Grand Magus are fast because the Swedish heavy/doom metal band is already recording the follow-up to last year's album The Hunt. After finishing up demoing and the pre-production phase, the band entered the recording studio at the beginning of September. They must be feeling inspired to go back to the studio so soon. Are you ready for a new album?

Grand Magus once again are working with Nico Elgstrand as a producer, who already collaborated with them on the last release, as well as the engineering force of Staffan Karlsson at Studio Sweetspot in Halmstad, who has worked with Arch Enemy and mixed the most recent album of Spiritual Beggars.

Drummer Ludwig "Ludde" Witt says a few words: "The time has come! Warriors! Things have been quiet around here recently, you know us well enough to know that we haven't been sitting around idly though... We have finished writing our new album and we enter the studio! Monday the 2 of September marks the start of our new journey. The result will be something to behold. That is a promise. You want something heavy? You'll get it. This will be our strongest album to date."

The band adds: "The Magus have been busy bees with an elaborate pre-production phase, meaning that we have demoed all the tracks and it certainly pays off now. The recordings proper started off this Monday and we already have some killer basic tracks brewing. We are working simultaneously on several tracks to ensure flow and proper impact. It feels like it's going to be something extremely powerful this time... The drums are killer and with the perfect touch we've learned to expect from Ludwig, there will be a wall of ferocious guitars and grinding bass guitar that will shake the bowels. Among other things we worked today on HOLMGÅNG which has a lot of riffing going on and we think the guitar sound is the best we've ever had on a recording. Pure power!"

Source:	nuclearblast.de
Band profile:	Grand Magus