All Souls Post In-Studio Video Update on New Album Progress
Los Angeles heavy rockers and band-you-should-be-listening-to All Souls are currently embroiled in the recording process for their nine-song next album at Total Annihilation Studios — apparently located under a church — working with producer Alain Johannes (Chris Cornell, Queens of the Stone Age, his own rad solo stuff, and so on) to follow-up 2020’s Songs for the End of the World (review here) and their 2018 self-titled debut (review here). Their third long-player is high on my personal gotta-hear list for next year, and over the weekend they posted an in-studio clip of the guitar tracking in progress, having already put to bed the drums and bass. Progress being made, in other words. That’s the best kind of progress!
They’re apparently doing more regular updates via Patreon, but they sent this clip along the Bandcamp email list and there have been photos and some short clips along the way on other sociable medias as well, so one could hardly accuse them of lacking transparency as regards the process. You don’t really get much a sample of the material — it’s not like Antonio Aguilar is riffing out through a whole song or anything — but you get to see him trying some cool stuff out and making some weirdo sounds, ‘using the studio as an instrument,’ as it were, and that’s only encouraging as regards the shape the songs will take when they’re done.
Also of note, you’ll see in the update below that there’s mention of All Souls having recently played their first show as a trio. I don’t know if that means guitarist Matt Price (also Behold! the Monolith) is out of the band or just off doing other stuff or whathaveyou, but I’ll be interested to see if he shows up on the record one way or another. Aguilar and bassist Meg Castellanos were enthusiastic about his having joined when we spoke earlier this year for a video interview. Alas, situations, fluidity. You know how it goes.
When you’re done spending a couple minutes behind the scenes, feel free to watch All Souls jam out in a van, see Alain Johannes absolutely lay waste to a solo that will reportedly appear on the track “Who Holds the Answer,” or just listen to Songs for the End of the World itself near the bottom of the post. Then go buy merch or something. Their shirts have cats on them. Why not pugs, I wonder?
However you go, enjoy:
All Souls, Day 4 Recording at Total Annihilation
Greetings from the recording studio!
We are on Day 4 at Total Annihilation Studios in Los Angeles with Alain Johannes producing. We have completed basic tracking. Alain and Antonio are in the midst of adding guitar layers and solos and we should be starting vocals tomorrow. Here is a behind the scenes video from today.
If you are interested in following the process more closely, we will be posting on our Patreon page videos of recording each individual song as parts are being laid down, and vocals get added. Lots of pre-production videos are already up there, along with song sketches, our first live video clip as a 3 piece from a few weeks ago, tour and studio dispatches, member features and more: https://www.patreon.com/AllSouls
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