Overkill - Ironbound

[Lasse Lammert]

opinions?

I've always loved overkill's bass sound....they always hat this paino like bark...and even with Tägtgren producing it's still there...also is this relatively clear for a Tägtgren production...
anyways...I think I'm digging it..cool album (the songs also)...

what do yous think?


btw, just found this Interview with Blitz:

RockMusicStar.com: What advice did producer Peter Tagtgren give you in the studio?

Bobby: We did the production on it. Peter did the mix. This was the first time; we were not in the control room while the mix was being done. So we were at home in New Jersey, and Peter was in Sweden doing this. Peter has become kind of the ears of a genre with regard to let's say understanding this old school type of a thrash vibe.. So were are out of the mix but getting mixes daily from him and then giving input via Internet, via phone etc. At the beginning it is always a rocky road. Because it is a new person that you are working with. We have an idea with what Overkill sounds like and this guy has an idea. Somewhere in between it became a compromise. But I think what he has done has kind of re-invented the sound that he actually brought it back to almost more of an organic sound than a sound based on modern day technology. It comes across, as drums sounding like drums. That is the initial building block you are going to mix from. It was fantastic to get sounds like he did for Ron and the whole band. It was good working with him. It was unique to work via the Internet, via technology. But at the same time, I think I would do it again because the results speak for themselves.

RockMusicStar.com: Would you say that Ironbound has more of a raw live sound that being an album that is overly produced with all the Pro-tools going on in the studio these days?

Bobby: Obviously, we used the technology but there has to be a balanced structure like organic music and a real drum as compared to a computer. I think that Peter struck that balance. He made it tight and concise. But the kicks are kicks, the snare is a snare. Again, if that is your building block then you have that organic drum like building block to build above. That is what he has done.

quite weird, cause to me the drums sound triggered to fuck (othing wrong with that, sounds good...but definitely not real/organic )

 

[Jaymz]

I think this album slays! Love the Sneap style snare too

 

[Lasse Lammert]

I think this album slays! Love the Sneap style snare too

yeah, guessing there's quite some D4 Piccolo in there

 

[Jaymz]

Haha perhaps, I stil can't get "that" sound I hear from it though. Overall, great production and tracks. I think the kick is partly natural....if the snare is partly natural the sample is mixed fairly high and thats whats more audible poking out the mix.

 

[Nebulous]

Bought this but need to give it a few more spins.

 

[muckypup1]

I'm still in pain that I missed Overkill when they performed at a place right next to where I live 5 full bands, all night thrashing