'News'.

Sammy is doing great and really fast recordings, today he closed 2 more songs covering 15 more minutes of music for this album. It's really cool and interesting to listen these drum recordings as being the bones of the album...I'm constantly wondering and singing for myself the yet unrecorded parts and this album is becoming a monster day after day...

While I was on control of recording drum tracks Mike took some time to work new sounds on his Oasys, in fact, he will record his first tracks on monday. Mike and I have scheduled "a duel at the sunset" when the solos recordings for this album arrive;)

Nuno will also initiate bass recording this week, he has great bass lines to register in all songs.

We're sailing big musical waves now, here are some pics of today...Sammy's Cobras on the beginning of the session waiting for another 5 hours of intensive pressure:)

The markers for 'News' and Mike tweaking and play new sounds...

stay tuned!!!

7hawk

Drum Recordings

On 10th March we started to record Sam's performances on his red drum kit, it's been 4 days and he got Dopplegänger, The Hill, An Outer Body Experience, Phenotype and Mind Over Matter...he's been recovering from a flu that striked him a week ago, so he's been a brave bastard and, let me tell you, that he's taking huge takes from these sessions!!!:)

More tracks will be done in the next days.

Everything is going according to our schedules, we took 2 entire months to re-write the album and lyrics and also pre-production. We're set to start recordings of both guitars and keyboards during next week until mid April and then Mr."Snake" will enter studio to do the vocals - there is a ton of work for us to cover in the following weeks.

It's been great times on studio, we're filming it and we'll make a director's cut somewhere in time...

all the best

7hawk

OFFICIAL RECORDINGS

Hello there,

We've been on studio all day doing some sound checkings and we will kick off with the first official recordings tomorrow with Sammy on drums.

It's been 2 months to make all writings/pre-production and we will develop 'Evil Twin' during this period of recordings, so eventually that would end up as the last track to be done...

We will now sound test guitars, bass and keyboards in order to prepare the 'harmony trio' to record after the first drum tracks are done. There a lot to explore on this album and we expect to deliver the best performance and production ever!

Meanwhile all lyrics are finished except 'Nanoworld', to be done in the next few days.

Our singer is also preparing his parts to enter studio on April.

The track list is as follow and not by any specific order:

- The Hill
- An Outer Body Experience

- Nanoworld

- Outside In

- Flashback

- Evil Twin

- Racing the Hours

- Mind Over Matter

- News

- Dopplegänger

- Phenotype

more news tomorrow

best

7hawk

Lyrics

Today I'll be at home working on the remaining, yet undone, lyrics. I'm almost close to end the writing lyrics process and I'm anxious to start recording guitars - I did some upgrade to my equipment with more software from Line6, I'll be working more sounds for the album and for my live setup on the following weeks.

Yesterday I also spoke with Sam and Mike and we're on our way to start recording the first drum tracks of the album during next week; looks everything is working full power on studio and the pre-production sounds really powerful.

I've finished 'Mind Over Matter' lyric at 03:00 a.m today and I'm on my way to finish 'News' until tonight.

Discipline+Excitement+Creativity+Passion= Great Music...my golden rule!

best

7hawk

Evil Twin

Monday, March 3rd.

Mike, Sam and I on studio finished the solos section for 'Mind Over Matter' we got all chords flowing and settle which parts are destined for each instrument.

Today we also started the writings for 'Evil Twin', we have already a great intro and we're developing it on the following days.

This is an instrumental track and it's a short nightmare to play to resume it quickly...190 bpm /8 our highest rotation until today.

Our devil drummer on the pic;)

more news tomorrow,

best

7hawk

M.O.M - lyrics and structures

We spent all day around Mind Over Matter, I'm almost 100% done with this lyric; this is a track with the same needs of big production like 'News', other tracks like Flashback or Racing the Hours are more "in your face" songs.

I got the lyric done while Nuno and Mike were recording their reference tracks, it came out really natural and once again Mike delivers some great sounding chords on verses:)

This track's end is probably the best combination of "symphonical power chords" meets "shredders on steroids"...it's becoming another great moment of this album!!!

more news on monday,

PS: Mike and Nuno preparing themselves for their backing vocal growlings on M.OM...

over n'out,

7hawk