Songs undergo a few “life stages”, and our listeners will be exposed to them at various points along their evolution. Some songs just naturally want to stay the same, but others are very open-ended and seem to have endless opportunities for experimentation inherent in their very structure.

As hinted at in Ed’s latest Tales From the Lab strip, we’ve tracked some cello parts for the new record. Big thanks to out to the lovely and talented Kathryn Barlow, who came in and contributed some tasteful-yet-aggressive lines. We were blown away with how smoothly the session went. Special thanks to Kathryn’s friend Matt [...]

Is that even a word? Well, it is now. As a new song unfolds and becomes a living, breathing entity of sorts, it sometimes whispers in a musician’s ear about what it wants – what it needs – to survive and flourish. Sometimes it’s a tweak to the arrangement, a suspended chord here or there, [...]

It was a busy month for us in Organical-land. Steve, Ed, John and myself were spending three nights a week in The Lab at Badvision Studios, slaving away on recording guitar tracks. It’s a full-band effort… we all show up whenever we can to lend as many ears to the process as possible, and to [...]

After a couple of marathon sessions of recording most of the heavy guitar parts for the album, i’ve realized that i need to go to Metal Guitarist Boot Camp. Or get some kind of Personal Metal Trainer or something. It’s not that i have pain, i just have no strength left to fret or pick [...]