DEVIL SOLD HIS SOUL sign to CENTURY MEDIA RECORDS

DEVIL SOLD HIS SOUL sign to Century Media worldwide
- One off London headline show December 10th
- Album due early 2010

"UK 6 piece DEVIL SOLD HIS SOUL can now announce they have signed a worldwide deal with the amazing Century Media record label (Lacuna Coil, God Forbid, Suicide Silence, Architects, Arch Enemy), and will see their first album released in all territories early 2010. The record is now being completed by the band, and there will be more news on the album, track listings, special guests soon.

DSHS will be touring across Europe in November and playing a special one off show in London on December the 10th, at the Upstairs of the Relentless Garage, as a way of both celebrating the completion of their album, but also the Century Media deal. Look out for more UK and European support tours throughout the start of 2010, as well as a headline tour March/April 2010."

We are extremely happy to announce our signing to CENTURY MEDIA. We hope this is going to be the start of something truly special and are really looking forward to working with the awesome people at Century and can't wait to see where it takes us. We have to thank everyone who has showed us support over the last few years - be it coming to a show, buying a CD or showing love in general - for helping us get to this point. And most of all to our close friends and family for putting up with us and helping us out (a lot!) along the way. Thank you all - this is only just the beginning...

So, with all the soppy stuff out of the way, you might ask whats next? Well, basically we're wrapping up this new album and can't wait to get it out for you all to hear - we'll have news of titles and artwork in the coming weeks, so keep posted. In the meantime we've got a few shows as well as a very intimate London show to celebrate this amazing news.

December 10th will be a party and you're all invited (well the first to get tickets are at least) so come down and help us celebrate and be the first to hear some of our new tracks from our forthcoming album as well as some old tracks too - its gonna be sick (see below for the awesome line-up!).


DEVIL SOLD HIS SOUL live dates:
06.11.2009 (UK) Cardiff – Clwb Ifor Bach w/ SBF + more
11.11.2009 (B) Mechelen - JC Metteko
12.11.2009 (NL) Enschede - Atak *
13.11.2009 (NL) Haarlem - Patronaat *
14.11.2009 (D) Cologne - Underground *
15.11.2009 (NL) Tilburg - O13 *
10.12.2009 (UK) London - Upstairs at Relentless Garage w/ Latitudes, Shapes, March Of The Raptors
* w/ London Burning II


Thank you so much for all your support - See you at a show!

Shoot for the stars baby

Paul, Jonny, Ed, Leks, Iain and Rick
DEVIL SOLD HIS SOUL

Vocals. Are. Done.

Yesssssss, finished putting down the last of my vocals today! Really happy, really glad to have got the last of it done! Time to relax and have a few beers!!

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The end of the tunnel!

After a long process of ball busting we're coming towards the end of the recording process, A small amount of vocals are left to finish and a few bits and pieces to finish up! We should be done very soon! I'll post an update when all is done and dusted. Already really happy with how everything is sounding, we literally cannot wait for everyone to hear this!

Ed
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New Update

Here is the most recent and probably final video update from the recording process, and to make this a little bit more special I included a clip of one of the songs for you all to hear! peace out!

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Cashback!

another day in the studio, more screams, another song down! Jurassic Park! Haven't been this happy with recording screams for a long time, maybe even ever! Kiss my face.

:D

Today I moved onto screams, the vast majority of singing has been dealt with and it's time to move onto the badass. YEAAAAAHHHHHHH BOOOIIII. Today I got a little bit of singing done, and put the screams on the first track, which means that 1 track is finished vocally, and it feels good! Now I'm back at home kicking it on the sofa watching tele, later I'm going to make a chicken lasagna and it is going to taste incredible. Screams for track 2 tomorrow.

Things get a little Tense!

And so summer turns to autumn...

So, as you may have noticed, things got a bit quiet here during august. Some of us have been away with family and friends and now we're back with fresh ears and plenty of energy to finish the album. Having a break has been awesome, but it hasnt been all play and no work, we did manage to get a couple of shows in which were all awesome - so thanks to everyone who came to GUILFEST, NOISEFEST and OFFSET FESTIVAL this summer to catch us. All the shows were incredible and muchos fun was had.

