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How heavy is heavy enough

Recording Bells Under Ice in a converted grain store, one slow take at a time.

By Hollowmere

Written by Dag Crane, Vocals, guitar · · 1 min read · Updated

We recorded Bells Under Ice in a grain store an hour outside Trondheim. The walls are a foot thick and the floor slopes, so the drums lived in the low corner and everything else leaned toward them.

One take or nothing

Dag wanted every song played straight through, mistakes and all. We did eleven takes of the title track. We kept the seventh, because it was the one where the amp started to give out.

The live room, before the snow came in.
The live room, before the snow came in.

If it doesn't shake the coffee cup on the desk, it isn't done.

Felix

The record is slow, long and loud, and we are proud of every minute of it. The first pressing comes with a poster Rosa printed on the same paper as our first flyers.

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