Death is Just A Feeling is now available as a pre-order at a special price + 2 Bonus track, and only for 5 days!
Bonus Tracks Include: Time Of The Equinox taken from the Time Of The Equinox album + Poetry Of Time taken from the Schizanimus EP
Featuring an all star lineup: Anneke Van Giersbergen (The Gathering, Ayreon, The Gentle Storm), Arjen Lucassen (Ayreon, Guilt Machine, Stream of Passion), Elia Monsef (Ostura, Amadeus Awad), Marco Minnemann (Joe Satriani, Steven Wilson, The Aristocrats) and Jimmy Keegan (Spocks Beard, John Waite, Santana).
Amadeus Awad: Acoustic, Electric & Bass Guitars, Keyboards and Orchestration. Anneke Van Giersbergen: Vocals. Arjen Lucassen: Vocals. Elia Monsef: Vocals. Marco Minnemann: Drums on Tracks 2, 3, 5 & 6. James Keegan : Drums on Track 4. Nareg Nashanikian: Cello. Rafi Nashanikian: Clarinet. Dan Harper: Narration. All music and lyrics by Amadeus Awad Mixed and mastered by Brett Caldas-Lima at Tower Studios.
The VOICE of YES and the VIOLINIST of the AGES, have come together, and JOINED COSMIC FORCES, as ONE UNIFIED POWER, in a ONCE IN A LIFETIME EVENT, which will span, throughout their 2015 – 2016 NORTH AMERICAN & EUROPEAN TOUR.
DON’T MISS THE ” BETTER LATE THAN NEVER, ” TOUR!!!
OCTOBER
10/27 – Philadelphia – Keswick Theater 10/29 – Red Bank, NJ – Count Basie 10/30 – Ridgefield, CT – Ridgefield Playhouse
NOVEMBER
11/1 – Pittsurgh – Carnegie Theater 11/3 – Chicago – Arcada Theater 11/4 – Milwaukee – Milwaukee PAC 11/6 – Detroit – Detroit Music Hall 11/7 – Toronto – Danforth Music Hall 11/10 – Washington, DC – Howard Theater 11/11 – Long Island – Paramount Theater 11/13 – NYC – Ethical Culture 11/14 – Boston – Berklee Performance Center 11/17 – San Francisco – Regency 11/18 – Sacramento – Crest Theater 11/20 – Los Angeles – Saban Theater 11/21 – Scottsdale – Talking Stick
I always like a band that can build its own signature sound, build a career on it, all without having every album sound like the same thing over and over. Over the last 25 years or so, Royal Hunt have been one of those bands. While their peers such as Dream Theater, SymphonyX, and Threshold have been explained time and time again, Royal Hunt has seemed to go a little more under the radar in the Western Hemisphere of the world.
In 2015 it is time to start including Royal Hunt the discourse of breath of conversation with the bands I mentioned above. Due to overwhelming demand by the fans DC Cooper returns for the bands new album Devil’s Dozen. The Devil’s Dozen has 8 very powerful and melodic tracks. DCCooper returns and picks up as if he never left on Devil’s Dozen.
So Right So Wrong has a sweet rhythm intro with DC Cooper playing off the drums with a nice vocal echo overdubbed running side by side with his main vocal. The band also employs a great female choir symphony to serve as additional background vocals. There are so nice breaks off and on before Jonas Larsen’s good solo work.
May You Never (Walk Alone) begins with a nice piano section performed by legendary keyboardist Andre’ Andersen. Then the song explodes with a powerful instrumental 4/4 passage. Soon there is a great breaking section that seems to be a trend in the album where DC Cooper continues to sing more off the rhythm section of drums and bass. The solo has some power points where Jonas Larsen and Andre Andersen play off one another creating a power atmospheric vibe.
Heart On A Platter opens up with a killer bass led rhythm passage performed greatly by AndreasPassmark. This sets the tone quite nicely for the rest of the track. Heart On A Platter displays the bands rhythm prowess more than its stringed section. Andre Andersen incorporates some great violin and other orchestral effects in places as well. Once again the female choir symphony serves quite powerfully on backing vocals.
