So, as that one picture in the Facebook showed, we’ve been mixing, mixing and then again, mixing. We’ve had two separate sessions, one with Matti A and one with Harri. There’s around 140 tracks in the session currently and album having around 70min of music, so it’s been a quite hard work to mix it. Using the whole spring has been worthwhile since this album absolutely sounds best for far. And Harri has been busy recording solos as well as Matti P too.

Next step: we’re starting to search for publisher for this epic. So watch out metal labels: you’ll be getting unnecessary long email shortly 🙂

So, we’ve spend our autumn (yes, it seems like we’re stuck in everlasting autumn here in southern Finland) by recording vocals, acoustic guitars and mixing the album, hooray. Usually, when we have reached the point where Harri has to grab the acoustic guitar to his hands, that has meant we’re pretty close to finish line…but not this time, sorry 😀

What is there still eft to do then one might ask… Well, solos, for starters, small polishing round for some lead vocals, a lot on background vocals, perhaps more keyboards and layers and layers of symphonic stuff, propably 🙂 Yeah, and of course we need to find someone to release this bundle of ProgPower.

That being said, we start contacting labels earliest at springtime… So lease be patient and check for news time to time. I know, we have revealed only bits and pieces of the album and not a lot of details nor concrete blocks of songs or sampler or anything… But that’s because we’ve done so in the past and this time we’re doing things bit differently, so stay tuned. And meanwhile, enjoy this clip of Harri playing his first ever (semi)acoustic song of Ultimatium

So, the summer went by, we mostly enjoyed the vacations and there was little progress. Good news is that we’re now back in work and this massive piece of work is slowly moving forwards. Matti A popped by and recorded some leads and background vocals, like this:

It’s been a while, again, since out latest post. What we’ve been up to? Harri is (still) finishing guitars, now actively doing acoutics and clean guitars. Meanwhile Petteri got his bass tracks done and here’s what he has to say:

Hi Ultimatium-people!

I’ve been honoured to be a part of next upcoming Ultimatium release. My old time friend Matti with whom I had played in DIO tribute band Angry Machines contacted me on summer 2018 and asked if I was intrested to play Bass for the next album Ultimatium had been working with. I’ ve been Ultimatium fan and it was an easy decision for me. Hell yeah!

Due to time schedules and location these recordings decided to do in my homestudio using an easy and simple setup (of course for bass players 🤓).
I got the material and started to work with those good sounding intresting progressive songs. First by listening raw material, composing bass lines and then of course I needed to learn to play those songs. And at last the difficult part : get them recorded! Now after 6 months and hours and hours spent by beating the bass recordings are almost ready and the focus is on producing the bass tracks. Some re-amping and sound adjustments needs to be done before mixing process. Those are done soon!

It has been a very nice and demanding project. I have enjoyed a lot to create and record music. Eventhough it has taken more time than I assumed. First deadline we had was end of 2018… But I wanted to do my best and actually I have spent quite much time for capturing the ”magic” takes. Hopefully it has been worth it…

I really look forward to hear the final version of the album. And I hope You enjoy it !

Until that Stay tuned!

Big Bottoms,
Petteri Gullsten

So, what’s next then? Tomi will start his parts real soon and we’ll start the mixing process as well. Matti Auerkallio wil be singin some bacjground vocals as well. And after that, there’s still solos to be played 🙂