A few months back we had the pleasure to record and mix a full album for Korean metal band Erlang Kovata, and we are psyched that they just released it! We know it was a lot of travel, but we were super jazzed that these foreign rockers chose our NYC recording studio to work on their debut album.
One of our favorite songs on the album, and I’m sure it will soon be everyone else’s favorite, is the track “Troll”. Not only is it one of the coolest metal tunes you will hear, with awesome mythical overtones and ominous guitar riffs, but it was so much fun to record. The guys were only in NYC to record at the studio for a short time, so we needed to really streamline what we were doing but we made sure to cut no corners, especially with “Troll”. We had recorded all the drums on their first night in NYC, and we recorded bass and guitar successively, but with “Troll” we jumped back and forth between getting some extra guitars, adding some new takes on the bass, and of course, these epic vocals. Recording the vocals was definitely the most fun with this track. Not to say that recording the drums, bass, and guitar wasn’t awesome, cause it was, but the vocal performance is spot on for this song. Malik killed it in the booth, Mike almost blew an artery screaming, and J.P. wails as hard on his vocal cords as he does on his guitar. Anyway, enough of me praising this track, just check out the video they just released for it: