Posted: Monday, 25 February 2008 22:13
I've posted a lot of info, along with the cover and a sample track from the new Coldworker album "Rotting Paradise" over at coldworker.com.
Check it out and let us know what you think in the forum!
Sample of the new Coldworker album
Category: The new band
I've posted a lot of info, along with the cover and a sample track from the new Coldworker album "Rotting Paradise" over at coldworker.com.
Check it out and let us know what you think in the forum!
I've posted a lot of info, along with the cover and a sample track from the new Coldworker album "Rotting Paradise" over at coldworker.com.
Check it out and let us know what you think in the forum!
Coldworker in recording mode and website released
Category: The new band
Yes, Coldworker has been in the "studio" (we are recording it ourselves in our rehearsal room) for a week tracking songs for our debut album "The Contaminated Void" (label and release dates to be announced very soon). You can follow the development of the recording at the newly launched coldworker.com.
So go there. Now!
Posted: Tuesday, 13 June 2006 00:16
Yes, Coldworker has been in the "studio" (we are recording it ourselves in our rehearsal room) for a week tracking songs for our debut album "The Contaminated Void" (label and release dates to be announced very soon). You can follow the development of the recording at the newly launched coldworker.com.
So go there. Now!
Coldworker behind bars!
Category: The new band
Last night Coldworker lost its live virginity together with Radioskugga and Gadget at Gadget's releaseparty for "The funeral march" up in Gävle. And we played in a fucking cage!
Yes, the stage at Club Monster was behind bars Blues Brothers style. It's sorta hard to believe so here is a photo to prove it:
Anyway, it was tight, it was very hot and we did OK for a first gig. As the opening act we didn't really have that many people looking at us, but they applauded politely and we did our best considering the conditions (playing live is of course a bit different from playing the songs in your rehearsal environment).
It's nice to have done the first show though (by the way, it was videotaped so something might show up online one day), so now we're ready to take the next step, which is to start recording our first full length album starting Tuesday (06/06/06...)! Things has gone so fast for us so it's almost hard to comprehend, but to say the least - we are on a row so why not go with the creative flow?
Most likely, a more developed version of coldworker.com will be launched with the start of the recording with a studiodiary and such stuff so take a peak if you want to follow the recording process.
Huge thanks to Radioskugga and Gadget who of course kicked our asses with their blistering blasts, for sharing this important evening with us! See you on another stage!
Posted: Sunday, 04 June 2006 18:27
Last night Coldworker lost its live virginity together with Radioskugga and Gadget at Gadget's releaseparty for "The funeral march" up in Gävle. And we played in a fucking cage!
Yes, the stage at Club Monster was behind bars Blues Brothers style. It's sorta hard to believe so here is a photo to prove it:
Anyway, it was tight, it was very hot and we did OK for a first gig. As the opening act we didn't really have that many people looking at us, but they applauded politely and we did our best considering the conditions (playing live is of course a bit different from playing the songs in your rehearsal environment).
It's nice to have done the first show though (by the way, it was videotaped so something might show up online one day), so now we're ready to take the next step, which is to start recording our first full length album starting Tuesday (06/06/06...)! Things has gone so fast for us so it's almost hard to comprehend, but to say the least - we are on a row so why not go with the creative flow?
Most likely, a more developed version of coldworker.com will be launched with the start of the recording with a studiodiary and such stuff so take a peak if you want to follow the recording process.
Huge thanks to Radioskugga and Gadget who of course kicked our asses with their blistering blasts, for sharing this important evening with us! See you on another stage!
Coldworker preparing for the big time
Category: The new band
Just a little report on what's going on in the Coldworker camp right now. It's about a week left until we'll do our first live appearence up in Gävle supporting Gadget and the mighty Radioskugga. Will be interesting. We have a setlist of 6-7 songs that seems to be working fine for this occation.
Apart from that we are preparing to start recording a full length album during June. Yes, four months after the first rehearsal we're taping our first album. Kinda crazy, don't you think? I would love to speak more about this, but there will be more details (especially regarding record label and release dates) further on.
What I can say is that we have finished 15 tracks in all. Some of the songs have been sliced and diced and reassembled a couple of times to find its final form. It's actually quite interesting to see the different shapes a song can take before it settles. We've done rehearsal recordings on a weekly basis which has helped a lot.
Some more songtitles:
- Flammable
- Waiting for buildings to collapse
- Antidote
- Heart shaped violence
- Death smiles at me
- An unforgiving season
- A custom-made hell
- The contaminated void
- The interloper
- They crawl inside me uninvited
Today, me and Joel recorded some vocals and it's quite nice to hear the songs take shape with another "instrument" in the mix. One of the songs we recorded today we've had for a while so it was great to finally hear it with vocals.
As I've already said - there will be more album info soon, but for now this little report will have to do.
Finally - I've noticed that my blog posts often are turned into newsarticles at the metal webzines, and for the record - who ever rewrites this as a newsarticle - I was the DRUMMER of Nasum, NOTthe guitarplayer. OK?
Posted: Sunday, 28 May 2006 00:32
Just a little report on what's going on in the Coldworker camp right now. It's about a week left until we'll do our first live appearence up in Gävle supporting Gadget and the mighty Radioskugga. Will be interesting. We have a setlist of 6-7 songs that seems to be working fine for this occation.
Apart from that we are preparing to start recording a full length album during June. Yes, four months after the first rehearsal we're taping our first album. Kinda crazy, don't you think? I would love to speak more about this, but there will be more details (especially regarding record label and release dates) further on.
