| translated by Maiju Page 195 Shadows, lights and nerves breakdowns. Deep Shadows And Brilliant Highlight and terrible memories. HIM started to record the third album’s songs after exhausting Razorblade Romance tour. After recording the demos the feelings were really high but soon band, record company and many others started to fight. Welcome crises! -Deep Shadows And Brilliant Highlights sucked to do. We have been lying all the time in public that it would’ve been nice but in reality it was just terrible, Ville Valo says about HIM’s third album. HIM wanted themselves that album would be recorded in Finland. During the Razorblade Romance tour they had been travelling so much that the guys wanted to sleep in their own beds. It’s really a lot more easier to go to Finnvox studios than go to outside the Finland to some so called “famous” studio. And now they wanted to save also in costs. They realised that in Razorblade Romance’s costs they had burned money in a stupid way. […] In the demo sessions there was fun and band the loved the final result so much that they decided to keep a big part of demos and record from new parts from time to time. The record company said it was a bad idea -In BMG they were thinking T.T. Oksala is a fucking producer, “ you can’t use that kind of old man” - they said, Ville says. -So they had to find expensive famous producers from outside of Finland. There came people we wouldn’t want to work with. […] Page 200 […] -There are great moments in this record but the whole making progress was so shallow that this record doesn’t give so nice feelings. […] Page 201 […] A cover for the record had been already made in Finland. But the English people said:“In Finland you can’t do covers! “ So Ville had to go to England where Rankin took new pics of him. […] Page 202 […] Afterwards Ville confesses that everything wasn’t pain in this record. Of course he’s happy with a few songs in Deep…. But in final part’s busy times & few festival gigs few songs were mixed without him and those songs became mistakes, which should’ve been fixed. -For the first time in my career I got sick and tired of making a record. -There were too many people, so at the final part I wasn’t even interested. I was just waiting to get this record out so I didn’t have to think about it no more. Page 203 […] -The band’s members and the record company’s people are thinking that Deep… is a negative thing, even though it’s positive that the record is made, Ville says. […] -Surely Deep Shadows changed our way to make records from now on. We were too kind and listened to a way too many people. It wasn’t about compromises but there were too many people telling what to do next. Then you start to think yourself, what’s right. […] |