I put my lead parts in tonight. It was mighty. They didn’t take very long (because I’m so amazing I suppose) so we went ahead and laid down the clean track for “Haunter of the Dark” and “Evenfall.” I’m extremely pleased with the clean tone I used. Haunter took me more takes this time around than it did last time. That is one hard fucking guitar part to play completely flawlessly in one take. I wasn’t quite feeling the storm raging within my heart (like last time) when it was being laid down. Evenfall sounded good with one guitar, but we decided then to add a classical guitar and juxtapose the two different C phrases. It came out sounding like what Odin himself would have written. My vocals were the last thing to be recorded by me and it was done without incident. I owe this to summoning deep within me the poser-smashing hate necessary to properly perform them. Hellfire was raging in my voice. With my parts completely done, I had no problem leaving the country for 3 weeks.