THIS INFERNAL MACHINE

Greetings, Everyone!

I am happy to say that recording is going swimmingly and we are going to begin tracking bass soon. We’re hot on our way to finally finishing this record. In the mean time, if you haven’t heard or saw, with the hopes that this will hold you and us over until we finally get this album out, we’ve restarted the video blogs and we’re starting an acoustic series called “Made From Wood & Strings” and each month, we’ll release an acoustic, re-interpretated version of a song from this album. peep all of that below!!!

Invasion (acoustic) by ThisInfernalMachine

It’s hard to believe but we are reaching the one year mark since we began recording our very first album. A year ago, I had it in my mind that we would have this album out by now. In fact, right when we began recording, I thought we would have had it out by September 2010 at the very latest… Then I thought it would be October…

November…

December…

January…

I think it’s fair to say that the three of us just got burnt out. We had other things we were focusing on, which inevitably led to an extended break in recording. After a few months, we came back to listen to what we had done and we weren’t 100% happy with it. So we just decided to start over. We slowly started coming back to the practice space and working on the songs. Making them even tighter. We tweaked a few of the songs that we felt could be stronger. And now, a year later, we begin what I have come to call “Draft 2” of the album. We’re still recording this thing at Studio Savagio, however, this time we are coming equipped with our own gear. Sean got himself a brand new high performance computer as well as a slew of mics. I purchased a new recording interface with better preamps to record vocals and some guitars with here and Brady bought himself a shiny new bass that just sounds unreal. Seriously. I can’t wait to get that bass on this record. It’s like buttuh.

All the signs are pointing to this being it. We’re actually recording an album and it actually will be out within the year. I think the one thing we want more than anything this time through is to feel comfortable while we record it. We thought we could accomplish that even with 2 day microphone rentals, glitchy computers and less than preferable gear. We wanted to prove to the world that we could do this with what we had. It’s not impossible to make a good sounding album on a small budget, I just think this was the world’s way of saying that WE shouldn’t be lazy and that WE need to take it up notch. OK WORLD, WE HEAR YOU!!

It is our hope that we can kick the video blogs back into gear as well. The last one was uploaded around the 4th of July. It’s been too long. We really want to document as much of this as we can. I mean, come on!!! EVERYONE loves “making of” videos!! Am I right or am I right?

Get ready, folks. We’re cookin’  up some other special things (FREE THINGS) while we all return back to this journey. I do hope you’ll join us again.

-Cory

Greetings, Friends.

If you’re our friend on facebook, you probably already know about our dearest amigo Nate Raynor’s recent departure from This Infernal Machine. Hopefully he’ll return to us someday, in some form or another. We miss his random freestyle raps during practice.

Anyhow.

In other news, I am happy to inform everyone that we’ll be making our live debut during the grand opening of an Artist Collective in the city of Vancouver. The Space Art Collective will officially open it’s doors on MAY 7th and will not only feature This Infernal Machine as the musical entertainment but a slew of other awesome local acts as well. It should be noted that this is a special performance. We’re in the process of taking some of our heavier tunes and giving them a lounge-style treatment just for this show. For more information on how awesome The Space is, click some linkage below.

EVENT INFO

THE SPACE FACEBOOK PAGE

If you also frequent our facebook page, you may have also read that plans kind of changed in regards to recording drums. We’ve taken matters into our own hands. Sean’s home studio is officially the place we’ll be tracking most, if not all of the album. And that is including drums. In the end, we just felt we’d get more work done this way. Our friend Corey Craft over at Shaka Sound is helping us out by supplying us with awesome mics to use for drums. We still need to work out a few more details, however, we are hoping to officially start recording the day after we play at The Space. It is subject to change so we’ll keep the updates coming.

I wish I could talk more but I’m tired so GOOD NIGHT, DEAR READERS!!!

-Cory