Hello boys and girls!
Long time no see. Sorry for the deadly silence over the few past months. No excuses. At the beginning of January we finally finished our massive work that is the second album by Force Majeure. We recorded a total of 11 new Force tracks, more than 63minutes worth of music. The quickest of you might have calculated that the average track length is approx 5min 40sec. Some distortion to this figure is brought by the two epics of the album. Other is 9+ minutes and the other one which will be title track of the album reaching almost 12 minutes.
We got pretty much the total package ready, even artwork. Stunning stuff... wait and see. Currently we are negotiating and finding out the best ways for you to get your hands on this future classic album. :) So patience my young followers of Force!
Visitors are welcome
Hail to thee, mighty warrior of metal and steel! I had the pleasure to visit the studio again. It has been a while since I was there, then it was snowy and freezing cold (Perfect weather for creating an album filled with arctic Finnish power metal). Anyway, this time I was on a mission from Jussi to supervise and arrange some female voice parts for a song or two.. And yes, we had a woman in the studio! The lovely and super-awesome Alexa Leroux from the amazing band called Shear. She was kind enough to lend her beautiful voice for our album, which had been screaming for a woman's touch for some time now. Some pervy 90's eurodisco wibes do the trick, let me tell ya! We nailed the needed parts in no time and left our beloved John Van Huikka back to his other projects. Big thanks to Alexa!!
As you can see from the guestlist, the album is gonna be epic and grand, but all the special guest appearances are used to spice things up a notch, not to make it sound like a Metal Opera. It's still us, the Forcemolinos rocking it out. Just a little bit of backing vocals to go and we should be ready to mix!!
Bass, Sex & Satan, everybody!
-Jake
As you can see from the guestlist, the album is gonna be epic and grand, but all the special guest appearances are used to spice things up a notch, not to make it sound like a Metal Opera. It's still us, the Forcemolinos rocking it out. Just a little bit of backing vocals to go and we should be ready to mix!!
Bass, Sex & Satan, everybody!
-Jake
Ankkaa on joskus vaikea käsitellä
Good day, ladies and gentlemen!
Once again we've been in radio silence for a while, sorry 'bout that! The album is shaping up pretty nicely. A couple of days ago Ricky finished the backing vocals. There's some vocal parts (still thanks to Mr. Blom) that remind me of good old bands like Kansas and Journey. Sometimes a bag of old tricks sounds more fresh than basic bag of new tricks! Stunning indeed.
We also did some narration parts with Mr. Marc David Taylor who dropped by to lend his "trailer voice". Good job and a nice guy, many thanks from Force camp! And a native speaker is always a native speaker - so no "rallienglanti" this time :)
We've reached the finish line for this recording session, phew! Finally, it's been quite a rough journey but meanwhile we've had much fun and the result will be more than rewarding. Okay, there's still a couple of visitor parts coming up and some acoustic guitars but we're on the last 10 meters before the finish line. I can't wait to finish this and wait the day when all of you people can hear the new Force album.
Peace out,
Jussi Reuhkala
Once again we've been in radio silence for a while, sorry 'bout that! The album is shaping up pretty nicely. A couple of days ago Ricky finished the backing vocals. There's some vocal parts (still thanks to Mr. Blom) that remind me of good old bands like Kansas and Journey. Sometimes a bag of old tricks sounds more fresh than basic bag of new tricks! Stunning indeed.
We also did some narration parts with Mr. Marc David Taylor who dropped by to lend his "trailer voice". Good job and a nice guy, many thanks from Force camp! And a native speaker is always a native speaker - so no "rallienglanti" this time :)
We've reached the finish line for this recording session, phew! Finally, it's been quite a rough journey but meanwhile we've had much fun and the result will be more than rewarding. Okay, there's still a couple of visitor parts coming up and some acoustic guitars but we're on the last 10 meters before the finish line. I can't wait to finish this and wait the day when all of you people can hear the new Force album.
Peace out,
Jussi Reuhkala
Caught Somewhere in Studio
Proceedings in the Force Majeure land: the light at the end of a tunnel is growing bigger. And it's not a train. It's a kick ass album.
