Abyss Studio

Coordinates: 60 ° 16 '54 "  N , 15 ° 0' 49.2"  O The Abyss Studio is a Swedish music studio . It is located in the village of Pärlby with approx. 125 inhabitants, in the municipality of Ludvika , around 200 km northwest of Stockholm . The studio specializes in all production steps in a music production, so both the recordings and the mixing and mastering are carried out. It is run by Peter Tägegren . The main clientele consists of metal bands.

history

Abyss Studio was founded in Stockholm in 1994. A year later, Peter Tägegren moved to the site of an abandoned psychiatric clinic in Pärlby. The institute was founded after the First World War for mentally disturbed elderly people. It forms the village center of Pärlby. There are several smaller houses around the building in which the former employees and carers lived.

At the end of the 1980s, the institution was closed by the government and converted into a refugee / asylum seeker home. After only three years of use, the home was abandoned and the houses with the apartments they built were sold and rented out. Tägegren and his wife at the time rented one of the apartments and one of the houses that housed the music studio. For a long time the property was considered cursed. Several books have been written about the institution and even former employees reported ghost visions. In the following years, too, some bands and musicians, including Dimmu Borgir and Marduk , reported on haunted stories. The former dark funeral singer, Masse "Emperor Magus Caligula" Broberg, even refused to sleep in the building.

Until the end of the 90s, the studio was constantly expanding. In the late 1990s, the associated rise in rental costs prompted Tägtgren to take out a loan and buy the house in which the studio was located. The remaining houses were owned by a condominium agency based in Stockholm, for whom the houses were just a nuisance because they could not be sold. Because of this, Tägegren received a good offer to buy the house, which he accepted. Nowadays, a large part of the houses is rented out again by Tägtgren.

At the end of 2001, Tägegren planned to close the Abyss Studio, as he was disappointed and angry that he was being "abused" by parts of the metal scene as a "landmark" for selling albums. In an interview with the webzine Bravewords.com , he said:

“I'm closing down Abyss Studios because of me. [...] I am not a fucking trademark, I am not a selling point. Fuck everything. I don't want to be a part of that shit, no matter how much money I make or how much money I get for having my name on a CD for doing this and that. Fuck that; that's not what I'm about and I've never been about that. I've just been very fortunate to have all these bands coming into my studio, and fortunate enough to have these bands sell a lot of records, but now I'm doing Hypocrisy and Pain 100%. I'm not going to produce anymore because it's fucking shit. It's just a fucking industry and I don't want to be a part of it. It feels like a soap opera. "

“I have decided to close the Abyss Studio. [...] I'm not a damned trademark and not a sales pitch either. Fuck everything. I don't want to be part of all this crap no matter how much money I make or how much money I get to have my name on a CD or to do this and that. Fuck it, it's not me and I never wanted to be. I'm just lucky that all of these bands come to my studio and then also sell a lot of CDs. I will now focus 100% on Hypocrisy and Pain . I won't produce anymore because it sucks. It's just a fucking industry and I don't want to be part of it. It feels like a soap opera . "

- Peter Tägegren

In the year 2002 Tägegren actually only produced one Hypocrisy album and only gradually began to produce again for other bands in 2003. Unlike before, he no longer wants to be booked regularly and doesn't want to work for all bands, but “only for bands that [he] knows very well and whose songs [he] thinks so good that [he] absolutely does produce wool ”.

Nowadays the core of the Abyss Studio is the 150 m² recording studio in the former institution.

Well-known customers and plants

Many greats from the Swedish and international metal scene have already recorded albums at Abyss Studios. The following table shows a selection of the most important albums recorded at Abyss Studios.

