Week 1

January 12.-15. The drum sessions, Phantom Studio, Ylöjärvi Finland.

Last Monday I took my home demos to Phantom Studios in Ylöjärvi. It felt like my demo-dvd would have been somekind of national treasure or something when I drove it 10 km to the studio.:-) kidding.. yep, they are just another bunch of good old rock songs! This will be my third Studio album and this time around the cd won´t be totally instrumental?!

But anyway, I had my home-demos moved to Phantom Studio´s computer. Samu at Phantom Studio built the sessions for my songs to his Pro Tools and we were ready to rock. On Tuesday and Wednesday we recorded the drums with Tomi Ylönen (www.manzana.fi) to the following new E.vil-songs: "The Triumph", "Cruel Groove", "Up To Speed", "Head Up High", "Showstopper" and very special "Japanese bonus track" :-) Then on Thursday Mikko from Apocalyptica (www.apocalyptica.com) visited us and he did an amazing job of recording 6 songs in 1 day!? He´s awesome! The songs were titled "Vision Quest" aka "Supernatural", "Beautiful Piece", "The Last Breath of Love", "Kiss Of rain", "Fire-Hearted" and "One Tonight".

So far everything has worked according to plans and I´m really pleased how the drums turned out to be. I´m really excited and can´t wait for the next week when we start to record the bass with Mr. Kainulainen (www.evergrey.net)!

Keep you posted,

Elias