BATTLELORE frontman Tomi Mykkänen, who plays guitar in EVEMASTER, has issued an update from the Evemaster recording sessions. As previously reported, the new album is tentatively titled III: Newtopia and will be produced by Mykkänen and MOONSORROW frontman Ville Sorvali.

"The sessions started with me and Ville getting lost on our way to the wild woods of Malmi. Couple of phone calls later we finally found ourselves in some industry area which we were told the studio was located. Hurray!

After we finally got ourselves in the studio we found mr. Salmi already setting the drums up. Enrico had visited the studio already on Sunday night and set the drums to his liking so it was up to miking and soundcheck before we could start tracking.

After The Warrior (Enrico that is) came to studio we were able to start setting up the sounds for recording. This took a while and some careful mike placements... like usual. We are actually recording 22 tracks of drums, my personal and also Drop Hammer studios' record. Evemaster are here! So, Enkku sat behind the kit, put on the headphones and started bashing the drums.

Just before 10pm we were ready with the setup and Ville had just finished his interview with Zero Tolerance mag for Moonsorrow, we decided to start producing and recording the drums. Enkku started bashing the drums a lot harder when the red light flashed so a little additional adjustments was needed. Those heavy hitting Lappeenranta-guys! Me likes them.

We started the recording with 'Enter Newtopia', the opener for the album as well, and after two takes we realized that this is going to be a good session. Fills were flying, cymbals singing, double-kicks ramming... all in all, it sounded heavy and good! After and hour and four takes of the song, we got a winner. Seems that no studio wizardry is needed as the take was excellent from start to finish. Next one was 'The Great Unrest', very diverse song with '1-hit blast', normal grinding blast and double-kick gimmickry. We took four or so takes and Enkku nailed it as well. At this point we decided it was enough for the day. It was just before midnight. Time to leave the studio. Back tomorrow evening 18 hundred hours."

As previously reported, working titles of the mew songs are: 'Enter Newtopia', 'New Age Dawns', 'Humanimals', 'Losing Ground', 'The Great Unrest', 'The Sweet Poison', 'Harvester of Souls', 'Fevered Dreams', 'Absolution'.