And so back to business. This week I will be heading back to the studio to finish off guitars with Jonny. Ed will be finishing off vocals too and then we'll be sprinkling the samples and funny noises on top. We really cant wait for you all to hear this stuff, but we will be putting up some more vids before we're done here in the studio.

If anyone has any photos/vids form any of the shows over the summer, we'd love to see them. Send them over to: devilsoldhissoul@yahoo.co.uk

be good and if you can't be good, be bad baby!
Rick x

Break

Sorry for the lack of updating this month, we've actually be out of the studio this month on holidays and our good friends Rinoa have been in to do their album (which will be no less that incredible). We will be finishing off the work throughout september!

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Kowabunga Duuuddeeezzzzz

Sorry about the lack of video updates recently, but I got off my ass and trudged through the footage!



NirvanaMoshForever

Ed
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End of Term

Hi campers, sorry for the lack of updates this week, its been a busy one! But the good news is that all the bass and main guitars are DONE :)

tuesday/wednesday was mostly laying down some lovely clean guitars with ed's gordon smith and a bit of ehx holy grail, proper job, before richard departed on wednesday night. Since then jonny's been going nuts adding some overdubs in the dark on his tod, ed's been popping in for aftenoon tea and to sing a bit here and there and i've been finshing off the bass. wrapped up today with 'piano' (working title, no prizes for guessing why we called it that, given our taste for stating the obvious. other tracks include 'obamageddon'. serial.) and 'baroque', which is currently the album closer and an absolute beast (although our definition of baroque might differ somewhat from the orthodox)

so we've built up the bones, organs, nervous system and muscles of our brand new baby and we're just waiting for the skin, some freckles and a bit of belly fuzz. simples.

we're now having a short break while jonny starts tracking some tunes for our best buddies rinoa (no rest for the wikkid) and reconvening throughout august to finish this motherbitch off!

hope you're all doing well, don't forget about us!

Iain et al.

Tone - the holy grail

OK, so we know that videos have been a bit sparse over the past week - we are working on it and should have some new footage to put up soon. Guitars are coming along swimmingly now. We had a few issues at the start but we cracked it and are ploughing through the tracks. We have started spreading the bass around a bit and its all sounding lush.

Our days begin with a bit of Friends with brekkie and ends with more Friends, food and whatever dire movie happens to be on freeview. The Wii has made a comeback too, with me kicking Eds ass at Wii golf - what a dooshbag! We seem to be in a freakish area of absolutely no O2 mobile reception here, so contact with the outside world is difficult - luckily wifi is saving the day.

We had some good friends come over on saturday to do some vocal stuff for one of the tracks. I am sure there will be more on this and a bit of footage in the next vid. But thanks to the Rinoa gents and Leo from Tetters for their expert vocal talents.

So another few days left for me until I head back to London and quite a bit still to do so a busy 2 days ahead, but also a few more wicked sic meals cooked by Eds mum - ftw!



Rick

bring the noise

Yesterday was our day off from the studio, which we spent at noisefest in reading. It was really cool to hangout with so many friends and see people we haven't seen for ages. After our short lived break which has actually made us more tired than we would have been, we're back into the studio today but at a slightly later time so we can have a bit of a sleep after getting in late. Which stupidly, I'm not taking advantage of.

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aaaaIIiiiAAAuuuiiiIIIIaaauUUAaa

Today Iain got up nice and early and got himself over the studio, he trotted his way through some bass! So far everything is sounding huge, everyone says that though like they'd say otherwise. So far the record is sounding really weak, flat and boring, half as heavy as before and and 5 times lamer.

While Iain was doing this I was in the car driving home from guildford, my girlfriend bought me some white chocolate mice, which I love, but I can't eat them until vocals are done, they will be a celebratory snack / overeat. Got to put down some more vocals today which I was really happy with, and now I am watching big trouble in little china. bosh.

