EXCLUSIVE IN-STUDIO REPORT FROM SIGH’S MIRAI KAWASHIMA, PART II: DR. MIKANNIBAL’S RULES FOR RECORDING VOCALS – GET NAKED, DRINK BLOOD, DON’T MASTURBATE
Tuesday, February 3rd, 2009 at 1:00pm by Mirai Kawashima
When Sigh mainman Mirai Kawashima offered to do a series of blogs from the studio where the band is recording their new album, Scenes from Hell, it was an opportunity too cool for us to pass up. Below find Mirai’s second entry; you can find his first one here. More will follow in coming days and weeks. Enjoy!
At the moment, we are recording the vocal parts. This time, a half of them are taken care of Dr. Mikannibal.
To get the best result, she sets several strict strange rules on her during the recording.
The first rule is: Get naked when you record the vocals.
As you can see in the above photo, she always takes off her clothes in the studio during the vocal recording sessions. Definitely this perplexes the recording engineer and other band members, but she claims that this is extremely important to her.
“It was one hot day that I took my clothes off during the recording session for the first time. I’ve stopped doing vocal recordings with my clothes on since then, as the first naked recording worked out really well for me.”
She claims that being naked is extremely important to her because “I don’t wanna sweat. Also, my lungs and throat need to be wide open, and I feel more energy.”
The second rule is: Drink cow’s blood during the recording.
She eats anything. Here are a few examples of “food” she has tried: Cockroach, moth chrysalis, bee larva, bull balls, and pig penis. No, this is not a typical shocking story made up for a band image, but she eats these things for real. And during the recording, cow’s blood is something she can’t miss.
We have no idea where she buys the blood, but it is always kept in her fridge. She says “blood is my energy drink,” but she should know that she could get food poisoning from that. We keep warning her, but she won’t listen.
The story of her strange rules will go on. The third one – Don’t masturbate before you record the vocals (which is much more understandable) – and others will be reported some time later in this blog.
-MK
Sigh’s new album, Scenes from Hell, will be out later this year on The End Records.
Thats funny, my band always Masterbates WHILE recording vocals…only way to do vox.
Man, what the fuck. As awesome as it is that she gets naked, there has got to be something wrong with her. Like, cuckoo for cocoa puffs. Or it’s one fucked up cry for attention. Like seriously, who does this girl think she is.
I’m pissed off and turned on.
Cows blood?
That’s my kinda woman.
Dr. Mikannibal just got less hot, but far more awesome.
story is useless without front shot.
and who doesn’t masturbate while recording? fuck, might as well get some use out of the studio time.
I still notice part of her pants at the bottom of the screen. She isn’t totally naked.
Agree with Kevin. Less hot, more awesome.
So I take it a tour with Cattle Decapitation is out?
“# Sammy Says:
February 3rd, 2009 at 4:55 pm
So I take it a tour with Cattle Decapitation is out?”
Ha!
WOW that is an interesting discovery there… eh….. I bet all the guys are thinking “I wish Cristina Scabbia did the same. not only naked in studio but also ON stage” :)
Masturbation indeed does sound most logical, giving a bit of sexual stress does increase grunts/belges =p
Having seen live clips [Sadly they don't visit Holland @,@] she’s amazing, and if it helps her, she’s allowed to. [Amazing coming from me, when I first saw a girl joined the group.. I was pissed. I love Mirai's grunts best]
Still hot, but way more awesome above hawtness <3
I loved her vox on the Tribute to Venom album. Plus that Massacre poster is badass.