Day 17...

The songs are taking form for real now, and I have finished the vocals on 7 of the songs and will be done by the end of the week. Yehaa! We're really happy about the Jocke Skog and Mats Levén team working hard to help us in the making of the album of the year.. The sound is so good already that we almost wet ourselves everytime we listen to the songs :-D More pictures to come..!

Cheers, The Barbs
Mia

Week summary!

Saturday night, in the studio ...so excited I can't hardly breath here all alone, how will this end, will Charlotte Perelli get any points in the Eurovision Song contest..!!!??? HOooooOOOooooo!!! But at the moment Sweden is no 20 of 25 so it doesn't look good. I definitely need to get one of those diamond covered microphones like she had. Or one covered with old teeth, then I wouldn't be mistaken for being Paris Hilton.

Today Klara finished the guitars of 2 of the 4 songs she had left and we'll finish the last ones tomorrow!! Klara gets an extra star in the book for her skills in leaving her guitar in different strange positions... and it could be fine unless someone else mostly passes by...and most of the time it's enough with a breath take to make it fall. Strange enough the guitar is still in 1 piece and in pretty good shape.

Yesterday we had a reporter here in the studio from DN, swedens biggest news paper. She did an interview with Ida that will be out on Friday.

..and here comes a picture summary of last weeks recording and visits!

Our best rock'n'roll friend Laura came to visit us, with a bag full of fruits, cookies and wine.. She now a days lives in BULLET land and it was great to see her again! Some of our swedish -and Italian fans have also met her, she use to help us out selling merchandise at some gigs. Pluppi rocks!!!!

Last thursday me and Ida had the unique opportunity to jam out with 2 members of the rap-metal kings Clawfinger... Jocke and Bård!!!

I found handsome Pontus from Bonafide at the central station so I invited him to the studio and gave him something to eat, and somewhere to spend the night as well ... :-)

This is the castle at the moment..

Ida is done with the bass.......we're still working on some lyrics..

A guest musician came by as well one day to add some percussion to one of the songs. We weren't really satisfied with the sound 'cause the paws ripping the skin of the drums wasn't really what we had expected. He got upset and ate one of Nicki's drumsticks. Lucky enough she's got endorsement so it wasn't a big deal. ...Jocke have lots of favourite lots-of-fat-strings-monsters hangin on the wall and this strange one is one of his favourites I think.. As passionate as in this picture we've never seen him, even though he is rockin out hard every day!!! :-D and here is the album, a bunch of new heavy CB songs taking form....

Take care of each other out there!! We'll be back soon again!
Cheers and Good night,

Mia and Crucified Barbara

Late night..

Life is damn unfair and unpredictable. Our thoughts are with the family and friends of Michelle Meldrum. Colleague in rock, friend and the greatest guitarheroine. Rest in peace Michelle.

It has been a while since we updated the studio blog, sorry for that. But since I'm the one who has been starting this blog thing and I have been bisy recording and doin stuff 24 hours a day there hasn't been much time to even make the other girls write something.. But after this message I hope someone else will take over .. Anyway we're done with drums and bass, and me and Klara are workin hard to finish the guitars now. I think we will be done by tomorrow! The songs are taking form for real know and we are really excited about the massive sound just with rough drums, bass and a few guitar ads. So it's all looking very good..

We'll upload some more pics from the recordings during the weekend, when our men in charge have their days off and there might be a few hours to kill..

/ Mia and Crucified Barbara

Day 7 - setting up the guitar sound

Today we started out early in the morning with a visit to Stockholm Aquaria and watched their 2 new strange sting rays.
Then we began to set up guitarsound for the 2 guitars.

In rock music today it's important you find your own original sound and we don't have any limits when it comes to find the right one. Marko from Sonata Arctica came by and thought that the guitar sound was a little bit to "TOTO"..

..Klara fainted from the shock. Ida was flirting with Tomas Haake like always...
...and Mia ate all the choklad by herself...

..and then went back to work....when Mats 'MaXxLaxX' told her to.. always respect the producer!!
PS Don't worry, Maxx Laxx and Joxxe Skoxx won't let any TOTO guitar sound pass through in the mix.

Day 6 - First bass tracks recorded!

Good news, everybody are getting used to the camera as well he,he... Look what a sweet pic I found all of a sudden..

Today Ida recorded 3 songs on the bass. Her Ampeg pig is a really mean bastard, some people even wore ear plugs as she was playing !! :-D

Day 5 - finishing the drums!

Today Anders Thidell came by the studio to drop off our guitars, wow.. Then Ida and Klara began to clean the studio once again inside and out... Haven't been done for a long time as it seems so...why not :-)

AND NICKI HAVE FINISHED ALL THE DRUMS!!! YEEHHAAAAA :-) After finishing all the drums, Ida and Jocke began to set up the bass sound. Her old Ampeg amp (aka Grisen) is an evil son of a amp-mama, GRRRRRROCK!!!!

Since it's friday afternoon and we're right on time, I won't complain about this view from the studio room :-) Next week we'll begin to record some rythm guitars and bass. Wheeeehoooo!

Have a nice weekend and.. fun in the sun! Cheers // Crucified Barbara - Mia

Day 4 - Crowded studio

Today it was Mia and Idas faces that were a bit green-ish. Urban came by in the morning and fixed some stuff with Nicki's drums again, thanx a lot!!
At lunch time our label manager came to make sure that we aren't spending the days sitting out in the sun drinkin coffee. We were also honoured to have a visit from Pontus Norgren (Hammerfall).

I think he was there to say hi to Jocke and Mats but we pretend that he was there to see how the Barbs are doin.

Nicki has been working hard and will finish the drumming tomorrow, only 2 tracks left!

Today's thanx goes to Pontus Norgren for trying to help me out with the ringtone of I love Europe (Christer Sjögren, Sweden's finest däns bänd singer). Unfortunately it didn't work out. But it was worth a try. Cheers and good night!Crucified Barbara // Mia