BEYOND CD Single @ stores now !!

"BEYOND" CD SINGLE is now @ stores. We have been working hard for the last weeks and we finally can do what we love the most: Play !!! We are now starting the "Manifesto" album promotion through the "Beyond" single.

The CD single art, created by Dung Hoang, makes it a limited collectors edition, you can get a copy now contacting us through our new Myspace.

Our Myspace, recently launched, has started to build our community, Join our friend list and let us know what you think !! www.myspace.com/antipoda.

We have also released the last chapter of the Studio Diaries series. This last post is about vocals and overdubs, you don't want to miss it.





Don't forget to get your copy of the Shock Magazine, we've got a cool article in the Dec edition.

Studio diaries 5: Lead Guitar Sessions

"I had a rough idea of what I was looking for. Daniel took all the ideas and squeezed the best out of them !"

We can say that we really spent a lot of time doing guitars in this album. We worked out riffs, we did orchestration, and we then added some spice and cool arrangements and finally worked out the solos.

Although the songs were cool without solos, there were lots of incredible ideas that Jose had in mind for them, some since we started writing and others were worked out by Jose during the rhythm and orchestration sessions. We didn't want to go towards the "virtuoso" kind of solo. We wanted just the opposite: raw, tearing solos that could kick the atmosphere at the end of some songs. So we simply started to play around.

Once again, we let ourselves be guided by the music. We experimented and had fun until finally we found the right mood for each song. There were countless options to consider in every part and Daniel was really clever to identify the ones that worked best. He pointed our ears in the right direction again and again. The result, well… you judge for yourselves!!!

We've got two more Studio Diaries episodes coming : Vocal Sessions by Øyvind Osa (probably the one that many of you have been expecting for quite long) and Overdub Sessions by Daniel Bergstrand.... They will be available very soon !!!

Studio Diaries 4 - Bass Sessions

JD says, that a new bass sound concept was born with Daniel's help!!!

The whole bass session went pretty fast. We had the clock ticking on our necks when Juancho started kicking his week.

The bass sound was a huge surprise. Starting with the equipment, they were using a pretty unusual setup, but as always with Daniel, it turns up to boost everything. They worked out lots of new harmonies and arrangements to the already recorded material.

You can see Juancho's "cake face" when they finished setting up the bass sound with Daniel :

"I never thought that the bass could sound with such power, its hell of a ROAR. Because of the lack of time, the bass session had a lot of pressure, but the ideas made their way out and what a way!!! Daniel was looking for a new approach not only sound-wise but he also ment to find a new concept for the bass playing and and its roll inside the band."

Studio Diaries 3 - Rhythm Guitars

"The guitar sound is massive, it really sounds -- in your face --"

Once the drums were finished we hit the rhythm guitars, Maciek's part of the story.

We experimented with distinct configurations of analog pedals together with different amps. It is not easy at all to find the right sound, there are so many variables that can take you into cool sounds, choosing the right one is kinda tricky.

The rhythm guitars took one whole week to be recorded working really hard together with Daniel and Jose. There were lots of cool arrangements in the drums, so we always wondered how to boost them with guitars, which in many cases proved to be a real challenge. We didn't stop until we felt completely satisfied.

One great aspect is that every theme has it's own character, not only because we tried to play with different intentions, but because there are lots of arrangements, as Jose will explain in the next issue of the Studio Diaries.

As with drums, the guitar sessions finished far beyond our expectations. Working with Daniel was an incredible experience. He always kept the coolest attitude and this made us push ourselves more and more in every new theme.

Studio Diaries 2 - Drum Session

"We've got amazing drums ! With the drums so tight, the rest should go smoothly"

were Daniel words after the drum session. And hell, yes ! we would never dream with a drum sound like that. Just to show that life doesn't lack a sense of irony, sleep was the only thing we wouldn't get for the next weeks.

We left Colombia armed with nothing else than a good snare and a couple of cymbals. It was clear that Arturo would have to adapt to whatever we could get in Sweden. This turned out to be actually great, it opened the mind of everyone to experiment with things that we would probably never considered if we had the chance to take Arturo's drum set from Colombia. It was the first proven fact that showed us what might happen if stayed open minded all the way.

Together with the sound, the enthusiasm grew day by day as Daniel worked out cool arrangements, and came with new ideas to blend into the whole thing. The result, well you will have to judge by yourselves when the time comes, till then we have the second video of the "Studio Diaries" series.

In Arturo's words :

"We started improvising and experimenting with the drum set, we used low-endy kick and toms searching for a kind of powerful vintage and acoustic sound. During the recording Daniel evaluated every break, rhythm, sound and ensured the groove of every section, giving me the opportunity to improvise. At the end, this has been the mos incredible experience in my professional life."

Studio Diaries 1

Well, it seems we finally made it to Dug-Out in Sweden. There was quite a lot of things to sort out before we could even dream about this. We had to become managers, business men, currency exchange experts, lawyers and at the very last ... musicians !!

We traveled the new year's eve and it looked like a really cool way of ending/starting the year. It was for us the end of the first phase of the project and the beginning of the second, which in turn is way more challenging: starting the our album with an amazing person and producer, Daniel Bergstrand.

Antípoda en Dug-Out

Hola a todos !!! Finalmente Antípoda se encuentra en Dug-Out Productions en Uppsala, Suecia. El proyecto que llevamos ya más de un año planeando, se ha hecho realidad y en este momento la banda se encuentra grabando con el productor sueco Daniel Bergstrand, conocido por su increíble trabajo con bandas como Meshuggah, Soilwork, In Flames, Dark Funeral, Darkane, Stonegard y otros.

El trabajo ha sido muy intenso, se trabaja cerca de 16 a 20 horas al día y la producción total llevará un tiempo de 5 semanas. Daniel, además de ser una persona increíble es un profesional extraordinario en su campo, el trabajo es completamente fluido y motivante. Trataremos de mantenerlos actualizados en este, nuestro blog, estamos bien y muy contentos.


Muchas gracias por su apoyo, sería imposible estar aquí de no ser por ustedes !!!!