A three-and-a-half-minute YouTube clip featuring audio samples of"Circus Black", the fourth studio album from Finnish female-fronted symphonic metallers AMBERIAN DAWN, is available below.
"Circus Black" will be released in Finland on February 29 via Spinefarm Records. The band's mainman, keyboardist and guitarist Tuomas Seppäläcomposed all ten songs for the CD and vocalist Heidi Parviainen penned the lyrics.
"Circus Black" features guest appearances by Tuomas Nieminen (ex-ADAMANTRA, THRONE OF CHAOS), Nils Nordling (ex-DREAMTALE,ANIMAL HOUSE), Timo Kotipelto (STRATOVARIUS) and Jens Johansson (STRATOVARIUS, DIO, YNGWIE MALMSTEEN'S RISING FORCE). Nieminen and Nordling share vocal parts in the song "I Share With You This Dream", Kotipelto sings lead on "Cold Kiss" andJohansson plays a keyboard solo on "Crimson Flower".
Commented Tuomas: "'Circus Black' is the most impressive AMBERIAN DAWN album so far. Musically it represents the most sophisticated and most symphonic edge of AMBERIAN DAWN music. There's more diversity on this album than never before. This is the first time we used a real choir and we gathered some really excellent professional opera singers together to be able to achieve the best-sounding choir possible. This choir was conducted by Mikko P. Mustonen from Pathos Music. He also arranged the choir and orchestral parts.
"We managed once again to get some world-class guests on this album. So, the production is our biggest so far and the final polish on this album was given by Teropekka Virtanen (mixing engineer) and Mika Jussila(mastering engineer) at legendary Finnvox Studios in Finland.
"The whole band did excellent job with recordings. It was really awesome, that Kasperi [Heikkinen] recovered from his hand injury just in time (only a couple of weeks before the mixing sessions started) and he was able to play guitar solos on this album. Even in the fall it seemed that I andKimmo [Korhonen] would have to play all guitar parts by ourselves."
01. Circus Black (3:49)
02. Cold Kiss (3:31)
03. Crimson Flower (4:24)
04. Charnel`s Ball (4:26)
05. Fight (3:19)
06. Letter (4:28)
07. I Share With You This Dream (3:37)
08. The Rivalry Between Good And Evil (3:59)
09. Guardian (5:09)
10. Lily Of The Moon (4:07)
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Amberian Dawn – Circus Black (2012)
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