Eternal Tears of Sorrow

We’re not superstitious people – well, most of us aren’t, anyway – but there seems to be a curse in the air that keeps on taking a toll on us. Nothing too serious, mostly technical stuff such as really weird-acting instrument strings that make our tuners go bezerk. But anyway, we’re still ahead of our timetables. And what’s important: the songs sound good and I mean it. But oh boy, aren’t we happy when we get this job done..

Most of the instrument tracks have been finished, excluding some guitar and bass tracks (and, obviously, most of the keyboard tracks as well). Once those have been done, it’s time to move on to the vocal tracks. We hope the recording sessions to end in about two weeks..

It’s been an exciting week for us. On Monday, we started the final recording session for the forthcoming album with half a dozen of brand new songs. And today, as I already mentioned in the previous post, the forthcoming single can be prelistened at MySpace.

As usually, we started recording drums, which went very smoothly and nicely. I’m sure that Juho (like the rest of us) will be excited to hear what you guys & gals think of his drum tracks. For us, they sound damn good.. Just wait and hear!

However, there seems to be some sort of a curse upon us with this album. Nothing big, nothing serious, just a series of unfortunate events and things that have occured to us. For example, I caught a nasty stomach flu last weekend, so on Monday, I just rest rested on the studio sofa waiting to feel better and played some demo guitars. But I’m ok now..

Anyway, you can already preorder the forthcoming single!

http://www.recordshopx.com/artist/eternal_tears_of_sorrow/tears_of_autumn_rain/single/ (English page)

http://www.levykauppax.fi/artist/eternal_tears_of_sorrow/tears_of_autumn_rain/single/ (Finnish page)

Finally, it’s 2009!

We’ve been writing songs for the forthcoming album for more than two years now. Dozens of riffs and melodies were written, dozens of mp3 demo files and hundreds of emails were sent, dozens of weird working titles for the songs were written etc. etc.

Now, we’re at a point where over 40 minutes of music have been written. Naturally, we still need to write and rewrite a lot of lyrics, melodies, solos during the next four weeks.. But in the end, now we know what the forthcoming album is going to sound like. As a whole, it’s solid entity. Compared to material on the previous album, these new songs are darker and heavier. A bunch of nice songs that sound like us, that’s the most important thing in the end..

So, what next? We’ll start the final recording session in early February. During this session, the single will come out. The whole album will be released in April and also at that time, it’s time to celebrate our 15th anniversary. You know, this band was officially formed in April / May 1994 even though the pre-EToS projects had been around for two years. We started recording our first demo tape (or promo tape) in April ’94 and during these recording sessions, we found out that we need a new name. So, in May, we had a new name for the band “Eternal Tears of Sorrow” as well as a brand new demo tape.

Oh yeah, and we’ll start doing live shows in May. For various reasons, we couldn’t do so many gigs in 2006 and 2007 but now we’re trying to do more of them.

…And now we’re waiting it to be mixed and mastered.

The name of the single will be revealed later as well as the names of the songs on it. Let’s just say we haven’t recorded any cover songs this year and probably won’t be recording any of those next year, either.

The album still doesn’t have a name, though, not even a working title. I suppose we need to write more lyrics to fetch the title.

More news coming up in the near future…!

P.S. Take a look at the photos (shot by me), as they show Altti and Jarmo K in action.

Recording an album is really an interesting process. You can record everything at once, which in our case would take several weeks. So now, after recording many albums in one session, we’ve started to prefer a completely different way of recording an album. It’s fine for us to record the album in several sessions, piece by piece, step by step.

So, the latest piece of news is: we’ve recorded most of the tracks for the first half of the sixth album. Well, in this case “the first half” does not mean “the first five songs on the albums” but more like “about 50% of the songs to be appear on the album”. The rest of the tracks for these songs will be recorded by October, we hope. And the rest of the songs will be recorded in January and February.

Meanwhile, we’re busy writing the rest of the songs. For me, that’s the most interesting part of the whole song-writing process. It’s always an exciting process of exploration and discovery, it’s like going deep into your darkest parts of your mind and trying to dig for some gold. So, the forthcoming months are going to be veeeery interesting.

Tired but happy, that’s what we are. The first recording session is over and the basic tracks have been laid down for several songs. Now, it’s time to catch some breath and after a while, the intensive song-writing process starts again.

Have a great summer, guys and gals, we’ll return in early August when the next recording session takes place!

It’s funny that after all these years, the best sound still comes out of the analogue amps. Yeah, the digital ones are not bad but just… Well, check out the photos.

And so It has started. Eternal Tears of Sorrow are back in the studio. This is the first of the many studio sessions that are going to take place between June and February but in no way this is the least important one. During this session, we’re going to record five sounds out of which three or four are going to end up on the sixth, still unnamed album.

More to come, this is just a mere beginning…