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LABYRINTH To Release New Studio Album “Welcome to the Absurd Circus” In January, New Single Out Now

Posted by tarjavirmakari on November 4, 2020
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Italian metallers LABYRINTH will return with their new studio album, “Welcome to the Absurd Circus” in 2021. Once again, speedy power metal songs with unforgettable hooks, epic prog infused metal songs, and some great melodic numbers constitute a record which is going to become another milestone for the Italian metal masters! “Welcome To The Absurd Circus” follows the band’s well-received 2017 comeback album, “Architecture of a God”. Today, fans can get their first taste of the album with the new single and video, ‘The Absurd Circus’. 

Pre-order/save “Welcome To The Absurd Circus” HERE: https://orcd.co/labyrinth 

In the spring of 2016, the band’s founding members Andrea Cantarelli and Olaf Thorsen received a call from Frontiers, asking them to discuss with singer Roberto Tiranti the possibility of a comeback for the band. After much thought, the guys agreed to get back together and round out the line-up with John Macaluso (now replaced by Mattia Peruzzi), Oleg Smirnoff (Vision Divine, Eldritch) on keyboards, and Nik Mazzucconi (Hardline, Edge of Forever) on bass, Labÿrinth’s comeback album “Architecture of a God” (2017) was a definite and true return to form.

With the release of “Return to Heaven Denied” in 1998, Labÿrinth had a “classic” album on their hands, which was embraced by fans and metal scribes alike and gave a strong push not only to the band’s career, but also to the Italian metal scene as a whole. More albums followed, but after the release of “Return to Heaven Denied, Pt. 2 – A Midnight Autumn Dream” in 2010 the band went on an indefinite hiatus.

Their return in 2017 was greeted with open arms by metal fans from around the globe. Their upcoming release sees the band continuing the reinvigoration they showed on “Architecture Of A God” and pushing it even further. 

A must hear for not only fans of the band, but progressive and power metal fans in general. 

Tracklist:

  1. The Absurd Circus
  2. Live Today
  3. One More Last Chance
  4. As Long As It Lasts
  5. Den Of Snakes
  6. Word’s Minefield
  7. The Unexpected
  8. Dancing With Tears In My Eyes
  9. Sleepwalker
  10. A Reason To Survive
  11. Finally Free

Line-up:
Roberto Tiranti – Vocals
Olaf Thorsen – Guitars
Andrea Cantarelli – Guitars
Oleg Smirnoff – Keyboards
Nik Mazzucconi – Bass
Mattia Peruzzi – Drums

PIER GONELLA Releases First Single And Video ‘Strategy’ From Upcoming Solo Album

Posted by tarjavirmakari on November 25, 2019
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NECRODEATH, MASTERCASTLE, VANEXA, ODYSSEA, ex-LABYRINTH guitarist PIER GONELLA‘s new instrumental solo album “Strategy” is coming out in the first months of 2020, in collaboration with Diamonds Prod. Today the band has unleashed the first single and video from the album, for the title track, watch it below.

“Strategy” -album line-up:
Pier Gonella – guitars
Giulio Belzer – bass
Marco Pesenti – drums

More details will be announced soon, stay tuned!

For more info:
http://www.piergonella.com
http://www.diamondsprod.it

PIER GONELLA Unveils Title And Line-Up For His Next Solo Album

Posted by tarjavirmakari on November 16, 2019
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Just recently, NECRODEATH, MASTERCASTLE, VANEXA, ODYSSEA, ex-LABYRINTH guitarist PIER GONELLA announced that his new solo album is in progress. Today he’s unveiled the names of the musicians flanking him in his solo project, being completed by Marco Pesenti on drums and Giulio Belzer on bass.

Furthermore Pier has revealed the album title, “Strategy”, which is currently in mixing phase, and it’s coming out in the first months of 2020.

More details will be announced soon, stay tuned!

For more info:
http://www.piergonella.com
http://www.diamondsprod.it

 

PIER GONELLA Working On New Solo Album

Posted by tarjavirmakari on November 4, 2019
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NECRODEATH, MASTERCASTLE, VANEXA, ODYSSEA, ex-LABYRINTH guitarist PIER GONELLA has announced that his new solo album is in progress.

The musician/producer Pier reveals that he is working on an instrumental solo album in his own Musicart studios in Genoa (Italy), in collaboration with Diamonds Prod. Leaked rumors talk about a possible release in 2020. Further details will follow soon.

More information at http://www.piergonella.com

LABYRINTH To Release “Return To Live” In January

Posted by tarjavirmakari on November 21, 2017
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Italy’s finest purveryors of power/prog metal LABYRINTH are set to release “Return To Live” CD/DVD and Blu-Ray on January 26, 2018 on Frontiers Music Srl.

