A lot has happened since the release of IMPETUS in 2008 and now we are finally looking forward to present our second studio album called JOURNEY SATURNINE
Ecliptica’s second studio album contains 12 songs and it is a trip through all Rock and Metal genres, from melodic Hard Rock to classical Heavy Metal. Guest appearances from Frank Pitters (Dignity) and Roland Navratil (Atrocity, Leaves’s Eyes, Dignity) make the album wide-ranging and we are sure that you will enjoy the new sound. The album cover artwork and all the promotional photos are made by Felix Mitterer. Enjoy it and don’t hesitate to leave a comment here. Watch out for a concert in your neighborhood at the tour-table.
It will be released digital worldwide on REBEAT DIGITAL
Check out any online music store to get it!
The CD version will contain the video of “Love & Misery” as bonus and can only be ordered at our shop or at any Ecliptica concert.
The tracklist from “Journey Saturnine”
01. ? (Saturn's Theme) (01:20)
02. Journey Saturine (03:55)
03. Fire! Burn! (04:00)
04. Love & Misery (03:51)
05. Dreamland (04:41)
06. Blackened Day (03:40)
07. Ready For A Ride (03:53)
08. Kingdom Of Heaven (04:15)
09. The Shadow (04:34)
10. Condition Crest Fallen (04:45)
11. Attitude (03:38)
12. Without You (04:11)
We are very pround to annoumce that our new full legth album entitled "In Blood In Battle" is going to be releas by Eat Metal Records.
01. The Riddle Of Steel
02. Sword Of Vengeance
03. The Last Emperor
04. Stealer Of Souls
05. Through The Storm
06. The Dark Tower
07. Stormbringer
08. The Wraith Of Steel
09. A Last Farewell
10. In Blood In Battle
CHICKENFOOT have just released the third single from their 'Chickenfoot III' album.
“Different Devil” surfaces just prior to the band’s week-long Road Test tour dates across Europe, which begin January 12 in Manchester, UK.
With two former Van Halen members in Chickenfoot – singer Sammy Hagar and bassist Michael Anthony – the timing of the move is sure to fire up the Chickenfoot vs. VH debate amongst some fans, as the song also lands at radio at the same time as the new VH track 'Tattoo' arrives on the scene.
With acoustic guitars and a mid-tempo rhythm track, the song is a mile from the charging 'Big Foot' and 'Three And A Half Letters', the band’s previous singles.
Sammy Hagar stays out of the stratosphere vocally, opting to sing in a lower register while patiently addressing a song to his (hopefully and presumably fictitious) long-term lover, who’s wondering if there’s better options out there for her romantically. As the song kicks into a higher gear, he issues his confident challenge.
The single [radio edited, different from the album version] is being released only in Europe as a "Mini Album", including hot live takes of "Turnin' Left" (with a great jam in the middle), "My Kinda Girl" and "Learning To Fall", all recorded in Phoenix, USA.
Rocks.
01 - Different Devil [radio edit] (3:59)
02 - Turnin' Left [Live from Phoenix] (8:37)
03 - My Kinda Girl [Live from Phoenix] (4:36)
04 - Learning To Fall [Live from Phoenix] (5:58)
Sammy Hagar - Vocals, Guitar
Joe Satriani - Guitars
Michael Anthony - Bass, Vocals
Chad Smith - Drums, Percussion
Blind Guardian – Memories Of A Time To Come (2012)
Jan 20, 2012 12:16
Heavy Metal |Power Metal
Legendary German power metallers BLIND GUARDIAN have issued the following update:
"Finally, after all these years, we have found the time to gather our most worthy songs into a best of compilation, representative of our career’s first 25 years. From the very beginning it was important for us to undertake this project only if we could put the necessary time and attention to detail into it. With overwhelming nostalgia we have looked back on 25 years and came up with Memories Of A Time To Come, an organic mixture of some of our greatest songs.
With the exception of 'Sacred Worlds', all songs on Memories Of A Time To Come have been remixed while 'The Bard’s Song – The Hobbit', 'Valhalla' as well as 'And Then There Was Silence' have been re-recorded. This album contains some very pleasant surprises for the die-hard Blind Guardian fan and delivers a perfect image of our musical spirit to those who are not, or just loosely, familiar with the band. Memories Of A Time To Come precisely defines our progression and the long-standing dedication to our music. We are proud to present an album that will take the listener on a musical voyage. This year’s Christmas will be in January!"
Memories Of A Time To Come, the ultimate collection of Blind Guardian music from 1987 to 2011, will be released on January 20, 2012 via Virgin/EMI. It will be available as a double CD, 3 CD deluxe limited edition including the legendary Lucifer’s Heritage demos and as download.
