Anubis Gate (DENMARK)

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Anubis Gate (DENMARK)

Príspevokod užívateľa Horex » 30 Máj 2023, 15:05

Anubis Gate - Covered In Colours (2020)

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Year : 2020
Style : Progressive Metal , Power Metal
Country : Denmark
Audio : 320 kbps + scans
Size : 173 mb


Bio:

Anubis Gate was founded in 2001 by Jesper M. Jensen and Morten Sørensen under the name Seven Powers. A demo CD of instrumentals was made, but it wasn’t until 2003 when they found vocalist Torben Askholm that things really started to take shape. At first the idea was to record a demo based on some of the Seven Powers tracks, in order to get a record contract. Music was mainly written by Jesper. Lyrics and vocal melodies were then added by Torben and Henrik Fevre, and later in the studio lead guitars/keyboards were added by Kim Olesen. Both side men were old friends that had played with both Morten and Jesper in different bands in the 80’s. As soon as the demo was finished it was sent to Danish management Intromental, who quickly secured the trio a record deal with Spanish label Locomotive Music, now under the name Anubis Gate. So what started as a demo ended up being the debut album “Purification”, produced by Jacob Hansen and released April 26, 2004. Metal music archives said: ”Overall, if you are a fan of progressive metal that is largely based in power metal, you’ll probably enjoy it”.For the next album Henrik (bass/backing vocals) and Kim (guitars/keyboards) joined as full time members, and both started taking more part in the songwriting. “A perfect forever” – the 2nd album, was released on September 19, 2005 in Europe/USA and on January 2nd 2006 in South America (Encore records). Once again with a grandiose production from Jacob Hansen. With an even more mature and melodic songwriting, this album set a light to a massive fire in the hearts of many metal fans and reviewers alike. Thoughtsofmetal wrote: ”All of the songs are of high quality, and though I would have liked a bit more uptempo, I can end with about the same words as with VANISHING POINT: quality music that should not be missed in your collection”.ag_auIn the fall of 2005 Torben suffered from a temporary loss of his voice, which eventually forced him to leave the band. For the upcoming gigs Henrik took over vocal duties, while playing the bass as well. This was never thought as a permanent solution, so in 2006 Jacob Hansen joined Anubis Gate as the new vocalist. The band started writing and recording their third epos “Andromeda unchained”, which was quite a departure from the first two album, incorporation more prog metal elements to the power metal foundation. It also saw Jacob taking part in the songwriting, implementing hard rock elements to the sound in addition to a more clean and high-pitched vocal style. Henceforth Kim would also be the main man in pre- and post production of the music, putting it all together. Released on August 14, 2007 the sci-fi inspired semi-concept album gained ecstatic reviews from the press and was loved by the fans. Some declaring it to be the power/prog release of the century. Metalcrypt.com said: “The compositions never feel overcrowded and never slip over into masturbation”. Metal Storm said: “Andromeda Unchained” is a great surprise! This album is really complex without being hard to understand”. For the first time this album was produced by both Jacob Hansen and Kim Olesen. “Andromeda Unchained” was nominated for 3 Danish Metal Awards. The categories being: Best album, best production and best cover. It took home the best cover award.The year 2008 saw Anubis Gate writing and recording their most elaborate work to date, a true concept album. ”The Detached”, released on March 30, 2009, featured 12 songs by Anubis Gate, all based on a story by Danish renowned game play writer Martin Rauff and set to lyrics by Anubis Gate’s own Henrik Fevre. It tells the story of Bilao, who is one of a few “detached”. A human race able to move in time by sheer physical power. The album was produced by Jacob Hansen and Kim Olesen, for which they won a Danish Metal Award in 2010 (best production, again out of the same three nominations as in 2008). The album saw the band further developing their style of progressive power metal, with new twists and turns, but as always with the songwriting taking the high seat. Once again the critics and the fans were ecstatic: ”Anubis Gate, with their new release, The Detached, truly define the definition of a concept album” (Metal Express). ”The band mix in a decent amount of melody, but never lose sight of the hard driving guitar sound that makes this band great”.anubisgate_thedetached“The Detached” marked the end of Anubis Gate’s obligations with label Locomotive Music. Several other companies showed interest as the band in 2010 embarked on writing material for their fifth album, which was scheduled for release in the spring 2011. In fact most of the songs were already finished when lead singer and producer Jacob Hansen announced his surprising departure from the band due to the increasing workload of being a first rate producer. Luckily Anubis Gate had a replacement within the band; bass player Henrik Fevre, who already did backing vocals and the occasional lead on recent albums. Demos of the new material, produced by Kim Olesen, secured the band a record deal in March 2011 with Minnesota-based Nightmare Records for a fifth album release in the fall of 2011. A great way to celebrate the band’s ten years anniversary.ag_stThe new album, titled simply “Anubis Gate” was released on September 13, 2011. For the first time the album was accompanied by a music video for the single version of the song “Golden days”. The songwriting, which