The Site of Oblivion

New Sponsor!

2012-01-06T23:11:00.001Z

The details with TRX have been worked out.

G now plays TRX címbals, officially, they should be on the post soon.

Fun times ahead, thank you for your support!

Happy New Year For TRX Cymbals!

2012-01-02T19:49:00.000Z

A line has been picked up with TRX Cymbals and if everything goes on well, I should be having and playing them pretty soon.

During the past months I was pretty busy with making the choices for the pieces,
I have tried and listened to them for several times and choosing of the exact models was a really time consuming, tricky, but fun process. The amount help I got from folks at TRX was just unbelievable, I must have gone into their nerves so much with my questioning but they helped me through every problem, question, unsureness I had. Cannot wait to settle this and get my cymbals at hand!

Many thanks for Paul Barretta, you are the man!

A Merry Christmas song from HeavenBlade

2011-12-25T14:22:00.003Z

Here it is,

2011-12-17T18:26:00.000Z

The new site and domain through

http://www.heavenblade.com
http://www.heavenblade.info
and
http://www.heavenblade.net!

Some graphics is still being made, but it is getting really nice, isn't it?

Radio Kontakt

2011-12-11T16:32:00.001Z

We have a media sponsor - a Hungarian, local and on-line radio station, the Radio Kontakt, playing our songs every day!
So tune to it, listen to it!

FM 86.7, or

http://www.kontaktradio.hu/

New Look

2011-12-09T21:55:00.001Z

For this lovely Autumn. Basic, but is nice.

While Nora and G is spending this autumn-like winter in Hungary, preparing for a gorgeous Christmas, The rest of the band is practicing in Scotland (well, most of them), enjoying this winter-like-any-other-season-in-Scotland time; rain. :)
Not all of them though; Welshee is in Wales and Alan has gone out of existence, hopefully his Huskies have not eaten him...yet.

In the meantime songs are getting played on a radio station in Hungary - that is Kontakt Radio,

http://www.kontaktradio.hu

And new ideas are ready to born.

Also, G started to get some money in for his Jaguar, khm. Hope the best! :)

This is all for now, be back soon...

You are a bliss, really,

G

Acoustic

2011-03-29T22:33:00.002+01:00

Hello everyone, some news here.

We are putting an acoustic act together against boredom, a sort of thing what's gonna be strange, moody, psychedelic, jazzy and really surprisingly amazing... (hauntingly captivating, ehhe...)

Check out music from HeavenBlade

2010-11-25T14:55:00.001Z

Adam

2010-10-19T14:07:00.000+01:00

One week. One single week and I'll start the recording for Adam. Cannot wait...

In the meantime the band is preparing to move to London just to get up and going... we have been offered a couple of gigs and record deals from there so it is a sensible step to move...

Keep fingers crossed and leave your comments :)

Apple

2010-10-13T14:46:00.001+01:00

Got signed up with Apple... the dvd drive in my pc broke down and that was the final slap I needed... macbook is on the way, yea.

2010-10-07T16:23:00.012+01:00

Hi guys,

As Gergely mentioned I recently recorded the vocals with his help to a song that we do in collaboration with Scottish musicians. It's a midtempo metal song, but I don't want to reveal too much just now as the song is yet to be mixed and the songwriter may add some orchestration to the track.
Gergely and I went to Foyer Music's studio last week to do the recording. I received the music and the lyrics beforehand and wrote the vocal melodies. This is the first song I wrote all the vocals for on my own but I must tell that Gergely helped me a lot with suggestions about which part of the song needs some extra harmonies and how to create melodies that fit the lyrics.
I really enjoyed working in the studio. Though I wrote most of the melodies at home before the recording session, we added more backing vocals after listening to the main vocals that we felt would have suited the song. I love the process of putting a song together. I'm really happy with the result of the vocal recording, and I'll show you the song as soon as possible. Stay tuned. :)

The HbNation

2010-10-07T14:30:00.001+01:00

Collaboration, macbook

2010-10-07T14:23:00.002+01:00

Hi all,

Nora was invited to be a part of an on-line collaboration in which she recorded vocals for a song. More info will be here as soon as i can get her to communicate with You guys.

