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!).
Apr 21 2008
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!
Apr 15 2008
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…
Apr 9 2008
It’s absolutely hilarious. Enter any URL and it makes it into a filthy dirty page. I was in stiches for ages re-reading my blog and the Frosthold website.
Jan 23 2008
So Frosthold started recording on 19th Jan 2008, initially in the Old Blacksmith’s Studio in Portsmouth. We currently have drums and bass tracks down and recorded, although I haven’t heard it myself, apparently sounding good. Next step is guitars then vocals! I can’t really give much of a “studio blog” as I wasn’t there of course, I was in Durham…
