Hilastherion - teaser and FB page

It's time for a Hilastherion update: Check out this teaser for our upcoming album "Signs of the End".

Also, check out our brand new official Hilastherion facebook page for updates.

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Just a teaser...

Yesterday I saw the first pictures from the Hilastherion photoshoot, these first ones looked very good. I can't post them here just yet, but as soon as I can, I will. So, more to come shortly.

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Hilastherion, another update

I'm anxiously waiting for the pictures from the Hilastherion photoshoot, we should get them any time now. We have a design for the cover art for the upcoming album, the old band logo felt a bit old school, so we're updating it to something a bit more modern looking. And it's still too early to say exactly what the cover art will look like, since the logo will probably be visible on the cover art.

More updates to come...

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Hilastherion photoshoot

I'm watching Quantum of Solace, although I should be going to bed. Tomorrow (or should I say today, since it's already past midnight here) it's time for a long awaited Hilastherion photoshoot. I really should get a good nights sleep, since I have a cold and I don't want to look like it in the photos. I would also like to take this opportunity to invite fans of Hilastherion to like our Facebook page. News about the band or the upcoming album will be posted in this group.

Well, that's about it for this time, good night and I'll see you later.

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What a weekend

I had a great weekend. I had been looking forward to a larp workshop, but a week ago the workshop was cancelled, due to too few participants. However, this didn't matter too much, I had time to do some chores at home instead. It was good to finally get some of these things done, after postponing them too many times.

Saturday night a very good friend of mine had a Birthday party. As usual, it was great. We had some serious discussions and many not so serious ones. And the second most delicious chocolate cake I've ever tasted. And a very unexpected suggestion that I had to consider seriously. And we briefly discussed our upcoming Hilastherion photo shoot next weekend. And we also babbled a bit about some Renaissance music concerts, if I remember correctly, I think they will take place in April 2013.

Yesterday was rather fun. Just before noon I sat with my laptop, waiting to register for next year's upcoming anniversary LARP*. In 2 minutes and 28 seconds after they opened the registration form, 15 people had already registered! And I got the character I wanted. Or should I say, I got my first choice. We were told to choose three characters. The character we wanted to play, one backup if we didn't get that part, and a third one if the second character was also taken. All this since it might happen that several players want to play the same character. But now, I'm SO ready to rock as this character.

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*I've linked to the "Briefly in English"-page about the LARP, but if you understand Swedish and want to know more about it, you can read more here.

Band pics and roleplaying

Well, it's been a while since my last post. Work has been pretty crazy lately, which leaves very little time for blogging. At least when I spend a lot of my spare time making new characters for a vampire tabletop role-playing game. And play in a band. And try to have a life somewhere in the middle of all this. However, I'm not so fed up with things anymore. But the vampire characters turned out really great.

Vaguely related to these vampire characters, the two lists of roles for next years anniversary Larp have been published. And the type of character I've been considering for quite some time was on the lists. I did mention my thoughts quite some time ago to one of the game masters, and to another one just a few weeks back. So they knew I was interested in playing this type of character.

On the band front, the mastering for Hilastherions second album is done. Next up: taking new band pictures, we're currently trying to find a time that's ok for everyone in the band. And we need new pictures, two of the members have been replaced since the first album (I'm one of the new members). This, of course, brings us to the eternal and very important question: What to wear...?

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Final mixes done!

I have now heard the final mixes for the second Hilastherion album. It sounds great so far, and now it's time for mastering. More updates to come as soon as there's any more news.

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Hilastherion update

This morning I noticed that we had got the "final" mixes for the upcoming Hilastherion album. So now I'm listening to all the tracks to get a better idea of the sound. And of course, there might still be small changes if there's anything wrong with any of these mixes. So far this sounds really sweet, I'm excited!

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Soon enough

I think the final piece in the Hilastherion album puzzle fell in place today. I won't say anything more at this point, all shall be revealed soon enough. Here's some music while you're waiting.



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Time for a short update

It's been waaay too long since I posted here. Still enjoying Clockwork Angels. I still haven't been able to print my tickets for Rush' O2 Arena gig in London. I'm not really worried yet, but I'm wondering what the problem is. Well, as long as I can print the tickets before May 2013, I'm ok with that. We still have to find plane tickets and some place to stay, but I'm sure we will. After all, it's not the first time I'll be going to London, and this time I should be able to ask some advice from my TNMS mates.



Almost all the recordings for the upcoming Hilastherion album are done now. I think there are some spoken parts that still need to be recorded, but that should be it. We started practicing again after a summer break, and it went better than I expected. Of course I didn't nail all the parts, but at least I remembered most of them. And some parts I even remembered better than I thought I would. This is going to be a great album.

There's also a pretty big Larp coming up next summer. Dark Paths' End is Eloria's 10th anniversary Larp. Eloria is a Swedish-language Role-playing association, where I'm a member. I'm really looking forward to this Larp, it's not only for one evening or even for one day. It starts on a Thursday with preparations and prebrief, the actual Larp is on Friday and Saturday, and it ends on Sunday with a debrief and disassembling the camp and everything around it. Actually, preparations have already begun, and will go on all the way until the Larp takes place. There will be a lot of different workshops building up to this Larp.

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Hilastherion

The second part of my vacation starts officially tomorrow. This year I decided to take two weeks vacation, work for one week and continue my vacation two more weeks. It's worked fine for me, I feel great. And I feel even better after my recording session last Friday. I recorded some clean vocals for Hilastherion's second album. Here's a YouTube clip with some samples from the drum recordings.

This album is going to be better than the previous one. And I'm not saying that just because I joined the band only after the first album, I'm saying it because it's a fact. However, the first album is really good too. On this page you can listen to some samples of it. If you happen to like it and would like a copy, you can buy it here.

Well, that's enough self advertising for today. Updates will follow as soon as there is anything to update.

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