has always been the core of the Anubis Gate sound, was stronger than ever, this time emphasized by the fact that Henrik Fevre, who was largely responsible for writing the vocal lines and lyrics for the previous albums, got to sing the words he wrote himself, injecting the emotion and meaning into the lyrics that he had in mind when writing them. Maybe a reason why the band survived yet another change of vocalist. Once again produced by Kim Olesen and Jacob Hansen and with a stunningly great mix done by the latter. Metalreview said: ”Anubis Gate is more than just a typical power/prog record; very simply put, it’s just great music that makes you feel good, and that’s something that shouldn’t be missed”.After a small series of gigs culmination at Prog Power in Holland in the fall 2012, founder Jesper M. Jensen announced that he no longer wanted to be part of the band. Soon a replacement was found in Michael Bodin (Third Eye), who had previously played with Torben Askholm in Northern Empire. Even though the music for the 6th album was already far in the making, Michael managed to get his writing skills implemented. Shokingly only a couple of months later the other remaining founder Morten Sørensen also announced his departure. Luckily the band quickly got hold of drummer Morten Gade Sørensen, (Pyramaze & Wuthering height), with whom Kim had previously worked during the recording of Lance King’s “A moment in Chiros” album.anubis-gate-horizons-coverThe idea of releasing “Sheep” was a sort of apology to satisfy fans, who via the social medias had been promised a new album in 2013. Due to different circumstances the album didn’t arrive until April 15, 2014 entitled “Horizons”. Another ten song collection that showed even more of what the new line-up was capable of. Metalunderground said: “Anubis Gate expands the horizon of progressive metal” and Eternal-terror.com wrote: “…definitely their benchmark/pinnacle effort in their already impressive career”. At the same time the first four albums were now again available as downloads after years of struggling with Locomotive Music, who besides (still) owing the band money wasn’t very keen on taking down the albums from iTunes etc., even though their licences had long run out. Finally they did and the band could rightfully profit from its earlier efforts. After this it was time for playing live again, and on September 19, 2014 the new line-up was on stage for the first time in Odense, Denmark. A planned Prog Power Atlanta gig was scheduled for September 11, 2015, but later cancelled due to illness within the band.photo-originalIn 2016 Anubis Gate launched its long-planned fundraiser campaign to get the first 4 albums back out on a physical format. The original CD’s were long out of print and the few copies for sale fetched sky high prices on eBay. It was time to do something about it and the idea of making a box set of said albums + 2 bonus CD’s containing rare studio- and live recordings came about. The fundraiser ran for two months from February to April and aimed for a total of 18,000 dollars to cover the expenses, and it came out successfully. So in August 2016 the numbered limited edition 6-cd legacy box sets entitled “Orbits” finally reached the pledgers, and the remaining copies (of 1,000 made) are still available from Nightmare Records exclusively.anubisgate_coveredinblack-150-x-150 The 7th album was inspired by one of the band members bad mental health during the writing period (2015-16). So the band came up with darker, more complex and dissonant material than ever before, and naturally the lyrics also reflected this. Thus “Covered in black” became an album very different to its predecessors. It’s a theme album, dedicated to people in dark places, and not a concept album as such. It was recorded during the summer/fall of 2016 and once again produced by the dynamic duo of Jacob Hansen and Kim Olesen. Although complete by March 2017, its release was postponed to September 1, 2017 and a video for “The combat” was released in August. Angry Metal Guy put it like this: “If your issue with the band’s prior output was a lack of heaviness, this may be what you were waiting for. Definitely worth a dedicated spin for the progressive-minded among us”. Big sails were then set for “Black” with no less than two videos released; one lyric and one featuring the band. In spring 2018 two exclusive concerts were held in Denmark to promote the album.cic-150 After the dark and introspective “Covered in Black” the band decided it was time for something a little lighter. So Kim came up with the idea that each member picked a couple of songs that they wanted to cover and arrange for Anubis Gate. The idea of covering others material is not strange to the band, as every recording session since 2007 has contained at least one cover song. So work began on the small leisure project, which eventually grew almost out of hand and ended up being the longest Anubis Gate album ever (74 minutes). As a counterweight album to its predecessor it was aptly named “Covered in Colours”, containing tracks that the members were greatly inspired by in their youth, careers and by contemporaries. 14 songs from sources as diverse as thrash metal, jazz fusion, 60’s psychedelic pop, 70’s prog rock, 80’s synth pop, art rock and more, but rearranged to fit the band and the genre. The album was produced and mixed by Kim Olesen. “Covered In Colours” will be released April 24th 2020 on Nightmare Records.THE MUSIC OF ANUBIS GATE: Stylistically Anubis Gate is conglomeration of the classic 80’s heavy metal, a more epic 90’s ambiance and a dark progressiveness of our days. Add in the melancholy and melodic sensitivity of 80’s pop. Mix all that with the giants of the 70’s progressive rock scene and you have Anubis Gate.

