DAVID REECE have revealed the cover and tracklist for his new album “Baptized By Fire”, which will be released on March 1, 2024, followed by an extensive tour through North America and Europe. The exact dates will be released gradually. The artwork was created by Newton Artworxx.
The singer says: “The title choice of Baptized by Fire was suggested by a friend in America as we talk about the ongoing efforts in working on new music and the trials that always go along while creating the music,creating a visual to also flow with the music.I have branded David Reece with the Chief and felt the Chief should evolve like each new album I release so working with Ritchie Newton we agreed to give the Chief a new more aggressive look that also goes along with the sound and vibe of this record.I am very excited to share this album through El Puerto Records because it’s a natural progression in this journey.”
Not much more needs to be said about David Reece. Since the late 80s, his charismatic voice has enhanced successful albums by ACCEPT, Bangalore Choir, Bonfire and the Sainted Sinners, among others. In addition to this, however, he also continued to focus on his solo career. As the cover and title “Baptized by Fire” already suggest, his latest album is significantly “heavier” than its two predecessors. Twelve new songs full of power, mature and varied. One reason for this is certainly his new band line-up. In his adopted home of Italy, he found three highly talented, creative collaborators with whom he was able to work on the songs around the clock. A paradise for a “thoroughbred” musician like Reece!
Tracklist: 01 – Enemy Is Me 02 – We’ve Lost The Fight 03 – Wrong Move 04 – Payback’s A Bitch 05 – No Rest For The Wicked 06 – Twilight of the Gods 07 – Seasons Of A Man 08 – Closer To God 09 – Archbishop Of Anarchy 10 – My Heart Burns 11 – Acceptance Of Denial 12 – Tomorrow Don’t Matter Today
Tour dates already confirmed: January 13 2024 – Jonny’s Lion cave Trubbach Switzerland March 1st, 2024 – Route 47, Fridley (MN) March 2nd, 2024 – St. Croix Casino, Turtle Lake (WI) April 11 2024 – KAROSSERIFABRIKKEN / Helsingor Denmark April 12 2024 – Backstage rock bar / Trollhattan Sweden April 13 2024 – Metal fest Husqvarna Sweden with Blaze Bailey
Line-up: David Reece – Vocals Riccardo Demarosi – Bass Niccolò Savinelli – Guitars Giovanni Savinelli – Drums
DAVID REECE has unleashed the new Bangalore Choir video for the song ‘Back To Life’, taken from the new album “Center Mass” which was released on Global Rock Records via Cherry Red on July 7th.
David Reece adds:
Greetings BC friends and family! Well as everyone knows we’ve recorded a new Bangalore Choir record which we felt was way overdue. On Target has been a personal favorite of mine since the inception and I always felt a need to awaken the beast again. The record Center Mass was recorded in Italy and produced, mixed and mastered by Riccardo Demarosi who also plays bass on the record. The guitar’s are played by Nicolò Savinelli, Jimi Bell, Martin Kronlund, Mario Percudani and many others. Nello Savinelli is the one driving the nails on drum’s. Also a special addition was reaching out to the great Ian Mayo who also contributes on the album. There’s a special “If The Good Die Young (We’ll Live Forever) Part Two” on the album which the great Brynn Arens masterfully created. Giles Lavery I must give a shout out to because he’s been the rock that makes it roll with me for many years. I think we tapped into some of the magic everyone expects from Bangalore Choir and I advise you in advance to Crank it!
Fronted by former Accept and Bonfire vocalist David Reece, Bangalore Choir emerged in 1991 at the tail end of the 1980s melodic metal movement, instantly impressing the rock press with big choruses, melodic guitar playing and songwriting contributions by Jon Bon Jovi, Aldo Nova and Autograph’s Steve Plunkett!
The new album ‘Center Mass’ was released on Global Rock Records via Cherry Red on July 7th, is a direct sequel in style to the classic debut ‘On Target’,and is sure to excite fans of the debut album and of the melodic heavy rock genre in general.
The initial pressing comes with an 8 song live CD recorded in Germany in 2022.
01 Spirit Rider 02 Back To Life 03 I Just Wanna Love You 04 Heat Of The Night 05 Wind At My Back 06 Blame It On Me 07 Back 2 U 08 Downtime With The Devil 09 Without You 10 While Bullets Fly 11 If The Good Die Young Part 2 12 Love Hurts
CD 2
01 Just One Night (Live In Hamburg) 02 Loaded Gun (Live In Hamburg) 03 Slippin’ Away (Live In Hamburg) 04 Victim Of The Night (Live In Hamburg) 05 If The Good Die Young (Live In Hamburg) 06 Freight Train Rollin’ (Live In Hamburg) 07 Angel In Black (Live In Hamburg) 08 All Or Nothing (Live In Hamburg)
The new single “Back To Life” is the first taste of the brand new BANGALORE CHOIR music and can heard right here.
