Structures
Structures are a Post/Rock/Metal/Ambient band from Tamworth, England. We're currently recording our second album.09 May 2012
We're proud to announce that we will be featured on an upcoming film starring Una Jo Blade and Michael Madsen, released over in the states in May. Victory (My Heart Is No Longer Mine To Give) plays at the climax of the film. You can see the trailer here.
04 April, 2012
Recording is going really well, we're arranging vocals for Hope at the moment, the second brand new song to appear on our new (as yes) untitled album. 'Hope' sees Structures in a more positive mood and is as close to an actual 3 minute song as we'll ever get. We're so close that we're starting to book the launch gig. Keep tuned to the Signal.
20 March, 2012
Structures have been booked to play The Progressive Club in Tamworth on the 13th April 2012. Symphony State also feature, a polished catchy dance/rock hybrid of complexities and fine musicians. You should check them out.
09 March, 2012
Massive thanks to Mike, Mez and Scott at Sirius Promotions for the gig, truly hard working promoters that ensured that the night sold out, there's nothing like being involved in a sweaty metal gig! Thanks to everyone who turned out on a Thursday evening to catch us. More gig news soon, we've got 3 or 4 in the pipeline and also our album launch.
20 February, 2012
You may have heard on the grapevine (we've been shouting pretty loud too), that Stuctures have been approached to appear on the closing credits to an American film debuting at Cannes this May, more news as we have it, but we're really excited about the project, licensing is agreed and signed now so it's just the wait....
05 February, 2012
Structures are playing a show on the 8th March 2012 at Scruffy murphy's supporting Falloch. 'Where distant spirits remain' is a great album, you should get it, no mistake. Ticket information can be found on our shows page. It would be great to get out of the studio..... big shout out goes to Daniel Rose. Cheers fella, you know what for.
25 January, 2012
There hasn't been an update for a few weeks, but were so close, just the bass on one song left and we're onto recording vocals. Ian wants to shoehorn in another song too, so it's back to rehearsing and writing which means we'll be delayed somewhat - but it will be worth it we hope. The theme is good, the tracks now have titles and we're all getting frustrated about it not being ready. We're all so excited though, it's the best we've ever recorded and there are some great highs in all the tunes. BRB!13 January, 2012
Session #23 last night to listen back to Байконур and Wolves before tracking some guitars. Both are sounding pretty accomplished now and we worked on Wolves all night, there's a prog section right near the end that is going to have a ridiculous solo on it and what appears to be the sound of the world ending in feedback at the end. Expected? maybe, but fuck it. Sunday will see Dickie take to the bass for the second time while he rewrites and rerecords some of his previous takes. It's hard to get a handle on the songs playing from a guide track. I seemed to struggle on one easy riff again, it's always the three note riffs! Move on, move on. Anyway, i'm listening back now, it's bliss, we sound like Structures, we've moved on, it's darker now than before, it's heavier and it sounds great.
03 January, 2012
Happy New Year people, we're back in the studio now, and after spending the entire night last night recording I have now put all the guitar tracks down for 'The Man Who Wandereth...', it's sounding fucking massive, a much different animal to what we play live that's for sure; a sprawling epic of beauty and evil all wrapped up in (probably) about 15 minutes. I can't wait to start mixing it and dropping in the samples we're choosing! What made me happiest was that I got a really decent sound from my Big Knob Black Metallic pedal which is what I use live, the last session didn't sound too good with it but a few hours tweaking and it's singing.
31 December, 2011
Our new Bandcamp page has been launched, and you now read lyrics and download tracks from our 'Signals' boxset that we launched in 2010. Soon we'll be putting up a brand new track so you can hear the quality of the recording of our new album. We've always made sure that we'd only release physical CDs, and more importantly not use iTunes; but we agree with the Bandcamp ethos, and tracks can be downloaded for 99p each, or the full album for 4.99.
21 December, 2011
Ian got down his parts for the ambience at the start of 'Man Who Wandereth....', i'm assured it's great, however, i'm in Finland crashing snowmobiles and trying to get a glimpse of the lady that is the nothern lights......
08 December, 2011
I've spent most of the evening tracking the lead parts so that when I make the journey over the Finland in the next couple of days the rest of the guys (or just Ian) can carry on recording. We pretty much got down an entire ambient piece ready, aswell as putting down the intro parts for the 'Man Who Wandereth....'. We tried using my splendid Big Knob Black Metallic pedal for the distortion parts which didn't sound too hot so we moved on and used an OCD clone; a great pedal, and it's really bought out the sound of the Fender MT HH; thick, meaty and aggressive. Exactly what we want. I also finished all of my parts for 'Байконур' which was pretty hard going. 'Байконур' is looking to wrap up at around 14 minutes which is alot longer than we expected.......especially as it's the only song we have that moves at more than a steady pace.
04 December, 2011
It's been another busy afternoon in the studio; Ian has tracked all his guitar parts for 'Байконур' (Baikonur) now and it's sounding really meaty, there really isn't anything we can do on this track now apart from listen back and see what's missing before we reamp all Dicky's bass parts again and record all of my guitar. The new amp is sounding very pure.
03 December, 2011
Guitar amp shopping, Ian has decided to buy a new amp, we tried a few but decided on an Egnator Renegade for it's pure clean tone, it's a great amp and can be really pushed hard without breaking up too early. Onwards to recording guitar parts, I might get my Grainger Head back for good now too now there isn't as much noise on the two channels on Ian's rig.
27 November, 2011
We've spent alot of today recording bass parts, Dicky has worked tirelessly to get all his parts to two tracks down and committed to tape, and apart from one more, he's pretty much done so far. The bass has been recorded straight into a DI and we're going to reamp it later through his actual amp and cab, it's just important to get it down for now, and we can really fuck about with the tone and compression to make sure that it sounds perfect on the final recording.
24 November, 2011
Jon's come back up from the operating theatre and his operation is apparently successful; pending further surgery. Good news, i'm sure he's hopping around like an idiot right now, or playing Battlefield 3. On the recording front, i've found some great samples to use on the recording from an archive of space stations and satellite recovery beacons.
20 November, 2011
Progress on this recording is going far-far easier than last time, we've sat in comfort all evening as Jon has tracked his final drum parts before his operation. Hard work for him, and frustration too as we scream 'no' down the talkback at him and force him to play parts until his arms fall to pieces. It's sounding awesome though, a few re-records from the last session due to the drums sounding dull, but other than that, it's sounding fantastic, the cymbals are really sparkling too. That's it, onto the other instruments now.
13 November, 2011
Guide tracks are now down for 'Wolves', Iain's got a copy of the guide tracks to help him write a guitar solo. Yes, a guitar solo, first time for everything, but this is the first time we're purposefully writing a solo that isn't noise, a cascading riff or accompanyment to a vocal section.
10 November, 2011
We've finally finished writing a new song, currently titled 'Wolves'; there's a new feel to the track that we've never explored before, and like the single track on 'Array' it sounds very prog, in a very modern way. It has more than one section, with repeated themes and a fusion-styled middle-eight. Currently sitting at around 16 minutes I think it's the tune we are least prepared to record, but we've hoping to write as we record and see how it evolves.
03 November, 2011
Recording has started in ernest now, we've tracked the guides for two songs now, 'Байконур' and 'The Man Who Wandereth...' (working titles), you've heard them before, they are the heaver tunes in our current set, and both are pretty dense and lengthy. We've borrowed a massive snare from one of Alan's mates too, to beef up the sound of the kit. More notes soon......