[Album] The Metal Thread! (The Zombie Edition)

Originally Posted by Krelian

Crystal clear, mos def. I can't stand the sound nor the reasoning behind raw recordings - How the hell does it matter if your songs are "tr00 and ag4in5t t3h m4instr33m 3vil" if they sound fucking horrible? If you're a professional, talented musician and you have access to half-decent production, then why fuck everything up in the interests of "TRUE NORDIC GRIMNESS"?

Man an awful lot of the older albums were done with a very, very small budget though, at that time I don't think "necro yadda yadda" was even taken into account, they just wanted to record music. But doing like, really crap recording in this day and age is kind of pointless. Myself I don't mind either, to be honest I prefer when a sound has a bit of character to it, but not horrible distortion or the like of that.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Originally Posted by Krelian

I'm fine with old stuff sounding crap (first Ulver albums, for instance), but when a band shuns proper recording equipment for reasons I've previously stated, I can't help but get pissed off.

Ah yeah as in "so necro we use a 4-track though we have the funds to record in a kickass studio, couldn't agree more! Having said that, on one (actually probably all!) of the Burzum albums the 2 bass drums are completely out of tune, good album but that drives me insane, I mean, poor production is one thing, but for fucks sake match the pitches of the bass drums, it sounds like a fucking train or something.

There's nowhere I can't reach.