THEATRE OF TRAGEDY To Hit The Studio In February, Working With SATYRICON Producer
December 22, 2008, 15 years ago
Norway's THEATRE OF TRAGEDY have checked in with the following update:
"Another year has passed and not much has happened publically with the band. Rest assured we haven´t just been lazy (well a bit of that too :-). The year has mainly been spent writing and rehearsing the new material for the upcoming seventh Theatre Of Tragedy album.So far 12 songs are done and 10 of those will make it to the album. As usual, we are nowhere near a title for the album, not even a songtitle is ready, but it will come.
The drums have been recorded together with a really nice guy called Alexander Nyhus (http://www.greatoak.no) and now we are waiting for our producer to finish up his current project with some elderly pop legends :-). Recordings are planned for February and March so a release date should be either June or August depending on what AFM Records want to do.
Erik Ljunggren will be handling the production side of things. We are very pleased about working with him again. He knows the band very well and is a wizard when it comes to sound. He has turned the knobs for the KOVENANT, Kari Rueslåtten, A-HA, SEIGMEN, ZEROMANCER, SATYRICON. But for us he will alway be the mastermind of the legendary industrial metal band VAMPIRE STATE BUILDING. We even played support for VSB in our early beginnings of 1995. Time goes by fast.
As the year reaches an end we want to wish you all a nice christmas, or whatever you celebrate, and a happy new year. Here is a new democlip for all of you to enjoy over the holidays!"
Theatre Of Tragedy
As previously reported, in a recent interview with BW&BK; drummer Hein Frode Hansen discussed the new material.
"There are some tracks that are left over from Storm, stuff that we couldn’t finish up in time for that album. So, there will be some of that stuff on the new album, but having said that, it’s not really in the Storm style. All in all I’d say it sounds a lot more diverse. It’s also slower and a more atmospheric in a way. There’s more piano, which is soft and fragile, but there’s some pretty heavy stuff as well, at least as far as Theatre Of Tragedy goes (laughs). There’s not going to be any growling vocals, though; I’m pretty sure about that. I don’t think anybody could drag Raymond into the studio to do growling vocals anymore. It would have to be a million euro contract for him to do that (laughs)."Go to this location for the complete interview.
