SUMMER UPDATE

The Summer of 09 has come and more or less gone. MNiD has gone low during the summer but we're pleased to announce two new members and one new song that we're currently rehearsing. We also have a few gigs coming up, more info on this further on.

The new members are:

-Fred Lundman on bass guitar who currently play in local band "Snusc" who by the way are in studio right now recording their first project.

-Andreas Gode, vocals. A local singer/songwriter who plays in local band "Cienfuegos" and has a never-ending solo project in his own name.

As for the new song it's a smoldering MNiD-ballad part in 6/8 tempo. It has been mentioned that the new song partly is one of the most mainstream things we've ever created, if this is true or not, we leave to the listeners to decide. The name of the new song is "The Garden of Love".

In October MNiD will play three gigs in Piteå, Skellefteå and Umeå. We'll be accompanied on the mini-tour by fellow bands Noll and Identitet from Skellefteå, and a Umeå based band which has not yet been set. Dates will be announced here and on the homepage as soon as they get set.

The EP is right now in the changing stages, since we have a singer we want to record the First EP with vocals so this has set us back quite a bit. We where hoping on a 9-9-9 release but it's far from reality right now. Further news on the EP will come further on.

Peace love and all that!

UPDATE

New update. New release date for DDaC is 9-6-6 but I’m not surprised if this will be pushed even further. We're playing with the thought of re-recording our drum tracks with digital drums, but since Edit doesn’t have as much time as everyone else it’ll be a squeeze.

There’s some turbulence among the members also. A couple of weeks ago it was decided that Linnéa had to leave the band for other obligations and as of now MNiD is without a bassplayer. Jesper Asplund from local band The Dazzled has agreed to step in until further notice. Edit is going to take a break from the band and local drummer Alexander will fill her shoes over the summer.

Like it wasn’t bad enough we’re two new members right now we also had our first rehearsal with singer Andreas Gode last week. Hopefully he’ll fit right in despite all the turbulence right now.

THE RECORDINGS

Well....we're done. It did'nt go as planed but I'm not disappointed. We set out to record 4 or 5 songs and ended up with 3 good recordings, somehow we screwed up the Eclipsrecording royaly. We have'nt finished mixing the songs yet but we will get it done in time for the releasedate :)

The EP will contain the studio recordings of: Dark Days are Coming, Last Sun, Whose Splendor Hath Shattered Worlds and Ruus homerecordings off Eclips and Hospital.

If you want to buy a copy just visit our homepage, we will update with order info shortly.

STUDIO UPDATE

Well, we didn't update our progress every day as promised but here's a quick one. During tuesday and wednesday we recorded all drums and bass tracks on Dark days are coming, Last sun, Whose Splendor Hath Shattered Worlds and Eclipse. Thursday Ruu worked a 13h shift so it was a day off from the studio. Yesterday me and Ruu started with the guitartracks and a drymix of Dark days are coming and today we'll continue with guitartracks for Last sun and Whose Splendor Hath Shattered Worlds and continue mixing. It's a real trail mixing the song cos neither me or Ruu has any experience of it, but we're getting there.

Time to make some coffee and get going. It's going to be a long day.

MONDAY

We only got about four hours in the studio today, but we made some progress. We have finetuned the sound of the drums and the rythm guitar and the last "thrash-recording" made everyones lips0 form a little well pleased smile. I really think we're on to something here. Tomorrow we're on for real.

IT'S ON

Tomorrow after work we'll beging the recording sessions. It's thrilling and exciting and a little scary. We'll post updates every day while in the studio and hopefully we'll get some sounds and images from the recording. 

DARK DAYS ARE COMING

THE EP

Some of the bits and pieces of the EP are coming along nicely. We have bought the records (Red lightscribe) we have decided on the songs, we have almost gotten time in the studio.. Not confirmed yet tough. But it looks like we're on to record our EP next week or the week after that. This weekend I'm going to focus on the graphics for the disc, the cover and the sleeve. We can reveal that the EP will be delivered in a slimcase with a 2 page sleeve 1+3.