Duplication takes a little bit more time since my internet connection just broke down at home (some funny dude phoned bt up and cancelled the contract in the landlord's name) so i have to use the Library's pc... which makes it harder - finding a slot, fitting the time in... eh. So I'll have to buy some laptop pretty soon - thinking about a macbook.

Anyway.
Keep your eyes open, it will not take too long until I get Nora to tell you the Truth. :)

Also, a 'gig' is coming up at the Moorings bar in Aberdeen, which is more like an open mic session but we'll be there to play a handful of songs and hand out some copies of our single, Legion.

Hope to see you lots of yours there.

All the best,

Gergely

Adam Skocelas

2010-10-01T23:56:00.000+01:00

I've been asked to play part of the solo-album of Adam Skocelas. The preliminary works have started a week ago and the music is sounding really good, looking forward to hear the result. I'll be playing drums on a couple of tracks as well as the mixing if everything goes well. I shall try to get some teaser for you guys to listen, it is absolutely becoming my favourite music along with Ponty.

More info will be available soon at the pages menu, there, on the right.

Things happened...

2010-10-01T02:32:00.003+01:00

We've been very quiet in the last couple of months... But for a reason. Lots of things happened here; we have finished the recording of the album and started the rehearsals, to learn to actually play the songs. In the meantime Arpad left the band and his place has been taken by Alan Leonard. Saku Hiltunen (the guy who did the guitars for us on the album - if you remember) has applied for a permanent guitarist's position which we were more than happy to offer him. Lee Thomas jumped in for the other guitar and behind the keys, there is Mark Chalmers. So the line-up is finally full, the band is on full tilt and we are putting some tours together around Scotland, England, and in London.

Also, there is a facebook and a reverbnation site of us, not mentioning the
myspace (links are up there, under the graphics too), where you can listen the full album (there are four or five songs out on the profile every day but we keep rotating them for you)

These are all the new things... And there are much more, so more info about some solo projects of the members soon, but I'll go to sleep now...

Good night,

Gergely

Leeders Farm No 1

2010-03-31T13:14:00.002+01:00

s you already know, the recording sessions of the Melody of Oblivion have started. We are in Norfolk at the moment, at Leeders Farm. This is an amazing place, far beyond our expectations. You can find couple of pictures of the studio, house and drum recording...

After traveling more than 10 hours on trains, we arrived on Friday (Gergely and RP) to Wymondham. ON the very next day (after fixing some issues with the drumkit - the courier smashed one kickdrum and broke two hoops and cracked the shell) we started to record - big thanks to the Leedersfarm staff for the spare hoop and for getting the local instrument store open on Saturday for me... So new hoops, a new lug and a new head, setting the kit up, miking the kit up... The sound was bang on as it was, the only litte thing was that we were unsatisfied with the snare sound. After some listening and swapping heads we ended up using a Starclassic steel snare and a large membrane mic on the wires instead of the 56. That was 11pm.

On the next day the drum session started, with some of the technical-tight songs... Very proudly and greatly, 5 has been done that day, leaving two absolutely painful tracks for us. The plan was to record those tracks on the next day so we are a day ahead...

This just has not happened. We recorded, however, one song, and decided to rewrite the other one.

This is the third day, today, G broke the kit down and set up an other one; one of the songs has a nice lovely samba in it - for this he made a nice jazzy set with a different miking pattern. This has been recorded too. Drum editing started, Owen, the soundman is pulling the takes to the gridlines at the very moment whilst we supply him with endless cups of coffee, some bolognese and other nice stuff to keep him going.

You find some pics in the albums section so go and check them.

UPDATE - Very early here, 2am. We finished with the editing of our hardest song, we need to get some nice snare samples, maybe a Black Beauty or a Tama Masai... but that's for tomorrow, now off.

UPDATE - Next morning, I'm G now, sitting at the mac with a cup of hot coffee in front of the iMac. Life is sweet, I had a great sleep, woke up just now.. today we'll be looking for the guitar sound, having some gear to get it from. Also, resampling some snares, (in one song we used a very old Ludwig bone piccolo, sounded amazing, but in the particular mix it turned out to be very dry. So nothing left, we have to resample it... either with the Starclassic or the Black Beauty. I am particularly unhappy about it cuz it means that I loose all the fills and flams, but I am not really sure if we could make them audible in the busy mix so might loose them anyway...)

