Text Box: So here we are, it’s 2007 and the new album is finished and everyone who has been involved in the making of this album feel great. It is a fantastic feeling when you have the final disc in your hand after working on the damn thing for almost two years. We started demoing in my homestudio almost immediately after we finsihed the first MPG album in early 2005. Most of the songs came from my acoustic guitar when I was fooling around with chords and melodies at home. My good friend Matt Tritico (the secret 5th member of the band!) wrote some great lyrics for three of the songs and I wrote the rest myself. Then I presented some very very stripped down versions of the songs to Slott and we then worked on adding the riffs and themes to the songs before we recorded them on my computer in my homestudio. In fact the demos that I recorded to start with are the versions we kept adding to and making better so it basically evolves from just ideas into a bunch of songs. BJ added bass to the tracks that Slott and I had created and then we brought in Jakob to go through the songs for new ideas to the drums. Once we had agreed on the drumparts I booked Tommy Hansen and Jailhouse Studios for the recording of the drums. We ended up doing two sessions at Jailhouse and we recorded drums for 14 songs. Then we headed back to my studio and basically redid everything to the new drumparts recorded by Jakob. This is my 7th studioalbum so I have learned some tricks along the way. On the first PUSH album that we did back in 1996 I didn’t really play any part in the engineering of the album, I just wrote some songs and played and sang on that album. The technical revolution with computers and equipment meant that we were able to get ourselves a harddiskrecorder for the second album which we did in 1998 and this was where my lessons began, I really began to take interest in how to get the best possible recordings done. We did everything ourselves except for the mix which we did in a ”proper” studio with some experienced guys at the helm. Not much has changed, I now rely on Tommy Hansen to add ”the makeup” in the mix but I pretty much know what I will get when I give him the raw album. Just like singing or playing guitar, the engineering part is a craft and you should get better at what you do. I certainly feel much more at home with what I do now than ever before. I enjoy fooling around with the string arrangements, drumloops & breakbeats and crazy synthesizer sounds... but I never forget that it is all in the name of rock and roll! THE ROAD TO A NEW ALBUM...