What I can say is that we have finished 15 tracks in all. Some of the songs have been sliced and diced and reassembled a couple of times to find its final form. It's actually quite interesting to see the different shapes a song can take before it settles. We've done rehearsal recordings on a weekly basis which has helped a lot.
Some more songtitles:
- Flammable
- Waiting for buildings to collapse
- Antidote
- Heart shaped violence
- Death smiles at me
- An unforgiving season
- A custom-made hell
- The contaminated void
- The interloper
- They crawl inside me uninvited
Today, me and Joel recorded some vocals and it's quite nice to hear the songs take shape with another "instrument" in the mix. One of the songs we recorded today we've had for a while so it was great to finally hear it with vocals.
As I've already said - there will be more album info soon, but for now this little report will have to do.
Finally - I've noticed that my blog posts often are turned into newsarticles at the metal webzines, and for the record - who ever rewrites this as a newsarticle - I was the DRUMMER of Nasum, NOTthe guitarplayer. OK?
Coldworker has a logo now
Category: The new band
Let me start off with a little annecdote:
Once upon a time people sent real letters and in these letters people used to put flyers (that's old school spam... almost...) marketing demos, zines and all sorts of things for sale.
One time the Swedish death/thrash band Desultory printed a flyer exclaiming their new logo. I remember that flyer to be particulary funny because it felt so weird at that time when everyone just wanted to sell stuff through their flyers.
The headline I just wrote for this blog reminded me of that flyer.
Anyway - annecdotes aside - following the last blog Coldworker now has a logo (finally). Who is the person who will be honered with free stuff and such for creating this piece of art? Actually, no one. The result of the blog didn't turn into the rain of artwork we had hoped for, so semi-desperate we designed it ourselves.
The logo is available at coldworker.com.
With that out of the way it's time for another update. We are still in creative more on many levels. We are writing new stuff, we are refining old stuff and we are writing lyrics and adding vocals, so there are pretty much going on at the moment. We are on a three rehearsals/week schedule right now and all is going very well.
The refining part of it all is my little baby. I practically think of the songs all of the time and share suggestions for slight changes - nothing major, just details and such - to the other guys, and so far all the changes we've done have improved the songs. As I've explained earlier, the writing style in the band has changed during these three months the band has been around so to connect the old and new songs better we had to do some changes instead of just leaving the old songs and not use them.
Last Saturday we did a "for our ears only" rehearsal with just two mikes in the middle of the room (you'd be surprised how good it sounds with only two mikes a little compression...) and when I got home and listened to the stuff I felt an enormous amount of pride and positive energy from the songs. I really, really, really love what we're doing with Coldworker right now and it feels so great to hear what five guys who never had played together or hardly knew eachother a couple of months ago can accomplish. It's really amazing!
From a personal point of view - like everything above isn't personal enough! - I'm enjoying drumming more than ever. It's been a real challenge going from the hardcore/grindcore drumming of Nasum to the full blasting death metal drumming of Coldworker. I'm really developing my style a lot playing in this band and I'm becoming a better drummer each rehearsal doing stuff I have never done before.
And the joy of playing with Oskar, Anders, André and Joel is really great. As I have explained in other situations I felt that Mieszko and I had some sort of musical bond when we played together and a year ago I was pretty certain that I would never have that again. And now I have it, and it feels so great.
So life is great right now, and it will be even better soon. You'll see...
Posted: Monday, 08 May 2006 02:14
Let me start off with a little annecdote:
Once upon a time people sent real letters and in these letters people used to put flyers (that's old school spam... almost...) marketing demos, zines and all sorts of things for sale.
One time the Swedish death/thrash band Desultory printed a flyer exclaiming their new logo. I remember that flyer to be particulary funny because it felt so weird at that time when everyone just wanted to sell stuff through their flyers.
The headline I just wrote for this blog reminded me of that flyer.
Anyway - annecdotes aside - following the last blog Coldworker now has a logo (finally). Who is the person who will be honered with free stuff and such for creating this piece of art? Actually, no one. The result of the blog didn't turn into the rain of artwork we had hoped for, so semi-desperate we designed it ourselves.
The logo is available at coldworker.com.
With that out of the way it's time for another update. We are still in creative more on many levels. We are writing new stuff, we are refining old stuff and we are writing lyrics and adding vocals, so there are pretty much going on at the moment. We are on a three rehearsals/week schedule right now and all is going very well.
The refining part of it all is my little baby. I practically think of the songs all of the time and share suggestions for slight changes - nothing major, just details and such - to the other guys, and so far all the changes we've done have improved the songs. As I've explained earlier, the writing style in the band has changed during these three months the band has been around so to connect the old and new songs better we had to do some changes instead of just leaving the old songs and not use them.
Last Saturday we did a "for our ears only" rehearsal with just two mikes in the middle of the room (you'd be surprised how good it sounds with only two mikes a little compression...) and when I got home and listened to the stuff I felt an enormous amount of pride and positive energy from the songs. I really, really, really love what we're doing with Coldworker right now and it feels so great to hear what five guys who never had played together or hardly knew eachother a couple of months ago can accomplish. It's really amazing!
From a personal point of view - like everything above isn't personal enough! - I'm enjoying drumming more than ever. It's been a real challenge going from the hardcore/grindcore drumming of Nasum to the full blasting death metal drumming of Coldworker. I'm really developing my style a lot playing in this band and I'm becoming a better drummer each rehearsal doing stuff I have never done before.
And the joy of playing with Oskar, Anders, André and Joel is really great. As I have explained in other situations I felt that Mieszko and I had some sort of musical bond when we played together and a year ago I was pretty certain that I would never have that again. And now I have it, and it feels so great.
So life is great right now, and it will be even better soon. You'll see...
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