The Desolate Dungeon

22/11/2024

Full Pestilent Hex the 2nd online in youtube!

Country: Finland | Year: 2024 | Genre: Black Metal Pre-order CD, LP, Shirt & Digital Album: EU: https://bit.ly/PestHexEU US: https://bit.ly/PestHexUS Bandcam...

08/10/2024

Pestilent Hex - Sciomancy & Sortilege from the upcoming album "Sorceries of Sanguine & Shadow"

Rec, Mix, Artwork done at The Desolate Dungeon.

Taken from "Sorceries of Sanguine & Shadow", out on November 29 2024.Order from our :EU shop : https://dmprd.com/pesthexEUUS shop : https://dmprd.com/pesthex...

02/08/2024

Latest release with rec/mix done in Desolate Dungeon.

Today we proudly present the release of true Black Dawn's new full-length album, Of Thick-Circling Shadows, as Digipak CD & Gatefold LP. Here you can listen ...

08/02/2024

Ignis Mortis - Haeresis Maleficarum
Mixed at the Desolate Dungeon.

Ignis Mortis - Hæresis Maleficarum MCD will be released February 9th 2024 through Hammer of Hate.https://kvlt.fi0:00 Noitasapatin irstaat syöjättäret9:44 Kal...

05/10/2023

New song from Convocation - ”Graveless yet Dead” from the upcoming third album ”No Dawn for the Caliginous Night”

[BUY PHYSICAL] https://bit.ly/3teFumB[BUY DIGITAL] https://bit.ly/3EZMqqvRelease date: November 24th 2023 (CD/TAPE/DIGITAL - VINYL early 2024)Solemn and maje...

30/06/2022

Full album streaming at BMP!

Country: Finland | Year: 2022 | Genre: Melodic/Symphonic Black Metal Pre-orders: EU shop: https://bit.ly/PestHexEU US shop: https://bit.ly/PestHexUS Bandcamp...

25/05/2022

Second cut - the 6th song from the upcoming debut album of Pestilent Hex! Instruments, mix, artwork done at the The Desolate Dungeon.

Taken from the album "The Ashen Abhorrence", out on July 8th 2022Order from our :- EU shop : https://bit.ly/PestHexEU- US shop : https://bit.ly/PestHexUS- Ba...

14/05/2022

...Of drum recording, room, mic placement and black magick.
We were forced out of our previous rehearsal place where I´ve recorded drums for 3 albums: Desolate Shrines latest, Ordinance´s "In purge..." and Pestilent Hexs soon to be released debut. The place had its challenges but that´s how it usually is. You work what you´ve got. Now that I have found a new lair, I did quick test recordings with quick and dirty micing.

Everything sound absolutely amazing and I don´t know why. The drums heads are ancient and poorly tuned but still Toms kill!

Previously I´ve struggled a bit with overheads not picking ride as well as I would like to. I´ve tried different placements for overheads but as I use big cymbals (19"-20" crashes and chinas), they tend to block the straight line from ride to mic. It has created some annoying problems with the phase and stereo image. Now this seems to be fixed by trying to move china cymbal away from the audio signal path. It made a HUGE difference.

A new problem has occured though - Hihat vanishes from the mix and it´s a bit bizarre. Yes, there might be a cymbal blocking the way a bit here too, but in Overheads - soloed - the hihat is quite loud. But in the mix it just vanishes. I don´t know what is causing this but I will mic it when the s**t gets real anyway.

I swapped some crashes around and see what works the best. Some cymbals sounds great when playing and annoying/bad when recording. I can once again confirm this to be true. It´s great to try out different combinations before recording the final performance.

The big mysteries that remain:
- bass drums (solo mic, not the full mix) sounds great. Better than ever. I haven´t changed anything. Room should not affect this much.
- Snare is as boinky as ever soloed. I´ve never gotten that sound good. But in full mix, great.
- OH stereo defenition is really great. Pure luck or the room just works.

TL;DR: Quick and dirty micing in a new rehearsal place. Drums with ancient and dead drum heads. Evrything sounds better than ever but Hihat sounds lame and I can´t figure out why.

Maybe I will write some random thoughts here when and if I experiment some more and fix the mysterious ghost-hat.

11/05/2022

Desolate Shrine - Fires of the Dying World LP looks amazing! Artwork & Music done at The Desolate Dungeon.

28/04/2022

Pestilent Hex´s "The Ashen Abhorrence" now streaming in Youtube via Black Metal Promotions.
Production & Artwork (sans logo&frames) by yours truly.

Country: Finland | Year: 2022 | Genre: Melodic/Symphonic Black Metal Track from the upcoming debut album 'The Ashen Abhorrence'. To be released by Debemur Mo...

25/03/2022

Today Desolate Shrine´s new album is released. Recorded and mixed at "The Desolate Dungeon".

7 track album

11/02/2022

https://twitter.com/Desolatedungeon

I created a Twitter account because I´m such a SOME expert.

The latest Tweets from The Desolate Dungeon (). Audio/Visual Terror. Helsinki, Finland

05/02/2022

First preview song from the upcoming DS album. Recorded at The Desolate Dungeon.

Finnish death metal trio DESOLATE SHRINE will reemerge from the crypts with their newest offering, Fires of the Dying World. Dark Descent Records will releas...