After a long and tiring but incredibly worthwhile process it brings us a great deal of pleasure to say we have completed recording the pre-production of our upcoming album.
There isn’t enough blog space to thank Nick and Andrew properly for their engineering skills as well as their time and effort! Likewise the advice, input and ideas from our producer JVo has been an incredible help in shaping some of these new songs. We’d also like to send an extra special thanks to Scott and Kevin for allowing us to record drums in DOOMHAUS and to Lindsey and Brian for letting us occupy their basement for the better part of the last few weeks to finish pre-production.
As for the album, we are excited to be entering CodaPop Studios for a week (June 22nd – 28th) to record this beast before sending it off for mixing and mastering. We will have some more announcements on the album coming in the near future.
Also a little reminder that we are running this contest on our facebook page for anyone who would like to enter and win some prizes!
HELP US HIT 1500 FANS AND WIN! All you have to do to enter is: 1. ‘Share’ the Orchid’s Curse Fan Page (http://facebook.com/OrchidsCurse) on your wall and 2. Post on the Orchid’s Curse wall telling us why you should win the prize (bonus points for being funny/creative, etc…) PRIZE PACK INCLUDES: Free Admission to any one of our upcoming shows (currently includes shows w/ 3 Inches of Blood, Black Dahlia Murder and Dissectional – full list: http://orchidscurse.wordpress.com/shows/) Both our albums: ‘Voices: The Tales of Broken Men’ + ‘Goodbye is when the Casket Closes’ Orchid’s Curse T-Shirt (Your choice of “Grow A Fucking Beard”, “Headless Horseman” or “Viking Beard” design) Orchid’s Curse Toque * Winner will be drawn at random and notified via facebook, prize contains no cash value. Contest open until fan page reaches 1500 ‘likes’ *
And last, but most certainly not least, take a look at the killer shows we have lined up for the summer!
Official pre-production is now under way for our third, yet to be titled, album. We have compiled some photos to tide you over until we can share some of this audio with you all.
First off, our rough track listing:
-Baptismalpractice
-For Those Who Grovel
-Live to Live the Lie
-If We’re Divine
-Indifferences
-Words
-Interpube + 1/2 Boner*
-We Sigh
-His Servants
-Masquerade of Sin * – working song title
Ol boy Bee Webb kicked things off for us with two days of drum recording at DOOMHAUS. A huge round of applause for banging out ten songs in two days. Also a massive thanks to Scott Tiller and Kevin Hall for bartering their house/home studio for food and booze. You guys fucking rule and we most certainly owe you one!
Just in case there was any doubt the man with the vest and Marilyn Monroe shirt is in charge and we couldn’t be more pleased to be working with Jason Vautour as the producer for this new record. Just in pre-prdocution JVo has contributed an immense amount of insight and a wealth of ideas to the songs. Also a big round of applause to Andrew Adams and Nick Jones for working as our engineers on this pre-prodcution project. We honestly couldn’t have worked with a better team of people on this.
Guitar, Bass and Vocals are next so stay tuned for more updates!
This coming weekend we officially begin pre-production for our third album. We will begin recording the drums May 4th and 5th with the help of Andrew Adams and Nick Jones. We have been writing aggressively for the new album over the past few months and have a wide array of songs for this beast. In addition to the new tracks, the album will include some new songs we have previously performed live including: ‘If We’re Divine‘, ‘Masquerade of Sin’ and ‘Lie to Live the Live’.
We are very excited to share that our friend and musician extraordinaire Jason Vautour (JVo) will be producing the upcoming release. Whether as a music instructor, session musician, or in his own musical endeavours, JVo is a skilled professional and we believe the best person for the job (if you haven’t heard his metal creation PITH yet please listen to it immediately, this post will still be here when you get back). We will have some more exciting updates about the new album in the coming weeks, including the studio and the full team of people who will be helping to ensure our third album is our best to date!
On another humbling note we couldn’t be more excited to say our upcoming shows include a date on the Canadian Ritual Tour (Black Dahlia Murder, Exhumed & Fuck the Facts), a mini-tour with 3 Inches of Blood and an evening with Dissectional (A Tribute to Tool). Check out our shows tab for full details!
FIRST AND FOREMOST we are incredibly pleased to announce we will be performing three dates with Canadian metal masters 3 INCHES OF BLOOD later this summer! If you haven’t heard their newest album yet ”Long Live Heavy Metal” go pick it up ASAP!
Here’s the dates we will be playing with them (click on the dates to be redirected to the facebook events)
Secondly we are very excited to announce we have been writing like madmen and have nearly completed writing our follow up to ‘Voices: The Tales of Broken Men’. We will be beginning pre-production in May and entering the studio in June! (more details on that to come soon).
HAPPY BELATED NEW YEAR! Here’s a quick blast of news on the OC front. First and foremost, check out these amazing extra pictures Nathan Boone took when we did a little photo shoot for The Coast a few months back.
Secondly, We are very excited to announce that WE will be appearing on the national TV Program The Candy Show! How fucking insane is that right? We are pretty excited to be performing metal on TV! If you are in Halifax and want to come to the taping it is on Saturday, April 21st @ Olympic Hall you can email: info@thecandyshow.com for free tickets!
And Last, but most certainly not least after 3 months of writing and recording we are returning to the stage for these upcoming shows:
It has been 1-year today since ‘Voices: The Tales of Broken Men’ was released by Diminished Fifth Records and what a year it has been… To say it was the best year for the curse would be a massive understatement.
