Day one of the record­ing ses­sions for the new Flaming Tusk album went incred­i­bly well.

Tom “The Squirrel” Beaujour, engi­neer, twist­ing up the bru­tal­ity knobs.

Xristophage adjusts to the drumkit.

Don Blood defeats the “keep play­ing while we tweak the sound just right” endurance challenge

And at the end of the day, there’s some metal in the computer.