The low note sounds better

2010-03-21T01:54:00.003Z

Hi folks,

we just started to record the bass tracks this weekend. Two songs are already finished and we hope it all will be done until Wednesday. One of the eight songs will be recorded in Wymondham, with the new acoustic bass instead of my beloved BTB. Well, this recording is an important milestone for me in searching for my own sound. This is a very important thing for bass players (basically we don't use a lot of sounds and effects like a guitarist or a keyboard player) and I was desperately looking for mine in vain... for more than four damn years! It started with a decision: get real instruments instead of the low - cost shit what I used until my first year in HeavenBlade. I needed a catchy, massive metal sound and the very popular Ibanez seemed a good choice. The first one, a 4 -string X Series, (a Japanese model) was my main weapon from the summer of 2007. I used it on our demo called "Rising" in 2008. It's sound was so much more better but wasn't good enough. It was too rich in highs and with four strings I just felt myself behind bars. So in the autumn of 2008 I bought a BTB-405 model from Ibanez. This one is a real monster! Especially it's lows are frenetic, and with a parametric EQ it's possible to do some WAH-like effects by using the guitar only! When we re-recorded the bass tracks of "Rising" in 2009 I played the BTB and it made a huge difference. The old version sounded like some punk-metal mixture and teh new record sounds like a powerful modern metal stuff. However, a good instrument is not enough. My sound was very dry, crunchy and sometimes extremely noisy, even if I played very gently. It was because my strings weren't good for my playing style. I used to play with D'Addario strings. These are very good for most of the metal bassists who are playing with picks. I play with fingers and trying to generate a sound that's warmer than the typical metal sounds. A couple of weeks before I was reading Bill Milkowski's book about Jaco Pastorius. I really love Jaco's sound so I decided to try the strings he used. I ordered Rotosund strings for this recording and when I started to play with them, Oromon and me just looked at each other. My sound became really warm and rich in middles. This way I will be able to serve a really massive bass to The Melody Of Oblivion. We are very glad with this and I'm so happy. Things like this are very important in a musician's life. Find your own sound just feels like find your true love or something else like that... blah. I'm still working with my sound, but now it's so much better.

Practice makes perfect :)

2010-02-24T12:08:00.009Z

Hi everyone,

We don't have too many news just now but I want to keep you informed.
First of all, we practice, practice and practice.
Though in the last few days I had a cold so I wasn't singing that much. However I can feel the songs coming together and we all look forward the recording session.
As for the trip, I probably will not travel with ther guys but follow them a couple of days later because of my work. But once I arrive to the studio I will only concentrate on the music. As the studio is in a farmhouse, I look forward to go there not only because of the recording but because of the atmosphere that surely will inspire us as well as the isolated environment that helps us to focus on the most important things to do.
While your're waiting for the new songs, check our myspace as Oromon has uploaded one of his earlier pieces called "Pilgrimage to Arabia".

Long time

2010-02-11T00:01:00.002Z

Ago... we did not write anything here at all.... Sorry for that but we kept busy with all the recording and stuff. Now I started to do the symphonic part of the music, some sort of preproduction, concentrating on the midi just now. Also the drumkit is getting ready slovly, there will be a time soon when I'll have to order the heads.

Bass recording is coming along slowly.. Travelling is on the 26th of march.

Bass, drums

2010-01-23T01:26:00.002Z

The keys have been recorded around Christmas and New Year, then we did a demo-shoot to the bass in Jan... it still needs some work to be done so I am concentrating building the drumkit and carrying on with the rhytm section... Two months and we are in Wymondham, doing the Big Project...

Keyboards

2009-12-28T11:53:00.004Z

Well, we finished the keys... Almost everything has been recorded beautifully, except two small things; Krisztian needs more time to bury himself into those chaotic world of harmonies...

Now I am having a fight with this amazing os to play the recorded wav files... it says codec needed but the codec does not help and the microsoft link tells me that I have to reinstall my pc... lol.
Anyway...

The second day was kinda busy... Working on the 'I need a solution now' basis, having no time at all to prepare makes the job very difficult for both parties. But Krisztian did a great job, I was stuck to my ideas and imige so the stuff we done is great; there are some jazzy-artist elements in it and the classic, big pads, what rule the music of us.

Now, I go to eat... rest will follow today.

