Koivu Klubi

On Friday we had a gig at Koivu Klubi, Vantaa with great Tunes Of Dawn (GER). We arrived to the Koivu Klubi and after Jarkko did his job with drums (placing cymbals and other shit) we headed towards "Pizza Service" to crab some pizza.

Jarkko´s pizza:
Tunafish
Skinka
Cybil
White cybil

Mika´s & Juha´s pizza:
Skinka
Änänäs

Kari´s pizza (bass emperor special)
Double cheese

Jussi´s pizza:
Änänäs
Auracheese
Kananos

Mikko just drank beer.


Then with full stomaches Jussi and Kari started to look for their instruments. But there were no instruments available. With hopeless looks on their faces Jussi and Kari started to blame Jarkko for not bringing instruments to Koivu Klubi. After few phone calls we found out that those instruments were still at London Pub ;D MUAHAHHAHHAHHAAA... Happy taxi-fellow brought instruments to Koivu Klubi and so we started our souncheck.


The gig was a success. I´ve never been so sweatty after gig. We didn´t play New Kids On The Blocks´s "Step By Step". Although we did play Rainbow´s "Tarot Woman".

Day´s motto:
"Juodaanks puokkiin" - Jussi Kraft


Over and out:
Mika Kivi / Grendel

London Pub + something else...

Okay, yesterday we had a gig. Or maybe we should call it rehearsals. Or should we call it rehearsal gig. Well the thing is that we borrowed our backline for a band competition which was held at London Pub, Helsinki. We had to have rehearsals before friday´s gig so we decided to play few songs yesterday. Everything went just fine. After rehearsals we stayed for couple of beers. As the evening went on and on we decided to change our musical style into something softer. So right away we took some new promo pictures. Here´s Jussi´s and Mikko´s new hair styles:



By the way. If someone haven´t still seen our "Dedication" -video here it is:





Cheers and sorry:
Mika Kivi / Grendel

Mood=Doom

I recorded my final guitar tracks for "Doomipeikko". Mikko kindly helped me with recording these guitar parts. Mikko and I also discussed about the mood that this song should bring forth. "Doomi" is by far the most longest track we´ve ever made. Over 7 minutes long masterpiece ;D

Mikko also introduced new ideas for new song. It sounded something new that you haven´t heard from Grendel yet. We´ll see where it goes...


Cheers:
Mika Kivi / Grendel

Drums

Today we recorded drums for two new songs. These songs are: "Mättöajo" and "Doomipeikko". First Jussi and I set microphones and other stuff in their places. Then after short soundcheck we were ready to go.


Jarkko started with "Doomipeikko" which is slow song and like I´ve said before it has very doom-ish kind of feeling. Two takes and song was done. After "Doomipeikko" it was time to record drums for "Mättöajo" which on the other hand is very fast and energetic song. In these recording sessions we have low budget equipment. We have two SM58´s for 4 toms, AKG C1000S for snare, tBone SC-450 for two kick drums and tBone SC100 II StereoSet for symbals and other shit. We also used:

Behringer Eurorack MX2004A
Behringer MDX 1400
M-Audio audio interface
...and also laptop PC and iBook...


Oh, I almost forgot. Here´s dude who was present at our "studio". He was quiet and didn´t say a word. Nobody knows who he is or what he was doing. It was very scary. I hope it doesn´t happen again.

Days motto: "Jos se on siinä niin se on siinä". - Mika Kivi



Cheers:
Mika Kivi / Grendel

Promos, promos, promos...

After "On The Rocks" -gig our friends of Morian took Kari´s bass with them by mistake. But no harm done. Few days later Kari got his bass back ;D One day I went back to our rehearsal place and what did I see? Nothing but pure disorder. I think all our stuff was thrown inside from the door. It was terrible... HAHHAHHAHH ;D


OK, take a look how massive load of our latest promos I have at my home. I don´t think people understand how much work I have to do for to pack and send them all around the world. Well, on monday I´ll send them and then we will wait, and wait, and wait if some label would kindly response to us.



Take care:
Mika Kivi / Grendel

On The Rocks

On Tuesday we headed towards "On The Rocks", legendary Helsinki-based Rock-bar to perform with another band called "Morian". Like usual, we arrived early so after carrying a massive load of equipments we went straight to "Picnic Cafe" to have something to eat. Gig itself was a success. We got new listeners and we also sold many albums and T-shirts.



Setlist:
Drifting Away
Dedication
Dead Sun
Fall From The Top
Half Life
Tears & Sorrow
Dialog With Pain
The Times Of Agony
Quicksand

Joke of the day:
"Poliisi laittoi Maijan vilkkumaan" - Jussi Kraft

PS... By the way, here´s picture from WC at our rehearsal place ;D