Selasa, 2 November 2010

AUTOPSY - Severed Survival 1989

Masa aku meliat-liat kaset lama ku, aku teliat satu kaset lama masa aku aktif dulu (sikit ja la…) tape-trading. Aku nda ingat dari siapa tape ani. Tapi kalau aku inda silap dari seorang tape-trader dari USA. Aku lupa sudah…dalam tahun 1992/1993…lama sudah. AUTOPSY, sebuah band old-school death metal dari California, USA yang diantara band-band terawal death metal. Tapi cover album nada la…biasa la tape-trading. Track lagu saja. Album ani adalah album yang pertama durang dibawah naungan label Peaceville Records dari UK. Kalau sebelum ani aku kurang tau latar belakang band ani. Macam…kenapa ia ada dua jenis gambar album, siapa Chris Reifert….inda banyak yang ku kurang tau pasal band ani.Tapi aku suka band dan album ani. Album yang di rakam di Starlight Sound pada Januari 1989 dan producernya John Marshall dan AUTOPSY sendiri (John Marshal: former guitarist band thrash metal METAL CHURCH dan banyak lagi akviti muziknya)sudah ada beberpa re-issue yang dicetak balik. Kalau album ani yang aku dapat ada 11 buah lagu, which is dari CD yang asal. Cetakan lain macam cetakan 1993, ada tambahan 3 buah lagu sebagai bonus track. Macamatu jua tahun 2003 ada tambahan lagu dalam digipack. Tahun 2009 re-issuenya ada 2 CD yang menjadikan version re-issue tahun 2009 jadi 15 buah tracks (CD 2 ada tambahan live & rehearsal). Album ani bagi ku adalah album yang muzik nya mempunyai originalnya yang tersendiri. Kalau kamu ada album ani, cuba dangar lagi. Mungkin ada yang inda perasan, muzik durang yang primitive dengan bass sama drum yang basar bunyinya membuatkan ianya bagi aku original. Walaupun masa album ani keluar, 1989, banyak band-band yang main death/thrash metal sudah mempunyai sound yang bagus. Contoh nya macam SEPULTURA “Beneath The Remain”, DEATH “Spritual Healing”, OBITUARY “Slowly We Rot”, MORBID ANGEL “Altars Of Madness”. Mungkin ada band lain yang macam bunyi muzik durang, tapi durang pelopor bunyi macam ani…pandangan aku la. Lirik durang mostly pasal gore,kematian dan horror/seram….eee..takut…! Chris Reifert, drummer band dan vocals untuk album ani. Ia adalah pecahan dari band DEATH. Sampat merakam album “Scream Bloody Gore” 1987 sebalum ia keluar. Keluar dari DEATH ia membuat AUTOPSY sama Eric Cutler Ogos 1987 tapi lari dari banyangan DEATH.

Peaceville Records terpaksa menukar cover album ani dari yang asal kepada yang baru. Ani disebabkan senitiviti cover album yang awal. Oleh sebab masalah cover yang pertama, Peaceville Records re-launched album ani lagi menggunakan cover yang kedua tahun 1990. Pasal atu kadang-kadang ada yang membuat tahun album Severe Survival tahun 1990, walaupun tahun yang sebenarnya 1989. Cover album yang awal dibuat oleh Kent Mathieu dan bagi cover yang kedua dibuat oleh Kevin Walker (artis komik dari UK, ia jua membuat cover AUTOPSY untuk album “Mental Funeral” 1991). Tahun 2009, Peaceville Records mengeluarkan atau re-release album ani untuk 20th Anniversary Edition dengan mengeluarkan 2CD yang ada bonos tracks….macam yang kata ku diatas. Durang jua merakamkan 2 buah lagu baru untuk single “Horrific Obsession” yang dikeluarkan tahun 2009 selepas durang membuat gig lagi selepas durang inda iktif beberapa tahun. Lapas atu durang macam menjadi lagi dan album “Awaken By Gore” jua dikeluarkan tahun ani dimana album ani adalah album Best Of/Compilation durang yang ketiga. Tahun ani jua durang ada mengeluarkan EP durang “The Tomb Within”.

Track dalam album yang aku dapat:

Charred Remains, Service for a Vacant Coffin, Disembowel, Gasping for Air, Ridden With Disease, Pagan Saviour, Impending Dread, Severed Survival, Critical Madness, Embalmed, Stillborn

Line-up untk album ani:

Chris Reifert - vocals, drums
Eric Cutler - guitar
Danny Coralles - guitar
Steve DiGiorgio – bass