Disc I
1. Imaginations From The Other Side [2011 Remix]
2. Nightfall [2011 Remix]
3. Ride Into Obsession [2011 Remix]
4. Somewhere Far Beyond [2011 Remix]
5. Majesty [2011 Remix]
6. Traveler In Time [2011 Remix]
7. Follow The Blind [2011 Remix]
8. The Last Candle [2011 Remix]
Disc II
1. Sacred Worlds
2. This Will Never End [2011 Remix]
3. Valhalla [2011 version]
4. Bright Eyes [2011 Remix]
5. Mirror Mirror [2011 Remix]
6. The Bard's Song (In The Forest) [2011 Remix]
7. The Bard's Song (The Hobbit) [Re-Recorded version]
8. And Then There Was Silence [Re-Recorded version]
Dutch symphonic metallers EPICA debuted a brand new song, "Storm The Sorrow", during their headlining concert last night (Thursday, January 12) at Metropool in Hengelo, The Netherlands.
EPICA's fifth full-length album, "Requiem For The Indifferent", will be released on March 9 in Europe and four days later in North America viaNuclear Blast Records. The CD was recorded at Gate Studio in Wolfsburg, Germany under the watchful eye of Sascha Paeth.
TOWER CITY, the American trio who formed in 1988, are best known for their album ‘A Little Bit Of Fire’ which has a cult following amongst AOR loving fans worldwide, largely in Europe.
The album, recorded back in 1992 with the help of Mike Slamer (Streets, Steelhouse Lane, Seventh Key) features some of the best AOR / Melodic Rock songwriting you are ever likely to hear, sadly looked destined to never be heard, until the now defunct German label MTM Records released the album in 1996 gaining high praise to the band.
With the songs on that album having been written and recorded in the early nineties, by 1996, the band had since become known by the name Colorvine, which delivered a more progressive and alternative form of melodic rock that gained them a solid fan base within the USA.
Now here we are in 2011 and the music of Tower City will be heard in a way it never has before.
The band has remastered a selection of their best songs (including titles from the second '98 album 'All Or Nothing'), along with 4 new tracks that have been recorded in the last 7 years, entitled "The Ones That Matter".
Saltis brothers said; "We have never been inactive as musicians. Our music may not have been represented as we felt it should have the first time around.
We went back and looked at a lot of the tracks, picked some of our favorites, and revamped a collection that we could be proud of presenting to those listeners that still cared.
The 4 new tracks are representative of our growth together after the Tower City days."
For me personally, Tower City's music is littered with virtually everything that I love about the Melodic Rock / AOR genres.
Together with Steelhouse Lane, Tower City carried the flame during the second half of the nineties. In fact, both bands were somehow connected. Steelhouse Lane's mastermind, Mike Slammer, helped this band in the artistic production department, songwriting and playing some guitars.
Tower City is a very, very good band, with a late '80s MR/AOR arena style full of trademark hooks, lush melodies and monster choruses.
As brothers Saltis like to say: "Time passes, people change, but the good music remains!" Highly Recommended.
01 - Moonlight
02 - Little Bit Of fire
03 - Smoke (New track 2011)
04 - In These Arms
05 - Talking To Sarah
06 - Ain't Nobody To Love
07 - Say You Love Me (New track 2011)
08 - Six Strings (New track 2011)
09 - I'll Sleep Tonight
10 - Love And Money
11 - Surrender
12 - Hot Water
13 - When It All Falls Down
14 - Wishbone (New track 2011)
15 - Closer To The Heart
16 - Hungry
Larry Saltis – Lead Vocals, Guitars
Tim Paul Weiner – Bass, Backing Vocals
Heath Saltis – Drums, Keyboards, Backing Vocals
Additional Musicians:
Scott Sanders – Guitars & Backing Vocals Mike Slamer – Guitar
Billy Cioce – Drums
After a seven-year break, Italian metallers PANDAEMONIUM will release a brand new studio album, entitled "The Last Prayer", on January 27 viaIceWarrior Records. According to a press release, the group "once again manages to create an extraordinary, first-class epic/melodic power metal album while keeping all their established trademarks like great melodies, fantastic guitar riffs and the unique vocals from singer Daniel Reda." The cover artwork was created by Diego Ferrarin, wo has previously worked with WHITE SKULL, WILD STEEL and SHADOWS OF STEEL, and who was responsible for the art on the first two PANDAEMONIUM albums. The layout was designed by Oscar Petersson (KATANA, EYE, OSUKARU,BYFIST).
