Recording at 37 Studios, Detroit produced by J.Sturgis

In my head the scenario is along these lines...

Band hits up Joey says they want to have him do the record but they have a budget. Joey already has a vacation planned and thinks "well, this is less than I'd usually take but the dates line up with my trip so I can do prepro/mix and let my team handle the rest."

I'm curious to hear if that's actually what happened and hope that it was just a misunderstanding along those lines. What I'm more curious to hear is why the band didn't just track on their own, hire a studio for drums, and send Joey stuff to mix instead? Like surely that's gotta be cheaper than flying 5-6 dudes out?

Agree, and it´s flying from spain. Its quite expensive, really quite expensive but if money it´s not problem, cant see why not.