Travis Orbin - Darkest Hour - "Perpetual Terminal" & "Societal Bile"

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In mid-January of last year, we convened for a final pre-production session before undertaking the recording of our tenth record, 'Perpetual | Terminal,' at MixWave studios. Four new tunes were presented to me, prompting a scrambling of arrangement charting and visceral demoing. Then, I'd listen to the demos critically, and further analyze and refine via Guitar Pro-essentially, a condensed version of our customary process. I suppose I was prepared as well as can be, as I tracked the entire record in a single day (discounting the previous day for setup and achieving tones). Woop woop!
My video productions are purposefully non-laborious, but I further did not want to encumber this session with my full assemblage of cameras, so I threw 2/4 of my GoPros up and let it rip. Chances are that you are not new here, but just in case: this is not a 'playthrough', but the actual studio/tracking session.
What follows is a gear list for the entire record, save for a few tracks wherein I used my 6.5"x14" Sensitone brass snare:
18"x20" Pearl Vision bass drum nestled inside of a 24" maple kick
6.5"x14" Pearl Reference brass snare drum
13" and 16" Pearl Reference Pure toms
Cymbals are listed here, under "Darkest Hour setup": travisorbin.com/equipment.htm (the only exception being the 13" A Custom Mastersound hats, in which I used 13" A New Beat hats).
'Perpetual | Terminal' will see a release on 23FEB24, and we're embarking on a full US tour (plus 4 CA dates) shortly after. Tickets: darkesthour.ffm.to/tour
Full drum set transcriptions:
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[@idrewx360a]

seeing Orbin in another studio is a breathe of fresh air to me and is always a joy to watch. Love the new releases from DH!

[@ryanwillt7314]

Really enjoyed that. Super clean

[@memorydriven1330]

Cleanest drummer ever!

[@ACardFan]

The dude’s more accurate than a midi track!

[@memorydriven1330]

@@ACardFan Human drum machine!

[@krenwregget7667]

damn Travis..... the tones, your playing, it's bloody perfect.

[@jcgm666]

I love watching you playing! Beast! New album is very good!

[@Big_Dawg_69]

always love how you do your leading foot changes with different sections, same with leading hand cross overs get it son!

[@jazzhole8208]

Goosebumbpy playing ❤ i luv it 🥁🥁🥁

[@rise4097]

Amazing as always

[@AlexJadidrummer]

Hell Yeah !! "Societal Bile" is a banger !

[@alecbarbeemusic]

Incredible work as always. I would love to see a MixWave drum library from you!

[@TOAOM123]

Been waiting for this one! 🤘

[@MangoOverload91]

Hell yes, hyped for the new album! You are an absolute pro, man, I love reading about your process

[@MarlonJosephdelaCruz]

Came here after.listening to Sky Eats Airplane again ❤

[@NikodemHodur]

Finally 🤘😁🤘

[@gustavooliveira9173]

This man is my god

[@DarkPhantomSky]

Flawless

[@tomtier5412]

Hell yeah

[@sinborn41214]

Holy fuckin snare tone! Yes please

[@justinbonfinimusic]

Heck yeah!!

[@Honda628]

GOAT

[@doylelacrua]

What an interesting drum setup. That is definitely unique.

[@BSeffDrumVidz]

You go HULK SMASH mode on these DH songs 🤘

[@DemiJohnson-qi3hp]

My inspiration

[@Seedthedrummer]

👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

[@TheDrummerKick2]

6:30 that poor crash cymbal

[@maximomartinez6843]

Travis r u reading the paper ? joder , si estas leyendo a esa distance , joder , God bless ur eyes , wooow

[@JustinYates]

🤘🏽🐵

[@coreyw5981]

When will we get the full album of playthroughs?

[@DavidAcampora]

This goes so hard but what’s up with the fart mic?

[@behindthen0thing525]

Faak

[@Panda_SMM]

save some skills for the rest of us dude

[@michaelbladen4971]

Travis you look bored as hell, you should of stayed with periphery

[@Blacklight_Music]

I asked Spencer about this at a show in 2013. He said that, at the time, Periphery showed no signs of success and wasn’t going anywhere. Spencer said that Travis made a perfectly reasonable and understandable decision to leave the band. The guy needed to make a living and use his talents with a band that had more promise, at the time. Also. I doubt Travis is bored here. Just laser-focused as ever.

[@RoyaltonDrummer922]

He always looks bored tbf