Abyss Studios is niet meer
Op het ZM-forum kwam Valorian666 met een interessant bericht over de Abyss Studios.
Oprichter Peter Tägtgren schijnt op te houden met produceren en zich volledig te
gaan richten op zijn bands hypocrisy en Pain.
Zie hier het stuk van WhiteTrashDevil:
According to Brave Words And Bloody Knuckles, Peter Tägtgren appears to be closing famed Abyss Studios due to dissatisfaction of becoming a marketing tool for labels.
“I’m closing down Abyss Studios because of me,” Tägtgren revealed to Brave Words And Bloody Knuckles reporter Carl Begai. “I am not a fucking trademark, I am not a selling point. Fuck everything. I don’t want to be a part of that shit, no matter how much money I make or how much money I get for having my name on a CD for doing this and that. Fuck that; that’s not what I’m about and I’ve never been about that. I’ve just been very fortunate to have all these bands coming into my studio, and fortunate enough to have these bands sell a lot of records, but now I’m doing Hypocrisy and Pain 100%. I’m not going to produce anymore because it’s fucking shit. It’s just a fucking industry and I don’t want to be a part of it. It feels like a soap opera.”
“When I produced the first Dimmu Borgir album I didn’t know they were going to be that big. No one knew they were going to explode like that,” continued Tägtgren. “They chose my studio and we worked together, so why do I get the credit for that? It was the band; they wrote the songs. I didn’t go in like a real producer and say, ‘Oh, play this riff, change this…’ They played the songs that they had and I made sure that they had a good sound and that everybody was playing their best. When Dimmu exploded, I was like, ‘What?!’ I remember their label boss calling me up and thanking me for the killer production, and it bothered me a little. I was just doing my job.”
“The bottom line is, when I can’t hold up and give 100% anymore, then I know it’s time to step aside.”
It appears once Abyss is closed, Peter will focus on Hypocrisy and Pain. Tägtgren, however, failed to mention if brother Tommy Tägtgren will continue to produce or will leave the industry completely. His first goal appears to tour as much as possible, which means Hypocrisy coming over to North America for the first time since their debut Milwaukee Metalfest appearance a few years back.
“We’re going to tour our asses off, and I wouldn’t be surprised if we end up in Canada twice next year,” Tägtgren says. “We’re going to do two European tours, two American tours, we’re going to Japan and Australia. We’re going to show people that we fucking mean business; this is serious shit now. Even if you don’t like Hypocrisy, you won’t be able to avoid us, and maybe you’ll like us after you hear us a couple more times. And if not, no problem, it’s no big deal.”
Het bekende Peter Tägtgren sausje zal je dus (voorlopig) niet meer horen. 😉