Wintersun New Album Vocal Scream (Making Of)

Noah

See you in the sack

Zac

Stathis Hatzidimitriou

I really like the rasp of the delivery ! I can't wait until additional material is released, be it an album, EP or a single !

Michael Hansen

So hyped! I hope this album has more songs than Time and TFS, like mote "shorter" songs rather than few long ones. Either way I will probably love it, you do what you want ofcourse!

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Vocally, estimate 50/50 %. Maybe even 60% cleans and 40 % growls. One song is 100% clean, while another, longer song is 90% clean. My best singing so far. The rest of the songs are a mixture. Have to do some calculations later. 🙂 Guitar-wise, there isn't a single clean or acoustic guitar part, at least not yet...

Aaro

Sounds killer! Would you say the new album is more harsh/distortion oriented than clean, both vocally and guitar-wise, or an equal mix of both? Excited for the next teaser 🤘

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I never record clean vocals after growls because growling tends to destroy the clean voice. But many times, I record growling vocals after cleans, as that tends to make the growling voice better after first getting a nice warm-up from clean singing. So, in a nutshell, it's either only cleans or growls, or cleans + growls. Never growls + cleans. (Singing live, of course, it's a different story 🙂).

Giovanni

It's going to be sweet! Do you do clean vocals and growls in the same session usually? Or do you focus on them on different days?

Alex Sharp

wow i'm so excited to hear what's next from wintersun!

Sally

Excellent!! Sounds great with the different layers. Cool studio too 😀🤘

Dina

I'm loving all of these new album snippets!

Christian Stojanovski

so excited to hear the first bit of vocals

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It varies. Sometimes, it can be the first take, although rare, but it does happen. Sometimes, even without a warm-up, the vocal chords are just ready to go. But most of the time, I warm up first. However, it can usually be around 10, 20, or 40 takes (with backing vocals, I don't care that much to get the perfect takes). Or it can be even more during different recording days, if the part is something really annoying or difficult, and I need to practise more first. The funny thing that sometimes surprises me is that some parts that might seem easy are actually hard, and vice versa.

AbsoluteApril

Very nice indeed! Would you be willing to share how many takes, on average, it is before you feel you've nailed a line or is it totally random and sometimes the first is just golden?