David Reece adds:
“This is the first single from the new album Center Mass, As you can hear, it’s about melody, hooks, and the classic Bangalore Choir sound, stay tuned as we have plenty more new music coming soon!
Fronted by former Accept and Bonfire vocalist David Reece, Bangalore Choir emerged in 1991 at the tail end of the 1980s melodic metal movement, instantly impressing the rock press with big choruses, melodic guitar playing and songwriting contributions by Jon Bon Jovi, Aldo Nova and Autograph’s Steve Plunkett!
The new album ‘Center Mass’ released via Global Rock Records via Cherry Red on July 7th is a direct sequel in style to the classic debut ‘On Target’,and is sure to excite fans of the debut album and of the melodic heavy rock genre in general.
The initial pressing comes with an 8 song live CD recorded in Germany in 2022.
The album is released via Global Rock Records via Cherry Red on July 7th and can be pre-ordered directly at this location.
Bangalore Choir – Center Mass Tracklist:
CD 1 01 Spirit Rider 02 Back To Life 03 I Just Wanna Love You 04 Heat Of The Night 05 Wind At My Back 06 Blame It On Me 07 Back 2 U 08 Downtime With The Devil 09 Without You 10 While Bullets Fly 11 If The Good Die Young Part 2 12 Love Hurts
CD 2 01 Just One Night (Live In Hamburg) 02 Loaded Gun (Live In Hamburg) 03 Slippin’ Away (Live In Hamburg) 04 Victim Of The Night (Live In Hamburg) 05 If The Good Die Young (Live In Hamburg) 06 Freight Train Rollin’ (Live In Hamburg) 07 Angel In Black (Live In Hamburg) 08 All Or Nothing (Live In Hamburg)
DAVID REECE is set to release the new Bangalore Choir “Center Mass” Album on July 7th via Global Rock Records.
Fronted by former Accept and Bonfire vocalist David Reece, Bangalore Choir emerged in 1991 at the tail end of the 1980s melodic metal movement, instantly impressing the rock press with big choruses, melodic guitar playing and songwriting contributions by Jon Bon Jovi, Aldo Nova and Autograph’s Steve Plunkett!
The new album ‘Center Mass’ released via Global Rock Records via Cherry Red on July 7th is a direct sequel in style to the classic debut ‘On Target’,and is sure to excite fans of the debut album and of the melodic heavy rock genre in general.
David Reece explains:
“I am very happy with this brand new Bangalore Choir record, we really went for everything that made the debut the great album that it was, that being loads of harmony vocals, big hooks, and great guitar solos. We also worked really hard on the songs making sure we had only the very best set of tunes for this album.”
The initial pressing comes with an 8 song live CD recorded in Germany in 2022.
The album is released via Global Rock Records via Cherry Red on July 7th and can be pre-ordered directly here.
Tracklist:
Bangalore Choir – Center Mass
CD 1
01 Spirit Rider 02 Back To Life 03 I Just Wanna Love You 04 Heat Of The Night 05 Wind At My Back 06 Blame It On Me 07 Back 2 U 08 Downtime With The Devil 09 Without You 10 While Bullets Fly 11 If The Good Die Young Part 2 12 Love Hurts
CD 2
01 Just One Night (Live In Hamburg) 02 Loaded Gun (Live In Hamburg) 03 Slippin’ Away (Live In Hamburg) 04 Victim Of The Night (Live In Hamburg) 05 If The Good Die Young (Live In Hamburg) 06 Freight Train Rollin’ (Live In Hamburg) 07 Angel In Black (Live In Hamburg) 08 All Or Nothing (Live In Hamburg)
Former Accept/Bonfire and current Iron Allies vocalist DAVID REECE has lent his instantly recognizable voice to Synthwave project Ion Pulse, their new EP “Children Of Snake Mountain” is available now on all streaming sites.
While this is musically new ground for David, both his loyal hard rock fanbase and fans of the fast growing retro-orientated synthwave genre alike will surely find much to enjoy, as the EP takes the listener back to the mid to late 1980s, combining a dramatic dark synth-driven atmosphere with the more traditional elements of late 80’s styled hard rock.
Ion Pulse mastermind Mike Morphett adds:
“Ion Pulse was born from a love of the music and films of the 1980s; from Mr. Mister to Megadeth, from Teen Wolf to The Terminator. On this latest EP, “Children Of Snake Mountain”, the guitar crunch and pulsing synthesizers of their action-movie-styled anthems is joined by the soaring voice of vocalist David Reece (Iron Allies, ex-Accept)… Join the Ion Legions and storm the slopes of Snake Mountain!”
The EP brings together a total of 5 songs, including a cover of Dio’s classic track “Rock N Roll Children”.
Canada’s The Metal Voice spoke to Former Accept members, vocalist David Reece and guitarist Herman Frank about their new band Iron Allies along with other topics.
