FORGOTTEN TOMB STARTED TO RECORD THEIR LONG AWAITED 5th ALBUM!
FORGOTTEN TOMB started the recording sessions for the long anticipated brand-new studio-album, titled Under Saturn Retrograde, to be released hopefully around January 2011.
The sessions took place at Elfo Studio, located in Tavernago, Piacenza (Italy), the same studio where the band recorded now-classic albums such as Love's Burial Ground and Negative Megalomania (Songs to Leave and the first Demo/MCD Obscura Arcana Mortis were recorded at Elfo Studio as well, but it was in a different location back at that time). Back to the engineering position there's Daniele Mandelli, producer/sound engineer of Songs To Leave, Love's Burial Ground and Negative Megalomania.

Herr Morbid comments: We started setting up the drums and placing all the microphones on Friday morning, the 27th of August 2010. We placed something like 20 microphones on the drum-kit this time, just to make sure we can get the right sound, heh! Asher started playing & recording in late morning and then after lunch through all the afternoon, 'til 7 PM. He recorded following a metronome and I played a rhythm guitar line in the background, just to make sure everything work out right. The process went definitely smooth and we managed to track drums for 5 songs out of 9.
On the 28th of August 2010 we started the sessions in the morning and we tracked down the other 4 songs in less than 6 hours. Again, the process was quite easy, though we took a bit more time for the title-track, since it's rythmically a bit more complex than the other songs and it's divided in 2 parts. At the end of the day I also recorded some tambourine for a song (The Cult docet) and some cow-bell as well (everyone knows my crush for Southern Rock, heh). But don't worry, we aren't making a Glam Rock album here!
The band plan to record guitars later this week. We'll keep you posted! That's all for now, stay tuned!

Shit, it sounds like it's going to be gayer than their last record.

I'm remaining hopeful they step back in the right direction, thanks for sharing the news.

Songs to Leave was a killer album. Sounded like a band who couldn't decide whether or not they wanted to be depressing Black Metal, old Katatonia, Dolorian, etc. Last thing I heard was the cover of Nowhere, which one of my favorite Katatonia songs. Still not sure how I really felt about it.

The dudes "wife" from that band looks 13.

Forgotten Woods > Forgotten Tomb

for slag's consideration.

also, what a lame studio facebook status update.