'a Lossidian threnody' is released.

The most epic set of scifi stories ever told (ha ha!) is released. You can grab it from:

Here or alternatively here.

The package contains 16 songs (320 kbps mp3), cover artwork and lyrics. You can stream the songs also from sites like Mikseri or Last.fm.


Tracklist:

01. I Revolt I
02. That's when they burned me
03. Detention colony
04. Remembrance
05. Above the hills of Lossidia
06. Deflector shield overload
07. Dimension shift
08. Phantom moon
09. Enter the nebula
10. The eye on the surface
11. The silent howl
12. Adrift am I
13. Vengeance against no one
14. Parade of the morbid
15. Lost in the solar winds
16. The rings of the red moon

Overall length is 28+ minutes.

Have fun (that's what we had while creating this package) ... over and out!

Third (from the planet Lossidia)

Third master under the listening & checking currently. Quite likely the old saying of "third time lucky" fits for this. The changes have been rather small from first master, but overall they add much more to the package, considering how small the changes are technically speaking.

It starts to look that it's very much possible, that this release from the Lossidia will see the light of the day (on earth) still during January.

For the master

Heard the first master version today, the whole package. Sounds rather promising I'd say. Only one song had minor "problem" with it (some guitar leads forgotten) and it will get fixed still today. Some volume questions elsewhere, perhaps, but nothing major. It seems quite likely that there won't be more guitarsolos recorded - that's how the package is forming, this time.

There will be severe grind punishment moments, as well as really heavy doomdeath'y moments. Mixed with d-beats here and there, and death metal elements. Rather varying package, it seems. And the dark ambient'ish elements, both within the actual songs at times, and around them. Hmmm. Is it scifi grind, or scientific grindcore? To answer that question, ... it might need some studying with qualitative research method to find out. Ha!

Getting there ...

Status report from earlier today; all songs except one (track 13) are now done with the vocals too. So that one track is the only one with some "basic work" left to do. After that's done, then some synth/machinery/ambient department & finetuning - and also if it looks like there's some room for guitarsolos, then some solos will be thrashed down by yours truly. At the moment only one song has a guitarsolo, the song being the only coversong of the package.

What's the coversong then? Well, it is a piece by Atrocity (US) from their 1992's "the art of death", ... a song called "parade of the morbid".

Virtual soundcheckin'

I got this funny little idea few days ago, about utilising the "second life" system for a virtual Scumfusion soundcheck / rehearsal video. Using a brutally altered rough mix demo for music. Part of one new song. It took overall something like 4-5 hours (out of which 1,5 hours were complete waste with Windows Moviemaker - don't ever try use it for anything more demanding!) and the result is rather funny, as I hoped. Or should I say funky? Grind funky?

It's a part of a song called "that's when they burned me" and you can see it:

Here!

Have fun.

Nighttime birds chirping

I heard few rough demomixes by Timo, with bassguitars and vocals added - and it sounded promising to me. It's always such a huge difference to hear the material with bassguitars and vocals added (than just drums and base guitars). And this time also some of the synth / dark ambient elements too ... it makes an exciting little experience for sure.

Last time I heard from Timo, he had already big bunch of lyrics done and some nighttime recording session resulting into something like 7-8 songs finished with the vocals. Talk about action!

Passing of time

What's going currently, is that Timo is creating the rest of the lyrics for the songs (last time we spoke, he had lyrics ready for 8 songs) plus preparing vocals recording at some point. And also creating & finetuning the so-called dark ambient'like elements. To my knowledge all the bassguitars are already recorded.

Oh, and the release will be called as "a lossidian threnody".

Ambient elements in the dark

Recorded some more ... guitars tonight. Well, not the kind of guitars you'd expect in grind stuff, that's for sure. Very dark ambient like clips and pieces, out of which some will end up into the music, together with Timo's equally dark soundscape creations.

This is turning into scifi grind. New genre, ha ha.

Guitars completed

Got the main guitars completed late yesterday evening (two tracks). Felt really good to realise that part is now completed. Well, some chaos-soloing might happen still after Timo has worked some bass & vocals, depends if there's room for them.

Next up I'm going to look into some intro matters, which makes a refreshing change from exploding guitars ...

Continuing ...

Project goes forward; during the weekend I got the cover artwork finished (just front cover, this release will not have anything else when it comes to artwork package) and it came out good. Easy for me to say since it's fully based on photographs I've myself taken in past ... ha! Well, musically speaking one new song was born during the weekend, late saturday evening.

After that, there will be two more new tracks (out of which other's drums were created already tonight) and then the material is all there. Overall it means 16 songs, out of which last one won't be exactly metal piece. No point in guessing the overall length anymore; it remains to be seen. Timo has been recording bassguitars and preparing the lyrics as well.

If all goes as smoothly as it has gone so far, the package might get released already during January 2009. (this is just a very careful estimate though, since lots of lyrics are under works and recording vocals, final mastering / mixing process will take some time - and as we both have the dayjobs to take care off as well ... but we'll see).

And the project goes on

Again kind of same story; 2 new tunes have been recorded since last writing. Bit funnily whereas the other new song is about 50 seconds long, the other new song is about 3 minutes long. You can bet if there's some tempo differences or not ... and it feels there might still some more songs to come. I certainly didn't think this release would turn out to be this long. I thought it would be few tunes, let's say 2-4. It seems that overall length of this release will go past 20 minutes for sure, making this longest SF release ever.

The coverart is also well under way; I have been creating the coverart from photographs I've taken. A creation that would fit the scifi story of the release ... and it feels it will fit more than well.

More and more

Since last writing another two new pieces have been created. Longer piece and shorter piece. Theme for the release is building up, something scifi 'n' space style ... suits nicely. Probably still few songs coming, current count being 10 songs. Depends on inspiration.

Two new tunes again

Managed to re'work two ancient pieces (9-10 years old) today into brand new condition. One furious tune, and one doom'death like thing, possible instrumental case. Both songs turned out really good even that it's only guitars and drums at this point. Timo has been recording bassguitars to the new tunes during last few nights (yes, not days) so the project is literally on fire.

PS: Few days ago Timo suggested some dark ambient elements into some of the songs. I liked the idea and there might be some special "odd sections" as well as result. Fits well the mood we're after.

New material being recorded

I have been recording new Scumfusion material (guitars & programming drums) since 29th Dec 2009. Volcano'like eruption, as during the past five days I've prepared six pieces. Five originals and one coversong as a tribute to a certain noisy band. Longest song so far is around 1 min 50 sec while shortest one is around 1 min.