Their debut album ‘Blood In Blood Out’ will be released on October 21st via AFM Records.
When asked how they started this band “One a half years ago, I wanted to form another band because it’s not that easy to find people that keep up with my pace. So David (Reece) was on my mind for a couple of years and then I just searched for him on Facebook and sent him a message. Hey David I’m planning on a new thing please give me a call and the next day David called. So we talked a little on the phone. I then sent him in the same week two or three of songs I wrote and he sent them back to me two days later with vocals. So I was overwhelmed and quite surprised by him sending me back the songs two days later. Three songs with nice Melodies and I said to myself, hey this is catchy, that’s the thing I want to do. So we started talking and that’s what happened. ” Herman Frank
When asked about the musical direction of the new album Blood In Blood Out “Herman Frank and I discussed after the three tracks that I turned over to him he (Herman) said you know Dave I really want to go traditional metal, that’s who I am I’m not gonna change who I am. I’m not gonna be modern metal and I’m like cool cool. Herman Franks in my opinion his riffs speak for themselves and the influence, obviously there’s Judas Priest in there, there’s a lot of stuff that he and I came up with to cut our teeth on. Herman style, my style I mean that that’s the only way I can kind of put it all in one basket. Herman was emphasizing you know Melody we gotta have Melody, so feel free to do what you do Dave and I’ll do what I do. But somehow it just glued together and I’m not going to question why sometimes things just work out. I was really getting tired of being in bands and a couple guys that we all know said Reece you need to go back and sing heavy, that’s what people expect from you. So after the U.D.O. tour (opening act) I realized the truth of it and so I’ve been kind of slowly going back into that.” David Reece
“I wanted to have an album which sounded real fresh, different to this to the stuff I’ve done before. I do love the combination of this heavy guitar sound and a little bit of this bluesy thing what David gives. It’s not just like screaming Heavy Metal like a lot of people do, there’s so much Melody and so much the way he pronounces the words. He’s (David) finding the melody, he starts a melody and then he builds up to the chorus, it’s just fantastic. It was one of the easiest things for me to work out an album. It just fitted from the start. In terms of lyrics Dave is the most talented poet in the Universe on my side.” -Herman Frank
On other topics
When asked about David Reece’s audition for Badlands after Singer Ray Gillen Left “They (Badlands) were thought that I was the guy and Jake (E Lee) you know was the boss and Ray (Gillen) I don’t know if he had passed yet or was at home at his mother’s, I don’t know, God bless him. But I had done a bunch of shows with Badlands and we’d open for them and Ray would always come in the dressing and put his arms around me and say dude damn dude you’re nailing it and I mean here’s Ray Gillen you know the guy was amazing. But Greg (Chaisson Badland’s Bassist) kept an eye on me and then when they kind of fizzled out. He called me one day and said come down to the rehearsal Studio I’ve told Jake about you and Jake he’s interested. So I went down there it was basically the three of us we waited three hours and Jake just opened the door, his hair in his face, cigarette burning his air cranked his Randalls (Amps) to ear bleeding volume, played to the set a few times and in those days I could do “High wire”(The Song) pretty easily. It went really well and Jake and I exchanged numbers and he’s a vampire. I mean the guy sleeps all day and the guy would call me at four o’clock in the morning. Hey man, I’d be like hello. Who’s this? Jake, dude what are you doing? Well I’m sleeping, what’s up? Then one night he called me and said I’ve changed my mind I’m gonna work with Mandy Lion and I’m gonna do a Prince meets Death metal project called World War III and I went okay……Yeah, Prince meets Death Metal I didn’t know what he was talking about and then he just kind of disappeared, I mean and that’s Jake. He’s a brilliant player but in and out. I think he said at rehearsal about five words and then he’d call me and just kind of mumble and then hang up. You know, it was never like do I get the gig? Or what’s going on? It was weird.” David Reece
Iron Allies, the new band of the two esteemed rock/metal gladiators who both once played with Accept, albeit at different times. Herman Frank and David Reece are the classic combination of song-writing guitarist and first-rate lyricist singer, a combination that, more than once, has caused a stir in music history. With drummer Francesco Jovino, bassist Malte Burkert and rhythm guitarist Mike Pesin, Herman and David have gathered like-minded, exceptionally talented forces around them.
Blood In Blood Out was recorded at renowned Horus Sound Studio in Hanover with co-producer Arne Neurand, and was mixed and mastered by Dennis Ward.
Blood In Blood Out track listing: 01 – Full Of Surprises 02 – Blood In Blood Out 03 – Destroyers Of The Night 04 – Fear No Evil 05 – Evil The Gun 06 – Martyrs Burn 07 – Blood On The Land 08 – Nightmares In My Mind 09 – Selling Out 10 – Freezin 11 – Truth Never Mattered 12 – We Are Legend (You And I)
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