The Lay of Thjazi

An inspection on the possible future of other projects I'm currently working with. CASE 1: Gambanteinn After releasing the debut EP Nielevä Pimeys via now defunct Fettered Redwoods label (no idea what happened to them, the label's boss just stopped answering my emails) I wrote a bunch of songs too similar to the old ones, which ultimately led to the premature termination of the material. I do not fancy mimicking my own tricks, you know. Some time went by, Aleksi joined Gambanteinn alongside Sepulchral Curse and I started composing new material from scratch. Fast forwarding a year or two and we were ready to finally release the 2nd EP of ours, titled Yö Johdattaa. We even published one song online  as a kind of a teaser and while searching for a new label, something happened... GMBTN 2016 To be honest I don't know why, but I kind of forgot the whole EP for six months or so and when I got back to it I realized how fucking terrible it was. Most of the tracks were total bulls...

  Synths, day 3 - The End Game: Kudos to whoever made this. God tier meme. To be brutally honest arranging synths for Sepulchral Curse have been one of the most difficult tasks I've had in a good while. Not that the songs are overly complicated or progressive in nature, but our band's genre in itself limits the possibilities more than I expected. That, and my personal views and taste on what kind of stuff I'd like to do, conflicting with the following facts. Even though our music sometimes has these looser and somewhat easygoing parts, occasional folky melodies and chord progressions that scream for the Scandinavian melo black metal, our base sound still is downtuned and filthy death metal with guttural vocals ultimately meaning that if I'd play the synths as I wanted without giving a shit about the music itself I would water it all down and ruin the whole product. Of course I'm more than aware my band mates would show me the red light if I was going too much astray...

  Synths, Day 1:   Due to my certain underlying conditions considering my sleep, doing night shifts has been a total pain in the ass for the past six months or so. During working at night time and especially after it, I'm experiencing mood swings, anxiety, breathing difficulties, exhaustion and arrhythmia. Sounds fun, right? Well, this Tuesday after just one  night shift I could hardly sleep at all and it felt like I had a hangover of the century with a migraine so bad I was ready to shoot my head off. After calling to work not being in any kind of condition to continue the rest of the nights, I had the worst arrhythmia I've ever experienced and I almost fainted out two times. While my wife was at work herself I was lucky enough to have Kari to take me to the emergency (we are practically neighbors down here at the countryside). Gladly I was taken in and under treatment almost immediately. After two hours in electrocardiogram monitoring and checking some basic blood ...

The pre-diary babbling: Yes, the title is an actual reference to Metallica. Go ahead and sue me. ...now that think of it, Lars Ulrich probably would sue me if he were reading this. Anyway, I thought I'd write a proper opening text about myself and why I'm writing this diary like thing of mine, but I believe you will get all the necessary information from reading the blog description. If you can't however, then you probably can't read in the first place and none of this really matters. Well yes, I am a master of photoshopping as well.   So, we hit the studio with Sepulchral Curse on the last weekend of February to record a brand new EP. Diverging from our previous efforts which were more or less thematic wholes, this new one is a collection of songs working in their independent folds. The reason for this arrangement is quite simple; the EP is actually a cluster of album leftovers and a one, sad and lonely cover song (which is a rather damn good piece of old school death ...