May as well explain it a bit.
Basically, Skullstörm (umlauts are cool) was started because A. Vermintide and myself are sick of shit death metal that all sounds alike, and B. because it's something we've both wanted to do but we've never had the right people to do it with. So we went "Fuck it, why not just do it ourselves as a recording-only thing?". So that's basically what we're doing, though saying that we MIGHT do an occasional live show with some hired guns if we feel like it. It's not going to be anything overly serious - I mean, musically it will be but it's not going to be the same as say, Hypertension where we're going to be actively writing, rehearsing, recording and gigging around the clock. We'll get together, write and record a short demo or an EP every year and possibly do like, two shows a year or something like that. Then go back to our respective bands and do that thing until either a decent show comes up that we fancy doing or until we want to do another recording the following year.
It's something that we find FUN, and 'fun' is a word I seldom use when it comes to doing music nowadays so this might be a good thing for my mental state at this point. I'm doing vocals on this one too, though I'm still going to be writing (and possibly recording) riffs and such as well so it's an opportunity for me to get back into doing death metal vocals without it really mattering too much. We've got no plans to take it seriously and do it as a fully functional band, though you never know... we might get a great reception and a shitload of demand, in which case we'll sit down and dicuss the possibilities of doing it properly but even then our loyalties lie with our respective bands. Hypertension is going to be fucking good once we get rehearsing regularly and Verm is in the middle writing the second Vindicator album - though saying that, I MAY be joining Vindicator on bass - so there's nobody going "Oh yeah we're gonna do an album then go on tour" or whatnot since we've both got a lot to do. I think the entire creative process - writing, recording and releasing - of the average Skullstörm demo/EP would take maybe three to four months at most, and that'd be us working together on the odd occasion for writing and idea pitching with two days to record. Because we work fucking fast hahaha. And obviously, because he's in Leeds and I'm in Sheffield, meetings WILL be quite scarce so really, it won't be much of a problem. We just want to release some brutal sounding old school death metal, is that too much to ask?
Seriously though, I'm really interested to hear what you lot have to say on this (except for Dan, since he's voiced his opinion on my lust for variety many times). Think Bolt Thrower, Entombed, Napalm Death and a bit of Sodom in a blender and that's essentially what we're looking at - nothing stupidly complex.
Jams hopefully commencing this week or next
