Portrait have flown in all the way from Columbia to work on their new EP at The Parlour Recording Studio. Legendary drummer, Nick Barker, has been called in for drumming duties. The EP will be out next year.

Shrewsbury based band, The Poet Dogs, have returned to The Parlour Recording Studio to continue working on their debut album. Working with Neil, the band have now finished 7 songs for the forthcomming album. The band have recieved some serious interest lately with a support gig planned with Athelete.

Napalm Death are currently in the recording studio working on their lastest ablum. Check back here for more details soon.

Napalm Death – Update

We are currently in the final stages of completing the new Napalm Death album for Century Media Records – 17 tracks of pure rage which will be hitting the shops in the early part of next year. Shane Embury is now a regular client here at the Parlour with many of his other projects too – he told us – “I love it here, I should just move in permanently and pay rent”. Its a pleasure once again to work on another great album with these guys and they are always welcome here – RR

We have teamed up with the BBC Weekender to record live tracks to be broadcast over the comming months. Sympathy State were the first band to take part recording two of their own tracks plus a cover of “Gold Lion” by The Yeah Yeah Yeah’s. If you would like to take part please contact the BBC Weekender at www.bbc.co.uk/weekender

Having installed our 5.1 Surround Sound system at the studio the first customer in the hot seat is Dimmu Borgir – Russ is currently mixing their new live DVD recorded late last year on the Invaluable Darkness Tour, which is sounding utterly mindblowing, definitely one to look out for later this year on Nuclear Blast Records.

This month saw the return of Absolute Power to the recording studio with Shane Embury, Simon Efemey and Russ putting together what has to be THE classic metal album in the spirit of Black Sabbath, Judas Priest, Dio and all the legends of that era. The recording is almost complete now with the addition of some fantastic backing vocals from Ripper Owens of Judas Priest, Iced Earth and Beyond Fear. A new instrumental track has also been added and the album is due to be completed as soon as we can all find the time in our hectic lives.

This month we had the pleasure of welcoming The Rotted (previously know as Gorerotted) to the Recording Studio. With co-producer James Dunkley sharing the workload the new album sees a change in direction for the band introducing more varied elements into their punishing brutal noise. The album “Get Dead or Die Trying” will be released through Metal Blade Records in the next few months.

We are pleased to announce the opening of our three new rehearsal rooms. All the rooms are acoustically designed and come with a drum kit and 600 watt PA system. For more information about the rehearsal studios please visit www.parlour-rehearsals.co.uk