There's still some keyboards and some backing vocals to do. And there's also some "visitor parts" left to do. We have outsourced some parts to people who we want to lend talent from. Mr. Kimmo Blom dropped by to do some backing vocals. It's always nice to observe pro people at work. One evening and backing vocals to 10 songs done. That's what I call professionalism. Almost everything with first take. And Kimmo hadn't heard the songs before the session. Thumps up and thanks from the FM camp to Kimmo.
I think that the album is shaping up to be a quite versatile. A couple of long and epic songs, one speedy, nasty and a bit trashy song. A couple of more traditional ones and no ballads this time. We're so sorry ladies ;) The Scorpions has done all the ballads worth to mention so no need to compete on that area.
The point of this writing was that we'll be on your home stereo. Sooner or later. Until then, keep checking our site and blog. And see you hopefully in the aftermath of Saturday's Sauna Open Air, 12th of June. We'll be playing some new songs in NKM metal fest at YO-talo. Be there.
There's still some keyboards and some backing vocals to do. And there's also some "visitor parts" left to do. We have outsourced some parts to people who we want to lend talent from. Mr. Kimmo Blom dropped by to do some backing vocals. It's always nice to observe pro people at work. One evening and backing vocals to 10 songs done. That's what I call professionalism. Almost everything with first take. And Kimmo hadn't heard the songs before the session. Thumps up and thanks from the FM camp to Kimmo.
I think that the album is shaping up to be a quite versatile. A couple of long and epic songs, one speedy, nasty and a bit trashy song. A couple of more traditional ones and no ballads this time. We're so sorry ladies ;) The Scorpions has done all the ballads worth to mention so no need to compete on that area.
The point of this writing was that we'll be on your home stereo. Sooner or later. Until then, keep checking our site and blog. And see you hopefully in the aftermath of Saturday's Sauna Open Air, 12th of June. We'll be playing some new songs in NKM metal fest at YO-talo. Be there.
Men Who Stare at Goatse
Howdy hoy boys and girls!
We had a nice and very productive studio day a couple of days ago. Last wednesday was among the best studio days of the whole session. Nice! Ricky did suberb lead vocals for three songs and John "myöhässä kolme akateemista varttia" Huigur and I nailed keyboards for one song. This particular track got some new feel to it due to atmospheric keyboards and renewed chorus that Ricky nailed.
Asim Shearah of The Nibiruan dropped by to do some special guest starring in one song. Asim's parts added just the flavor we wanted. So many thanks to Asim!
Also our dear all-around man and friend Mr. T. Talvikunnas dropped by to take some photos. Here's some pics that was caught "on film":
Ricky concentrating.
Singing booth.
Suit man is let loose from office to nail some bass.
Producer chair feat Kusipaeae.
Fisting the world.
Rear view :)
Caffeine, caffeine... and what else?
Coffee and cheap sunglasses.
And for those of you who wonder about the title of this post... find out yourself :) No, actually it's about us staring thru the glass the goat cheese salad of cafe picnik.
JR
We had a nice and very productive studio day a couple of days ago. Last wednesday was among the best studio days of the whole session. Nice! Ricky did suberb lead vocals for three songs and John "myöhässä kolme akateemista varttia" Huigur and I nailed keyboards for one song. This particular track got some new feel to it due to atmospheric keyboards and renewed chorus that Ricky nailed.
Asim Shearah of The Nibiruan dropped by to do some special guest starring in one song. Asim's parts added just the flavor we wanted. So many thanks to Asim!
Also our dear all-around man and friend Mr. T. Talvikunnas dropped by to take some photos. Here's some pics that was caught "on film":
Ricky concentrating.
Singing booth.
Suit man is let loose from office to nail some bass.
Producer chair feat Kusipaeae.
Fisting the world.
Rear view :)
Caffeine, caffeine... and what else?
Coffee and cheap sunglasses.
And for those of you who wonder about the title of this post... find out yourself :) No, actually it's about us staring thru the glass the goat cheese salad of cafe picnik.
JR
HIRRMYINEN NÖITÄ!
