Berserk - Studio Report

Recording: The Phexagon Studio, & Horned Helmet Studio - Amman, Jordan
Mixing & Mastering: Horned Helmet Studio - Amman, Jordan

- Recording: March-May/October 2009 | Mixing/Mastering: Oct./Nov./Dec. 2009

- All Instruments & Vocals were recorded by Muhannad Bursheh (**)

- Musicians with an (*) beside their names participate as guest musicians

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(**) A few parts of some instruments were recorded by guest musicians (More info below)

SESSIONS 1-4: Rhythm Guitars
 

Recording rhythm guitars. The sound is fantastic; very clear & powerful. The sessions went very smoothly (except for a broken guitar string after starting with the 3rd track... & it was a new set of strings... That only explains 1 thing... INTENSITY)

With rhythm guitars & drums completed (drums was done much earlier in the past year during the pre-production stage) next on the list were the bass lines.
 

SESSIONS 5-9: Bass Lines
 

Recording bass lines; the sessions went smooth & the bass sounds rigid as hell. Note: All bass lines were improvised during recording
 

SESSIONS 10-14: Lead Guitars & Percussion
 

Recording all lead guitar parts plus a guitar solo. The rest of the guitar solos were recorded by guest musicians. Also, tribal & orchestral percussive parts where added to some tracks to add up more dark & barbaric majesty to the music
 

SESSIONS 15-17: Classical Guitar, Clean Guitar, Flute
 

Clean & classical acoustic guitars were recorded in these 3 sessions with the addition of some flute parts on 4 tracks to spice up some of the folk tunes on the album
 

SESSIONS 18-24: VOCALS
 

Recording vocal lines. I did a lot of variations; from black Metal screeches & death Metal grunting to dark clean speeches making the vocals sound very versatile; even some semi-operatic clean vocals were added in a few passages... The recording sessions that followed included 2 guitar solos played by guest musicians (Rami Haikal & Zaher Siryani) & a few synth & keys parts done by guest musician Waseem EsSayyed & myself. Also, I came up with a crazy idea of recording BOWED BASS for 2 tracks on some parts, & it sounded sick
 

SESSIONS 25-32: Keys, Bowed Bass, Guest Artists
 

Recording bowed bass. YES, BOWED BASS!!!!! Using a violin bow

Recording keyboards & synthesizer parts

Guest guitarist Zaher Siryani* (Tyrant Throne) recording a guest guitar solo on a track on the album

Guest guitarist Rami Haikal* (Bilocate) recording a guest guitar solo on a track on the album

Guest keyboardist Waseem EsSayyed* (Bilocate) recording guest keyboards & synthesizer parts on some tracks on the album

Guest vocalist Stephanie Ni'was* recording an additional female chanting part on a track on the album

MIXING & MASTERING
 

Mixing at The Phexagon Studio

The Phexagon Studio Environment

The album "Berserk" was recorded at my personal recording studios "The Phexagon Studio" & "Horned Helmet Studio".
 

The Phexagon Studio Environment

Recording sessions took place in March, April, May & October of 2009
Mixing was done during October & November of 2009
The album is currently in the mastering stage
 

The Phexagon Studio Environment

All instruments & vocals were recorded by myself. Guest musician's were featured on some tracks on the album with some additional instruments. Berserk was/is being produced, mixed & mastered by myself as well
 

The Beer Tower; the world's most sophisticated architectural miracle
 

The crazy guy behind the album & Einherjer Rising; Muhannad Bursheh