SIDE A:
The first side is the home-recorded demo we made as Morthona a year after we recorded the Snuffleupagus River Thy Eyes demo. We recorded it at Bryan Booher’s (bass) house one weekend. Big Steve (guitar/vocals) was out of town camping or something with his whoa-man at the time, so all the guitars and vocals are Neil. We recorded it on an electronic drum kit (Roland TD-5) I had back then – this was way before Roland V-Drums came along, so there were no dynamics to any of the drum sounds so everything came out full volume even if you just barely tapped one of the pads. The sensitivity wasn’t very good either, so sometimes there might be an extra hit that was triggered by something else, or maybe a hit might not get triggered ’cause of interference with another hit… so there are plenty of random and missing hits throughout the songs (AWESOME!) Just for the record: electronic drums suck for recording death metal. By the end of that summer, we had gone back to Sheffield Studios to record the full Morthona demo which included these three songs. Steve was there for that one!
SIDE B:
The next summer, I stayed in Boston so Snuff/Morthona was pretty much done. One of my friends at Berklee, Joe, was taking classes over the summer and he asked if I’d play for his recital… which I gladly did. I think our friend, Eric MacPherson, played bass if i remember it correctly. Crappy recording – maybe one or two room mics. Two or three prog-rock songs… Vinnie Moore song (the loner) maybe? Joe went on to get his master’s in business I think and has worked for a pretty big record label in Florida for a number of years now.
Submitted by:
Chris Janus
