Studio: Day 7

Today we had another guest in the studio. My good friend Laura. We needed some piano parts on the new album, and she is amazing. I've worked with her before, producing a demo for her a few years back, so I knew we needed to get her on the album.

The song we had her play piano for, is the new song "Church of the Savior on Spilled Blood". Her part is the intro to the song, and its something i've had in my head the whole time, since i have written the song... it eventually drove me crazy, and I said "we need a piano intro to this song" so it came to be, and sounded perfect, just like I heard it in my head... so to say I'm happy would be an understatement.

While we had Laura in the studio, we decided to put her to work again, and we decided it would be awesome if she could lend some vocal work to the album. We didn't plan on it until she was there. She is a great vocalist, and Luca said "well i think female vocals would sound really good on the ending of 'Empress'"... he was referring to "Empress Catherine the Great", one of our new songs. So we decided to try it out, we got her in the vocal booth, and wow! it sounded amazing! we're just as happy with the vocals as the piano work.

Basically the album is coming together really nicely. So nicely that we are in fact going to be giving the album away for free... yes FREE. We are going to be putting the album online for download. Everyone will be able to download it, share it with everyone they know all for free. If people really like, they will be able to donate money with their credit cards via paypal. We're expecting to not make the money back we paid to record this, but at this point we do not care about money... if it was about money we would not have been doing this for 10 YEARS now! We really just feel this is the best NAR ever, and we really want to get our new work out there, to all of you, and in these hard times, not everyone has money to drop on a new album... So as a thank you to all the fans we've made and kept for the past 10 years, we want you all to have it and not have to spend your money. Just come out to a show when we're playing in your area, or even something as little as emailing us and letting us know what you think of the new album would be great.

More studio updates coming soon!

- System