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Welcome to the first round of the BLACKOUT ARGUMENT SUPERSTARS! Today we got 2 contestants in the category “best song interpretation & performance”!

2nd place goes out to an amazing acoustic interpretation of one of our older songs: “FOREVER YOURS” (from ‘Munich Valor’, 2007):

1st place goes out to three crazy dudes from Austria (?) interpreting “SNOB REVOLUTION” (from ‘Smile Like A Wolf’, 2008) in their very own “special” way:

Thanks for the great support!

Our latest mail-out to all BOA-Supporters is on the road right now.So keep your eyes peeled for the new BOA stickers which might appear at  your youth centre, school or bus station next week!

Who would have thought that seven days pass by so fast?! Well actually we’re only through 5 days but the two remaining ones are already filled up with shitloads of stuff to do. But first here’s what we rocked today:
- writing an opener/intro-song (No. 15)
- recording 6.5 more drum tracks
- finishing vocal recordings for 2 songs
- recording guitars and bass for 5 songs

So what’s left to do:
- 8 more drum tracks
- vocals for 3 more songs
- packing, weird logistics and driving home
Once again I am not quite sure if this is all gonna work out but hope is the last to die, that’s what people say, right?

C-sharp

Unbelievable but we finshed everything we had on our schedule yesterday. Unfortunatelly today was not even half as productive. We wasted way too much time on internal discussions, drawing posters and talking about “what would be” instead of really working on our to do’s. Actually we wanted to write the last song (an opener) and then start recording drums but after half a song this plan completely failed, so “we” decided to let go and start it all over tomorrow… Hopefully we’re more lucky then!

C++

We had a bad and a good start in our third day. Bad was that out of 5 alarm clocks only one did its job. So the bigger part of the band woke up late and started working sleepy. However we managed to finish 2 new songs in our first songwriting-period.

One song (Song12) is a fast, straight forward hardcore track with huge mosh and a heroic endpart. The other song is a thoughtfully composed pop-song with a strange “5.5 tone” (philips tab-system).

We have scheduled two more songwriting-periods for today and 2 more songs planned. Ambitious, we know….

Later!

C.

Today we realized that the amount of songs we scheduled for this studio isolation week is far bigger than we originally thought. After finishing another new song and re-arranging an older one we had a long discussion about how to make maximum use of our remaining time here in Traun. The bottom line was that we need to give it some more the next few days to reach at least our 2 top prio goals of which one is recording all drumtracks for the album and the other one demo’ing guitars, vocals and bass for the biggest part of the songs. We set up a tight schedule for tomorrow, and I am damn curious if we can keep it up to.

Talking about today’s songs: The new one (Nr. 10) was mainly composed by Schwede and it’s a straight up stadium-rock-anthem. The older one (Nr. 7) is a revision of a song we wrote 2 months ago. Fortunatelly we still had a rough demo of it on our crucial ghettoblaster-tape and I was genius enough to bring it to Traun. Yehaw! Song No. 7 sounds a bit like older Evergreen Terrace, it has got mosh, groove, shakey harmonies and a long hymnic final part.

Apart from writing songs we ate penne arrabiata, went shopping, eric played the trumpet, wrote about 10000 new riffs, brought a dead coffee-machine back to life (eric preferred turkish-style coffee, though) and became friends with garage band.

As I mentioned above, we’re not really satisfied with today’s outcome concerning new songs, so we’re trying to increase our output tomorrow. Good luck to us.

Over and out,
Chris a.k.a. Sporto

We arrived at the Brachial Studios in Traun (AT) at half past 11pm last night, not much time and energy left to do something intelligent. At least I managed to light up a warm and comfy fire, 100% Neanderthal-style. Everyone was sitting around with their high-tech homerecording equipment and taped some last minute ideas. That’s it for “preparation”. The last note was hit around 4 am.

We slept ’till 12 and woke up freezing (!) and hungry. It was Eric’s and Schwede’s Job to take care of the fire at night but they fucked it up. Everyone was suffering because of them, useless hobos!! Anyway, “heating” is one of our top prios (besides writing songs of course) so we bought some wood and coal, as well as an electric heater that eats up 100000 megawatt/hour. Perfect.

It took us another 5 hours to finally get our recording/songwriting-setup running. Here’s what we do: Philip has got his own room for his drums. Everything is mic’ed since we plan to keep his drumtracks. The guitar and bass-amps are situated in another room, also mic’ed but just for demo’ing. Schwede, Eric, Raphael and me are in a third room, sitting in a circle. Everyone has got a rough mix of all instruments on their headphones while we’re playing. When we’re done with a song we simply have to press “record”, that’s all.

Tonight we wrote and demo’ed 2 new songs. It all came pretty natural and it didn’t take us very long to finalize the basic structure. There’s still some work to be done concerning leadguitars and vocal-lines but we’re pretty happy with the result so far. It’s a mid-tempo rock-hymn (Song9) and a pretty boysetsfire’ish hardcore track (Song 8). We already brought 7 songs to the studio that only need to be revised, that’s the explanation for the strange count.

The plan for the rest of the night: Food, internet, relaxing & working on lyrics.

Chris - The Jock

Dear companions,

the last month of a a very busy and moving year has begun but we have scheduled yet another monster-project: writing the songs for our soon-to-be-titled “Album III”.

We already have written around 6-7 tracks the usual way, even recorded some of them but we decided to do it all over again and try out something new. This time we really want to put the focus on details and get the most out of each and every song on this album. Thus we decided to isolate ourselves from the outside world for about a week and lock us up in a nice studio in Traun near Linz (AT): www.brachial.at.

We are confident that through this the songs on our next album are not going to be created “along the way”, they’re gonna sound and feel exactly how we want them to. Everyone in the band is looking forward to contributing all of his skills, passion and thought on this project. As you can imagine we’re completely stoked and excited about this!

Get in touch and if you live close and feel free to look in for a cup of coffee and some hanging out.

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