Album:

“Covered in Colours” to be released April 24th on NIGHTMARE RECORDS.After recording the dark and introspective album “Covered in Black” the band needed a counterweight album, so they decided to release an album of tracks they were greatly inspired by in their youth, careers and by contemporaries… They believe it’s a cover album like no other cover album you’ve ever heard! Just as much care has gone into “Covered in Colours” as any other Anubis Gate album. Guitarist Kim Olesen had this to say; …being the old serious people that are, we consciously strove to avoid the obvious pitfalls of metal-band does cover versions.Instead, the band has treated these amazing songs like they were their own and almost all of them are completely rearranged.The album is neatly divided into five corners. You can sit in your favorite corner, be comfortable in others, while there may be a corner from which you don’t care for the view. And just like any old grumpy prog listener, you might get the chance to say “They’ve gone too far”. Some might ask what on earth the band was thinking… why did they do this? So here’s a little Q & A from their own minds. Is this an essential Anubis Gate Album? YES! “Though it didn’t feel like it when we first started the project, it became essential when it became clear that this was not just a couple of songs, but a full-blown album project in its own right”. But why? “Because we trust the process to deliver the answers. After going through the therapy that Covered in Black was, a wave of productivity came over us. And a couple of songs meant as B-sides for future singles became an E.P. But then the project became a runaway train and it ended up being the longest album we’ve ever done”. Are you serious? “Of course we are, recording and rearranging those songs was seriously fun, but also funnily serious”! Did you really need to spend time and energy on this project? “Yes. It would be safe to say that without this album the next one would not happen”. *Produced by Kim Olesen – Jacob Hansen (drum production).

Line-Up:

Henrik Fevre - Bass (2005-present), Vocals (2011-present) - See also: ex-Graff Spee, ex-Death Axe, ex-Black Mercyful, ex-Manta, ex-Odinn, ex-V-Axe, ex-Witch Death
Kim Olesen - Guitars, Keyboards (2005-present) - See also: ex-Extreme Feedback, ex-Lance King, ex-The Arcane Order (live)
Michael Bodin - Guitars (2012-present) - See also: Third Eye, ex-Northern Empire, ex-Prophecy, ex-Prophets of Doom
Morten Gade Sørensen - Drums (2013-present) - See also: Pyramaze, Wuthering Heights, ex-Scornfull, Firesoul, ex-Aurora, ex-Lance King

