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

Day 3 - drums and driving around town...

Woke up early and went to our record label to borrow their van. Lots of things to do!! Drove back to the studio and loaded in some amps that we had borrowed. While Nicki continued to record drums, me and Ida drove to Fitzpatrick to leave the amps and buy some guitar strings. There she met the Sandberg family, awesome GOOD lookin basses from Germany.

It was love at first sight, and even me who never touch a bass unless I really have to, seriously started to think what band I could play bass in... just so I could buy one myself :-)

After the visit at Fitzpatrick we drove through Stockholm to the south part of town, to leave our guitars in for service at Anders Thidell. Had a nice chat with him and checked out his guitarnecks.. Always fun! ( www.truetemperament.com )
Then we drove back to the record label, left the van and went back to the studio pretty exhausted. Nicki had finished almost half of all the tracks, it's going very well !! Later we went down town, to meet our friends for dinner.DAAAAMN that was good and needed after 3 looong days of recording :-)

We forced Nicki to go home 10.30 since she had to work hard today as well, but the rest of us stayed out a bit longer...

Today's thanks goes to Ulrika and Ola for inviting us to the extremely tasty dinner and a very fun evening! :-)Crucified Barbara // Mia

Day 2 - Drums

Today is still yesterday; but it's beyond ghost hour and no sleep yet - So it's still tuesday even if the calender says something else. Today Nicki beated out 3 songs on the drums, while the rest of us kept on fighting with the angry computer, recording "slask" guitars/bass. I think we're almost done with the Pod now, piuh.. There's not much to say about the 2nd day in the studio, no one came to visit us, Mats left the baseball bat in the corner, Jocke got his normal skin color back...
I really hope that Nicki sleeps well tonight, her head is so full of beats, fills and songs at the moment so she hardly notices when we speak to her... She's done a great job today, the songs sounds great already, with only drums ha,ha.. -So tired that the eyes are walking in cross, as we say in Swenglish, änna! X-S

Today's THANKS goes to Nigel for letting us borrow the car tomorrow.... Good night friends & enemies,Crucified Barbara // Mia

Day 1 warming up (May 5th)

Me and Klara arrived around 10.30 to the studio. Nicki, Mats and Jocke were already here, carrying around pieces of Nicki's drumkit and looked bisy. Mats got a bit upset 'cause we were late and threatened Klara with a baseball bat, but went back to being normal again when klara offered him a cake that she just had bought.

When Ida dropped in we all had a coffee and laughed a bit at Jocke who's face was a bit green-ish today. Then Nicki spent the whole day together with Mats and Jocke, setting up a kick ass drum sound.

Me and Klara tried to record some guitar tracks for Nicki to play along with, but the computer had other plans unfortunately.. but at least we got some things done. Ida cleaned the whole studio, played some bass, and pinball...

Tomorrow Nicki will start to record the drums. It has been a big day for Crucified Barbara; A brand new song was played on swedish national TV (Garage show) and our first day in the studio. -Fun like a birthday!!!

Today's BIG thanx goes to Urban Näslund who came by with lots of drum skins and Sabian cymbals, and helped out Nicki to set up the drums. (She is very happy about "Osten" :-)

Good Heavy Metal Night!!Crucified Barbara // Mia