Bad news first; one of our members seem to have been doing to much of something he shouldn't have, and that has rendered him useless for practice and recording. So we've had to postpone the recording of the new album as for now. We hope for a quick recovery, and hope for a 2011 release of our next, still untitled, album. It's a little early for titles and such, but we'll tell you in good time.
Good news is: progress with the writing process is good! We've been making mean riffs at a steady pace, and we're not too far from finishing the songs for the album.
If you were living under the illusion that we are some mean nasty motherfuckers, we can now reveal that we are in fact a group of middle-aged men, and at rehearsal we're only drinking fermented green tea from teeny-tiny tea-cups.
But, have no fear! We still managed to shake som rock and roll from our dirty old bones. See you soon!
The summer in Noway has so far been crappy. A guy called Bill Wiese checked out a destination that at least some high temperatures, and lived to tell the story. We're helping him spread his message, and you can check out the whole story here: http://spiritlessons.com/documents/billwiese_23minutesinhell_text.htm . Crazy stuff. Or just check out our new video (literally!) below!
Some guy posted a message on our Facebook-page along the lines of "Satan is not your friend, he wants your soul and he wants you to burn in hell", with a link to the following page http://spiritlessons.com/. The page has much more evil imagery and references to Satan than your average Black Metal band for sure! We checked out Bill Wiese, who claims to have been to Hell for real (no kidding!) and does tours telling people about it. Fascinating stuff. And the page has download links for the lecture and encourages people to share the footage.
Horns for Adornment now available on the excellent service Spotify, click here. Also available on the Norwegian streamingservice Wimp, click here. There's even a St Satan Amazon Store in the works!
Next month we will appear on a MP3-compilation for the Italian fanzine Noize with several other stoner band from all around Europe. Check out their current metal-compilation here.
Stay tuned for another video pretty soon, and remember you can name your price (min 3$) for full quality audio, cover art and an awesome cartoon over at our Bandcamp page.
Most important of all, we're working hard on tunes for our next album!
Keep your hands under the blanket.
2 videos in one week, pretty badass huh? The footage is from the recording of "Horns for Adornment" and is actually a pretty good fit for the song. If we were Radiohead, people would have praised the video as ingenious. Luckily, we're not!
And check this space, there might be even more of these videos in the near future!
We've got a video. It's a tribute to one of the most evil grey motherfuckers and shiny beasts ever to appear on screen, and the men who battled it 'til death. Youtube banned the video straight away, well, who can blame them? But, we're not stealing, we're just paying our respect! Anyway, please check out the video below (before we get sued!) and share with all your hardrocking amigos and amigas. Enjoy!
So, we recorded, mixed, mastered, printed, uploaded and had a releaseparty for "Horns for adornment" last saturday. How did it go, and what did we learn?
First of all, we suck at getting publicity. The whole "record an album in one day" ought to generate some buzz, but all we got was one print article and 5 web pages posting our press release. Our name does not work to our advantage, we found some of our emails didn't make it through the spamfilter, probably due to Satan in the subject line. Kids: selling your soul to satan is overrated, it just doesn't work!
We printed the album cover before the recording, so we had to stick to the songs on the cover and the playlist on the cover. We delivered the cover 2 days before the recording, and that turned out to be just fine.
Also, we had planned a big social media campaign during the recording-session, but that was kinda crippled by the lack of wifi in the new studio, but hey, that's why we have 3G, right? The setup was: Qik postings to blogger, Facebook publishes the Blogger RSS-feed and also publishes to Twitter, and then Myspace posts the Twitter-feed. Facebook proved to be the weak link here, so we did most of our posting to Twitter.
The studio work actually started on Friday when we did the setup and checked the levels. This is NOT cheating, everything on the album was recorded on Saturday!
We started in the studio Saturday at 10. Might seem a little late, considering, but Thomas had a gig on the other side of the country Friday, took the first flight Saturday morning and was ready at 10. After some initial setup, the tape (yeah, we recorded on tape, old school) started rolling at 11.
We opted for Soundcloud and Bandcamp for digital distribution, due to ease of use and fast uploading, so we could keep it within the time-frame of the project, and because our good friend Gisle recommended the sites. Karisma Record have been interested in the project all along, and ended up distributing the physical copies, and Artspages will handle the rest of the digital distribution, getting us on Spotify, iTunes etc.
As you can see, a pretty busy day! We had loads of fun, and having a finished, printed CD in your hands less than 11 hours after the tape started rolling was indescribable. We've listened to the album a lot this last week, and we all agree - it has everything a good album should have. Good, timeless rock tracks, high energy and some damn fine playing. To us, this was a great success!
But wait, there's more! The recording-session was also documented by Kim Holm, a cartoonist every bit as kick-ass as the band, took our challenge: make a cartoon-rockamentary, and release it at the concert in the evening. And so he did, captured the humorous energy from the studio, and produced 21 pages of rock'n'roll mayhem! He handmade the front-cover the day before, and the back is all of our signatures, and he made and sold 17 exclusive copies the same night.
There it is, we can totally recommend it, but get your shit together before you try something like this, and be sure to have really competent people in the studio who are on the same page as you. And financially? After every member bought 10 CD's to sell to friends and family, the whole project is break even! We now have a kick-ass album that can take us anywhere, everywhere and nowhere, we own all the rights, and we are debt-free! Pretty awesome if you ask us.
St Satan is a vulgar rock band from Bergen, Norway. The current lineup consists of Trond Absalonsen (former bands The Swamp Babies/Slut Machine), Kai K Lie (current band The Batallion, former band Borknagard), Tarjei A Heggernes(former bands Lost at Last, Deride) Nils A Drønen (other bands include Jazkamer, Trio Gud, etc) and Thomas T Dahl (other bands include Krøyt, Skomsork, Voksne Herrers Orkester, Bjørn Eidsvåg, Brokeback Mountain Boys, etc).
Influences include Clutch, Black Sabbath, MC5, The Stooges, The Who, Led Zeppelin, Kiss, Sleep, Kyuss, Napalm Death. Their first album "Horns for adornment" was released on the 6th of February 2010.