Tracklist:

Starters:
01. Still Life In Mobile Homes (by Japan)
02. Red (by King Crimson)
03. Plantage (by Under Byen)

The Jazz-Metal Lounge:
04. Experiment (by Voivod)
05. Chromazone (by Mike Stern)
06. Glamour Profession (by Steely Dan)

The Beautiful Ones:
07. Entangled (by Genesis)
08. Atlas (by Coldplay)

The Eighties Corner:
09. To France (by Mike Oldfield)
10. Fade to Grey (by Visage)
11. S.A.T.O. (by Ozzy Osbourne)

No, they didn’t...:
12. Aggressive Perfector (by Slayer)
13. Back In Black (by AC/DC)
14. Strawberry Fields Forever (by The Beatles)


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Re: Anubis Gate (DEN)

Príspevokod užívateľa Horex » 30 Máj 2023, 15:06

Anubis Gate - Interference (2023)

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Year : 2023
Style : Progressive Metal , Power Metal
Country : Denmark
Audio : 320 kbps + front
Size : 138 mb


Bio:

Anubis Gate was founded in 2001 by Jesper M. Jensen and Morten Sørensen under the name Seven Powers. A demo CD of instrumentals was made, but it wasn’t until 2003 when they found vocalist Torben Askholm that things really started to take shape. At first the idea was to record a demo based on some of the Seven Powers tracks, in order to get a record contract. Music was mainly written by Jesper. Lyrics and vocal melodies were then added by Torben and Henrik Fevre, and later in the studio lead guitars/keyboards were added by Kim Olesen. Both side men were old friends that had played with both Morten and Jesper in different bands in the 80’s. As soon as the demo was finished it was sent to Danish management Intromental, who quickly secured the trio a record deal with Spanish label Locomotive Music, now under the name Anubis Gate. So what started as a demo ended up being the debut album “Purification”, produced by Jacob Hansen and released April 26, 2004. Metal music archives said: ”Overall, if you are a fan of progressive metal that is largely based in power metal, you’ll probably enjoy it”.For the next album Henrik (bass/backing vocals) and Kim (guitars/keyboards) joined as full time members, and both started taking more part in the songwriting. “A perfect forever” – the 2nd album, was released on September 19, 2005 in Europe/USA and on January 2nd 2006 in South America (Encore records). Once again with a grandiose production from Jacob Hansen. With an even more mature and melodic songwriting, this album set a light to a massive fire in the hearts of many metal fans and reviewers alike. Thoughtsofmetal wrote: ”All of the songs are of high quality, and though I would have liked a bit more uptempo, I can end with about the same words as with VANISHING POINT: quality music that should not be missed in your collection”.ag_auIn the fall of 2005 Torben suffered from a temporary loss of his voice, which eventually forced him to leave the band. For the upcoming gigs Henrik took over vocal duties, while playing the bass as well. This was never thought as a permanent solution, so in 2006 Jacob Hansen joined Anubis Gate as the new vocalist. The band started writing and recording their third epos “Andromeda unchained”, which was quite a departure from the first two album, incorporation more prog metal elements to the power metal foundation. It also saw Jacob taking part in the songwriting, implementing hard rock elements to the sound in addition to a more clean and high-pitched vocal style. Henceforth Kim would also be the main man in pre- and post production of the music, putting it all together. Released on August 14, 2007 the sci-fi inspired semi-concept album gained ecstatic reviews from the press and was loved by the fans. Some declaring it to be the power/prog release of the century. Metalcrypt.com said: “The compositions never feel overcrowded and never slip over into masturbation”. Metal Storm said: “Andromeda Unchained” is a great surprise! This album is really complex without being hard to understand”. For the first time this album was produced by both Jacob Hansen and Kim Olesen. “Andromeda Unchained” was nominated for 3 Danish Metal Awards. The categories being: Best album, best production and best cover. It took home the best cover award.The year 2008 saw Anubis Gate writing and recording their most elaborate work to date, a true concept album. ”The Detached”, released on March 30, 2009, featured 12 songs by Anubis Gate, all based on a story by Danish renowned game play writer Martin Rauff and set to lyrics by Anubis Gate’s own Henrik Fevre. It tells the story of Bilao, who is one of a few “detached”. A human race able to move in time by sheer physical power. The album was produced by Jacob Hansen and Kim Olesen, for which they won a Danish Metal Award in 2010 (best production, again out of the same three nominations as in 2008). The album saw the band further developing their style of progressive power metal, with new twists and turns, but as always with the songwriting taking the high seat. Once again the critics and the fans were ecstatic: ”Anubis Gate, with their new release, The Detached, truly define the definition of a concept album” (Metal Express). ”The band mix in a decent amount of melody, but never lose sight of the hard driving guitar sound that makes this band great”.anubisgate_thedetached“The Detached” marked the end of Anubis Gate’s obligations with label Locomotive Music. Several other companies showed interest as the band in 2010 embarked on writing material for their fifth album, which was scheduled for release in the spring 2011. In fact most of the songs were already finished when lead singer and producer Jacob Hansen announced his surprising departure from the band due to the increasing workload of being a first rate producer. Luckily Anubis Gate had a replacement within the band; bass player Henrik Fevre, who already did backing vocals and the occasional lead on recent albums. Demos of the new material, produced by Kim Olesen, secured the band a record deal in March 2011 with Minnesota-based Nightmare Records for a fifth album release in the fall of 2011. A great way