THE 11TH HOUR Issues Album Update

THE 11TH HOUR, the doom metal collaboration between Ed Warby (drums, guitar, bass, vocals, programming; GOREFEST, DEMIURG, HAIL OF BULLETS) and Rogga Johansson (vocals, additional guitar; RIBSPREADER, PAGANIZER, DEMIURG),is continuing work on its debut album for a fall 2009 release via Napalm Records.

Commented Warby: "Almost done... but not quite. Much like the main character in the album's story I'm racing against the clock, although I'm not trying to save my soul but 'just' trying to make the best album I possibly can!

"Rogga recorded his vocals last week and they're awesome, as expected, although the man was sick as a dog when he did them. We thought it was morbidly apt that he should be suffering from respiratory problems while performing the part of a man dying from a lung disease... Anyway, his voice sounds powerful as ever and really takes the songs to a much higher level than I could imagine.

"After months of hard labor, it's great to see all the pieces of this gargantuan puzzle fall neatly into places, only a few pieces left... I'm doing guitar solos and lead themes now, lots of intricate double/triple/quadruple twin stuff which is hell to record but awesome to hear. And hopefully tomorrow I'll finally start recording my own vocals, about time!

"Ronnie has already set up a basic mix of drums, bass and rhythm guitars and it sounds real good, heavy yet clear and punchy. I have a feeling this is going to turn out quite alright."

THE 11TH HOUR last year uploaded two tracks from its promotional recording, "The Origins Of Mourning", to MySpace. Check out the songs "One Last Smoke" and "Weep For Me" at this location.

According to the band's official bio, THE 11TH HOUR is "the wretched spawn of two kindred spirits' love for good old fashioned doom metal. In 2007 Ed and Rogga met on the Global Domination forums and made plans to do a doom project together. These plans were sidetracked when Ed joined Rogga's DEMIURG instead, but the seed was planted and every once in a while a nasty doomriff would find its way to Ed's fingers during one of his nocturnal writing and recording sessions. Slowly but surely these riffs were sculpted into six slabs of unbearable heaviness, as bleak and terrifying as the night that inspired them yet suffused with sadness and melancholy beauty. If all goes as planned these six entities will surface in the shape of a full-length album before the year is through."