AUTOPSY masa mula-mula

AUTOPSY masa ani

Cover album yang awal

Cover album yang kedua

Aku pun mau jua begambar pakai baju
Severed Survival...hehehe

Sabtu, 30 Oktober 2010

Interview: Dan Swanö

Hampir semua death metallers tau band EDGE OF SANITY atau si Dan Swanö. Seorang multi-instrumentalist yang aktif dalam muzik metal. Dilahirkan 10 Mac 1973 di FinspĂĄng, Sweden. Ia banyak terlibat dalam band samada jadi line-up tetap atau jadi pemain undangan. Dan ia ani sudah lama terlibat dalam kerja-kerja recording di studio Unisound nya. Ia jua membuat mixing dan mastering material band-band yang minta khidmatnya. Aku dari dulu lagi selalu meliat dalam kulit kaset nama Dan Swanö ani. Hampir setiap kaset atau CD yang dari Sweden ada namanya. Ia bekerja sama dengan band yang bemain macam-macam style, dari death metal, prog sampai grindcore. Band-band yang ia pernah ikut atau terlibat macam : EDGE OF SANITY, BLOODBATH, GODSEND, PAN THY MONIUM, KATATONIA, NIGHTINGALE, UNICORN to name a few…. banyak….sama ia jua ada album nya sendiri Moontower yang main prog metal. Manakala yang ia pernah terlibat dalam kerja-kerja di studio sama band:THEATRE OF TRAGEDY, DARK FUNERAL, A JOURNEY IN DARKNESS, DARK ENDLESS, DISSECTION dan macam-macam band lagi. Atu balum lagi yang ia menjadi undangan. Masa ia mereply ku balik, ia terlalu sibuk dengan kerja-kerja di studionya. Banyak band yang masih menunggu giliran di studionya. Sebab atu aku membuat interview atau menayakan beberapa soalan arah nya. Tekanang pulang ku membuat zine dulu….

Ok, Soalan atau interview ani cakap Inggris, malas ku mentranslate ke Bahasa Melayu karang lain pulang ertinya.

Dan The Psychopath
HI THERE. YOU ALWAYS BUZY MIXING AND MASTERING FROM LOTS OF BANDS. DO YOU HAVE TIME FOR DOING OTHER THINGS INSTEAD WORKING IN THE STUDIO AS A KNOB-TWIDDLER?
Well..I still have a commitment to work halftime at a Musicshop, so I actually work there 24 hours a week. It's nice there most of the time. Cool to see "normal" people and discuss Hz and dB and get paid :) I also go see my girlfriend in Germany on a regular basis. Then we go out and gig and rehearse with Nightingale from time to time. We were in Romania this weekend and in a month we kick Finlands ass :)

WHEN IS YOUR FIRST INVOLVED AND INTERESTED WORKING IN THE STUDIO?
I was obsessed with the idea of recording what ever song I wrote since a very young age. When the 4 track cassette porta studios got cheaper we bought one for my band, and then I was hooked!

DO YOU GO FOR ANY COURSES OR LEARN FORM OTHER PRODUCER OR MAY BE JUST LEARN THROUGH EXPERIENCE?
It's only experience that works. Of course a basic knowledge in acoustics and sound physics is always useful. But if you want to be a successful metal engineer, you need to take a lot of different ways to make it happen :)

IS IT VERY HARD TO DO WHAT THE BANDS WANTED? DO YOU ALWAYS DO WHAT THEY WANT OR YOU DO AS YOUR STANDARD?
I provide a service, and that is to give them exactly what they want. 99 times out of 100 the band/producer is right about the changes they want. After all, it them, not me that will play this album to all friends and "stand by it" for eternity

WHAT DO YOU USE FOR YOUR UNISOUND STUDIO LIKE MICS, EQS, RIG, AMPS, SOFTWARE OR AMPS THAT YOU USED?
That's secret ;) But I can give you a hint, that I own 2 UAD-2 QUADCARD and have access to all the UAD plugins ever released :)

HOW DO YOU FELT WORKING WITH BANDS FROM DIFFERENT GENRE? HOW LONG DID YOU SPEND IN THE STUDIO FOR EVERY FULL-LENGTH? ARE YOU SATISFIED WITH THE PRICE?
The price is cool with me. I am one of the cheaper in the industry considering that I get really good results that can compete with the best and most expensive mixers. A full length vary a lot. But I guess if you break it all down with pre and post production stuff... I think about 1 day per song.


Live sama adi beradinya, Dag

DO YOU SATISFIED WITH ALL YOUR WORKS? HOW ABOUT WITH DARK FUNERAL?
I like the stuff we did the 1st mini album. The 1st full length that I fucked up, is a dark page in my book. I am forever sorry. I shouldn't have messed around so much with changing speakers. IU should have bought a very expensive pair and learned them properly :)

TOMAS SKOGSBERG IS ONE OF THE WELLKNOWN SWEDISH PRODUCER. WHO ELSE DO YOU THINK A GOOD SWEDISH PRODUCER NOWADAYS?
Jens Bogren is great. Peter Tgtgren is also still kicking ass. Pelle in Studio Underground and Ronny at Studio Seven is underrated!!

IN THE EARLY DAYS, NEARLY EVRYBODY KNOWS SUNLIGHT STUDIO. DO YOU HAVE ANY OTHER RECOMMENDED STUDIOS?
Fascination Street, Studio Seven, Studio Underground, Abyss I and II and Soundlab is pretty nice too!!

