TRISTANIA Completes Recording New Album

Bassist Ole Vistnes of Norwegian metallers TRISTANIA has issued the
following update:

"As you maybe know (Twitter, anyone?), we have been busy in the studio,
and we are now hours away from being finished with the recording of the
new album.

"We started out six weeks ago in Oslo. Me and Anders [Høyvik Hidle,
guitar/vocals] then spent three days in a project studio with [producer]
Waldemar [Sorychta], just going through all the arrangements, details
and putting final touches to the songs. One of the songs was not
complete, and together with Waldemar we co-wrote the rest of the song.
It's called 'Vulture' and will be one of the heavier tracks on the
album! Then, after three days, we moved on to Tanken Studio in Sandvika
outside Oslo to record the drums.

"Tanken Studio is run by Fredrik Wallumrød, drummer of norwegian rock
act EL CACO. He was engineering the drum recordings, which happened in
an awesome huge round room that used to be an actual tank (hence the
name...) for color in clothes production. Me, Anders and Tarald [Lie,
drums] spent seven great days there. We instantly hit it off with
Fredrik, who is an outstanding engineer/producer, but most of all an
incredible nice guy!

"After Tarald was done with his recordings, we set the course westward,
to Stavanger. There we rented a room in what used to be one of the
finest studios around back in the Ninetees. Now there is no commercial
studio there, but the room acoustics and sound preparations are the
same, and the room sounds amazing for recording. We set up some of our
own equipment, and some rented, high-class equipment, and we were set
for two weeks of guitar/bass/ violin/Østen [Bergøy, clean vocals]
recording. This is where Pete Johansen did his work. It was really nice
for me to meet him for the first time, and it was really enjoyable to
listen to him and Anders reminisce about the old times and share stories
and memories of the tours and recordings.

"Many beers, cigarettes and pizza slices, and two weeks later we were
bound for Oslo once more. This time for the grand finale. Vocals.

"We did all the vocal recordings in Amadeus Studio in Oslo, with
engineer Sigmund Vegge. As an outstanding tech, engineer, musician and
friend, he had all the vocals recorded with a smile.

"What now remains is for Waldemar to mix the album. He will do this
during March, and we will most likely have a finished TRISTANIA album in
our hands by Easter."

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