Hello there, people of the universal interweb!
Again, sorry for the lack of updates in this diary. Our humble excuse this time is that we've put our energy on the creation process of our second album. The album is starting to shape up - some vocals, backing vocals and keyboards are still on the works. And, oh yes, some special guest appearances coming up. Nice.
One demo of a new FM track "Blizzard" is featured on Finnish radio Radio Rocks page. http://beta.radiorock.fi/?iid=829 Check it out if you and vote if you feel so. Most of all: (like Paramore would say) Mosh, Mosh, Mosh!
Next week I´ll promise to add some new pics and maybe some video footage. We got some crappy quality footage filmed and perhaps I´ll make some kind of crappy montage out of them... We'll see!
-JR-
Again, sorry for the lack of updates in this diary. Our humble excuse this time is that we've put our energy on the creation process of our second album. The album is starting to shape up - some vocals, backing vocals and keyboards are still on the works. And, oh yes, some special guest appearances coming up. Nice.
One demo of a new FM track "Blizzard" is featured on Finnish radio Radio Rocks page. http://beta.radiorock.fi/?iid=829 Check it out if you and vote if you feel so. Most of all: (like Paramore would say) Mosh, Mosh, Mosh!
Next week I´ll promise to add some new pics and maybe some video footage. We got some crappy quality footage filmed and perhaps I´ll make some kind of crappy montage out of them... We'll see!
-JR-
Scream for me Kanapekoniparilapatonki!
Saturday morning at noon me and Eemeli met at our rehersalroom and loaded the car with two tomtoms with wornout heads, couple of snare drums and some empty paint cans kindly provided by Tikkurila Oy, and drove straight into the studio with the latest Freedom Call album blasting out of the car stereo! Our aim was to be there at 12.30 but as written in the wind our beloved engineer & co-producer John Stamos Huikka was not in the premises yet, so we chose to start the day with fresh coffee and "kanapekoniparilapatonki" at Cafe Picnic.
Ricky Tournee joined us with his brand new haircut anxious to start recording the vocals for the album. After finishing our breakfast Huikka showed up and led us down to the basement and we got down to business. Ricky started with the song called OMG which will soon be found among the greatest songs in the book of Power-Metal. After few warm-up takes Rickys famous cutting voice was hot and ready to record. He nailed the tune in no time with myself, Eemeli and Huikka acting as producers helping him out with the vocal arangements and sharing our views and ideas to get the best possible performance out of him. It seemed to work really smoothly.
After Ricky had finished his parts, the rest of us started to set up the percussion arsenal in order to record some tribal drum parts for the song known as "Kebab-Ahtisaari-Turkish". Of course you cannot do tribal drums with out some company, so I called my friend and fellow drummer Letku to help me out and stomp some cans with me. After having lunch at the famous restaurant Vega, we grabbed some beers and started to bang the shit out of the percussion set we had set up. It was amazingly fun and it seemed to fit into the song really well. A few beers later we had it and we were ready to head downtown for a wild night out!
- Jake Rattlesnake
Ricky Tournee joined us with his brand new haircut anxious to start recording the vocals for the album. After finishing our breakfast Huikka showed up and led us down to the basement and we got down to business. Ricky started with the song called OMG which will soon be found among the greatest songs in the book of Power-Metal. After few warm-up takes Rickys famous cutting voice was hot and ready to record. He nailed the tune in no time with myself, Eemeli and Huikka acting as producers helping him out with the vocal arangements and sharing our views and ideas to get the best possible performance out of him. It seemed to work really smoothly.
After Ricky had finished his parts, the rest of us started to set up the percussion arsenal in order to record some tribal drum parts for the song known as "Kebab-Ahtisaari-Turkish". Of course you cannot do tribal drums with out some company, so I called my friend and fellow drummer Letku to help me out and stomp some cans with me. After having lunch at the famous restaurant Vega, we grabbed some beers and started to bang the shit out of the percussion set we had set up. It was amazingly fun and it seemed to fit into the song really well. A few beers later we had it and we were ready to head downtown for a wild night out!
- Jake Rattlesnake
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