Judas Cradle – Mongrel (2017)

January 6, 2021

Mongrel was the only full length record that we did as the Judas Cradle. It kinda turned out to be our Chinese Democracy, even though it was a combination of reworked tracks off our earlier EP or splits alongside a whole bunch of newer thrashier kinda tracks (Agathocles the 2nd over here). Mongrel then went through a protracted period of mixing, and by the time it came out, we had all but broken up, which was a shame timing-wise, but I’m still immensely proud of this album.

Fun fact: I recorded my drum parts separately to the rest of the band. We’d done everything as a live recording beforehand so this was a bit different for me. The session time we had was between the switch over from days to nights on my shift pattern, so I was absolutely knackered before the session even began. If I could do it all again, I’d have picked a different day; maybe there’d be harder hitting blasts on this thing haha