The new album?

[Mr. Lapin Kulta]

How far along are you in the process of writing the new album? Also please give us as many hints as possible conerning the musical and lyrical direction of same album

 

[Feel_The_Force]

Or any kind of news for that matter, tell me something! I don't care if it's saying you just went for a shit or something.

 

[Nygård]

How far along are you in the process of writing the new album?

Far, but not even near to far enough...

The concept is forming up both musically and eh... conceptually. I think I have five songs which have some sort of a tentative form, structure and arrangement. Then there is thousands of loose ideas floating around searching for their place.

The basis for everything is a massive historical concept outline, which will most likely continue over to at least one more album to come. When talking concept I'm not referring to writing an average song and just putting on text with some sort of a cheesy story - I'm working from a musical/score -point of view where the music (hopefully ) carries the drama in itself and the lyrical side just builds up on that - and vice versa.

The amount of background studies has been immense and the further I come, the more I seem to be finding material I need to go through. I see it being the same situation as for historical novelists - or any good writers for that matter - who often need to read up on a lot and also plot out a huge amount of material as background stories on the characters etc. to be able to write a good story where the final/publiced version is usually just a tip of an iceberg of what the author has actually created. My floor has been covered in piles of books and my walls filled with different time-lines and family-trees for almost a year now. Freaky shit.

My arch enemy in this has been computers. Last autumn I built a small home-studio for myself for programming work running a somewhat complex setup for orchestral sampling and since that I've been fixing, tweaking, building, changing parts, going berzerk... basically all the time, so sometimes I envy those old masters who could "just" sit down, pick up a pen and write their art on paper. Their worst technical problem that could happen was probably that they ran out of ink - not spending days wondering why the pen doesn't work anymore due to a compatibility issue with the ink and the paper resulting in that nothing works even if everything appears to be ok.

End of computer rant, back on topic...

The general description on the new material would be orchestral and epic I guess. Not orchestral as in "I have this rock song, lets add on some strings to make it sound "orchestral", nor epic as in "Just wrote a new song, it has two boring riffs which both repeats 16 times and it clocks in over 8 mins - fucking EPIC, yeah!" The "folk" element will still be present, maybe not as much as on BM though, but then again BM really doesn't have THAT much folk on it either.

Can't really tell you guys more at the moment, there are still so many different possibilities where to go with this, and I don't want to end up taking back my words or feel responsible to anybody for anything. I might still do a last minute change and make a funk-album.

No studio booked yet. We've been dragging out on deadlines on this one, and right now we just decided to continue working not stressing about the release at all and when we are done we are done. My careful estimation would be that we could hope for a release in the 1st half of 2007... If we go funk, maybe even 6 months earlier.

 

[Tonberry]

Cheers for the info Nygård, and I know what you mean about computers!
I'm looking forward to hearing a more orchestral Turisas, but what the hell is a funk album?

Any concrete lyrics or song titles yet, or are these still subject to change aswell?

 

[Feel_The_Force]

Yay some news Cheers!

 

[rayden_ad]

 

[owentheyo]

Sounds awesome. Good luck with all that arranging and whatnot.

 

[Nick Brookes]

Bring on the Funk album!

 

[wiebke]

Turisas go Red Hot Chili Peppers - YEAHA. ;-) That would be funky and very interesting and it could rock as well...just a strange thought of mine.

 

[Heavenscent]

I wanna see more bluegrass influences.

 

[Nick Brookes]

I wanna see more bluegrass influences.

Yeah, I will only buy your ablum if you have a banjo battle

 

[Turbo]

I wanna see more bluegrass influences.

LOL. That would be legendary!

 

[Maaad]

funk ? o.Ô ... hell ... i try to hink of funk, blood and vickings in the same picture ...

no -.-.... or ... maybe ? ... not that important.






i would kill for listening 5 minutes to any new song x.X .... aaaargl ... *slobber*

 

[Turbo]

Hopefully wont be too long away.

 

[Feel_The_Force]

New song would be the dogs bollocks!

 

[Nygård]

The official promo shot is here:

 

[melchen]

oh i guess, someone was having a hard-/software-crash and the new album will be delayed due to really severe data loss? :Smug: at least you hopefully won't put your aggression elsewhere than on computers, like that guy did last week, Kimveer Gill, certain parallels cannot be ignored though..

 

[kieblack]

Nygård, that promo shot should be in some tv-advertisements or something like"we know how hard is to own windows millenium edition..."

 

[WarLord Aden]

Yay... this sounds really cool...

...but please... dont go funk...

...i still really like the Folk elements of BM... but i absolutely LOVE the more epic parts of the album... like in 'Battle Metal', and 'As Torches Rise'...

...I CANT WAIT FOR THE NEW ALBUM!!!

 

[Turbo]

The official promo shot is here:

Brutal. Though it vaguely reminds me of something in the first album, just cant put my finger on it.