National Nightmare

Miss Simone - Missing in action 

In August, Haxx’s lead vocals were ready. He's backing vocals were ready. Hanna was in school. 
The band was not in a hurry; covid had postponed all plans to the unforeseeable future.  

While Hanna…

Haxx started singing lead vocals on his birthday, June 7th, 2020.  
"After 32 years of doing this one would think that it gets easier... It's hard to engineer yourself, operate the recording software and computer, touch up preamp, compressor and…

Band decided early on not to opt for a second guitar player. Instead, percussion player Mr.Voodoo joined the band after playing a couple of shows together with National Nightmare. 

For this album, Mr.Voodoo arranged percussion parts to every song and…

Breaking Back 

Jimi tried to start from the beginning, but he developed a painful nerve pinch between the 5th and 6th vertebra. He was out of action the whole of May and the better part of July. 

The sessions continued…

Bass odyssey 
Spring 2020 was awful. Everybody was tired and nervous. The world was ending, people were hoarding toilet paper, tuna, and noodles. WTF? 

Anyways, overdubs for stringed instruments started (fourth time recording these songs) in Hawaji studio, and…

2020, screw you! 

Full band training was not easy to schedule in normal times, but now Finland was riding the first spike of covid pandemic, making everything difficult, stressful, and also dangerous. The band soldiered on, and in three months'…

Preproduction 

First contact emails were exchanged with Hiili as early as September 2019. Mela had called him in advance, and Hiili was already familiar with the band and its first album, Sangre Salvaje. A set of raw studio demos were…

On October 16th, 2019, acclaimed rock-'n'-roll producer Hiili Hiilesmaa will be meeting National Nightmare on E12  motorway service station, halfway between Hämeenlinna and Helsinki. 

In the past few weeks, Hiili has been listening to the band's new demos for  its…