Year : 2015 (Japan Edition)
Style : Melodic Heavy Metal , Hard Rock
Country : Norway
Audio : 320 kbps + all scans + Video
Size : 172 mb
Bio:
JORN LANDE & TROND HOLTER PRESENT DRACULA is a project consisting of Norwegian Rock Stars - singer Jørn Lande and guitarist Trond Holter (aka Teeny of WIG WAM) and they created a new Rock Opera concept album about the life of Count Vlad the III, Prince of Wallachia, widely known as Vlad, The Impaler or by his patronymic name Vlad Dracul(a). Album “Swing of Death” will be released on January 23rd 2015 in Europe and January 27th in North America.“Walking on Water” is a powerful track with nice and strong performances, heavier melodic guitars, atmospheric keys, clear drums, and lovely guitar work! I love so much the instrumental track “True Love Through Blood” with lower & massive guitars. Amazing guitar work in style of Michael Schenker. I love these amazing melodic sounds! Wonderful instrumentalist – perfectly clear rhythmic section and terrific guitar solos! Gentle opener with Jorn’s vocal in “Queen of the Dead” building a nice climate of higher registers style with heavier riffs. Memorable chorus and perfect guitars sounds very catchy! Amazing guitar work is a pure thrill; excellent connection from slower to faster sounds. Title track “Swing of Death” has melodic refrain with choir singing and swing elements and even folkish echoes!I also love “River of Tears” with lower and melodic riffs! Fantastic melodic choir chorus singing in duet by Jørn and Lena Fløitmoen Børresen. This track is so lovely and memorable in JORN climate. Another time we can listen perfect guitar solo inside this song. Next song where it is possible to listen to this fantastic duet singing is “Under the Gun” with massive guitars in DIO style, amazing keys and incredible atmosphere. Lena is singing together with Jørn also in the melodic “Into the Dark” with heavier guitars in ALICE COOPER style and fine keyboards and in “Save Me” where great stronger riffs connecting with a strong and melodic female voice; together with Jørn it sounds awesome! I love these catchy choruses! Calmer piano with stronger vocals of Jørn sounds totally amazing in “Masquerade Ball” and then this track is building into massive crescendo with big doses of melody.JORN LANDE & TROND HOLTER PRESENT DRACULA is a perfect project of 2 amazing Rock stars - singer Jørn Lande and guitarist Trond Holter. They recorded album on a high-class level where every fan will find something for the soul and ears - Hard Rock, Heavy Metal with big doses of melody. For me every track is a masterpiece and many catchy melodies, power and experience of musicians give listeners a perfectly mix. This album is exceptional and highly recommended to very Rock lover and Metalhead!
Album:
Norwegian Rock Stars, singer Jorn Lande and guitarist Trond Holter (aka Teeny of WIG WAM), have created a new Rock Opera concept album about the life of Count Vlad the III, Prince of Wallachia, widely known as Vlad, The Impaler or by his patronymic name Vlad Dracul(a). The whole story explores the inner struggle inside the multifaceted and engorging character that this mysterious 15th Century personality was, while also taking into account some of the metaphysical aspects that passed into literature, forming the whole basis of the vampire mythos.On the album Jorn Lande– who impersonates the main character Dracula - shares lead vocal duties with Norwegian singer Lena Fløitmoen (representing Mina/Lucy from the Bram Stoker book). The duets feature Dracula and his women, which in the original Bram Stoker story is centered around Dracula’s first true love Mina (when he was a human before he sold his soul to the devil and became a vampire).The drama of the story reveals Dracula’s inner battle, where he still remembers what true love was, and as he wandered the Earth for centuries with a thirst for blood, his loneliness and desire to be able to love again has led him to the brink of insanity. In the original Bram Stoker version, he leaves Transylvania by ship and when he meets Lucy's best friend, she reminds him so much of his first love Mina, that he becomes obsessed. Dracula sees her as some kind of "holy grail", too good to turn into a vampire.Musically, “Swing of Death” is not like a typical rock opera or musical, since it has no storyteller or long instrumental parts or intros. It is an album that gets to the point with no detours and even if it exposes some diverse musical landscapes, it does include catchy and melodic songs with commercial radio potential. Musical influences come mostly from Meat Loaf and Queen with the ghost of Alice Cooper thrown in plus some Classic and more contemporary Hard Rock elements. The lyrics are not limited to the old days of Bram Stoker’s era and could easily be a Dracula story of today.Plans are being made to stage this entire Rock Opera on Norwegian theaters in 2015. More details will be revealed at a later stage.
Line Up:
Jørn Lande - Vocals - See also: Jorn, ex-Mundanus Imperium, ex-Masterplan, ex-Millenium, ex-Wild Willy's Gang, ex-Avantasia (live), ex-Yngwie J. Malmsteen (live), ex-Ark, ex-Beyond Twilight, ex-Brazen Abbot, ex-Nikolo Kotzev's Nostradamus, ex-The Snakes, ex-Vagabond
Trond Holter – Guitar (Ex-Wig Wam)
Bernt Jansen – Bass
Per Morten Bergseth – Drums
Lena Fløitmoen Børresen – Vocals on “Under the Gun", "Into the Dark", "Save Me" and "River of Tears”
Tracklist:
01. Hands Of Your God (3:38)
02. Walking On Water (5:43)
03. Swing Of Death (4:37)
04. Masquerade Ball (3:34)
05. Save Me (4:19)
06. River Of Tears (4:50)
07. Queen Of The Dead (6:12)
08. Into The Dark (3:33)
09. True Love Through Blood (3:57)
10. Under The Gun (5:10)
11. Hands Of Your God (3:02) (Bonus Track)
+ Video "Walking On Water (Official Video)
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