In the past 12 months since we released our full-length sophomore album we have played nearly 30-shows across the maritime’s and shared the stage with such established acts as: Children of Bodom, Misery Index, Cancer Bats, 3 Inches of Blood, Martyr, Baptized in Blood, Beneath the Massacre, Ion Dissonence, and Fuck the Facts to name a few… we were also lucky enough to be asked to showcase at Halifax Pop Explosion, Nova Scotia Music Week and the East Coast Music Awards (see our complete show listings below).
In addition to hitting the pavement, Orchid’s Curse has also been hitting the screen! Releasing our first ever music video for ‘The Workhorse Walks Alone’ in June which has been viewed almost 2500 times (massive thanks again to Aaron Elliot and Crew) and our song ‘Obsession’ appeared on the hit Canadian TV Series ‘Todd & The Book of Pure Evil’ which is broadcasted on SpaceTV, The Comedy Network and MuchMusic.
It was also very cool to see how the press reacted to Voices, especially after many mixed reviews of our debut ‘Goodbye is when the Casket Closes…’. Needless to say our expectations were shot out of canon with the album drumming up a ton of praise including award nominations, best of 2010 music lists and a series of positive reviews. What was really neat, was seeing the positive press and support we received from some of the non-metal publications (I mean they even put Brian on the cover of the Coast!!)
Below is a list of the album accomplishments and some of our favourite press quotes:
ACCOMPLISHMENTS:
The Coast 2010 Critic’s Pick* Noisography.com Top 10 Records of 2010* 2011 Nova Scotia Music Week ‘Loud Record of the Year’ Nominee 2011 ECMA ‘Loud Recording of the Year’ Nominee Hellbound.ca writer ‘Jason Wellwood’ Individual Top 10 Metal Albums of 2010 [#8] Earshot-Online.com writer ‘Jason Wellwood’ Individual Top 10 Metal Albums of 2010 Rock and Roll Report Top 10 Albums of 2010 [#2] PureGrainAudio.com writer ‘Chee Kam’ Individual Top 20 Metal Albums of 2010 [#18] WeLoveMetal.com Top 15 Albums of 2010 [#6]
*- only metal/loud album to make the Coast or Noisography’s best of 2010 music
“Thick, brutal, aggressive and borderline cacophonous, at times, Voices is relentlessly engaging and explosive while maintaining a decisively melodic essence.” -Exclaim!Magazine
“Their music is undeniably heavy, but it’s also dense with trippy excursion and ethereal edges to the intensity… they play with sincerity, brains, skill and humour.” -Noisography.com
“Voices: The Tales of Broken Men is a huge step forward and progression for the band. It’s obvious that the members of Orchid’s Curse spent time listening to prog-metal and prog-rock in between writing for their first album and this one. Not that they’ve eschewed all of their previous metallic ways, quite the contrary, they’ve embraced and built upon an already solid foundation” -Hellbound.ca
“Voices – The Tales of Broken Men is a pretty lethal disc from beginning to end, confirming that Orchids Curse is definitely one of the most promising, young acts on the Canadian metal scene today.” -Sea of Tranquility
“This band has a developed sense for melody buried or well camouflaged under tons of distortion, aggressiveness and brutality… ‘Voices: the tales of broken men’ is a real metallic album, destined to snap some more necks and raise some hell live” -Metal-Invader
“Tapping into the brutal assaults of Death Metal, the crush of Thrash and Progressive tilts with the insight of a psychologist, you get a band that is nearly impossible to correctly and accurately describe” -MetalBite.com
“Voices… offers ten tracks of pure unadulterated heaviness from one of the Maritimes best up and coming acts.” -MusicNerd.ca
“My expectations were not only exceeded, but they were shot out of cannon and hit a brick wall with the velocity of a .357 Magnum. Their previous effort, Goodbye is When The Casket Closes, was a thick and meaty slab of At The Gates worship, but Voices leave that record in the dust.” -G! Magazine
“Imagine the perfect marriage of technical proficiency, dedicated musicianship with emotional catharsis and unadulterated aggression” -Letterbomb
“an impressive mix of lightning-quick, well-balanced harmonies, impeccable shredding, booming, primitive drumbeats and surprisingly thoughtful lyrics.” -HERE[NB]
Friday, September 17th @ Heritage Lounge (Summerside, PE)
w/Death Valley Driver
Saturday, September 11th @ Coconut Grove (Halifax, NS)
Official CD Release: ‘Voices: The Tales of Broken Men’
w/Black Moor + Last Call Chernobyl ___________________________________________________________
‘IT WAS THE DARKEST DAY WE’D NEVER SEE / THE WORKHORSE WALKS ALONE’
That’s right, we are very pleased to announce that we are playing both the 2011 Halifax Pop Explosion and the 2011 Molson Canadian Nova Scotia Music Week this fall. It is an honour as a heavier band to be included in these type of shindigs and we are excited as hell to perform with great locals and touring bands during these festivals.
After a long and tiring but incredibly worthwhile process it brings us a great deal of pleasure to say we have completed recording the pre-production of our upcoming album.
As for the album, we are excited to be entering CodaPop Studios for a week (June 22nd – 28th) to record this beast before sending it off for mixing and mastering. We will have some more announcements on the album coming in the near future.
