Guitarist / vocalist Rich Goss and lead guitarist Pete Hawthorne of UK-based thrashers WARPATH are featured in a new interview with Metal-Experience.com. An excerpt from the discussion about their debut album, Damnation, is available below.

Q: How did the recording process proceed and how much time did you spend in the studio?

Rich: "Recording was great, a lot of hard work. We'd do on average twelve to fifteen hours a day. Drums were finished fairly quickly. James got a lot of the tracks in one take which is just a testament to his skill. Pete came down and recorded his solos, I think we got them all nailed in a week or so. His fingers were shredded by the end! Rhythm guitars and vocals took the longest. I did three to five rhythm tracks on each song, usually one left, one right, and one thicker sound for the middle. But if there was the slightest bit I wasn't happy with, I'd scrap it and start from scratch. Really worked hard on locking in the picking with the kick drumming. Vocals took a while before I found a style that I was comfortable with. Death metal or screaming, growling cookie-monster vocals would sound ridiculous with our style."

Pete: "Yeah, could you imagine growls or scream vocals over real thrash? I couldn’t! The solos were amazing and a bitch to lay down because it was great working with Rich and sharing ideas and writing different sounding solos for each song to get a contrast. For example the one in 'Face To Face' has a lot of blues sounding runs where 'Expendable' and some other songs have a lot of diminished and Arabian/Eastern style parts. I remember we did like 8, 10, 12 hour days recording them in the height of summer with no air con or fans on as they would be picked up on the mics, trying to nail the solos in one take with sweaty hands, my fingertips were literally fucking shredded of skin by the time we finished! I like to think you can really hear the blood, sweat and swearing that went into them!"

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