New Single

After a year, we are finally ready to put our new single out there!

Everything has been mixed and mastered and we even took the time to create a little "extended version", using a reading passage from the short history "Nyarlathotep", from H.P. Loveraft, an inspiration for the song.

The Voice

The voice was kind of hard to put into the recording because there was no affordable facilities to do the whole process. Those that were available were either expensive or lacking hardware to achieve the desired result.

I ended up doing an amateur recording with some pro hardware, but focused mainly to record podcasts. The room was kind of small so no great reverberations or reflections from the near walls. The main problem was to get right all the song in one go. Sometimes the tempo was not there, sometimes the emphasis fell in the wrong word, etc.

All in all, the whole recording took about 6 months, from June 23th 2025, to November 09th 2025. Around 40 takes were done, using different approaches or just redone takes. When some of the pieces were ready, the sync for the backing vocals was done. This, again, proved harder than thought cause the natural recorded vocals would have to have the same cadence and speed. Some takes had half the song great, some the later half, some just a verse. After a lot of checking, 6 takes went into the final mix.

Layered and with some FX applied, all was ready for the mastering in December 2025. The last version was sent to the rest of the band in November 15th 2025. After that, some minor corrections were done to the master and I started working on the Extended Version.

The Extended Version

I originally envisioned this in a lot of different ways: instrumental, acoustic guitars, etc.

I always had in my head the idea to continue or extend the synth sound of the start and create something textured that could mirror that feeling of eerie ambience. I did the keyboard and decide that was using a kind of delayed sound that transposed the key sounds some milliseconds after the real sound should have been. Weirdly enough, it sounded amazingly unsettling in the mix, so it got into the final stage. 

Now, the thing was to fill up all the empty space in the atmospheric sound. I had envisioned also something related to invocations and cult-like sounds: a church or some people in a ritual would do it.

I couldn't come up with the precise sound I was after and ended digging up some old recordings that I had from Native tribes from Asia, Africa and Latin America. I got trapped in the sound of some Mapuche Ceremonies. The kultruns created a great rhythmic but not 100% aligned drum sound. The Mapuche priest did some chants that were monotone enough and repetitive to sound as a ritual, I liked it a lot, but I remembered that maybe that was copyrighted, and that someone could accuse me of "cultural appropriation" too, but I am Chilean!

Well, whatever. I released a test for my band mates but they never said anything about it.

I felt that it sounded unpolished and maybe a little rushed up. It was then that I decided to start a dig up of old/not so old plugins that I had for some software that I could use for the drums. I found something but that triggered my "Digital Diogenes" syndrome and I started to update and re-check all my plugins.

A Month Later

I finally did a mix of two different type of drums and I edited the mix of the intro. The sound was better and tighter than before keeping the final result clean and sharp, but something still was not there.

I needed a little thing that could add a weird and clever turn to the whole long intro. I remembered I had a recording of a friend reading some short Lovecraft recordings. I searched all my drives until I found one that was precisely the last part of "Nyarlathotep", the short Lovecraft's story. I tested it with no FX and it sat perfectly in between. I adjusted the EQ and added some reverbs, cut some pieces and done.

The ominous start for the intro was completed.

So, a song that had traveled about 25 years to make it into a proper recording, was finally done.

Playlist

Altar of Extermination 5:14

Altar of Extermination - Extended Version 7:05

Altar of Extermination - Live at Óxido Bar 2002/08 4:35

Altar of Extermination - Live at Thrashing Mad Fest 2003/04 5:31

Expected in the major digital distribution platforms by February 13th 2026.