The official lyric video for “Kunnia” (English-language title: “Honor”), a brand new song from Finnish traditional folk metal pioneers KORPIKLAANI, can be seen below. The track comes off the band’s eighth studio album, “Manala”, which will be released on August 3 via Nuclear Blast Records. The cover artwork was created by Finnish artist Jan Yrlund and can be seen below.
Commented KORPIKLAANI vocalist Jonne Järvelä: “On the album cover, our band mascot Vaari represents Väinämöinen, who is one of the main characters in the Finnish national epic ‘Kalevala’.
“As most of the lyrics on ‘Manala’ are based on the ‘Kalevala’, Jan Yrlund decided to draw his inspiration for the cover artwork from the beautiful but yet brutal depiction of the underworld in Finnish mythology.”
Audio samples of all tracks that are featured on “Ascending To Infinity”, the new album from the Italian “cinematic” metal band LUCA TURILLI’S RHAPSODY, can be heard in the YouTube clip below (with commentary from Luca Turilli in Italian).
LUCA TURILLI’S RHAPSODY has made its new single, “Dark Fate Of Atlantis”, available for free download in its original album version of six minutes and 29 seconds at this location. This complete version of the song features a longer intro, a longer guitar solo and an additional keyboard solo performed by Luca Turilli. The cover artwork of the single was created once again by Felipe Machado Franco.
The “Dark Fate Of Atlantis” video was filmed in Stockholm, Sweden by Swedish director Owe Lingvall of Dreamday Media (THE RASMUS, KAMELOT‘s “The Great Pandemonium”). The song comes off LUCA TURILLI’S RHAPSODY‘s new album, “Ascending To Infinity”, which will be released on June 22 via Nuclear Blast. The song was edited and made shorter for the video while on the CD it will appear in its original version of 6 minutes and 29 seconds.
Commented LUCA TURILLI’S RHAPSODY: “This video represents just the first step of the collaboration between RHAPSODY and Dreamday Media, the company of our friend Owe. He was just the right choice for a band willing to sound and look cinematic like ours. We share with him the passion for the cinema. We are amazed by his ability of turning our cinematic visions into reality and at the same time he loves the cinematic impact of our music. This means Owe is, and will be, our artistic partner at all effects, now and in the future. The first results of this unique collaboration will be announced very soon. Therefore please expect great visual surprises in the months to come, headliner tour included!”
RTN Touring and All Access, in association with Nuclear Blast and Owe Lingvall‘s Dreamday Media, are working right now on the “Ascending To Infinity Cinematic World Tour 2012/2013” which will bring the cinematic metal of RHAPSODY on the stages of the entire world.
In August 2011, RHAPSODY OF FIRE guitarist Luca Turilli and keyboardist Alex Staropoli announced their decision to go their separate ways.
Due to legal reasons, Staropoli will continue under the RHAPSODY OF FIRE name. Turilli, on the other hand, will make his future efforts available under the RHAPSODY moniker (RHAPSODY OF FIRE‘s original name), in which he will be joined by guitarist Dominique Leurquin, bassist Patrice Guers, singer Alessandro Conti (TRICK OR TREAT) and drummer Alex Landenburg (AT VANCE, ANNIHILATOR, MEKONG DELTA, STRATOVARIUS).
“Ascending To Infinity” track listing:
01. Quantum X
02. Ascending To Infinity
03. Dante’s Inferno
04. Excalibur
05. Tormento E Passione
06. Dark Fate Of Atlantis
07. Fantasia Gotica
08. Clash Of The Titans
09. Of Michael The Archangel And Lucifer’s Fall
I. Alma Mundi
II. Fatum Mortalis
III. Ignis Divinus
You can check out the “Ascending To Infinity” cover artwork below.
The album will have a running time of around 65 minutes.
In a recent interview, Turilli stated about “Ascending To Infinity”, “Honestly, this album is very important for me, and personally, it is the one I always dreamed to record. The basic composition process lasted around five months. In this period of time I worked at the rhythm of 12-14 hours per day and, while very hard because very demanding mentally and spiritually, this was one of the most rewarding sessions of composition of my whole life. It rarely happened I had so much fun playing the guitar, the keyboards or my beloved piano and creating original classical parts, cinematic interludes, orchestrations and all the rest. As you know, I don’t hire external people to orchestrate the music, but I do all by myself writing the music for each section of the orchestra, the choirs etc. and this sometimes can be a very long and hard process stealing a lot of time and energy. I cannot deny that this is a very ambitious album, because of the investment, artistic vision etc., and all the people working on it, Nuclear Blast included, are thinking the same.”
Regarding the change in the production team for the LUCA TURILLI’S RHAPSODY album, Luca said, “After many years of work in Wolfsburg at the court of our friend Sascha Paeth, I decided to start this new artistic adventure with a different team of people. Sascha and the other friends of the Gate Studio (Miro, Olaf, Robert, Simon, etc.) are a winning team and their help in the past was really important for RHAPSODY. But it’s since many years already that Alex and I took the productions in our hands, becoming producers of our own albums, despite Sascha remaining always fundamental as engineer and mixer man. His mixes will remain legendary and our list of thanks will be never long enough for all the professional contribution he gave. All the years of work, fun and sufferance in the Gate studios of Wolfsburg will surely remain unforgettable and are carved in our heart. For LUCA TURILLI’S RHAPSODY and the new band adventure, I decided to change the studio and the main man behind the console. We [recorded] the new album at the Backyard Studio of Kempten, Germany. Our new engineer and main mixer man is the same owner of the studio and his name is Sebastian Roeder, the person who worked for RHAPSODY OF FIRE in the last worldwide tour making real miracles while mixing our music live. Apart from being a talented engineer, he is a great person and he shares with us the love for this style of music.”
