Category: Krigshot news

Tomorrow will be the first time in about 16 months that I perform on stage. Nervous? Not really. Excited? A lot!

As you probably know it's the release party for the new Krigshot album "Till vilket pris som helst". The album came from the printers earlier this week and I am excited to see the final result since this is an album where I've done most of the stuff myself (apart from the music of course!). I recorded it and I did the layout for the cover. I wasn't trying to be all egoistic, it just happened because we wanted to do things fast and cheap.

Anyway enough about that. The show! Last Sunday, Jallo and I went to Nyköping to do the first rehearsal ever with this line up of Krigshot. We went to the Disfear HQ's obviously and went through the setlist three times. It felt really good. Jallo and I have done two rehearsals on our own during the last couple of weeks but it was nice to get together the whole band and realise that things worked out fine. I feel confident in the band as an unit and can now focus on doing my thing as good as possible not worrying about the overall appearence.

I can tell you that the last months of Coldworker rehearsals has improved my playing quite a lot. It wasn't as hard to go through a complete set without any longer pauses as I had imagined due to my 16 month abscence from the stage, so that feels good too.

I hope to do some sort of report when we return. There will be cameras and videocameras present so hopefully there will be something visual aswell.

Right now I'm just very excited about going to Stockholm and meet up with a lot of friends and hopefully do a killer show.

The real version of krigshot.com will be online very soon, so check it out.

Category: Krigshot news

During Saturday the recording of the new Krigshot LP (upgraded from 12" so it seems...) was completed when non-Örebro members Björn and Poffen came to play bass and sing. The first thing we did though was to shoot some fancy promophotos for future use. I think they can be quite good, but I haven't seen them yet.

Then Poffen and I got working with the vocals. A few hours later, the 17 Krigshot songs was blessed with a classic Swedish hardcore voice. The stuff takes a punkier approached now compaired with previous material as Poffen's voice is much more punk than Mieszko's hardcore voice. Both great of course, but this is a real development for Krigshot. Some might be surprised when they will hear it, but this is exactly the type of vocals we want. Pure classic Swedish hardcore.

Björn then plugged the Fender bass straight into the computer, as I am adding distortion and stuff during the mix. While guitar pretty sounds like crap lined into the computer, bass sounds really good and of course it helps that Björn's Fender sounds really, really good.

I shot a few short video clips with my digital camera during the bass takes. The videos has been encoded with DivX, so you need that to see it.

Clip 1: Björn records a very strange bass part
Clip 2: Jallo shows the rhythm for Björn

Since I have no monitors you will not hear any of the recorded music, which especially makes the second clip hilarious.

This upcoming week we will work on the mix and artwork as Communichaos wan't to start the production as soon as possible (a late March release is to be expected), and - news since last time - Profane Existance will do the US version of the LP. Nice one.

Finally, here are some shots from this second day of recording. Enjoy!


Poffen going through the lyrics.


Poffen sings.


Björn plays the Fender.


Jallo shows a riff from a really strange angle.


Poffen awaits the end of the bass takes.

Category: Krigshot news

This coming Saturday we will wrap up the recording of the upcoming Krigshot 12". Poffen and Björn are heading towards Örebro to record their parts. Word from Poffen is that all lyrics have been matched up with the songs so hopefully things will go smoothly in the studio.

We will then try to finish the mix and artwork as soon as possible because the record label is swinging the whip since this 12" is their next release. Sounds good - chances are that the 12" actually comes out sooner than anything I've recorded before!

We will also shoot the first official Krigshot photos ever on Saturday. My friend Robert who shot the last three rounds of Nasum promo photos and also did the collage in the "Shift" cover will bring his camera and magic, I guess.

Also the first Krigshot show is booked. I can't speak about it yet but I guess Swedish crust punks can figure it out since it's at the festival they most often visit...

More Krigshot news on Saturday. Wish us good luck!

Category: Krigshot news

I just got a message that Björn can't come to record the bass tomorrow as planed, so we have to postpone the recording to next year. Bummer, as I was hoping to start mixing the music soon to save some time, but it really doesn't matter. At least I will be able to take care of some domestic shit on Friday, and that is very needed.

So it's the end of the year from the Krigshot camp. Thanks for showing interest in the blog comments!

Category: Krigshot news

There was no recording of the vocals for the Krigshot 12 " EP today, because Poffen is apparently drenched in work and could not come and do it this weekend. He will do it early January instead, after all the Holidays and shit. That is actually good because we will now record the bass before the vocals and we also have more time to write the lyrics.

Next Friday Björn will come and record the bass. It will actually happen on Mieszko's birthday (23rd) so I see that as good omen. Björn will probably record the bass in a Godly fashion so that will be great.

So next update in this category will be in less than a week!

Here are some shots from last weekend's recording:


My "studio".


Me.


Jallo in a Team Slan t-shirt.