(Finally) Over The (Vocal) Mountain!

Oops, double post regarding yesterday, aaah, what the heck, i´ll give my version anyhow.

It was a great day for me yesterday as the last lyric was finally in place! Sure, ill have another day or so in the studio, adjusting some hickups, but it feels good to have the whole picture in front of me so to speak. We recorded vocals for "In my dreams" and "Life" yesterday and the former feels like it will be a quite spectacular piece of metal in the end and the latter has a nice groovy feel to it, classic M.O.B-style if you ask me, lets get down baby!

As usual, a huge thanks to Peter for coaching me. That poor dude is bound to spend more time in the studio than anyone else, working with me, with Conny and with his own efforts, here´s to ya mate!!

He and Conny will be in there tonight, to do some adjustments regarding the bass tracks. I dont know right now when its time for me to do some polishing, but i guess it will be sometime next week.

Like the Terminator said: I´ll be back!

Have a splendid weekend!

/Fredrik

Metal Gods...

This evening was a very productive one... Fred and I joined forces and finished vocals on the two remaining songs on the record, and what can I say... Listening to Fred singing tonight was awesome... He´s DA MAN!!!!!!!! Later on, Conny came by with an 8-string bass guitar to re-record some songs.. To qoute Black Sabbath´s epic album "MOB RULES".. When you hear this one.. You will agree.. We do....

/Peter

And Now For Something Completely Different...

GO HERE TO LISTEN AND TO BUY !

http://cdbaby.com/cd/mob90

Thank You for Your support!

PS. This is MOB's first album from 1992, not to be confused
with the 2007 album "The Greatest Enemy", coming soon.
But You will love it anyway! Take care/R/F/P & C - M.O.B

Rock And Roll All Nite !

OK, not all night, but it sure was some nice rock'n'roll blasting in the studio tonight. Peter and I went deeper into to my list of small changes before turning our attention to "Anger Management", a song that I haven´t been very impressed by. Up until now that is, ha ha. The first version of the lyrics that I wrote for this song were misplaced, (yeah, me in a nutshell, I know), and so I had to re-write them, and both the melody and the lyrics improved like hell!

Just as I started to record it, Rick arrived at the studio and from what I could tell, he kinda liked the result also. It sure has gone from the bottom of the songs right up to the top, at least for me. :)

Wow, what an artistic shot, huh?

We also added some stuff on "In Love" and I'm finally beginning to understand that I do NOT sing flat on this song, both Rick and Peter told me so. OK, I accept that, ha ha.

More vocals coming up on thursday, 2 more songs to go regarding lead vocals! Cheers.

/Fredrik

Stingray - Delivering The Goods !

Conny is not a big fan of blogging, so I will just issue a short statement here for him. All bass-tracks were completed yesterday. Nice work man.

Tomorrow it´s tuesday, and its time for some pasta-free vocals! Yeehhaa!

Later.

/Fred

Devil´s Food!

Well well, you learn something new every day. Last night didn´t feel very professional, ha ha. Peter and I got together pretty early and since none of us had eaten any lunch, we bought some take-away food with us to the studio.

I sat down and stuffed myself full of some sort of Spicy Pasta Bolognese. Then it was time to sing...... Oh yeah? Right. It didnt matter how much water I drank or for how long I sang, my voice sounded "fat, thick and greasy".. NEVER eat fat food before trying to sing, I learned that the hard way yesterday. Still we worked on minor changes on some songs that came out pretty good and we spent a good deal of time working on the little problem child "In Love". The chorus on that song contains "the chord from hell", its the weirdest chord Ive ever heard I think, and no notes I sing goes well with it, ha ha ha.

I had a fresh set of lyrics for "Anger Management" but my pasta drained throat didn't allow that kind of advanced recordings at all. Peter is out of the country this weekend so there will be no more vocals or guitars recorded before tuesday.

Until then, have a great weekend people!!

God Of Thunder..

This weekend Conny´s been buzy like a little bee. 13, of the 14 trackz, has been completed with a bass of thundering doom. And even though we have some more work left to be done, we´re actually beginning to see the end of this quite exiting journey.

Until next time, a huge metal hug from all of us to all of you.. :-)

/Rick, Conny, Fred, Peter

United We Stand...

Tonight was the first time since we don't know when,
where all the 4 of us in the band gathered in the
studio at the same time. Very much was talked about
and decided for the future, and now the wheels will
roll a little faster. Not only stuff about the
recording was discussed, but also the www.mobrockz.com
website, which will be overhauled, and other stuff
concerning the band, like the cover for TGE ! :)
Conny will start laying down bass this coming weekend,
Roger will have the camera rolling, and Fred will
continue with lead vocals in the coming week.
Rick will be busy pushing "Read My Hips" which will
be released on Aug 27, while Peter will engineer for
Fred when his not recording guitar fills. So far so good!
Stay tuned...

Documentary Mayhem !

No band in the world would do any good without people
who helps the band, or believe in the band.
In our case we have a few close friends that we see
as close as almost a member of the band, like family,
who are always there with good advice and kind spirit,
always there to help.
In this particular case, it's not only a close friend,
but a brother, and even a ex-member of M.O.B!
The person we are talking about is Roger Averdahl,
pictured above, the man running around the studio
tonight, while Fred was singing and recording a new
stunning version of "When Death Gives", filming and
documenting the making of this new record. And when not
filming, being a computer wizard and unvaluable help!
Here goes a big HUG, and a big THANK YOU, for being the
good friend and supporter of this band called M.O.B !

More studio work to come, stay tuned...

Back In The Saddle!

Hey there all ya groovy metalheads out there!

It´s good to see that my partners in crime are already hard at work in the studio after almost a month of enjoying a well deserved summer break. Im quite excited about goin in thursday night and try to do some wailin´, although i have a feeling that the first session most likely will result in a sore throat. That´s what you get from not singing and spending your days and evenings laying on a couch. Shame on me!

Anyway, time to whip up the pace again now. Or as CRONOS would say: HELL YEAH!

See ya! /Fred

Before And After

Upper picture; Before adding guitars on "The Greatest Enemy"
and "Behind The Wall".

Lower picture; After adding guitars on "The Greatest Enemy"
and "Behind The Wall".

Nuff said.

"Read My Hips" out on CD Aug 27 !