FIREWIND
RELEASE DATE March 24
2008
Discography:
Premonition
Mercenary Man (CD single)
Century Media 2008
Allegiance
FBreaking the silence (CD
single)
Falling to pieces (CD single)
Century Media 2006
OFFICIAL PRESSRELEASE 2008
Greece's FIREWIND belong to the most impressing and
hard-working melodic metal bands of our time and their brand-new album
“The Premonition” is sure to reinforce the band’s unstoppable rise to
the worldwide top within their scene. Accompanied by flawless media and fan
reactions, the band’s 2006 album masterpiece and 4th album all-together,
“Allegiance”, could be seen as their break-through release:
“Allegiance” managed to enter official sales charts in Japan as well as
peaking at 10 in the band’s home-country Greece, remaining in the charts
for a solid 9 weeks, while the album’s two singles “Falling To Pieces”
and “Breaking The Silence” climbed up to positions 11 and 16
respectively in Greece.
The band’s incessant string of touring for “Allegiance” all over
Europe, North America and Japan alongside bands such as Dragonforce, Angra,
All That Remains, Kamelot or Sonata Arctica, has not only lead to add
worldwide profile and an excellent reputation as class live-act to FIREWIND
but also added significant power to the band’s songwriting skills and will
to continue conquering new horizons.
Guitar wizard and band-leader Gus G. (ex- Dream Evil and also live session
guitarist for Arch Enemy on their 2005 Ozzfest stint) and his illustrious
band-members, Apollo Papathanasio (ex-Majestic, Time Requiem) on vocals,
Mark Cross (ex-Helloween, ex-Metalium) on drums, Petros Christo (ex-Breaking
Silence) on bass as well as Bob Katsionis on breathtaking dual duties with
keyboards and second guitar, have now returned with an phenomenally
inspiring new album programmatically entitled “The Premonition”, a
warning for great things to come.
Once again powerfully recorded and mixed with Fredrik Nordström (In Flames,
Dimmu Borgir, etc.) at Sweden’s Studio Fredman and mastered at Peter in de
Betou’s Tailor Maid Productions (Dark Tranquillity, Meshuggah, etc.), all
10 songs on “The Premonition” offer about everything that a lover of
quality modern melodic metal can ask for: The furious first track “Into
The Fire” marks a classic and 100% metal grand opening to an album full of
highlights, including the catchy powerhouses “Head Up High”,
“Remembered” and “Circle Of Life”, the album’s first single
“Mercenary Man”, the semi-ballad “My Loneliness”, the melodic
firework that “Angels Forgive Me” is as well as a cool version of the
song “Maniac” (known from the “Flashdance” soundtrack).
FIREWIND’s ability to combine heavy riffing and classic metal structuring
with immense catchiness and glorious hooklines all in an up-to-date and
ever-entertaining way are outstanding and triumphantly elevate “The
Premonition” to become one of the melodic metal genre’s early highlights
for 2008.
Witness FIREWIND on tour all over Europe throughout April and May with
Kamelot and May and June with Arch Enemy and Dark Tranquility in the USA!
Century Media Records 2008
www.centurymedia.com
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