Keyboards, No 2

2009-12-23T21:12:00.003Z

Well, with the help of a great musician, Krisztian Kun, we started to work... today morning. The meeting was organised at 10am at Budapest, in a small and messy project-studio, a great sounding workplace of a busy man, and by the saying (messyer the table the more efficient the man is) he is really efficient. Getting there was a bit difficult cuz I'd a bad and short night beforehand with only 4 hours of sleep and, the bu was so late in the morning. So I just could manage to get there in time. We started working at 11am, laying the foundations for the songs... preparation, preparation, preparation.

So we hooked up a Casio piano, a Korg Triton Studio LE to a compressor and a alto valve mic preamp... surprise, but the Alto sounds good - well, not sure HOW good exactly, but there's no noise at all, we had a great massive signal, and a mild, warm character. There is a possibility that I'll need to play these tracks through some stuff at Wymondham...

The first song we done is not the first on the album. It has a very dark, lonesome atmosphere, a srange mixture of loneliness, fear, and dry, dead darknes. Kinda like if you would have a claustrophobic panic attack in a very huge, empty, dead-out station. We spant many hours with the intro, finding jus the right sounds, keeping it dark but also wery dry and empty; most of the good pads are badly full with effects and arpeggios; that's a thing what we did not want to put in here - but we were looking for the spacey atmospehere created by them. I think what we've done is almos perfect... I'll need some time to listen them through before saying 'ready.'., but I am so happy with the result.

Second... wow, that was quick. Must tell You, there is no such a sampler outside what can overhelm a real cello player, but for now, I'm OK with a string-quartet imitation; the celo shall be live anyway... OR ewql... let's see which one will be easier. I have to write a solo over the part called "technical shit'... I plan to do it today. In fact, now. So bye for now....

1,

2009-12-22T19:16:00.003Z

The keyboards #1.

First things first. Sor some strange reason Daniel's disappeared on the very day of strting the work... We were waiting for him for several hours, trying to call him, but there was no answer at all - nor for the mails... So he's dissapeared to the Hyperspace. That's a bog kick in our arse, since we had the time with him to do all the preparation and producing what's necesary for a recordnig... Now we do' really have this luxury. However, we found a man, Krisztian Kun, who has great experience and passion in music, keys and sound engineering. I will meet him tomorrow morning, starting some sort of work... but, since we don't have time at all, he will not be able to play everything through his instruments - most of the stuff will be recorded from the MIDI data... by this, I'll loose the graceful comfort of the real hands' touch; i must compose every single note into the music... The solos and important parts shall be played by hand, but most of the keyboards will be recorded by synth, or EWQL Ra, with such things like them...

So excited again, hopfully not in vain.

Zero

2009-12-18T13:35:00.002Z

This is the day before I stat recording the keyboards. We decided to go on by a strange and unusual plan, mostly based on the locations of the individual musicians we are working with. So, the keyboards come first, during the Christmas-Holiday of Nora and Myself; in Hungary. The man who's been asked to play with us is Daniel Szebenyi, big thank for him. You can hear his power-metal side on our demo but, this time we shall put more darkness into the music. It will be fairly difficult to record, since most of the notes are tight and thick but also, there is a constant 'nighmare-ambience' in the air, mostly provided by the keyboard. So this time the timing is very important, it is not enough just to play on click... i think now the perfection lays on the unperfection; sounds strange isn't it? Well, it is very difficult to make.

By the planning we need 3 days to do the job, with the possibility to take more; the job will be done at Daniel's house-studio.

We will start tomorrow, so my head is a bit full of the preparation, the mood, all the things what I brought up through composing this music. I left a lot of space for the keys and for new ideas so t will be a very creative process, that's for sure.

Studio

2009-12-18T13:25:00.003Z

After some sort of chaotic and funny jokes, the UK side of the band just simply left. Well, thanks for their cooperation, especially for all the experiences they gave us, teaching us what to think about them. I really hope I will see them from the stage at some point.
Anyway, life carries on so even if we will not be able to record the full concept as we planned we shall make some great music for you Guys; the Studio has been booked, the preparation started and almost finished... so in the summer we will put something great on the table.

The studiowork is on the board now; Oromon shall start the recording of the keyboards tomorrow and, by this, this page shall be turned into a studio-diary, letting you guys know what's happening on the board.