The
‘Lords’ album at this moment in time seems to have taken forever
to finalize and it would appear to have become a two horse race as to
who will pass the finishing post first, Pagan Altar with the album or
me with this bio, still what else would I possibly be doing if I wasn’t
sitting here writing this! To be fair, the usual catalogue of trials and
tribulations has again befallen the band throughout the recording of the
album and there have been numerous occasions when they seriously thought
of forgetting the whole idea and just letting it die. Firstly, they lost
the use of the Pagan Studio after all the hassle and finance to put it
back together again after years of neglect. The local Council have a number
of plans for the area and the Pagan Altar Studio is certainly not one
of them! Another studio had to be found and rigged out post haste. Terry
had to convert part of his house for the purpose and beit somewhat makeshift
for the time being at least the recording could still carry on! 
The
sound of the drums and the drums in general for that matter has been a
major insurmountable problem! The drum parts to the whole album had been
recorded five times and were nowhere near right in the bands eyes.The
trouble with this scenario is that guitar and vocal parts have all to
be rerecorded again as well to compensate for the deviations in real time.
Band members having already been hard pushed to find the time within various
personal and family commitments now had to do it again and again. It had
got to such a point that something had to be done and done quickly. Another
drummer had to found that could actually play the way Pagan Altar required.
Ex drummer Mark Elliott was brought in at the eleventh hour to try to
resurrect things before all the momentum had been lost completely and
the band made to look decidedly stupid. Terry was adamant he wasn’t
going to release the bands music if he wasn’t totally happy with
it especially as it had waited all this time to be heard! After the debacle
of trying to resurrect the earlier material and the failed attempt at
overdubbing the live stuff it would have been ludicrous to settle for
anything other than what could be termed at least a reasonable facsimile
of the original.
Mark
had previous knowledge of most of the material from his time with the
band but that was over twenty years earlier. His wife has been suffering
from a long-term illness, which meant his time for rehearsing was quite
limited and was the reason he had declined the initial offer to play on
the album! Even so within a very short period he had put the songs together
enough to record. It actually only took him one and a half days to record
the whole album The result of this necessary change of drummers to finally
get the album finished did have some minor repercussions however, in as
much as some rather nasty innuendos were left on various site forums under
an assumed name but everyone including the thread organiser knew whom
the author really was! , what a waste of the previous year and a half!!!!
