AvantasiaOkay, some 10½ months ago I wrote a journal entry '2009 - The Year of Power. As much good stuff we got that year, and still may get later, the best shit was basically delivered to the next year (2010). Here goes my favorites list, you people can add to this...
Wuthering Heights - SALT
From as reliable source as a Last FM user who said he has a contact with someone who knows... :D Anyway, this source states it's still going to happen in December! The track list is also in here
For those who don't know, this music is going to make your head explode! Seriously, Erik Ravn is one of the best if not the best damn composer of the last couple of years!
Helloween - Unarmed: The 25th Anniversary Thingy, Whatever the Real Name Was Again...
- rearranged rerecordings about songs they basically liked to put into a new form... so basically this text is in a very wrong place (power metal topic) because
- Eagle Fly Free is gonna be a ballad, dueted with a Swedish woman named Harriett Ohlson from Hellsongs
- saxophone version of Dr. Stein
- lounge versions of If I Could Fly and Fallen to Pieces
- and stuff (Behold the mighty Google translator!)
- there's gonna be a new music video with a song they haven't videoed before
- there's likely gonna be a physical single in Japan, and it's NOT gonna be Eagle Fly Free (in Finnish)
- [release dates] December 16th, 2009 - Japan & Southeast Asia (JVC/Victor)
January 29th, 2010 - Europe (SONY/SPV) - http://www.helloween.org/band/news/single-news.html?tx_ttnews[tt_news]=227&cHash=36214565fa
<EDIT> It seems this link cuts too early whether I tag it or not! :D
Freedom Call - Legend of the Shadowking 22nd of January 2010 (Germany, Austria & Switzerland); 25th of January (rest of europe) (http://www.freedom-call.net/)
(http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=130751)
Gamma Ray sometime in January (or does the text on the upper link state that it, too, is going to be out on the 25th?)
Masterplan with Jörn again. The album's ready, just the release date isn't. First quarter of 2010?
http://www.master-plan.net/index2.htm
Avantasia - 'The Wicked Game' and 'Angel of Babylon'
Early 2010. So far confirmed singers (out of my head): Kiske, Meine, Allen, Lande, Catley, Ripper... That's so huge! Hartmann's only going to be on the guitar? ;( I love his voice! Singer/Holzwarth back behind the cans... other guitarists? Help me here... Paeth of course. He's an outstanding producer too! Miro still on the kb? I only seem to know about the singers this time, and Hartmann. ;<
Blind Guardian - We are targeting a late summer, early fall release, which means you still have to wait a little bit. - Hansi Kürsch, the singer
http://www.blind-guardian.com/
Also, a new Stratovarius has been rumored on the boards. I can't bother to search a link though. :D This meaning still no DVD, but a new album!
Wait, there was supposed to be more, but I'm having a bit of a blackout it seems... Well, or maybe here isn't... we already got Cain's Offering, Stratovarius, Sonata Arctica, surprisingly good Vision Divine even if it wasn't reviewed as such, [Thunderstone, HammerFall not actually being that power metal but anyway...], Savage Circus... and what else. Just keep me informed for MOAR projects that might interest me. :P I'm also always open to any recommendations, be it metal or not.
Wuthering Heights - SALT
From as reliable source as a Last FM user who said he has a contact with someone who knows... :D Anyway, this source states it's still going to happen in December! The track list is also in here
For those who don't know, this music is going to make your head explode! Seriously, Erik Ravn is one of the best if not the best damn composer of the last couple of years!
Helloween - Unarmed: The 25th Anniversary Thingy, Whatever the Real Name Was Again...
- rearranged rerecordings about songs they basically liked to put into a new form... so basically this text is in a very wrong place (power metal topic) because
- Eagle Fly Free is gonna be a ballad, dueted with a Swedish woman named Harriett Ohlson from Hellsongs
- saxophone version of Dr. Stein
- lounge versions of If I Could Fly and Fallen to Pieces
- and stuff (Behold the mighty Google translator!)
- there's gonna be a new music video with a song they haven't videoed before
- there's likely gonna be a physical single in Japan, and it's NOT gonna be Eagle Fly Free (in Finnish)
- [release dates] December 16th, 2009 - Japan & Southeast Asia (JVC/Victor)
January 29th, 2010 - Europe (SONY/SPV) - http://www.helloween.org/band/news/single-news.html?tx_ttnews[tt_news]=227&cHash=36214565fa
<EDIT> It seems this link cuts too early whether I tag it or not! :D
Freedom Call - Legend of the Shadowking 22nd of January 2010 (Germany, Austria & Switzerland); 25th of January (rest of europe) (http://www.freedom-call.net/)
(http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=130751)
Gamma Ray sometime in January (or does the text on the upper link state that it, too, is going to be out on the 25th?)
Masterplan with Jörn again. The album's ready, just the release date isn't. First quarter of 2010?
http://www.master-plan.net/index2.htm
Avantasia - 'The Wicked Game' and 'Angel of Babylon'
Early 2010. So far confirmed singers (out of my head): Kiske, Meine, Allen, Lande, Catley, Ripper... That's so huge! Hartmann's only going to be on the guitar? ;( I love his voice! Singer/Holzwarth back behind the cans... other guitarists? Help me here... Paeth of course. He's an outstanding producer too! Miro still on the kb? I only seem to know about the singers this time, and Hartmann. ;<
Blind Guardian - We are targeting a late summer, early fall release, which means you still have to wait a little bit. - Hansi Kürsch, the singer
http://www.blind-guardian.com/
Also, a new Stratovarius has been rumored on the boards. I can't bother to search a link though. :D This meaning still no DVD, but a new album!
Wait, there was supposed to be more, but I'm having a bit of a blackout it seems... Well, or maybe here isn't... we already got Cain's Offering, Stratovarius, Sonata Arctica, surprisingly good Vision Divine even if it wasn't reviewed as such, [Thunderstone, HammerFall not actually being that power metal but anyway...], Savage Circus... and what else. Just keep me informed for MOAR projects that might interest me. :P I'm also always open to any recommendations, be it metal or not.