A Tear In The Rain opens with a all out orchestral assault between the keyboards, guitar in harmony with the bass and rhythm section. Included in the intro are backing chant like vocals. This is a up tempo track from the first to last note. Both a melodic and harmonic up tempo. A Tear In The Rain is a more traditional Royal Hunt signature. This one also has a very sick killer guitar solo.
Until The Day once again opens with a great yet dark piano passage along with some good vocal work. This track is probably the most orchestral track on the album. Until The Day borders on a power ballad in some places. The track has some moments of soul within the structure of lead to backing vocals. The band once again uses a beautiful female choir to beautifully articulate the more soulful moments on the track. The guitar solo has some great time signatures going in and out from hook to hook.
Riches To Rags has a wicked primal intro like old world
Until The Day once again opens with a great yet dark piano passage along with some good vocal work. This track is probably the most orchestral track on the album. Until The Day borders on a power ballad in some places. The track has some moments of soul within the structure of lead to backing vocals. The band once again uses a beautiful female choir to beautifully articulate the more soulful moments on the track. The guitar solo has some great time signatures going in and out from hook to hook.
Riches To Rags has a wicked primal intro like old world Celtic groove with a flute going side by side with the rhythm section. This track incorporates a male choral symphony along with the female choir. They most definitely give this track a 16th century instrumental vibe to the track. DC Coopers register is spot on on this one.
Way Too Late opens up as if it were a film score or movie soundtrack. This one literally sounds like Royal Hunt were watching a film and performed this live in studio. The rhythm section has a very deliberate presence of musicianship here. It will be interesting to see if the band will incorporate this with a symphony in live sets.
How Do You Know is definitely the straight up rock/metal track on Devil’s Dozen. The band wastes no time getting it going on this one. There is a straight away rock feel. The female vocals give this one a great vocal layer in background as well. It has some nice breaks towards the end both vocally and lyrically.
I was surprised honestly to see how much the band worked in unison on Devil’s Dozen. It was as if DC Cooper picked up where he left off in his absence away from Royal Hunt plus the introduction to new guitarist Jonas Larsen. I give Devil’s Dozen a 4/5.
How would you like to become a LYRICIST for the UPF?
Well, if you have what it takes, ENTER THIS CONTEST for ALL WINNERS WILL BE CREDITED & SHARE THE ROYALTIES!!!!!
AS WRITTEN ON THE BAND’S WEBSITE:
The Message of the Fraternity is “ To promote environmental and social awareness, directly relating to the state of Planet Earth and the human condition. The message is one of hope, highlighting that we can make a difference through the power of music. ”
So what difference can you make? PLENTY! – and here is your chance if you feel you have the talent to pen these themes into song lyrics that will reach listeners around the planet. In other words, what you write really does have the power to change the world, not just for the short time it takes to listen to a song, but how that message resonates and propagates down the line to trigger and inspire long term action and provide millions with hope in the form of solutions for a dying earth, our only home.
The bottom line here is that United Progressive Fraternity, through your lyrics can help bring about a much needed change in our troubled world. Together, we are raising the awareness leading to action.
Back in 2014, after the fans of Austraila’s favorite Prog Band, UNITED PROGRESSIVE FRATERNITY have FALLEN IN LOVE WITH THE WORLD, with their DEBUT ALBUM, with OUTSTANDING & TREMENDOUS SUCCESS, everyone will be DELIGHTED by this GALVANIZING NEWS, from MARK TRUEY TRUEACK:
” UPF band members around the world ( WE ARE TRULY INTERNATIONAL, ) are currently hard at work on the follow-up to our debut album ‘ FALL IN LOVE WITH THE WORLD, ’ – “ PLANETARY OVERLOAD, ” which is the concept behind the next project, will delve DEEPER into the ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES, that we all face as a united world, also, we’re working on a project, that will contain the HISTORY OF PROGRESSIVE MUSIC. “
I hope you find this song as beautiful as I do. I wasn’t set to release anything right now but I feel that this song could help others heal their souls as much as it did for me.
“Love Will Heal” is available for pre-order now on Bandcamp and will soon be released on August 24, 2015 on all digital stores.
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Death is Just A Feeling is now available as a pre-order at a special price + 2 Bonus track, and only for 5 days!
