"In 2005 MAITREYA recorded the debut album New World Prophecy in the bands own studio/rehearsalplace RECLAB. A record combining elements of thought, aggression and strength presenting a future vision of the world."THE MAITREYA BIOGRAPHY - We never decided from what time Maitreya was formed. It just happened... (Linus Melchiorsen)BackgroundIt all originates from the metal music scene in Linkoping Sweden, when Martin Fogander and Nils Holmqvist met up at Linus Melchiorsens home to discuss the buildup of a studio. The three guys had previously been members in the same powermetal band called Powerdise a couple of years prior to this, and were all keen on doing this project together. There were no plans at this early stage to start and produce songs together at all. Linus was already a vocalist in a stoner band called Demental at this point, and he saw the opportunity to start a studio to be great, not just to learn more about the technical aspects of it, but also as a great place for his band to benefit from.
The studio project started up in early 2004 and soon, due to various problems, Demental decided to split up.
-When Demental layed down to rest I never even considered to stop writing songs. For me it is simply a call that I can not live without... (Linus Melchiorsen)Reclab:The studio project started for real as soon as Johan (Goomba) Nilsson, an educated sound engineer joined in. It developed to a better equipped studio, and Goombas knowhow about sound was something that both Martin, Linus and Nils were very interested and excited about. The co-operation with Goomba was something they all felt was productive and showed results they never could imagine, both in the perspetive of sound and the production of songs. The studio was named Reclab and some test recorings were made. Nils unfortunately decided to leave the companionship with Reclab because of a move to another city. The test recordings carried on and started to sound more aggressive. Linus tried for the first time in his life to sing growl vocals, and added that to the recordings.
Linus had written some material back in the Demental days, that was much harder than the stoner act could use, and now he saw the perfect oppurtunity to record these songs with Goomba and Martin. Though nothing of this material came to be released on the New world prophecy album (except a different version of Leave this place), Martin and Linus felt that this sound was something they simply had to continue to develop.
New world prophecyMartin and Linus started the same year, 2004 to write and compose the complete New world prophecy album and due to an equipment upgrade in Reclab, the recording process started ten months later to early summer 2005. Martin, Linus and Goomba were completely alone in the recording process except for a hired musician; Stefan Isebring (fomely in Spiritual beggars) to add some odd instruments like psalmodicon, citter, hurdy gurdy etc. All guitars, keys and clean vocals were preformed by Martin, and all drums, bass and growls were done by Linus. The complete production was recorded, engineered and mixed by Goomba.
-We never saw Maitreya as a simple studio project. Though we were mere two members, we have always seen this to become a complete band... (Martin FoganderIn search for membersPreviously, before the recoring of the debut album New World Prophecy a few auditions with drummers and guitarists had been made, but it never resulted in any new member of the duo. Linus and Martin tried a longshot and mailed a drummer they've seen on the internet, who played in a band called Terminal Function. It showed out that this band actually existed far away from Linkoping and because of lack of time, he had to decline to Maitreyas offer. Soon the guitarist in this band (Mikael Almgren) contacted Maitreya and informed Martin and Linus that he was in search for a band to play in. Maitreya suited him fine because he had recently moved down to the region. He also informe
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