Frontiers Records has announced the release of a brand new – all original – studio album JORN, Traveller, on June 11th in North America and June 14th in Europe.
Traveller is his eighth studio album under the Jorn banner and represents the first product of the pairing of Jorn Lande and the new guitarist Trond Holter (WIG WAM, DREAM POLICE). The result is eleven new songs encompassing a variety of moods and styles, with Lande’s voice shining through memorable anthems, backed by wonderful grooves and tightly-executed classic and melodic heavy metal.
“This album has all the elements of the Jorn legacy,” says Lande. “It is heavy, but still very melodic and experimental, and it really rocks! As usual we haven’t spent much time analyzing the material before recording it, this is an album about life, doom and death reflecting on what I know and thoughts about what I don’t.”
Traveller includes the following tracks:
‘Overload’
‘Cancer Demon’
‘Traveller’
‘Window Maker’
‘Make Your Engine Scream’
‘Legend Man’
‘Carry The Black’
‘Rev On’
‘Monsoon’
‘The Man Who Was King’
You can sample four songs from the new album below:
TESTAMENT, ICED EARTH, RHAPSODY OF FIRE, SYMPHONY X, PETER PAN SPEEDROCK, ABORTED, ORANGE GOBLIN, VON, ANGER AS ART and THE MONOLITH DEATHCULT are the latest act confirmed for the eighth edition of the Dokk’em Open Air Festival, scheduled for June 21st – 23rd, this time in a new location just outside Dokkum.
Confirmed acts now include: ABORTED, AMORPHIS, ANGER AS ART, BLOOD RED THRONE, CRYPTOPSY, DELAIN, ICED EARTH, INQUISITION, JORN, KEEP OF KALESSIN, THE MONOLITH DEATHCULT, ORANGE GOBLIN, PETER PAN SPEEDROCK, RHAPSODY OF FIRE, SYMPHONY X, TESTAMENT, VON, WITCHCRAFT.
The following was just announced from the Festival Stage and is now being shown on the big screens at Sweden Rock Festival:
‘This autumn the Sweden Rock Cruise gets twice as good. We will do two consecutive cruises on the same ship. The first will be focused on hard rock/heavy metal and the second will feature a slightly harder line-up. You can choose to go on either one, or both. If the same people book the same kind of cabin for both cruises, you can stay on the ship without having to check in again for the second departure.”
In total, 14 band will play – seven on each cruise. The following bands are confirmed so far:
October 4th-5th
MICHAEL MONROE
JORN
RAGE (playing a melodic set)
Four more bands to be announced
October 5th-6th
SATYRICON
MACABRE
RAGE (playing a harder set)
PORTRAIT
Three more bands to be announced
Norwegian powerhouse vocalist Jorn Lande (MASTERPLAN, AVANTASIA) will release a new studio album, “Bring Heavy Rock To The Land”, on June 1 via Frontiers Records.
South American fans had experienced Jorn Lande live as frontman for MASTERPLAN and recently on the world tour with AVANTASIA “The Flying Opera”, but in July 2011 he visited South America for the first time under the JORN banner.
JORN lineup for the South American tour was as follows:
Jorn Lande: Vocals Tore Moren: Guitar Trond Holter: Guitar Nic Angileri: Bass Willy Bendiksen: Drums
Radio Metal recently conducted an interview with PAGAN’S MIND frontman Jørn Viggo Lofstad. Excerpts from the interview are below:
Radio Metal: Jørn Lande left a lot of bands he sang with. It looks like he has a really precise idea of what he wants. You know him better than everyone I guess, so what can you tell us about his personality?
Jørn Viggo Lofstad: “To be honest, I think that if Jørn would be able to choose, he wouldn’t do all these projects. You have to remember that sometimes, you have to make a living: he needs bread on the table everyday so… I know that at heart, what he likes the most is classic heavy metal. If he could choose, he’d have love to make enough money to feed all the guys that play in the band and himself just touring with JORN, but sadly it’s not enough. So he has to do other projects, and take other offers. That’s understandable. He’s a professional musician and he does what it takes. I think that’s the main reason why you have all these different things. I think he was very serious with MASTERPLAN at that time though, maybe it developed in a way he didn’t liked. With Ark, he was also really doing his best, making one of his best albums with this band… But I think that since 2004/2005, the most of his energy went into building up the Jorn band, and now, it starts to become much bigger than what it was. As a person, I think he’s a very good hearted man. Every time he sits down, he wanna make the best song. He’s a fantastic songwriter. It’s been a privilege for me to work with him. We made a very good team, really miss that, but he talks a lot [he laughs]. Everyone who has talked to him knows that he talks a lot. But he’s a good guy, and his heart is in the music. I have nothing but good things to say about him.”
Radio Metal: Since you played with him for so long and you didn’t split with him like most of the musician he’s been with, do you think that you’re able to understand him more than the other musicians he played with do?
Jørn Viggo Lofstad: “Me and Jørn were not only musicians that played together, but very good friends as well. Even though I don’t talk with him that much anymore, I know that he has a lot of respect for me and I have a lot of respect for him. That’s what this is about. Maybe in other bands you have bigger personalities working together… I don’t know. Working wise, we clicked very well and if I hadn’t had to make the choice I made, I could have stuck with his own band. But at the time I chose Pagan’s Mind and then I followed that. Jørn just said ‘you need to understand that I need a guitar player that can be there when we do the gigs’, and of course I understand that. I had to make a choice. If it hadn’t been for that, I would still be playing with him. I don’t know. There’re a lot of different reasons. With Masterplan, he didn’t write that much of the music, and maybe power metal is not really his thing. Playing [he sings] with the double bass and stuff isn’t his thing. He likes classic hard rock. You know, last year he played with HEAVEN & HELL, and I really hoped he’d become part of that band. He deserves it. In my opinion, he’s the best singer that has been since 2000 until now. He’d deserve to make a really good classic heavy rock album with someone of that caliber.”
