Comes now the long-drawn release of Appalachian Winter’s eleventh full-length effort. Truly an undertaking this was, marked by the addition of real drums and studio upgrades. This album marks the end of the “album-a-year” era for this project, and the official beginning of eight tracks per effort, though Winterhewn is the actual first of the latter.
This is the ninth full length album. Appalachian Winter reverted to being a solo project with this effort. This release also marks the ability of Wilt Hollow Workhouse Studio (this project’s home) to use MIDI replacement. This album also marks the beginning of my attention to EQ, and how to fit mixes together sonically with methods other than presence and panning. While I’m proud of the music, the mixes sound flat to me now. I’m working hard to address that with newer efforts. It truly is a lifelong effort to become proficient with something.
This is the sixth full album and it’s the first to feature Randy Smith on Guitars and Mike O’Brien with MIDI Choirs, both full-time. This is also the album where I made the painful realization that if I quintupled my grim vocals, they would come out as an Earth-shattering howl. I’ve been doing my grims that way ever since.
Appalachian Winter 