Well, its a project thats been going on for quite a time. I recorded his 1st, 2nd, and 3rd album in my studio. I did the first two when I was doing it as a profession and I did his Nightwork-CD right before I did Moontower as a kind of warm-up. And with Nightwork I felt that we were getting closer to what we actually trying to do. The 2nd album, (burps) sorry, was called, I dont know .. Cloaked by the moonshine mist or The phantom lodge two names, and with that album I felt that we were actually on the verge of doing something really unique. And with Nightwork we did something unique. But now were doing sth. beyond unique. Its totally weird. And what made me do it was the fact that I wanted to make one album with my new recording equipment. I just didnt wanna do a lot of demos or preparation, I just wanted to write and record something that was going to end up on CD, so actually focused a bit more. And it always brings out the worst of your equipment when youre doing sth. serious, and I dont know what that is, so I can change it. Its a combination of the Omen soundtrack and Metal, really. Its a lot of weirdness going on at the same time. We used this orchestral samples that I found with some weird guy conducting a huge orchestra of properly 50 people and theyre playing this really DeathMetal-riffs. But theyre playing it with an orchestra and when you press the key on your sampler you have it, and its looped. And its the weirdest shit! And I was like ... the first time I played this sound of the sampler, its like ... this is the next DIABOLICAL MASQUERADE album and that was like 4 years ago, but now I actually bought one of these samplers, I got this library. And I just called him and said we got to do this. This is gonna be so weird ... to have this orchestra. And it sounds like theyre playing our riff, because once you put guitars on it, its like theyre following us. But we were like following them. Its really good, and it sounds really weird. And its always a really weird time changes, its not really commercially played, its really complex classical music, but its got the DeathMetal-touch to it. And thats what I like. And were actually writing a combination of that orchestral symphonic stuff and some of Blackheims riffs and Ive written quite a lot of parts as well. More like taking a little thing out of what hes been doing and make it bigger. And Ive actually edited everything together. We recorded one riff with one drumbeat and a few lines of vocals and left it. And Ive actually expanded 20 seconds into 2 minutes by just adding, copying, fixing, reversing, making weird things. Taking a little bit out of a riff and made a new riff out of that all by using a computer. I havent replayed anything but the drums, and the bass. So, the guitars had been copied. Theyre frozen in form and I just copied them and changed it around and its a different record in the way, its gonna be extremely a lot of songs. Its gonna be probably 40 or 50 tracks. Based upon 17 different frames of like a theme really going. Going out for like two minutes. Its a really different album. And its gonna be more of a soundtrack than a normal recording.
