BW&BK; scribe Carl Begai recently spoke with guitarist/vocalist Chris Caffery (SAVATAGE, TRANS-SIBERIAN ORCHESTRA) about his new album, House Of Insanity. An excerpt is available below, with Caffery discussing what it was like working in the studio on his own without any back-up or moral support.

"It’s funny because the title House Of Insanity came out of the fact that I was going a little bit nuts while I was making it," laughs Caffery. "I spent so much time by myself, literally. From the beginning of February 2008 to the middle of August 2008, with the exception of the week that I recorded the drums (with John Macaluso) and a few things in between with family and friends I was literally locked in a room by myself."
"It’s really tough when you’re sitting there working alone, and I’m not sure people understand that unless they see it. I had a switch, and I was either stepping on it to punch in guitar or bass, or I was standing there holding it while I was singing so I could start and stop recording. Basically, I sang the vocals for each song five times, then I went back and listened to the takes to decide which ones I liked. I had to do all of this myself. Usually you’ll have an engineer who will fade the .wav files together so you don’t get all these little pops and things between tracks. After you’ve done a guitar solo or a basic track you’ll sit there and have a drink, screw around on your computer or whatever until the engineer is ready and decides he wants you to do it again. I didn’t have that luxury because it all came down to me. My hearing had been kind of beaten on throughout the years, so I had to do a lot of that stuff with headphones and at louder volumes because I need hear of something was there that shouldn’t be. It was definitely a challenge."

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