Radio Metal: Did you regret the decision to leave Jorn and just play with Pagan’s Mind?
Jørn Viggo Lofstad: “Sure, but you can’t have everything. That’s the way it is. Also, I thought it would be easier to replace me in Jorn because we were two guitar player and Tor, the other one is still there. It was me and Jørn writing everything but we shared all the stuff, solos, etc. It was maybe easier to find someone to take my place in Jorn than in Pagan’s Mind. Pagan’s Mind is a band of friends coming from the same city that do the things differently than Jorn… Like I said it wasn’t easy to leave Jorn but that’s just the way it got. It is what it is.”
In other news, the band’s single, ‘Intermission’, has been certified Gold in Sweden, selling over 10,000 copies. The video for ‘Intermission’ can be seen below: The video for ‘Intermission’ can be seen below:
Frontiers Records has set an August 23 North American release date (three days later in Europe) for Norwegian powerhouse vocalist Jorn Lande‘s (MASTERPLAN, YNGWIE MALMSTEEN, ARK, THE SNAKES) “Live In Black” a 2-CD/DVD set. The concert was recorded on June 10, 2010 at the Sweden Rock Festival in front of more than 25,000 people.
2010 was a significant year in Jorn‘s career. Besides releasing a tribute album to his hero Ronnie James Dio, Jorn was invited to perform, alongside Glenn Hughes, with HEAVEN & HELL at their final concert, which was held in July 2010 at the High Voltage festival in Victoria Park, London, England.
Just a few weeks earlier, Jorn appeared at the Sweden Rock Festival, in Sölvesborg and blew the crowd of more than 25,000 fans away.
“The special thing with ‘Live In Black’ is that it captures a very rough, uncut and spontaneous moment in the band’s history,” says Jorn Lande. “It was a hectic day, with many interviews and several TV appearances and I also had to do a short speech and statement regarding the great Ronnie James Dio‘s untimely passing a few weeks earlier. The whole festival became in the spirit of Ronnie, and it was very moving to see everyone there, including the artists honoring his memory.”
A new original Jorn album is already in the works and scheduled for an early 2012 release.
“Live In Black” will be exclusively released in a special luxury digipak 2-CD/DVD set.
CD 1:
01. Road Of The Cross
02. Shadow People
03. Below
04. We Brought The Angels Down
05. Stormcrow
06. Spirit Black
07. The Inner Road
08. Man Of The Dark
CD 2:
01. Blacksong
02. Guitar Solo (Tore Moren)
03. Tungur Knivur
04. Guitar Solo (Tor Erik Myhre)
05. Rock And Roll Angel
06. Drum Solo
07. Soul Of The Wind
08. Are You Ready
09. War Of The World
DVD Contents:
01. Road Of The Cross
02. Shadow People
03. Below
04. We Brought The Angels Down
05. Stormcrow
06. Spirit Black
07. The Inner Road
08. Man Of The Dark
09. Blacksong
10. Guitar Solo (Tore Moren)
11. Tungur Knivur
12. Guitar Solo (Tor Erik Myhre)
13. Rock And Roll Angel
14. Drum Solo
15. Soul Of The Wind
16. Are You Ready
17. War Of The World
Bonus Material:
* Song For Ronnie James (video clip)
* Man Of The Dark (video clip)
DVD format: NTSC Region Free – Stereo mix 2.0 / 5.1 – Screen 16:9
A “Live In Black” video trailer can be seen below.
JORN “Live In Black” lineup:
Jorn Lande: Vocals Tore Moren: Guitar Tor Erik Myhre: Guitar Nic Angileri: Bass Willy Bendiksen: Drums
Norwegian powerhouse vocalist Jorn Lande (MASTERPLAN, YNGWIE MALMSTEEN, ARK, THE SNAKES) has scheduled the following South American dates under the JORN banner:
July 09 – HSBC, São Paulo, Brazil
July 10 – Carioca Club, São Paulo, Brazil
July 12 – Trastienda, Montevideo, Uruguay
July 13 – Teatro nd Ateneo, Buenos Aires, Argentina
South American fans have experienced Jorn Lande live as frontman for MASTERPLAN and recently on the world tour with AVANTASIA “The Flying Opera”, but for the first time he will visit South America under the JORN banner. Jorn says: “There have been several tours in South America with MASTERPLAN and AVANTASIA, and every time I’m there people ask when I will come with the JORN band. Finally it will happen and we’re all really excited about it. The warm enthusiasm and dedication I have experienced on my previous trips to Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Costa Rica and Mexico is unique, and this time around we have also included Uruguay in the tour plan. The response from the people of South America is like medicine to the soul and if life is sometimes filled with doubt, going there puts things in perspective and makes you wanna continue full force. “
The confirmed JORN lineup for South America is:
Jorn Lande: Vocals Tore Moren: Guitar Trond Holter: Guitar Nic Angileri: Bass Willy Bendiksen: Drums
In other news, a double CD of Jorn‘s live performance at last year’s Sweden Rock Festival will be released on August 26. The concert was recorded on June 10, 2010 in front of more than 25,000 people. The set will also include a bonus DVD.