LABYRINTH held their first reunion show at Frontiers Metal Festival in Trezzo Sull’Adda on October 30, 2016. The renewed lineup played “Return To Heaven Denied” in it’s entirety, for only the second time ever, their most popular record (so far). The landmark album was originally released by Metal Blade in 1998 and is considered by many to be one of the highlights of the power metal genre in the late ‘90s.

Olaf Thorsen says, “It was a real mix of feelings to play Return To Heaven Denied in it’s entirety as it was something which we never did before, not even during the many tours we did back in ’98-‘99! It is even crazier when you think that this was our very first live show with our new line up, but when we saw so many people from different countries singing every single song with us, we just felt that it has all been worth it. Unforgettable.”

Check out the video for “Moonlight”:

A stellar live performance that is crucial listening/viewing for all fans of the band!

“Return To Live” TRACKLISTING:

1. Moonlight
2. New Horizons
3. The Night Of Dreams
4. Lady Lost In Time
5. State Of Grace
6. Heaven Denied
7. Thunder
8. Feel
9. Time After Time
10. Falling Rain
11. Die For Freedom
12. In The Shade

BAND MEMBERS: 
Roberto Tiranti, Olaf Thorsen, Andrea Cantarelli, John Macaluso, Nik Mazzucconi, Oleg Smirnoff

 

LABYRINTH to Release New Album “Architecture of a God” in April

Posted by tarjavirmakari on February 17, 2017
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Frontiers Music Srl is particularly pleased to announce that after a seven year hiatus, LABYRINTH, the legendary Italian metal band, will return with a brand new studio album, “Architecture of a God” on April 21, 2017.

In the spring of 2016, the band’s founding members, Andrea Cantarelli and Olaf Thorsen received a call from Frontiers asking them to discuss with vocalist Roberto Tiranti the possibilities of a reunion with a return to their classic sound to mount a comeback for the band. After much discussion, the guys agreed to make an album and also to make a very special appearance at the the first annual Frontiers Metal Festival, where they performed their signature album, “Return to Heaven Denied” in it’s entirety. [Said performance is being prepared for a future home video release.]

Olaf says: “This has been easily the most difficult and challenging album I ever worked on. To be honest, when Frontiers contacted me, insisting to make this reunion happen, I was skeptical and worried. We couldn’t simply make a new album, it wouldn’t have been honest to the fans, to ourselves. Of course, this is as easy to say as also unbelievably tough to make real: we have so many good albums out there, looking at us from their past and which people still keep in their minds and hearts. That’s why we decided to strengthen our line-up, joining with nobody else but the best musicians we believed they would have fitted perfectly into our perspective of the music we were about to write.”

Andrea adds: “The making of this album has been a fantastic journey. We brought back a lot of classic elements of our music, mixing it with something new and I’m so enthusiastic about the final result.”

Roberto Tiranti makes it short: “Just when you thought you already gave everything you could, expressing every possible musical aspect of your way of intending music for a band like Labyrinth, then comes “Architecture of a God”, to remind you that nothing is impossible!”

With a new line-up rounded out by drummer extraordinaire John Macaluso (TNT, Riot, Ark etc.), Oleg Smirnoff (Vision Divine, Edritch) on keyboards, and Nik Mazzucconi on bass, Labÿrinth are truly coming back stronger than ever and have offered up a superb self-produced album. “Architecture of a God” (mixed by DGM’s Simone Mularoni) is a record that encompasses all the elements the band is known for: fast power metal songs with unforgettable hooks, epic prog infused metal songs, and some great melodic numbers that compose a record which is easily going to be another milestone for the Italian metal masters!

“What we have in our hands, now, it’s “Architecture of a God”: by far, the most mature and complete album we ever wrote,” concludes Thorsen. “There’s no will to challenge our glorious past, but I’m really confident that, once released, this album will set a new standard for our music!”

“Architecture of a God” tracklisting includes:
1. Bullets
2. Still Alive
3. Take On My Legacy
4. A New Dream
5. Someone Says
6. Random Logic
7. Architecture of a God
8. Children
9. Those Days
10. We Belong To Yesterday
11. Stardust and Ashes
12. Diamond

LABŸRINTH
Roberto Tiranti – lead vocals
Olaf Thorsen – lead guitars
Andrea Cantarelli – lead guitars
Nik Mazzucconi – bass guitar
Oleg Smirnoff – keyboards
John Macaluso – drums

Weblinks:
http://www.labyrinthband.it/
http://www.facebook.com/labyrinthitaly