Tuesday 23 October 2012
new NAILS "EP" set for 2012 release
These songs are re-recordings from our 12″ EP “Obscene Humanity” which
was released in April 2009 via Streetcleaner Records/Six Feet Under. The
music for these songs was recorded during the same session that NAILS
recorded Unsilent Death. At the time of recording this, and at this time
currently, these are the only songs we play from the Obscene Humanity
EP, aside from the instrumental song “White Walls”. The two differences
in these recordings is 1. The studio and 2. Different drummer. Tom Hogan
played drums on the original EP and left the band Summer 2009, and
Taylor Young joined. Both of their styles are very different obviously
and both dictated a lot of how NAILS would shape it’s sound. Shout out
and gratitude to Tom Hogan who helped shaped these songs and was
critical to the formation of NAILS. Taylor and Tom are both very skilled
but different styled drummers. Tom is barbaric and spastic while Taylor
being more precise and technical. Earth Capital is the studio where the
original recording was made by Alex Estrada. He was very accommodating
and patient with us. He helped us make the recording that we wanted to
make at that time on the tight budget that we had. There’s really
nothing that needs to be said about Kurt and his studio (Godcity).
Another difference is my vocals. The vocals were recorded Spring 2012 by
Taylor Young at his studio (The Pit). I couldn’t record the vocals for
these songs during the Unsilent Death sessions because my voice was so
blown out and shot. Actually, on Unsilent Death, all the vocals were
recorded in order of how the songs are tracked on the album. My voice is
buried in the mix and drenched in distortion because I really hated the
way my vocals sound. You can hear them progressively get worse
throughout the album. Since then my voice has gotten much stronger and
what I believe, to be better. Those are the things I think about when I
think about this recording. I was asked to write something about this
and that’s what I came up with. Our new album “Abandon All Life” is
coming out Spring 2013 via Southern Lord. It’s really going to be a test
to our “fanbase” to see who is really down. Don’t expect “Unsilent
Death part 2″ or anything “progressive”. It won’t be “the new thing”
that the press/bloggers are looking for. We have expanded on our sound
but everything is very much NAILS through and through. Thanks a lot for
checking out the tunes and reading this.
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