01. Alone In The Dark
02. Two Spirits One Heart
03. Through The Wind
04. Holy Voice
05. Tower Of Fears
06. The White Voice
07. Go Your Own Way
08. Today
09. Braveheart
10. Epitaph
11. Until The End
PANDAEMONIUM is:
Daniel Reda - Vocals
Lorenzo Zirilli - Bass
Steve Volta (PERPETUAL FIRE) – Guitar, Keyboards
Federico Ria (ex-PERPETUAL FIRE, SKYLARK) - Drums
Jan 18, 2012 14:12
Melodic Rock | AOR Progressive Rock
Ellsworth Hall is the brain behind the Neo Prog project AETHELLIS and his trademark sound are the keyboards, lots of keyboards, as is heard on the second album "NorthUmbria".
Listening to Aethellis brings me back about 25 years. Even though at times, some twists and turns make it obvious that this album is from the new millennium, there is always a strong early 80's feel about this music.
Tagged a Neo Prog, in my opinion Aethellis style is eighties proggy AOR, with diverse influences ranging from Camel, ELP, Genesis and Tony Banks solo albums, but also a strong Pomp feel in the vein of Shooting Star, Saga, Asia and The Alan Parsons Project.
Ellsworth Hall is an amazing multi-instrumentalist and a good vocalist. As singer, he can be compared to the likes of Greg Lake, Steve Hackett and why not, John Wetton. Musically most of his compositions are short with a classic format, although "NorthUmbria" features a couple of long numbers firmly planted into the classic prog tradition.
The Aethellis style is very melodic based and the keyboard is the main instrument in all songs, but all the instruments find its place in the rhythmic tracks of this album.
Whe have catchy tunes such as the pompy "Dire Need" or "Sounds Good", a great light-prog ballad in "Without A Sound" (where Aethellis sounds like earlier eighties Alan Parsons) and really good instrumentals as the rock-funkish "Celui Qui Soit La Bosse" or the beautiful crafted "The Penal Colony", where Camel comes to mind.
The more classic prog is represented on the two movements of "Northumbria / Mephisto Breeze" which features breezy harmony vocals and "The Peace Path" where the balladry fuses with a commercial Genesis light side.
"NorthUmbria" is a truly enjoyable album of 80's inspired prog including really well crafted songs.
The melody is the rule here, really easy listening and catchy but still adventurous enough to keep you interested from start to finish. Mr. Hall has also put a lot of effort into the production, as despite this is an independent CD the is sound remarkably good.
Hopefully Aethellis will find it's audience even though 80's inspired light prog is not really the flavor of the day, but I'm sure that any fan of the era (including AOR aficionados) will adore "NorthUmbria".
Love it.
01 - Northumbria / Mephisto Breeze
02 - The Awakening
03 - Dire Need
04 - The Penal Colony
05 - Without A Sound
06 - Celui Qui Soit La Bosse
07 - Exchanger Prague
08 - The Peace Path
09 - Sounds Good
Ellsworth Hall (keyboards / vocals / guitar / synths)
Mark Van Natta (guitars / vocals)
Erik Marks (bass)
Chris Marks (guitar)
Joseph Dwyer (sax)
Mike Harrington (drums)
01 All out of Love
02 Even the Nights Are Better
03 Empty Pages
04 Love and Other Bruises
05 Lost in Love
06 Every Woman in the World
07 Chances
08 Here I Am (Just When I Thought I Was Over You)
09 The One That You Love
10 Sweet Dreams
11 Young Love
12 Two Less Lonely People in the World
13 Making Love out of Nothing at All
14 Just as I Am
15 The Power of Love (You Are My Lady)
16 Lonely Is the Night
01. Fausto 05:07
02. Nuevo Amanecer 05:46
03. Las Alas Del Mañana 04:39
04. Odio Y Pasión 04:06
05. Marboré 06:08
06. Tempus Fugit 06:00
07. Burning The Night 04:52
08. Marboré (Aragonés) (bonus track) 06:07
Megadeth bassist David Ellefson is among the high-profile guest musicians who appear on Time To Rock, the debut album from ex-Lizzy Borden guitarist Chris Sanders’ new project, Knight Fury.
Others sharing their virtuosity include Alice Cooper drummer Ken Mary and vocalist William King.
Sanders commented on the collaboration in an early 2011 Full Metal Review interview.
“It was great to have Ken Mary on drums and Dave Ellefson on bass,” said Sanders. “William King did the vocals and just nailed it. Everyone added the perfect blend to create a great record. These truly are the best musicians I have ever worked with.”
01. Nothing Left 4:36
02. Attack 3:41
03. Forbidden 4:02
04. Battle For The Castle 4:10
05. Awaken 3:43
06. The Message 3:41
07. Endless Night 3:45
08. Out On Your Own 3:57
09. Believe 4:09
10. Time To Rock 3:36
