Recording Update 1
Hey all! So two days into the new album recording and I should give you guys a progress report. Don’t worry, we’re still getting all of this down on video and proper studio diaries will be coming very soon. This is just a quick update to keep you all in the loop. We loaded in more »
Thoughts on recording for the new LORD album
So I’m in my home studio checking over all my equipment, making sure everything that needs to work still does and re-stringing guitars in preparation for guitar tracking on LORD’s upcoming release. I’ve recently had to purchase a new computer to get my Pro Tools back online as well as a new studio monitor. The more »
Recording Has Begun
If anything is worth doing, it’s worth overdoing, right? Now that’s how you announce an album is being recorded! OK, well silliness aside (aw come on, that was pretty silly!), yes – the time has come for studio album number four for LORD and I think release number eighteen or so if you count all more »
When Iced Earth came to town (tour wrap up blog)
The last few months have been a stress out to say the least. After not playing for almost 18 months, we had to almost start from scratch financially and borrow a lot of money to get ourselves back on track. With the first two shows obviously being quite important with the American metal legends Iced more »
Guitar Solo demonstration videos
Hey everyone, I thought I’d take a moment to give you a quick run through on the solo demonstration videos recently posted online. A technique I really enjoy using in my leads is the use of wide intervals, I think they give solos a very intelligent aspect as well as being very musical in the more »
‘Twas the night before…
… Christmas the first show back since we came off the road in 2010. Strings changed, guitars tuned, bags packed and zipped up. I think we’re set! This will be the first tour we’ve used some of our new gear – new amps (compact 200 watt micro amps that weigh less than a spindle of more »
What’s in a name?
Hey all, hope you’re all doing great! So in my travels over the last few years, I’ve heard on more than one occasion that people wished that Dungeon was still around. For those of you new to LORD in general, Dungeon was the band that I started way back when, and we were around for more »
I love it when a plan comes together – album update
Album update time! If you’ve even had any vague idea of what we’ve been doing since we disappeared off of the live scene in 2010, you’d know we’ve been working on the follow-up album to “Set In Stone”. LORD (and Dungeon before that) have been pretty quick to release new albums, and when we’re not more »
Planes, trains and automobiles. Time to book some shows.
It looks to be that time where we start thinking and planning about getting back on the road again. It’s a love/hate thing for me. I love putting together a tour and organising a series of great looking shows in a tidy package that looks professional, sensible and exciting. At the same time though, I more »
Back in the saddle
A few hours ago, I was wandering around my studio trying to work out exactly what the hell I needed to pack for rehearsal. Fourteen months. Wow. It seemed like a aeon ago that we’d stepped foot into the rehearsal rooms, working on songs for upcoming shows. And it was very weird thinking about what more »
Rehearsals begin this Thursday…
The last time we got together and played was December 10th 2010. We haven’t been in the same room with our instruments since. Should i be scared? Maybe! The last 12 months or so off have been great. We were pretty burnt out by the end of the Tyrant tour. Not so much that the more »
2010 to now (part 3)
So, after getting completely burnt out by touring and recording (as mentioned in PART 1) and then taking a year off where you’ve found something you really enjoyed (as mentioned in PART 2), what goes through your mind when you think about getting back on the treadmill again? That’s a really good question. Apart from more »
2010 to now (part 2)
As you would have seen in PART 1, 2010 was a bit of an epiphany of years for me (and the band). I knew I didn’t want to keep running on the tour / record / tour / record treadmil and had to take a break to find “me” again. But who was that guy? more »
2010 to now (part 1)
Wow, it’s hard to believe over a year has passed since LORD was a touring band. Like Andy said in his blog, we haven’t played together since we all left the stage on the final date of the Tyrants Return tour in 2010. I remember on the last few dates thinking “3 to go… 2 more »
Hello 2012
Hey all, welcome to our new website. Big things happening this year for LORD so big advances to the way we interact with our fans. You’ll find our new site is leaps and bounds ahead of the last as we aim to continually keep fans up to date with what we are doing on, and more »
Finally Done!
Hey guys! Wow, what a monster effort this was getting the new LORD site up and running. Up until now, I coded all of our sites by hand which certainly had the advantage of every last bit of it being as customisable as I want it to be but it really lacked the ability to more »
I can write on here now?! Uh-oh!!!!
Hey Errbody! We got a new website and are now able to write our own blogs on here, tech these days aye! Well I’ll be writing things from time to time since I’m not much of a writer but I’ll try my best!…you never know, after I get good at this I may end up getting more »
What? They gave me access to post on this website? Bad idea!
Greetings chums and chumettes! So we have a new website, and I’m able to post blogs on here? Hell yeah! This will be the biggest mistake ever made. So what will I post? More than likely 95% of it will be rubbish, but I will try and put some interesting/insightful info in here for you more »
