Year : 2022
Style : Melodic Hard Rock , Melodic Heavy Metal
Country : Canada
Audio : 320 kbps + all scans
Size : 132 mb
Bio:
2013: The Swiss Hardrock legend CRYSTAL BALL is back and stronger than ever! After a creative break the original members Scott Leach and Marcel Sardella reformed CRYSTAL BALL with fresh blood and a great new frontman, Steven Mageney from Wuppertal, Germany. Steven is a experienced singer with a powerful voice and the perfect match for the new CRYSTAL BALL Sound. «Dawnbreaker» is the title of the new album, that will bring CRYSTAL BALL back to the top of the Hard Rock map.Imagine: the band started in 1995 as a cover band (named «Cherry Pie»). These years of stage experiences became the foundation of CRYSTAL BALL, under whose banner the band became one of Europe´s major forces in the Hard Rock genre. Tentatively entitled «In The Beginning» CRYSTAL BALL started their crusade in 1999. The first album was very successful, but topped with ease from the follow-up «Hard Impact», hailed album of the months in several magazines. Immediately tour plans came up, realised by supporting Pretty Maids and Gotthard. Nobody was able to hide from CRYSTAL BALL. The result: a new record contract with Nuclear Blast.With «Virtual Empire» CRYSTAL BALL showed up more varied but still traditional and melodic in 2002. The band massively toured Europe, together first with Dokken, then with U.D.O., Doro and Krokus. The special humour of CRYSTAL BALL shone through in 2003 with «HELLvetia», the fourth album. «HELLvetia», produced by former Accept/U.D.O. member Stefan Kaufmann, who CRYSTAL BALL met on their tour with U.D.O., became a more edgy effort and increased the success of CRYSTAL BALL enormously. It was the band´s return from the slightly experimental «Virtual Empire» to the old style. Successful tours with Axxis, Pink Cream 69 and Krokus saw CRYSTAL BALL increase their fan following again.«Timewalker» continued in the tradition of delivering great catchy songs full of freshness and power. Once again produced by Kaufmann the album displayed the exceptional class of CRYSTAL BALL. The bands first headliner tour with then labelmates «Thunderstone» followed the release in 2005.2007 CRYSTAL BALL inked a new record deal with AFM Records. «Secrets» was their sixth album, a great piece of Hard Rock, put together by professionals. The album was recorded and produced by Michael Bormann and mixed by Achim Köhler (Primal Fear, Brainstorm and others). Mighty thunderous anthems like «I Will Drag You Down» solidifed the great reputation of CRYSTAL BALL.
Album:
The album "Crysteria" opens a new chapter in Crystal Ball's history. In its third decade, the band is far from just repeating itself and you can find new, fresh and energetic elements in the music. Crystal Ball took its time during the pandemic-related break to write lots of new material, so they could choose from over 30 songs for the "Crysteria" album. Crystal Ball's new guitar player Peter Berger also contributed many songs and ideas to this album. He was a very refreshing and motivating input. The production of "Crysteria", that was taken care of by Stefan Kaufmann, improved even further and reflects the band's live energy perfectly. The album features the vocal duet "Call Of The Wild" with Ronnie Romero (Rainbow, MSG) whom the band got to know at a festival in Switzerland in 2018. The album also contains the band duet "Crystal Heart" with the guys from Jaded Heart. This song was written by members of both bands. As both bands have been friends for a long time, Crystal Ball invited Jaded Heart as special guest on their planned headliner tour in 2022.
Line Up:
Steven Mageney - Vocals (2012-present)
Scott Leach - Guitars (1998-present) - See also: ex-Cherry Pie
Cris Stone - Bass (2013-present)
Peter Berger - Guitars (2020-present) - See also: Killer, Metal Machine, Tower of Babel, ex-Daydreamer, ex-Appearance of Nothing
Marcel Sardella - Drums (1998-present) - See also: ex-Cherry Pie
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Ronnie Romero (lv on track 3)
Stefan Kaufmann (lg on track 4, 8, 10, 11)
Peter Östros (lg on track 12)
Johan Fahlberg (lv on track 12)
Torsten Röhre (pi, orc on track 13)
Tracklist:
01. What Part Of No
02. You Lit My Fire
03. Call Of The Wild (ft. Ronnie Romero)
04. I Am Rock
05. Undying
06. Crysteria
07. Make My Day
08. No Limits
09. Draw The Line
10. Loins On Fire
11. Sole Conviction
12. Crystal Heart (ft. Jaded Heart) (Bonus Track)
13. Till You Meet Again (Bonus Track)
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