Well, Rob is away on his trip to Japanaland, but the guitars are all recorded so as soon as he gets back (actually, more like 3 weeks after he gets back due to scheduling conflicts) we’ll be ready to record my vocals, the final part of the Containment failure puzzle.

I’m pretty damn excited, I must say; I’ve been practising the songs over the past few weeks to make sure my performance is top notch and I’m pretty happy with the way it’s been going. Hearing it recorded on top of everything else is going to blow my mind, I’m sure (Hopefully yours as well).

Of course, even after we record the vocals there is still a lot of production work to be done, and the cover art still needs to be finalised. We will hopefully be able to do a small run of physical copies as well, depending on whether we can find a cheap printer.

With any luck, the album will be out by the end of the year! (But don’t hold me to that)

Hi fans, just a note that I have fixed a minor mp3 encoding glitch with the ReInitialise audio files. This particular issue was causing some minor stereo problems and slight treble emphassis. Free free to hear the new fixed files here and you can also re-download the mp3s to update your ipods etc.

I’d also like to add what a great job Ben has done on the new site design, three cheers to you brother !!!

Rob

As you can see, the Kurodust redesign is finally here! Still a bit of tweaking to do but all in all it should be working.

The redesign had two main goals; the first was to make it easier to start listening to our music as soon as you get to the site, so we split the page in two and gave half of it to our releases over there on the right. Clicking the ‘Listen’ links will give you a popup music player, so you can browse the rest of the site while you listen!

The second goal was to showcase the utterly excellent album artwork we had done by an artist named Miles Johnston in the UK. Take a look at some more of his work at his ConceptArt.org gallery page. We were absolutely blown away by the image he created for us, and we can’t wait to get it printed and see how it looks on the page. Visit the Containment Failure page to get a closer look at the piece.

As you have seen by Rob’s posts, the recording is coming along! I only heard what he’s been working on for the first time on the weekend, and it is sounding awesome. Unfortunately due to everybody’s availability we won’t be able to start the vocal recording until mid-September, but we’re on the home stretch!

Hi all, I’ve now finished most of the main guitar solo parts and will soon be editing some different takes together to see what sounds best. It’s sounding pretty good. I’ve left many of the solos as they were during our writing phase, plus some new and experimental ones thrown in for good measure. After that’s all finalised I’ll be moving onto some of the ambient and ‘other’ guitar sounds and FX.

…finally found this LP after 10 years !!!