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From Exile’s Monolith is available for digital purchase

admin — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 18:41:21 +0000

After over two years of writing and recording, we are proud to announce that Monolith is now available for digital purchase, with Limited Edition CDs soon to follow!

Click here to purchase “Monolith” in mp3, FLAC, and a variety of other formats

Listen to the record in it’s entirety here;

Digital release includes liner notes and cover art.

Written by Eric Guenther except for the tracks “Apparition”, “Veritas”, and “Monolith”, written by Eric Guenther and Ben Wetzelberger. Produced by Eyal Levi and Eric Guenther. Mixed by Eyal Levi. Mastered at Fullersound. Drums performed by Kevin Talley in June 2008. String recording on “The Unlearning Dissent” performed by Mary Knight (Cello) and Jim Campbell (Violin), and engineered by Brandon Montgomery at WonderRoot Studios in July 2008. Guest solo by Emil Werstler on “Apparition”. Guest solo by Eyal Levi on “In the Faded Silence”.

Experimenting in a Stressful Recording Session

admin — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 23:44:54 +0000

Recording sessions can be tough. I learned this over the long and arduous session that I just finished. It’s not always as simple as you would think. Throw a couple mics in the room and hit the red record button, right?

Then the fun stuff comes into play… After spending hours upon hours in a hot, steamy, dark room, huddled around a computer and countless other humming electro – toys with other stinky dudes who may or may not have bathed within the week (yourself included), agonizing and arguing over whether to use a dotted eighth note or sixlet feel to a 2nd bassline doesn’t really hold your attention the way it should. You lose focus. You forget that this recorded material is going to haunt you for a long time, for better or for worse… The hope is that it is a successful recording and will stick with you forever, but the fear is that, in the end, you won’t want it to.

Anyway, that’s why it is fun and important to change the pace and do something a little different once in a while. It lets the brain reset, and hopefully, if you are resourceful, you can still make something productive and unique out of it. In a couple weeks, when From Exile’s ‘Monolith’ is released, I’ll be getting into the gritty details of specific sounds on the record and where we were having fun.

Here’s an example; TOOL in the studio, annihilating a piano:

I loved this video because I had a similar run-in with a piano a couple years ago… It involved a pair of machetes and a bottle of whiskey, and although I do not have any video footage of this particular night (one, of many, that I probably should have been arrested), I did rip the ‘head off the dragon’, so to speak, and it resides at home with me to this day:

So, to my earlier point on recording experimentation, I had the opportunity to stop by my father’s shop and record some samples of buzz-saws and such for an as-of-yet-unnanounced project (TO BE RELEASED BY END OF YEAR!):

Here is some footage of us working with Eyal Levi on some experimental junk during the Monolith recording session (starts @ 1:38):

We were using key rings, a battlestation of delay pedals, and a glass pipe… bah, I guess I should stop there. I have a show tonight to prepare for!

Studio Update 7: More Guitars, New Track Preview

admin — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 02:28:09 +0000

Most of you know that we have been working on this record a very long time, and it is still coming along very fucking well. It is only a matter of time until we can release it, but for now, I plan on editing through some of the candid footage I was able to collect. There are some rrrrrrrrrrough mixes in there of the middle section of the record –

Studio Update 6: Strings Rehearsal

admin — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 23:39:26 +0000

Mary Knight and Jim Campbell are two of my favorite people on earth right now… They really made my day when we ripped right through this stuff. This is NOT the final recording, however. If you’ll notice, we are recording in my ill-equipped home studio (bedroom).

Next is guitar leads and then on to vocals…

Studio Update 5: Bass Recording Session

admin — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 23:38:38 +0000

Special thanks to Jeremy Creamer of DAATH for helping us with bass tone… what a dude!

Ben and Eric are doing a side project show this Saturday at WonderRoot

admin — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 23:35:24 +0000

Come check it out; going to play some fresh tracks and even a bit of some new from exile

Studio Update 4: Piano Session and New Material Preview

admin — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 23:34:41 +0000

The piano for the record is done, back to guitar.

Studio Update 3: Clean Guitars

admin — Tue, 27 May 2008 23:33:49 +0000

Here is a long video of us making takes for a part using the ebow. Its a little slow-paced, but you can hear some of what we are working on:

Studio Update 2: Clean Guitars and Acoustics

admin — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 23:33:03 +0000

Thats all we got so far… ha!

Seriously, sounding tighter than ever…

http://justin.tv/ericguenther <— if we can connect long enough to broadcast