Site moved

Moved the Scumfusion site into new service & server today. More space and especially more reliability = win. Might be that I'll put up the old releases there too, at some point.

GGD&Z package has been waiting longer than was expected as Timo has been extremely busy with all sorts of music business etc. But the package will soon go ahead as Timo gets into it. Expect updates in coming weeks.

Piece from the Z-files package at youtube

As I happened to have old rehearsal videoclip from 2007 summer, I partially replaced the rehearsal audio with the final piece of the song ("death poem", Twin Peaks influenced single from 2007) and threw the video online as a small teaser of the package under works. If you wanna hear somewhat fast (programmed) drums, check it out.


And the video is right about here.

Cover artwork & info package

Got the cover artwork finished some hours ago for GGD&Z. Both the front and back cover for jewel case / CD. Came out pretty good. Used the pictures I shot few days ago in the wilderness for the coverart creation and abandoned my original idea of using a picture from 2002 ... the new rust & machinery theme fits the release much better. So, it's two PNG files, front and back covers, which will be added to the package when the package is ready to be released.

I also got the information & lyrics package also finished earlier. There's short background tale for all the songs in GGD&Z, overall 4 pages with some graphics added. Then the lyrics are in the same package, 10 pages of them. Well, it's not the smallest font out there -but it's not exactly the usual font either. Demands bit larger size as it's rather messy, intentional choice. The information & lyrics package is not in jewel case booklet form, it's simply A4 sized thing coming in PDF format.

More news as things progress, there's now quite likely some kind of pause in news. Finally?

GGD & Z

Spent some 3-4 hours working on the information package for the release. The release, which no longer is to be called as plain "Z-files". It has formed into a double title and the final title will be:

Garage grind days & Z-files

There will be total of 20 songs, out of which 11 songs form the "garage grind days" package while the rest 9 songs form the actual Z-files. These are color-coded in the information package in the works, too. And a musical detail; the Z-files will be surrounded by ambient noise, which fits to them being the Z-side materials. Twisted? Well, it should be. Overall length is yet clouded, but by looking at rough mixes of GGD package and combining that with Z-files - it should be around 40 minutes overall. Perhaps even bit more than that. Much more longer than what I originally thought, but 20 tunes ... so the average length is not much. And the longest song is around 5 minutes so ... you can bet the real average length is not too long.

Not just the title change, but it might well be that also the coverart gets totally re'worked - not because of the release title change but ... because I was shooting some rusted tubes and machinery in the wilderness few days ago and things kind of clicked visually speaking.

The last two covers

Pretty musical day since I spent last 3-4 hours recording not one but two covers. First choice was Terrorizer's "storm of stress". Timo suggested Terrorizer and since I had already been considering that too, the selection was easy one to make. The coverbase feels really good and the same goes with my personal favorite grind blaster from Incantation, the song being "twisted sacrilegious journey into our darkest neurotic delirium".

Now it's Timo's turn to work on the music, record bassguitars and vocals - and then looking how to connect all the songs (plans for some dark ambient'ish noise where the actual z-files are drowned, kind of). I will start doing the actual info package since I got better idea how to do it.

EDIT: Gotta emphasize that there's no deadline with this package - originally I thought it would be really fast thing to complete, but it took a life of its' own, so to speak. Not to mention that as it's summer, there are lots of things to do - there was talk that Timo might be able to record his parts in August, and in latter half of it. That's just fine as this is a hobby band instead of some serious business. And this Z-project is purely just for fun, not a sequel to "a Lossidian threnody". Actually I got a name idea yesterday which might change the final name of this Z-package a bit. Since it's no longer just the Z-files ...

As mad as grindcore can be?

Phew. Just finished recording the next coversong. This time the challenge was both sweaty and extremely noisy. Not to mention enjoyable. The song was "krossa" by Nasum. If you want to get definition for some mad grindcore music, that song is pretty good reference. You can find it from Nasum's awesome "grind finale" package.

The Z-files took some extra development as well; I found one more z-file, and a very fitting one at that. Very ugly piece, as it's from very start but hey - what else would fit the name "z-file" as well, then? Nothing if you ask me. That one extra z-tune raises the amount of z-tunes into 9 and so there will be 11 coversongs recorded during summer 2010. Two coversongs left to record! (Timo's job is somewhat bigger at this point since he hasn't yet started his parts, bass and vocals, but I don't have any worries whatsoever on that - the package is forming more than great).

Until next time ... which might be tomorrow already?

Going to past

Next coverbase, drums and guitars, got already done. It was both inspiring and entertaining song to cover and one of my personal all time noise favorites. What was it this time then? Septic Death's "thaw".