Tornado‘s singer, Joey Severance has issued the following studio update:

Sunday 13 March 2011, Day 7
I’m sitting here on the couch listening to Peter put the finishing touches on “Noora” and while Big Maaaaan was recording the melodies earlier I had to leave the room and cry. Doro just finished putting the vocals and this song came out so fucking beautiful in honor of the person it was written for (now before you start asking, ”who is Noora” you can read about her story here http://www.myspace.com/superstarjoeyseverance/blog/536353584 and PLEASE DO NOT WRITE ASKING ME ANY QUESTIONS ABOUT IT)

Our record is totally completed (basic tracks) and Daddy B is on his way here from Helsinki so tomorrow those boys will shred and then the only thing left is the mix and mastering. We did this in 7 days. Right now, im totally drained so I’m going to end this here. As a FAN of heavy metal music, I hope that our crew will deliver a record that other fans of this music (and beyond) can appreciate and we look forward to taking our Pimp asses on the road. This concludes my updates on our recording process and THANK YOU for following our story this far!

7 days ago TORNADO (formerly NEMESIS DIVINA), the American, Dutch and Finnish metal band featuring members of AMORAL and FUELBLOODED, entered Abyss Studio in Pärlby, Sweden under the watchful eye of Swedish producer and HYPOCRISY/PAIN mainman Peter Tägtgren to record its debut album, “Amsterdamn, Hellsinki”, for release via the French label Listenable Records.

“Amsterdamn, Hellsinki” track listing:
* A Bold Statement
* Hate Worldwide
* 3 Of 8
* Massive Extinction Impact
* Blue
* Ignorance Is Thy Name
* Eugenics
* Priesthood Pedophilia
* Noora
* Diva
* Tunisia Uprising
* Rise Disciples, Rise
* No Mercy (L.A. GUNS cover)

Tornado‘s singer, Joey Severance has issued the following studio update:

Saturday 12 March 2011, Day 6

It seems that our days here are winding down. Our man Johnny Wow has gone back to Helsinki and the studio has become more quiet and more lonely. I finished off the last of the vocals (3 Songs) in one take each which makes Starvin Marvin and I the “One Take Wonder Twins”! I left the L.A. Guns cover of “No Mercy” for tomorrow so I would have something to do around here other than fucking around online cos it can get quite boring here very fast! Our girl Doro arrived from Austria and I spent most of the night going over the track with her (“Noora”) that she will do the vocals on. Peter spent most of the day re-amping the guitar sound which is just simply off the hook!! (From Peter’s mouth “Guy’s, this record is just sounding too great. I might have to fuck it up a bit so you guys can give other bands a chance to sound good too” to which I said, “Peter, you already know that your boy is a trash talking muthafukka, now you’ve gone and give me more reasons to talk shit! ) All in all we are beyond pleased, not only with the results, but also with ourselves. Tomorrow Big Maaaaaan will do his guitar melodies and harmonies and later in the night we should be joined by Daddy B so those guys can do their leads which pretty much leaves our record just about finished. This is NOT your brothers thrash! Ladies, bust out those Daisy Dukes, fellas, grab those Bullet Belts. It’s almost time to Rawk N Rooooooooooooooll! \m/

Tornado‘s singer Joey Severance has issued the following studio update:

Friday 11 March 2011, Day 5

So I’m sitting here with Big Maaaaaan and Johnny Wow and I’m explaining to them how this record and the songs are coming out MUCH better than I could ever dream of. Today I did the vocals for 8 of the 12 songs and although I feel physically DRAINED, on the inside I’m over the moon. Between Peter’s guidance, and the performance of Starvin Marvin, Big Maaaaan and Johnny Wow, I felt a lot of pressure to be as great as those guys were and our man Peter paid me the best compliment ever when he said to me “I’m not used to working with a singer like you” (when I told him to just keep the tape rolling as I plan on doing these songs in one take) and my answer to him was “we don’t fuck around” and we didn’t. The other guys seemed as excited as I was when hearing the songs with vocals and we are all extremely proud of this record that we will soon deliver to the public and the only thing left to be completed is the shredding! On a side note, during the recording of “3 of 8” I couldn’t help but to think about my people in Japan or my people in Samoa and the surrounding areas as I sang the line “shift, the ocean floor shift’s. tectonic plates, moving cities above the ground” Our thoughts are with those people in this time of earthly unrest!

Also the Staff of Metal Shock Finland unites to the words of Joey… our hearts and thoughts go out to people affected by the Earthquake and the tsunami in Japan…

Tornado‘s Joey Severance has issued the following studio update:

Thursday 10 March 2011

What can I say, another productive day here at the Abyss compound! All rhythm guitars are totally completed. There are 2 bass tracks left to finish tomorrow and then we will move on to lead vocals. We also got all the backing vocals out of the way today which sound absolutely awesome. Peter says the backing vocals remind him of Biohazard. I can tell ya that we were totally dead after all that shouting! Our man Starvin Marvin will leave us tomorrow and head back to Helsinki. On Saturday the lovely Dorota Malek will come in from Austria to do the lead vocals for the “Noora” track and then Daddy B arrives on Sunday to join Big Maaaaaaaaan in the shredding department. All in all we are AHEAD of schedule when everyone else were wondering how we were going to do this in the time we booked.

Tornado‘s Joey Severance has issued the following studio update:

Wednesday March 2011
We started out late this morning as the power in the village went down and we couldn’t start at our usual 9am roll call…… once things did get started, Big Maaaaan got in there and finished off another six songs on the guitar and Johnny Wow got in there and polished off another six on the bass. We knew that once the bass was added the songs would take on another life form but we had no idea that Peter would make it as bangin as it sounds. He calls it the “David Ellefson Rust In Peace sound…. but better” that right there should about say it all. One thing for sure is that unlike a lot of metal bands, TORNADO is very bass heavy. Tomorrow BM will finish the last 3 songs and then all rhythm guitars will be complete and we will start with the backing vocals before some of our crew head back to Helsinki. With day 3 behind us and most of the songs finished we feel fucking great because several people have asked (including Peter) “how can you make an album in 10 days?” and our answer was real simple “easy, we’re Bad Motherfuckers” and apparently it seems that we are 😉