Back To Buisness!

So I've been away for a couple weeks now but I would have to say with just cause...

There have been a lot of band related projects going on recently, which I needed to concentrate on 100(000+)% and thus everything else has taken the back seat slightly.

The most exciting thing about being in a band is the point just before recording when you know all the songs inside out, and can hear them perfectly the way you want them to sound but know it will never turn out that way once the record button is hit... and not always in a negative way!

There are so many things to be considered, as well as those pesky random things that spring on you from out of nowhere... busted cables... broken guitar strings... Windows Vista, ugh!

The experimentation and discovery of new techniques within recording is thrilling though, if slightly daunting! Once the bulk of recording has been completed, that is when I feel at home, tinkering away adding little effects and backing tracks, things that are barely audible but add so much to the general vibe of the music.

I've even re-painted the walls of the studio, fresh paint and a fresh sound... there is certainly something epic bubbling beneath the surface, and I can't wait to get it all out!! It's like an oncoming tidal wave of energy and creative force that is unshakeable, waking up at 4am to write some notes on a particular couple bars of a song that should sound like “a pagan camp-fire feast” or something, even if these scrawled notes seem meaningless when dawn approaches... well, that's not true actually since dawn is about 2pm these days isn't it?

Of course another important aspect of Vampyrouss is the “whole package” philosophy. We always try to put as much effort into the visuals as we do the music and lyrics, so I've been playing around with artwork and layouts as well as plotting schemes for a couple music video ideas (no doubt they will be shot in Bideford somewhere... forests are a usual haunting place for us it seems!).

Anyhow, I just thought I should write to say I am still here and very much in the music mindset, and on Friday 30th I will post my first “Best Of The Decade” piece, a rather Halloween themed “Dark-side of music” special!

Speaking of Halloween, lets get in the mood with some CLASSIC Misfits action!



- E.S.L. Kazraine Maars -

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Playlist for early October:
05. Forever Autumn by The Moody Blues from the album “Collected”.
04. Shipwrecked Frontier Pioneer by Arcturus from the album “Sideshow Symphonies”.
03. Retrovertigo by Mr. Bungle from the album “California”.
02. Pretty Amazing Grace by Neil Diamond from the album “Home Before Dark”.
01. Avenging Angels by Space from the album “Tin Planet”.