We’re having a busy week, this week! As we were playing at Greenfield and Novarock on Thursday and Friday, and we’re playing at Indian Summer Festival today, we were working very hard in the studio at the beginning of the week.Ruud was recording a solo for the new album and made a short video for you.Obviously, the video needed a little Start Wars touch…
We have added brand new merchandise for the festival season to our web shop!After the first festivals this year, we are on a small break right now to get ready for all of the festivals yet to come this summer.Especially for these summer shows, we’ve added a new hoodie, girlie and mens shirt to the shop! You can pre-order them now and be the first to wear them to one of our shows.You can find a complete overview of all of our tourdates for this summer, and the first dates of our World Tour in 2014, on the Tourpage.Check out our web shop for all of our merchandise items!
Last weekend, we were shooting the first parts of a video for the new album. After our shows in Switzerland, Austria and Holland we got up really early in the morning to shoot parts of the first video of the album. We are really looking forward to the end result of this video so much, because it feels like this could be a milestone in our existence.The story has a lot of different layers, the styling of Sharon and the band is bold, it fits us and the story so well, the locations we were shooting were surreal and the special effects will be absolutely smashing. And then there's the biggest surprise of all... we'll start dropping some hints very soon.
Album progressAnother studio update from Robert: After a long, but exciting festival weekend we're back at the studio. Most important for us now, is to finish the first song for mixing, which will already be done in a few weeks. Adrenaline is rushing, we really want to make sure we have the right sound for this song, and make sure nothing is missing to get the feel we want for the song. It needs to be pumping, heavy, big and melancholic at the same time. We're listening to it over and over again, adjusting details, trying different lines... We still have some time left, but 'The Lock' is approachting, which means we can't change or adjust it anymore, 'this is it'.In the meantime we're also writing new songs and rearranging old ideas. Next week, we're getting back to writing lyrics and we need to start working on artwork. During the video shoot last weekend, we took some new band photos, which you will get to see soon... for now, you all have a great weekend!!!
We’re working on the new album in the studio this week, but we’re getting back on the road this weekend.Last weekend we had a busy festival weekend, and we’re visiting three more festivals in the Czech Republic, Belgium, and Russia from Friday on!This weekend, we’re playing at:28-06-2013 Basinfirefest (CZ)29-06-2013 Graspop Metal Meeting (BE)30-06-2013 Park Live (RU)
Robert's update: Guts, air and adrenalineLast week I told you we were still fine-tuning the first song to prepare it for the official mix. Well, the fine-tuning turned into a little more than fine-tuning... We completely changed the first instrumental part of the song. The beginning was not heavy and dark enough for the rest of the song, for our taste. Well, that's solved now. We made a complete new pumping riff and Martijn made an amazing theme on the riff and intro for the beginning of the song.Sometimes these things go so magical, that it feel it's not you creating it, but it feels like the music is coming from the air around you, and you are just allowed the lucky one to catch it (I believe Keith Richards once said something similar).It's kind a of a big thing though, to change so much in a song o so very close to mix, because it means re-recording guitars strings etc. But trough the years we learned never to ignore your gut feeling. If you think you can make it better, even just before or even in mix, do it. Do it on the spot or you will regret it every time you listen to song and that will hurt for a long time. And oh boy how good it feels now, to have done this. The song not only got much darker and heavier, it also fits the rest of the album better now. We just can't wait for the mix now. Just two weeks to go. So exciting. Oh and soon, very soon, probably even before mix you're gonna hear a snippet of this.Now back to the other songs. We still need to finish two new song ideas and I'm skyping with an artist in LA this eve for another. I'm so excited about that, I'm like a small jumping child. Damn, it's pure adrenaline making this record, not a lot of things are better for us than this. Well, weekend break is also always nice 2. You all have a good one!
We had a lot of fun on the road, visiting three festivals this weekend!We performed at Basinfirefest in the Czech Republic on Friday, we visited Graspop in Belgium on Saturday, and went on to play at Park Live in Russia on Sunday.Thank you all for the great times and tweets, we had a blast!
We’re in the middle of the festival season and we would love to see what you captured during the shows!Did you come to see us at Oranjefeesten (NL), Czyzynalia (PL), Greenfield (CH), Novarock (AT), Indian Summer Festival (NL), Basinfirefest (CZ), Graspop (BE), or Park Live (RU)?Show us your pictures and videos on Facebook and Twitter using #WTlive!