to celebrate the band’s ten years anniversary.ag_stThe new album, titled simply “Anubis Gate” was released on September 13, 2011. For the first time the album was accompanied by a music video for the single version of the song “Golden days”. The songwriting, which has always been the core of the Anubis Gate sound, was stronger than ever, this time emphasized by the fact that Henrik Fevre, who was largely responsible for writing the vocal lines and lyrics for the previous albums, got to sing the words he wrote himself, injecting the emotion and meaning into the lyrics that he had in mind when writing them. Maybe a reason why the band survived yet another change of vocalist. Once again produced by Kim Olesen and Jacob Hansen and with a stunningly great mix done by the latter. Metalreview said: ”Anubis Gate is more than just a typical power/prog record; very simply put, it’s just great music that makes you feel good, and that’s something that shouldn’t be missed”.After a small series of gigs culmination at Prog Power in Holland in the fall 2012, founder Jesper M. Jensen announced that he no longer wanted to be part of the band. Soon a replacement was found in Michael Bodin (Third Eye), who had previously played with Torben Askholm in Northern Empire. Even though the music for the 6th album was already far in the making, Michael managed to get his writing skills implemented. Shokingly only a couple of months later the other remaining founder Morten Sørensen also announced his departure. Luckily the band quickly got hold of drummer Morten Gade Sørensen, (Pyramaze & Wuthering height), with whom Kim had previously worked during the recording of Lance King’s “A moment in Chiros” album.anubis-gate-horizons-coverThe idea of releasing “Sheep” was a sort of apology to satisfy fans, who via the social medias had been promised a new album in 2013. Due to different circumstances the album didn’t arrive until April 15, 2014 entitled “Horizons”. Another ten song collection that showed even more of what the new line-up was capable of. Metalunderground said: “Anubis Gate expands the horizon of progressive metal” and Eternal-terror.com wrote: “…definitely their benchmark/pinnacle effort in their already impressive career”. At the same time the first four albums were now again available as downloads after years of struggling with Locomotive Music, who besides (still) owing the band money wasn’t very keen on taking down the albums from iTunes etc., even though their licences had long run out. Finally they did and the band could rightfully profit from its earlier efforts. After this it was time for playing live again, and on September 19, 2014 the new line-up was on stage for the first time in Odense, Denmark. A planned Prog Power Atlanta gig was scheduled for September 11, 2015, but later cancelled due to illness within the band.photo-originalIn 2016 Anubis Gate launched its long-planned fundraiser campaign to get the first 4 albums back out on a physical format. The original CD’s were long out of print and the few copies for sale fetched sky high prices on eBay. It was time to do something about it and the idea of making a box set of said albums + 2 bonus CD’s containing rare studio- and live recordings came about. The fundraiser ran for two months from February to April and aimed for a total of 18,000 dollars to cover the expenses, and it came out successfully. So in August 2016 the numbered limited edition 6-cd legacy box sets entitled “Orbits” finally reached the pledgers, and the remaining copies (of 1,000 made) are still available from Nightmare Records exclusively.anubisgate_coveredinblack-150-x-150 The 7th album was inspired by one of the band members bad mental health during the writing period (2015-16). So the band came up with darker, more complex and dissonant material than ever before, and naturally the lyrics also reflected this. Thus “Covered in black” became an album very different to its predecessors. It’s a theme album, dedicated to people in dark places, and not a concept album as such. It was recorded during the summer/fall of 2016 and once again produced by the dynamic duo of Jacob Hansen and Kim Olesen. Although complete by March 2017, its release was postponed to September 1, 2017 and a video for “The combat” was released in August. Angry Metal Guy put it like this: “If your issue with the band’s prior output was a lack of heaviness, this may be what you were waiting for. Definitely worth a dedicated spin for the progressive-minded among us”. Big sails were then set for “Black” with no less than two videos released; one lyric and one featuring the band. In spring 2018 two exclusive concerts were held in Denmark to promote the album.cic-150 After the dark and introspective “Covered in Black” the band decided it was time for something a little lighter. So Kim came up with the idea that each member picked a couple of songs that they wanted to cover and arrange for Anubis Gate. The idea of covering others material is not strange to the band, as every recording session since 2007 has contained at least one cover song. So work began on the small leisure project, which eventually grew almost out of hand and ended up being the longest Anubis Gate album ever (74 minutes). As a counterweight album to its predecessor it was aptly named “Covered in Colours”, containing tracks that the members were greatly inspired by in their youth, careers and by contemporaries. 14 songs from sources as diverse as thrash metal, jazz fusion, 60’s psychedelic pop, 70’s prog rock, 80’s synth pop, art rock and more, but rearranged to fit the band and the genre. The album was produced and mixed by Kim Olesen. “Covered In Colours” will be released April 24th 2020 on Nightmare Records.THE MUSIC OF ANUBIS GATE: Stylistically Anubis Gate is conglomeration of the classic 80’s heavy metal, a more epic 90’s ambiance and a dark progressiveness of our days. Add in the melancholy and melodic sensitivity of 80’s pop. Mix all that with the giants of the 70’s progressive rock scene and you have Anubis Gate.