Release year	tape	album	process
1995	Naglfar	Vittra	Recordings
1996	Amon Amarth	Sorrow Throughout the Nine Worlds	Recordings
1996	Dark funeral	The Secrets of the Black Arts	Recording and mixing
1996	Hypocrisy	Abducted	Recording and mixing
1997	Dimmu Borgir	Enthrone Darkness Triumphant	Recording and mixing
1997	Hypocrisy	The Final Chapter	Recording and mixing
1998	Amon Amarth	Once Sent from the Golden Hall	Mixing and mastering
1998	Dark funeral	Vobiscum Satanas	Recording and mixing
1998	Gorgoroth	Destroyer - Or About How to Philosophize with the Hammer	Mixing
1998	Dimmu Borgir	Godless Savage Garden	Recording and mixing
1998	Vondur	The Galactic Rock'n'Roll Empire	Mixing
1999	Pain	Rebirth	Recording and mixing
1999	Immortal	At the Heart of Winter	Recordings
1999	Dimmu Borgir	Spiritual Black Dimensions	Recording and mixing
1999	Hypocrisy	Hypocrisy	Recording and mixing
1999	Amon Amarth	The Avenger	Mixing and mastering
2000	Dark funeral	Teach Children to Worship Satan	Recording and mixing
2000	Immortal	Dammned in Black	Recordings
2000	Hypocrisy	Into the Abyss	Recording and mixing
2000	Enslaved	Mardraum: Beyond the Within	Recording and mixing
2000	Children of Bodom	Follow the Reaper	Recording and mixing
2001	Amon Amarth	The Crusher	Recordings (except for Eyes of Horror )
2001	Marduk	La grande Danse macabre	Recordings
2001	Dark funeral	Diabolis interium	Recording and mixing
2002	Pain	Nothing Remains the Same	Recording and mixing
2002	Hypocrisy	Catch 22	Recording and mixing
2003	Marduk	World Funeral	Recording and mixing
2003	Astral Doors	Of the Son and the Father	Mixing
2004	Hypocrisy	The Arrival	Recording and mixing
2004	wolf	Evil Star	Recordings
2004	Grave	Fiendish regression	Recording and mixing
2005	Astral Doors	Evil Is Forever	Recording and mixing
2005	Pain	Dancing with the Dead	Recording and mixing
2005	Hypocrisy	virus	Recordings
2005	Astral Doors	Raiders of the Ark	Mixing and mastering
2005	Dimmu Borgir	Stormblåst 2005	Recording and mixing
2006	Astral Doors	Astralism	Mixing
2006	Grave	As rapture comes	Vocal recordings and mixing
2007	Pain	Psalms of Extinction	Recording and mixing
2007	Candlemass	King of the Gray Islands	Mixing
2007	Astral Doors	New Revelation	Mixing
2008	Pain	Cynic Paradise	Recordings, programming, mixing
2008	Devian	God to the Illfated	Recording and mixing
2009	Scar Symmetry	Dark Matter Dimensions	Recordings
2009	Immortal	All Shall Fall	Recordings
2009	Hypocrisy	A Taste of Extreme Divinity	Recording and mixing
2009	Dark funeral	Angelus exuro per eternus	Recording and mixing
2010	Sabaton	Coat of Arms
2010	October tide	A thin shell	Recording and mixing
2011	Legion of the Damned	Descent into chaos	Recordings
2011	Belphegor	Blood Magick Necromance	Recording and mixing
2011	Scar Symmetry	The Unseen Empire	Recordings
2011	Pain	You Only Live Twice	Recording and mixing
2012	Sabaton	Carolus Rex
2013	Hypocrisy	End of Disclosure	Recording and mixing
2013	Amorphis	Circle	Recording and mixing
2014	Sabaton	Heroes	Recording and mixing
2015	Lindemann	Skills in pills	Recording and mixing
2016	Pain	Coming home	Recording and mixing

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g} Kevin Stewart-Panko: Meet the mayor of Parlby: Peter Tagtgren , ultimatemetal.com, accessed July 3, 2011.
2. ↑ ^{a b c} Abyss Studio , omdb.info, accessed July 3, 2011.
3. ↑ Carl Begai: ABYSS STUDIOS - To close its doors ... , bravewords.com, accessed on July 3, 2011 (English).
4. ↑ Fafnir: PAIN (PETER TÄGTGREN) , musik.terrorverlag.de, accessed on July 3, 2011.