The Web mistress, stays well informed..............I know I talked to Eric a couple of days ago, & he was very excited with the new riff's, that he & Smyth, have completed. The begining stages of Testament recording process, is for Eric & Smyth to come up with some different riffs(parts of a song) seperately, then record them(so they don't forget them). When they get together they take these parts & decide whats the best, & try to arrange a song. They use a drum machine, which Eric says he's really getting good at programing. Whenever they get together, they work on the songs that they are trying to complete, & go over them, & change parts here & there. When they are happy with the structure of a song, they record it with the drum machine. Then Eric either plays the tape for Chuck, or gives it to him. He then (if he likes it), tries to come up with some vocal patterns, & the Chorus. He plays the tape in his truck & thinks of how he's going to sing it, & if some parts of the song should be changed. No lyric's yet, they then rehearse with him adding his vocals on the PA, he sings not with words but with made up patterns & growls(just like Hetfield does).
They then record that, he then plays that back, & thinks of topics & lyric's for the song. When he's done with that they record with him singing it. Then you have the rough Demo of a song. But he works on a few songs at a time, & more & more gets finished.
Right now Eric & Smyth are still rehearseing & writing riff's, during the week. Eric keeps Chuck informed on his progress.
The songs slowly take shape, but change alittle(for the better)
every time they rework the songs. Until they are all happy with it, & record a proper Demo.
. Doubt if they'll be done by the end of the year. There may be some songwriting happening "on tour", which can be quite inspirational...
