Greek Prog/Power Metallers WARDRUM, uploaded the “Desolation” album teaser on their Official Youtube channel revealing many samples of the new album’s songs and booklet layout artwork. You can check it out below.
The album has been released today, on April 25th, 2012 containing 12 new tracks listed as follows:
WARDRUM – “Desolation”
1. Unforgiving
2. Sign Of Treason
3. Parental
4. Common Ground
5. Tide Lakes
6. Higher Sky
7. F.A.I.T.H.
8. Urban Storm
9. No Retreat
10. Abound In Nothing
11. Sailing Away
12. Rainy Day
“Desolation” will be available in the jewel box CD format as well as Digital Download.
WARDRUM is the newborn art child of the Greek drummer Stergios Kourou (Horizon’s End), who is willing to serve in the best possible way the music he grew up with and still loves deep, Heavy Metal. The line-up completes vocalist Piero Leporale (Uli Jon Roth), guitar virtuoso Kosta Vreto (Horizon’s End, x-Vavel), and the bass master Kostas Scandalis (Horizon’s end). Their debut album “Spadework” was released on April 2011. MSFinland had a chance to interview the drummer and the founder, Stergios (enriched with some comments of the vocalist Piero), please join to our conversation.
Hi Stergios, I’m Tarja. Welcome to Metal Shock Finland! Let’s start by taking about WARDRUM’s first crucial steps… You formed the band in june 2010, so it’s your newborn art child. Tell me about how it all started…
Hi Tarja! First of all I would like to thank you very much for giving us the opportunity to present Wardrum in Metal Shock Finland.
Wardrum started when I, together with guitarist Kosta Vreto, and bassist Kostas Scandalis, decided to start an old school heavy metal band, fulfilling a common childhood dream. That was complete when we shared the idea with vocalist Piero Leporale and he agreed to work together with us. The result was “Spadework”, our debut album. It’s been one and a half year since we started and the fire is getting bigger and bigger.
WARDRUM “Spadework” (2011)
Label: Steel Gallery Records
Tracklist:
01. The Meaning of Forever
02. Crest of the Wave
03. In Dependence
04. Yesterday
05. Circle of Hate
06. Spadework
07. Turn About
08. Soultrip
09. Inner God
10. Last Neverland
The gods are clement, they offer us the Sacred Fire in the form of the first album of the Greek combative WARDRUM, who with “Spadework” and its spirited and very high progressive power metal should enchant our end of the year.
Formed by the tenacious drummer Stergios Kourou supported by invigorating singer Piero Leporale shares with us, without sentence, his wide range of vocal emotions, fumed by vindictive compositions of “serial-guitarist-killer” Kosta Vreto (Horizon’s End) and groovy bassist Kostas Scandalis, this new band qualifiers a beautiful property: Invested, angry, optimistic in its art, WARDRUM announces a future war on which to be reckoned.
The song “The Meaning Of Forever” is sufficient to understand the beauty of this art. Everything is said in the sumptuously evocative vocal lines, where you feel deeply in your flesh the underlying pain that interferes. This Heavy-Metal edge vintages (Dio, Astral Doors, or Steel Attack for example), the angry heartbreaking solos in their melodical constructions, these rhythmic escapements of an hungry Iced Earth, invite us to feast.
This glorious land where was born the best of the Human Spirit, the battered cradle by severe storms, a child has become a man who’s never relinquished and his pride will be his sword. As long as a human is capable to produce such music, hope will not die.
On the karst torment there is born a trembling silver, WARDRUM with this offering honors twelve Olympians deities and thus becomes immortal among the Immortals, like the enlighted SepticFlesh, Nightfall, Firewind and Rotting Christ. Many were the times when I hammered the fact, but the future of Metal is apparent in the Greek skies. WARDRUM is again a brillant proof of it. Listen to the words of Henry Miller: “In Greece, we have a desire to swim in the sky.”
WARDRUM: let’s celebrate the vital breath of Heavy-Metal at the top of his art!
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