WHAT BAND DO YOU THINK HAS A VERY GOOD ALBUM PRODUCTION SO FAR?WHY?
I like the sound on Opeth's "Ghost reveries". It's clear and punchy, unique sounding but still metal! I also like the 2 latest Nickelback albums. They sound fat as fuck. The "Phobia" album from Breaking Benjamin is kick ass too!

WHEN DID YOU FIRST LEARN PLAYING THE INSTRUMENTS? HOW DID YOU GET INVOLVED IN METAL? YOUR EARLY BAND BEFORE EDGE OF SANITY?
I started playing drums when I was 7. I got involved in hardrock around 1984-85, then really more thrash stuff in 1987-88.

YOU ARE INVOLVED WITH LOTS OF BANDS AS A BAND MEMBER, AS A GUEST AND STUDIO WORKS. HOW DO YOU MANAGING YOUR TIME?
I don't manage it really. Just gives me panic. I just make sure that I erase any time consuming routines. I like to be effective with my time. I listen to the ne TPH being mixed in my headphones, while I type this interview in just enough time to make sure I get 7 hours of sleep :)

HOW DID YOU INVOLVED WITH BANDS LIKE PAN.THY.MONIUM, KATATONIA, GODSEND, NIGHTINGLE INSTEAD OF EDGE OF SANITY? GODSEND IS ONE OF MY FAVE BAND, ANY NEWS FROM GODSEND?
Pan Thy Monium was an outlet to make weird stuff we didn't have the guts to do with EOS. Try keybaords and tuning down and use blastbeats etc. Katatonia sent me a letter as fans and wanted to record at Gorysound...and did so the summer of 92. Godsend was the same. Gunder contacted me and recorded first the demo and then 3 albums with me! I haven't heard a beep from him since I finished the last album we did 13 years ago (??)

YOU PLAY INSTRUMENTS LIKE DRUMS, GUITARS, KEYBOARD IN MOST THE RELEASES. HOW DO YOU REMEMBER THE MUSIC/SONGS FOR EACH BAND OR SONG?
I really don't. :) I am terrible with that kind of stuff.

TELL ME ABOUT ALL YOUR INSTRUMENTS. WHAT BRAND YOU ARE USING? WHY?
I am not a Brand-nerd. I use instruments that makes sense. Read all about it here: http://www.musicians-navigator.com/articles-guitar-gear/dan-swano-interview/

HOW ABOUT PRACTICE WITH DIFFERENT BAND, DO YOU HAVE TO GO TO ONE PLACE TO ANOTHER PLACE JUST FOR REHARSE?
Yep. We rehearse in a small town called Kumla where none of us live :) But the rehearsal room rocks!!

AS I KINOW, EDGE OF SANITY
S FOURTH ALBUM PURGATORY AFTERGLOW 1994 WAS DEDICATED TO KURT COBAIN OF NIRVANA. WHY? GRUNGE MUSIC ONCE NEARLY DROWNED DEATH METAL SCENE ESPECIALLY IN THE STATES. BUT I DONT KNOW IN SCANDINAVIA? DO YOU FOLLOW THE TREND AT THAT TIME?
I liked Nirvana before they got big. Uffe in Entombed sent me a tape of "Bleach" and to me it was the ultimate fusion of Rock and Death Metal. Kind of....Me and Dread was huge grunge fans at the time of his death.


WHAT DO YOU LISTEN CURRENTLY? AND DO YOU LSITEN TO ANY ASIAN BANDS? DO YOU STILL PLAYING PROG DEATH METAL?
No Asian bands I am afraid ;) I have just bought my first 160 GB iPod so I listen to whatever pops up there when I am out driving. Really nice!!

DO YOU STILL READ UNDERGROUND FANZINES OR BUY DEMO FROM UNSIGNED BANDS? OR YOU DONT HAVE ANY TIME FOR THAT ANYMORE?
I read Classic Rock, Sweden Rock and Close Up and of course, Prog! That is about it. I just finsihed the bios from Slash and Ozzy. Both ruled!!

WHAT DO YOU THINK OF DOWNLOADING FREE MP3 ALBUMS FROM THE INTERNET? HOW ABOUT TAPE-TRADING IN 80S & 90S , DO YOU THINK ITS SIMILAR?
Not really. The tapetrading never made any huuuge dips in bands recordsales. I'd say some bands got famous because of tapetrading. Downloads are really killing music!! It sucks.

LASTLY, WHAT YOU CAN SEE THE METAL SCENE NOWADAYS? DO WE SEE MANY NEW METAL SUB-GENRE WILL EXIST? ACTUALLY, I MISSED THE SCENE END OF 80S & EARLY 90S. THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME FOR THIS INTERVIEW.
I think there is a lot of subgrenres in metal these days. A few of them are slowly becoming outdated. Much Opeth and Soilwork clones out there...

See ya

Dan

Cover album Moontower

Thanx Dan for your your answers. Hope to here from you again soon.