6:00PM: Got here about an hour and a half ago and found Solace guitarists Tommy Southard and Justin Daniels playing Asteroid in the lounge of Mad Oak Studios, which, if you’d think about it, is pretty much what you’d expect. The Mad Oak crew was hard at work mixing a song called “From Below.” Of course, my opinion is going to be biased, because I’m here — like the press embedded with the military that tries to be impartial; good fucking luck — but when we sat down to listen to it, it was pretty god damn huge.

It took me about four hours solid to get here with the snow and traffic. 95 was shitty, 91 was shittier, 84 was fine, the Masspike was, well, full of people from Massachusetts, so you have to watch your ass anyway. One way or another, I was relieved when I found this place.

The current project in the control room — from whence I’m reporting live — is a track called “The Skull of the Head of a Man.” I’ve only heard the instruments so far, no vocals, but if unimonikered-singer Jason were to come on with some NYHC growls, it wouldn’t be inappropriate. Tommy has been sitting with Justin talking about the hardcore scene and how it’s changed and, frankly, how it sucks, and I’ve been trying to figure out how to make pictures go from my camera to my computer. Damn complicated technology.

If the evening so far is any indication, it’s looking like the night’s going to be filled with a lot of PBRs and a lot of guitar tracks. Fine by me. More later.

Tags: Allston, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Solace

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