“Quietly, Undramatically” was the second Woe album. Reviews were strong, I was happy… but it sounded like crap. It really did. The CD still does. It’s muddy, it’s noisey, it’s not glued together very well… For those who are into black metal, none of these things are deal-breakers; for those of who are into recording, they kind of are. I liked it and still don’t mind it. The drums are clear and punchy; the whole thing is very natural sounding and has quite a bit of personality. Still, I felt that the production did distract from the material, so I was glad for the opportunity to remix/remaster it when Candlelight Records USA launched their bandcamp initiative.

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It’s $7.99 for the download and available in 24-bit/48 kHz lossless formats.

I did a fucking ton to this. Nebula is all over it. AlexB’s MLC mic input on each track, one of the slow Akai R2R programs on the guitars, Otari R2R programs on the overheads, Otari R2R on the master, MLeQ and CLeQ on practically every track, Snap Compressor for tone all over the place, Fate Comp for tone on the guitars — it made a massive difference. I used Cytomic’s The Glue and the Elysia mpressor as my go-to compressors.

I’m too drunk to keep writing this. Fucking stoked. I’ll probably edit this when I’m more sober but in the meantime, it should be known that this is available online at http://candlelightrecordsusa.bandcamp.com/album/quietly-undramatically-remix and it is awesome.