DELIRIO AND THE PHANTOMS – the new project of Freddy Delirio (DEATH SS, FREDDY DELIRIO AND THE PHANTOMS) and his son Chris Delirio, will release their debut album “Platinum” on June 16th 2023 via Fuel Records/Self.
The album will be available as CD, LP and digital. The pre-orders are available here: https://bfan.link/platinum-1
Today the band unveils the official video for the first single “The Light Scares You”:
Every Friday new videos will be available here: https://www.youtube.com/@delirioandthephantoms.
Freddy Delirio, historical keyboardist of Death SS with whom he has an extensive discography produced by himself at an artistic level, has reached the top of the charts on more than one occasion (among the many records: Ten, Rock’n’Roll Armageddon, Resurrection, The Darkest night etc.) to which is added a very important live activity as a headline Singer and founder of H.A.R.E.M., with 22 years of discography (Fuel Records – SELF Distribution) and concerts to his credit, he has been a producer and sound engineer for over 30 years (professor Production Bachelor Jam Academy). Owner of the FP Recording Studio with hundreds of productions made internationally, he arrives at a new record and project called Delirio and The Phantoms.
The album was composed and produced by Freddy as singer and keyboardist and by his son Chris Delirio as drummer, keyboardist and multi-instrumentalist who often sees him on guitar, bass and backing vocals.
To complete the training are the refined lead guitarist Paolo Oliveri, with over twenty years of record and live experiences and Alessandro Lupo on bass, also a musician with extensive concert and studio activity behind him.
There is no shortage of exceptional guests inside the disc.
Kevin Riddles, the historic bassist of Angel Witch who played bass directly in the same song “Free Man”, a bonus track cover present both on the CD and in the digital version, which he himself chose for this collaboration with Delirio and the Phantoms.
David Smith historic guitarist of Gypsy’s Kiss (first band of Steve Harris of Iron Maiden) on guitar, guest on the same track “Free Man”.
To complete the list of guests who played on the record, Eleonora De Medici, lyrical voice, Lucky Balsamo on guitar, Jos Venturi on bass, Giuseppe Favia and Francesco Noli present in the cover bonus tracks on drums.
Conceptually the texts describe ghosts in a timeless ancestral dimension, souls who never die and who cross the path in this dimension, where everyone carries their own karmic cross, living the experience of this planet. There is talk of stories of life lived in communication with a not always tactile and human dimension, starting from ancestral love to get to the infernal groups opposed to the high and metaphysical world of Hyperuranium. Historical quotes from ancient civilizations where you have to let go of mistakes and recover the best, only in this way can we talk about true evolution and culture. There is no shortage of references to the everyday life lived within Delirio’s Haunted House.
The first album “The Cross” (Black Widow Records) that bore the name Freddy Delirio and the Phantoms, finished Top Album in several foreign newspapers including Legacy Magazine (Germany), iO Pages (Netherlands) etc., led the band to perform as headliners at several festivals including Sbamfest (TO), Leynir Fest (MI) and Junihell (PO).
During the summer of 2021 the Freddy Delirio and The Phantoms DVD “Live at Crazy Bull Café” was released based on the memorable concert in which ours shared the stage with Simonetti’s Goblins on February 22, 2020 in Genoa, the last Italian date before the lockdown.
The split album “The smell of rain” – “I’m beginning to see the darkness” was recently released with the prestigious Norwegian musician Mortiis and Freddy Delirio and the Phantoms where ours participated with a first version of the song “Platinum”.
The album was written and produced by Freddy (vocals, keyboards) and his son Chris Delirio (drums, keyboards, guitars, bass, chorus). The line-up is completed by Paolo Oliveri (lead guitars) and Alessandro Lupo (bass).
Freddy comments: “Delirio And The Phantoms is an evolution of my previous solo project. Now the presence of my son Christian ‘Chris Delirio’ plays a key role in composition, recording, arrangement and production. I feel supported by a true professional. We worked together during every stage of the realisation of ‘Platinum’, from the moment of songwriting to the final production’.
Angel Witch’s bass player Riddles is the special guest on “Free Man”, alongside with David Smith (Gypsy’s Kiss).
Freddy continues: “The album ‘Platinum’ has a varied sound, featuring different sonorities in a dynamic way. The original sound, which is typical of this band, is held together by a common thread in a kind of journey where the themes, sometimes addressed to the metaphysical world, in other cases more historical and in others still more personal, are the result of real feelings and real life“.
Track lististing
- The Light Scares You
- Pyramidal Lymph
- Phantoms
- A Better Time
- Once Again
- New Eras
- On The Threshold
- No Mercy
- Always Here
- Platinum
- ree Man
- Pick Up The Bones
- Pipeline
- Anne Of Cleves
Line Up:
Freddy Delirio – vocals/keyboards
Chris Delirio – drums
Paolo Oliveri – guitars
Alessandro Lupo – bass
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