Today is another big step in Frosthold‘s career. Tonight we’re playing with one of the most well known death metal bands, Cannibal Corpse. It’s an exciting time for us; we’ve released our new album which is finally complete. The intention now of course, is to spread the CD as far and wide as we can. We’ve already got a huge list of labels, magazines etc. to send the CD to, and we’ll start getting them shipped off after the gig.
The show tonight is totally sold out, which makes it our first sold-out show ever, and possibly our largest crowd – I don’t know how many people were at our Cradle of Filth gig. Anyway, I’m playing some suitably brutal music to get myself in the mood including:
- The Axis of Perdition – The Ichneumon Method (And Less Welcome Techniques)
- Carcass – Necroticism: Descanting the Insalubrious
- Bolt Thrower – Those Once Loyal
- Bloodbath – The Fathomless Mastery
- Morbid Angel – Covenant
I’ll post the same review as I wrote on Pompey Music forum as I’m lazy and can’t be bothered to type another review. My review of Hellfest is going to be pretty in-depth, so I shall work on that tonight.
Frosthold – Not a bad set by all accounts (apart from one of the bouncers who thought we were appalling…), think we generally played a lot better than usual aside from some minor mess-ups including me totally losing my place in The Aethelings due to Phil’s guitar suddenly being drowned out of my monitors…otherwise good.
Akakios – I was recovering from sweat for most of it, but I heard good metally sounds coming from over there.
Mayz – I had a disagreement with the door staff at this point, so missed most of Mayz calming down from wanting to rip their faces off. Sounded nice and proggy, but I’d have to listen to it properly to get it I expect. The only other thing I remember of Mayz was them turning up very late, I don’t know the full story, there could be a really valid reason, but turning up so late is just not cool…
Enochian Theory – Just excellent as always. Every time I see them, they get so much better, tighter, and more touching. Aside from the orchestra being a bunch of lazy bastards and seemingly not playing what the conductor was telling them to play, it was absolutely flawless. I’ll definitely be picking up a copy of the new CD when it’s done as I really loved the songs. Very tight, very pro, very WIN, very MANLY. In the bedroom.
I’ve just got back from recording some more vocals with Phil. We got some singing bits done, so we’ve finished A Dynasty Forgot and done the clean vocals on Vengeance of the Gods, which is sounding mighty (well the outro anyway!). Might be doing some more on Thursday, so hopefully I’ll get the clean bits for When Brothers Fought In Arms or maybe some growly songs done then. Then it’s growling all the way and the rest of it should go pretty smoothly. We may do group singing for WBFIA, but we’ll see and have to arrange to get everyone in the same room (shock horror!).
Something I’ve overlooked for some time is the 301: Permanently moved HTTP/1.1 status code.
For quite some time now, Frosthold‘s website has been operating from this URL after I bought the much easier to remeber frosthold.com, replacing the old No-IP address: frosthold.zapto.org. Upon doing this, I set up a nice user-friendly page saying “We Have Moved!” with a link to the new Frosthold website. The problem is, search engines didn’t pick up on this. It’s taken quite some time for people to update their links on their sites, many still point to the old site. This meant that people searching for Frosthold came to the #1 result first, always the old website. It’s taken even longer for frosthold.com to come second which I just Googled, and it is now second.
I then realised my mistake – for the search engines to know where my site has moved to, I need to tell them using a 301: Permanently Moved status code. So I simply wrote a very very quick PHP script containing this:
<?
header("Location: http://www.frosthold.com/",TRUE,301);
?>And hopefully in a month or two, frosthold.zapto.org should be gone from the search engine results, and frosthold.com shall reign supreme!
So finally I started the vocals recording tonight with Phil. And interesting, but possibly bad, possibly good thing, is that we’ve never all been in the same room doing the recording. Nevertheless it’s sounding pretty damn good at the moment, and it hasn’t even been mixed yet. Today we recorded Aeon of the Kings, and most of A Dynasty Forgot, but due to the intensity I pushed myself and Phil pushed me to, I wasn’t able to do the small, but fast singing part. Next time I’ll make sure to do the singing parts first. More on this when we do a bit more work…