FaceCulture has uploaded a video portrait of the Dutch composer, multi-instrumentalist, vocalist and AYREON mastermind Arjen Anthony Lucassen. The seven-minute clip, which was shot in and around his home in the Netherlands, can be seen below. In the video, Lucassen speaks freely about his love for science fiction and running, his music obsession (and the accompanying rituals and routines), and the depression that deprived him of his desire to make new music.
Lucassen‘s new concept solo album, “Lost In The New Real”, entered the official chart in his home country at position No. 16 and the Dutch alternative chart at #No. 2.
The story of “Lost In The New Real” follows Mr. L, a 21st-Century man who was cryopreserved at the moment of clinical death from a terminal disease. The album begins as Mr. L is being revived at a point in the distant future, when technology has advanced enough to cure his disease. Mr L finds himself in a world that has drastically changed — to the point that the line between what’s real and what’s not is no longer clear.
Mr. L‘s appointed psychological advisor (played by legendary screen actor Rutger Hauer) is tasked with helping him emotionally adapt to this strange new world. The songs on CD1 follow the main character Mr. L‘s emotional journey as he is confronted with both serious and comical aspects of the “New Real”, and desperately tries to decide if he can find a meaningful place within it.
CD2 is a mix of songs that are part of the concept but didn’t fit on CD1, and cover songs that are (more or less) related to the concept. As Arjen‘s fans have come to expect, informative and humorous “behind-the-scenes” videos are added to both CDs as CD-ROM tracks. This beautiful two-CD limited-edition mediabook is illustrated by the striking artwork of Claudio Bergamin.
Lucassen recently enlisted the talents of legendary screen actor Rutger Hauer as the narrator on “Lost In The New Real”.
The World of Metal, Punk and Hardcore together to help the population, in Emilia Romagna – Italy, suffering because of the terrible and continous earthquakes of these last weeks.
‘Underground Against Earthquake’ is a benefit Festival, its goal is to collect money for the population of Emilia Romagna – Italy, stricken by the earthquakes over the last few weeks. All bands and all organization staff will play and work FOR FREE to make this Event happen.
Here is the festival bill:
– BULLDOZER (Thrash Metal Legends)
– RAW POWER (Masters of Old School Hardcore)
– DISTRUZIONE (Death Metal)
– DEATH MECHANISM (Technical Thrash Metal)
– KONTATTO (Crust/Hardcore)
– ROTTEN BOYS (Street Punk)
– ASGARD (Heavy/Speed Metal)
– CANCER SPREADING (Crust/Hardcore)
– VIOLENTOR (Thrash/Speed Metal)
– VISCERA /// (Post/Psych/Experimental Metal)
– GAME OVER (Thrash Metal)
– HARD REVENGE (Hard ‘n’ Heavy Metal)
– CALENDULA (Post-Hardcore/Sludge/Doom)
– KAPTIVITY (Death Metal)
– LOS GREZZOS (Punk ‘n’ Roll)
– NYARLATHOTEP (Death Metal)
– BEGGARS ON HIGHWAY (Hard Rock)
– HATEFUL (Death Metal)
– UNABOMBER (Hardcore)
The extremely limited and custom guitar built by Artist Series Guitars, for Madball, is now available. Be sure to check out the company roster, as they have custom guitars for Agnostic Front, Sick Of It All, Adolescents, Death By Stereo and many other great underground punk, hardcore and metal bands.
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Tales From The Stage, Volume 1 is nonfiction book consisting of in-depth interviews with hard rock and metal music professionals that helped shape the hard rock and heavy metal movement. Tales From The Stage, Volume 1 has announced their line-up, as well as the release date of the book. “We couldn’t be more thrilled with our line-up and the content that will appear in our first volume of Tales From The Stage.” says Michael Toney, the book’s author. “The music pros that we interviewed were asked dozens of personal, as well as touchy professional questions, and they held nothing back with their answers. The book will be entertaining and educational for the new or seasoned hard rock music fan.”
Tales From The Stage, Volume 1 will include 60-70 question interviews with 15 hard rock insiders; Bruce Kulick (KISS, GRAND FUNK RAILROAD), Jay Reynolds (MALICE, METAL CHURCH), Herman Rarebell (SCORPIONS), Tim “Ripper” Owens (JUDAS PRIEST, DIO DISCIPLES), Eddie Trunk (Radio/TV personality), Jeff Duncan (ARMORED SAINT, DC4), Tracii Guns (L.A. GUNS), Paul Shortino (QUIET RIOT, KING KOBRA), Chris Holmes (W.A.S.P.), Oz Fox (STRYPER), Steve “Lips” Kudlow (ANVIL), Betsy Bitch (BITCH), Ron Keel (KEEL, STEELER), Brian Slagel (CEO Metal Blade Records), and Brian Tichy (WHITESNAKE, FOREIGNER).
An official release date of June 29th was announced today. “It’s exciting for us to come in a little bit ahead of schedule on such an amazing project.” says Toney. “We originally announced a July release in January, but the entire process materialized smoother than we anticipated.” The book will also be available in an eBook format which will be also be made available June 29th.
Tales From The Stage, Volume 1 has partnered with the non-profit organization, Ride for Dime (RFD). A portion of all book sales will be donated to RFD which is committed to furthering music education for America’s youth. Michael Toney also co-authored the book Tales from the Cage, which was of a similar format, focusing on the sport of Mixed Martial Arts.
Source : Bravewords.com
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RTN Touring and All Access, in association with Nuclear Blast and Owe Lingvall‘s Dreamday Media, are working right now on the “Ascending To Infinity Cinematic World Tour 2012/2013” which will bring the cinematic metal of RHAPSODY on the stages of the entire world.
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