A few people have asked about our earlier recordings, so we decided to put them up so anyone who is interested can get a hold of them.
Click here to download our older stuff.Something about these recordings:
Demo 2004:
Soon after we got a new rehearsal place we put this thing together. Actually we were on three months long unintentional hiatus before we put these songs together. I remember calling Janne asking if he was still interested in playing. He said sure and was actually thinking that the band was done for since we went through the summer with no playing at all. Mikko also had no problem with starting over, so the core was there again. Heikki had joined the band briefly and things seemed to pick up from that. I guess the break did us good. We trashed all of our old songs and quickly wrote the songs we ended up demoing. We had fresh ideas I was really liking the "new" sound we had adopted. Fast, nice mosh and lyrics that weren't complete shit.
If I remember correctly it was very late 2004 when we recorded this stuff with a crappy four track recorder. Recording went quickly, every song was basically canned with one take and that was it. We just wanted to know how the songs sounded when you were not playing them yourself. Judge was a pretty huge influence for us at that point and we decided that it would be a good idea to record one of their songs. We still play Hear Me from time to time and I think that we pull it off nicely.
We put a few songs online and got shows instantly after that, so the demo served it's purpose. There were cd-r's made of this demo with the bulldog cover, I can't remember how many but the first patch got sold out at our first show after the demo, later we did more and they are all gone too. The first ones were just in plastic slip, the later ones were in cd single covers and they came in every gay colour you could imagine.
Altough the recording is blurry as hell, I still like it, even more than the '05 stuff.
The first demo came out when we all needed the band badly. We were a mess, but that's another story.
Aborted 7":
In Sweden I was suggested that Unity Murder would do a split release with a band from there. Needless to say I was up for it and when I got back to Finland other guys approved.
We wrote All Masts Broken, You Don't Know and The Picture of You for the split but wanted to keep few old songs that we thought were still ok.
I think it was in August when we started to record this and I hated every minute of it. The guy at the studio was a dick, everything seemed to go wrong and I don't even want to go into the details. I don't think that we went to the studio unprepared but somehow things fell apart there. I don't know if everyone else in the band feels the same, but after the recording I was really thinking about quitting the band. I liked the songs, but the mixing and minimal mastering is just blasphemous.
On top of that, the guy who was supposed to release the 7" called the whole thing off. Now we had freshly recorded stuff laying around absolutely useless. There was not much we could do about it, so we decided to make this a demo also. Before the 7" was aborted we sold a a few copies of this recording with a cover that had this appartment building on it. There were only three songs in it if I'm not mistaken. After the deal was off we included all of the songs (minus one cover) from the recording session to a cd-r that we sold as "Pasha Ridden Society" demo. No, you are not getting any info on that title.
I actually didn't listen to the whole thing for a year and a half, but Janne had these songs on his computer and after some time away from this the songs actually sounded pretty good. Not production wise, but as songs they are pretty good.
One song off this demo will be included on our upcoming full length later on this year.
- Lauri