Ed
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also fyi, I have been informed that hope is a rip off of a 65 days of static song, we are both british and both played guilfest last year, so we MUST have ripped it off....

and so it continues...

second day of 'tracking' bass today, first three tunes down now! not too much to report, just heads down, consummate professionalism, as you have grown to expect from us...

spent a good while trying to get our heads around a samba rhythm that some bastard had decided to write into one of the tracks. song is utter mayhem but all the better for it. finished off the day with some tasty riffs. fairly into our stride now so hopefully tomorrow will be a productive one, once jonny is back from picking up a tele we're borrowing (think lamb of god meets the la's. not that any of the new songs sound anything like that, but just IMAGINE. carnage.)

had the pleasure of keeping richard amused for the night as edward is off in guilford. evening very well spent playing a Peruvian dice based bluffing game and watching charlie brooker be angry on telly.

¡hasta mañana!

The takeover...

I feel at this point i should probably start writing some stuff seeing as I am just about entering the proceedings stage left...

as has already been mentioned, my part of today was fumbling around in search of the holy grail. after several hours of gain tweaks, clever parallel signal routing, phase adjustments, mic placement, saddle raising to accommodate overzealous playing and about a million test recordings, we cracked it. high mids with character and a warm rounded bottom.

got half a song done too!

lessons learned for tomorrow: bring packed lunch to avoid improvised smelly sandwiches. leave shoes on. set cowbell to 'kill'.

Iain.

a bit of everything!

well instead of getting one thing done, then moving to the next and so on, we're doing a bit of everything as we go! Today we sorted the bass sound and then recorded some, we also did some vocals too! Good times! Iain leaves his wallet everywhere, proving easy to steal. take note. He also likes pepperoni on his sandwich!

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Games?

I have never seen such a non game as this!

mybrute

Yet I can't stop playing!

Today we got on with more guitars while taking breaks to send our tour manager voice notes about willies and how he has no balls!

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Onwards!

Well we get in today, turns out that we did not like the guitar sound in the morning. We worked on it further and ended up reverting to an older setting and placement. Ohh well, finally we're getting on with it and getting on nicely!

Ed

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Drums Finished

Well today we officially finished recording drums, before we said goodbye to Leks as he went off to prepare for a friends wedding we got up to some fun that Slipknot would be proud of! Check it out!



After that we started setting up guitars and working on a guitar sound to start putting them down tomorrow. Lets just hope when we get in tomorrow morning we still like what we hear!!

peace

Ed

Drums!

So a week has passed and the drums are now finished! The usual barrage of farts, pub-metal vocal relief and studio cabin fever was endured but ended up worth the while. We even got to see the Williams F1 car testing at a nearby airfield on our break!!!

Check the video for some of the action from last week!

More pictures and videos soon!

Jonny

ALBUM 2 Studio Blog!

Hello and Welcome! This here blog has been hijacked, and will now be giving you some massive cool updates on how and what we are doing in the studio. Yesterday we went into a practice room to do one last run through the songs before we start putting down the drums on monday (6th July). To kick this off we made a short video of what we got up to yesterday!



Peace Out!

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KKKKKerrazy!!!!!!

So would you believe it, but we got another 5K live review in Kerrang! this week. What makes it all the more awesome for us is that we had an amazing time at Slam Dunk and played to an awesome crowd and to get this review as well just puts the icing on the cake!!

Thanks Slam Dunk for an awesome show - hope you'll have us back next year!

-Rick

(oh, and go out and buy the new TGOAT album - it rocks!)

Slam Dunk Da Funk!

We're on our way to Leeds for this years Slam Dunk Festival.

The event is SOLD OUT, so if you havent got a ticket, sorry, but you aint getting in.

We're onstage at about 8:20pm - should be a goodun!

See you there!

DSHS

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KKKKKool!

So today, whilst in Tescos getting food supplies for another demo recording session, we pick up this weeks Kerrang and to our surprise there is a sweet review. 5K's for our recent Brighton show, at the Freebutt with Shaped By Fate and Brides. So yeah, that put us in a good mood XD And to top it off, the demos are sounding sweeeeeet!

Now we're getting geared up for Slam Dunk on sunday, which should be rad!

anyone coming?

the devils

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new songs, demos and a bit of eurovision...

so, we've been real busy putting down demos of our new tracks at Bandit Studios. Got a couple more weeks to go before we're done. Back to it on tuesday, after we've recovered from eurovision!

Off to Leeds next weekend, 24th May, for Slam Dunk Festival - which is sold out - so to those already coming - see you there!

Then should be recording these tracks for real in the next couple of months. Can't wait for you to hear them.

-Rick