#1 on the Swedish DVD chart
Pretty cool – our “Where death is most alive” DVD just entered the first spot of the official Swedish DVD charts, beating luminaries such as ABBA, Michael Jackson and Madonna.
Chart is here.
Archived entries for Misc
Site facelift in progress
As you can see, I’m trying out some different themes on the site right now, so things might look and behave a bit odd for a while.
Soul sold…
…and I’m trading my precious hermetic seclusion for the ADHD inducing world of Twitter. Let’s give it a week or so.
Cabin fever store open
For those who are interested, I’m cleaning the closets and have a small amount of CD’s that I’ve participated on (musician or illustrator) for sale. The real gem would probably be European pressing of the Laethora debut album, which is pretty hard to get hold of these days, but the other releases are well worth getting too.
October update
Studio work is pretty much a 24/7 prospect right now, but I managed to find some time to update cabinfevermedia.com with some fairly recent projects.
D.T. album progress: We have about one week of recordings left before it’s time to ship the material to Tue Madsen at Antfarm for the mixing. Those who are interested in monitoring the day-by-day studio activites for the album can follow our keyboard wizard Martin Brändströms Twitter feed here.
Voguesville
I recently finished the sleeve design for “Voguesville“, the new novel from acclaimed writer/musician Cornelius Jakhelln, known in literary circles for the award-winning “Gudenes fall” and in the music scene for his involvement with Solefald and Sturmgeist.
Summer recap
The recording of the new D.T. album will start tomorrow, meaning that there probably won’t be much activity here for the next two months, so a little recap of recent activities is in order.
Because of the songwriting demanding most of our focus and attention, there haven’t been an abundance of shows this year, but nevertheless we managed to fit in a handful of festivals during the summer. The highlight was probably getting to play in Portugal again, with a vacation day in lovely Mira the day afterwards. Maybe I should have offered my Photoshop skills to the hotel as well?
A couple of exciting tours and festivals, some of them in territories we haven’t previously visited, are on the verge of getting confirmed – looks like December will be a busy month.
The live DVD that was shot last year in Milan will see the light of day in late October. Further details can be found here, and the end result has truly been worth the wait; everything looks and sounds amazing. Obviously, that’s what everyone would say about their own band’s upcoming release, but I really feel that we managed to create something special for the awesome people who are still devoted enough to support their fave bands buy buying their music.
The new Laethora CD, “The light in which we all burn”, will be released either later this year or in early 2010. Now, when the memories of the extremely ill-fated recording session (hard drive crashes, several rounds of sickness and an armada of ghosts in pretty much every machine) are starting to fade, what’s left is a very strong record that definitely will make more than a few heads turn out there. The debut album was mainly a homage to old school death metal, filtered through our own eccentric and eclectic music tastes, but the new material is more original and has a definite voice of its own. Hopefully there will be some song samples online soon.
Needless to say, there hasn’t been so much time for graphic related activities the past months, but I’m very pleased to announce that that I finished my first real book cover project, for a Luciferian crime noir novel (well…) set for release by a Norwegian publisher later this fall. More details to follow in due time.
