I love a good pick-scrape, Bubba.
I'm a good rhythm (ha, ha, see what I did there?) with recording at the moment. I have loads of songs complete and ready to go. So I'm working on them during the week in my rental apartment, sorting out the drums, chopping up the scratch tracks so that I have a complete song structure etc... you know all the frustrating bit that feels like work.
So when I go home on the weekend - I have a complete track and I'm well practised so I can just enjoy recording keepers at high volume.
That's what I did with that metal track, my mate came over one weekend and said we should try recording it, we laid a few bits down. I buggered off for the week, finished the arrangement and the drums, wrote the solos. So it was really easy to re-track it