From The Cradle [VINYL]

even when we already knew it before, it became clear again that… …it wasn't possible to write and record a new album there as we were entering our rehearsal room again. it was an actual hovel were we have spent the last 7 years. in the end, the whole room was full with equipment and other stuff. you weren’t able to sit anymore or to do anything else in there. the only thing you could do was to move all the stuff from one corner into the next one,… …but this didn’t change anything and there was still no space to use. to make things worse, we’ve got mold-infested walls and it smelled really badly. you could neither work nor breathe in this room.

it wasn’t dangerous or anything, but neither it was nice. so basically there once was only a big room with four walls, nothing else. but then we’ve started planning and hiring cars to buy lots of wood in the building center. then we’ve started building the walls and to plan the control room,... …we changed the ground plan and embedded the flooring. so the reason why the first part of the album sounds as it sounds is surely tiger, who is listening to „electric wizard“ every day. the title “rough times” was already set really early and accompanied the whole writing and recording process of the new album. same thing with the cover art work – it was already done before we even started to write the songs. as soon as the songs were written we quickly started to record them with a lot of energy!

i think most of the times it only took us about 3 takes. i guess this is the main reason why the whole album is full with such an energy!

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