I havent posted anything last week cause we havent practiced for a few weeks. Yesterday I arrived in rapid at ten in the morning and got home about eight thirty that night. The day consisted of alot of practicing, goofing around and having fun. We are making sixty copies of the single which will be for sale at the show this saturday, there all limited edition pressings. FREE show this weekend at Ernie Novembers in Rapid City. Doors open at eight. Two bands, Primordial Flame and Obsession In Suns. All instrumental. There has been alot of hype about the show, people have been talking and wondering what each of us have been up to since our previous bands. There excited and curious to see if we can pull this off. I can't wait for this saturday.

Today I thought that I should discuss how the band got together. Nic and Laura used to be in an amazing progressive metal band called Anamosa. Those guys definitely had the potential to go places with their music. After those guys split up, Nic and Laura started to do an acoustic project with a friend of mine by the name of Blaine W. on drums. That only lasted a few months to my knowledge. Nic continued to record bands in his studio but got board with it and wanted to start another band. Nic began recording so that he would be able to record his own music/band. He began to record a friends band and then kept getting referrals until it basically became his second job. Gabe got introduced to Nic at a show and began to talk and found similar interests in music. Both of them were aware of eachothers previous bands and thought it would be cool to start collaborating and writing together. They had a few drummer in mind that they wanted to come play for them but most of them didnt have what they were looking for. I had met Nic a week prior to him calling me up to come play for them at my last bands farewell show. Nic got my number from a friend and I was driven down to Rapid that afternoon after he'd called. The first pracitce consisted of Gabe and Nic on guitar, Laura on keys and myself on drums in Nics basment one sunday afternoon and the rest is history.

I'm finding it harder to think of things to post on here. There hasn't really been anything going on recently that is blog worthy? Were currently mixing the album, should be done here soon. We will have copies up for purchase at the November 30th show in rapid. Were currently trying to get a Chicago based black metal band (whose name escapes me at the moment) on the line up for the show. hope to see you there.

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I don't have much to blog about today because I missed practice this past weekend. I got sick Saturday night and wasn't able to make a trip to Rapid the next day. I presume the band continued on recording the rest of the weekend. This week were going to start doing two practices a week, Thursdays and Sundays from now on so we can start booking shows for this winter. Thursdays and Sundays usually work for all of us. Rarely would we practice minus one or two people due to work. Next week I should have all the details on the Ernie Novembers show if anyone is interested...  

recording, fig-ment records, ernie novembers

Last weekend I had made multiple trips to Rapid for recording. I had finished drums in two days. In that time we had recorded over 35 minutes(three songs) in material. That is about the norm length for an EP for this genre. For now we only have one guitar down and the drums. Next weekend we'll start recording the other guitar and maybe finish all of the bass.

Also over the weekend we talked to Joe shoemaker of Fig-ment Records and Distro, he asked us to do a show with him on Oct 30th at Ernie Novembers. We happily agreed to do it. We also talked about teaming up with Fig-ment and doing shows with them in the future, having them do some minimal managing for us and releasing the record. This band has made the most progress out of any band I've ever been in and I'm enjoying every minute being spent with these guys! 

To my surprise when i walked into Nicks house yesterday, Nick and Gabe had already started recording. Gabe had been at Nicks all morning recording all his guitar parts. Gabe had said that when he woke up that morning he was in the mood to start recording the album. After he had finished we started micing my kit and setting all the levels on the boards. The tones that we wanted for the drums that we could not achieve, we mixed with a trigger.

The previous practiced we had recorded our full session and put it up online for free download. We used one room mic, a condenser, and a mic'd kit. There's still no news about future shows. We should have some ruff mixes up online next week. Here's the link to the session.
www.filefactory.com/file/b34ehf8/n/obsessionandsunmyspace.mp3

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Last Sunday was the first full practice as a band with everyone present, usually were short one person due to their job. The bands progress is coming along wonderfully. Sundays practice was approximately five hours long. We have two songs down now, that's twenty minutes of material, enough for a show. All of the songs are composed by our guitarist Gabe. He's had most of them written for a couple years now. Once we learn them all we'll have a set to choose from, then we will start thinning them out and start the writing process as a whole.

Saturday night everyone got together and had a pre-practice practice so that Sundays practice would go smoother, and it did! We get together once a week, so the time being were together we utilize our time. We're only able to practice once a week because of work schedules and the commute to get to practice. If it weren't for those obligations, we'd be playing all the time. Next week i might have some news about some up coming show.