Album:

Anubis Gate will release a new album, via No Dust Records.“Interference” A varied collection of material written and produced during the last six years.”Anubis Gate, progressive metal band from Denmark, are ready to present their new album of 10 original songs entitled “Interference”.Musically this ninth Anubis Gate album is even more melodic while also harder edged. More direct while also containing the most experimental songs in their catalog. It has the hardest song, but also the most haunting song the band has done. The album is very focused, while also perhaps being their most varied to date.

Line-Up:

Henrik Fevre - Bass (2005-present), Vocals (2011-present) - See also: ex-Graff Spee, ex-Death Axe, ex-Black Mercyful, ex-Manta, ex-Odinn, ex-V-Axe, ex-Witch Death
Kim Olesen - Guitars, Keyboards (2005-present) - See also: ex-Extreme Feedback, ex-Lance King, ex-The Arcane Order (live)
Michael Bodin - Guitars (2012-present) - See also: Third Eye, ex-Northern Empire, ex-Prophecy, ex-Prophets of Doom
Morten Gade Sørensen - Drums (2013-present) - See also: Pyramaze, Wuthering Heights, ex-Scornfull, Firesoul, ex-Aurora, ex-Lance King

Tracklist:

01. Emergence
02. Ignorance Is Bliss
03. Number Stations
04. The Phoenix
05. Equations
06. Dissonance Consonance
07. The Intergalactic Dream Of Stardom
08. World Of Clay
09. Interference
10. Absence


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