Year : 2024
Style : Melodic Heavy Metal
Country : Sweden
Audio : 320 kbps + front
Size : 91 mb
Bio:
Neptune is a melodic metal band from Stockholm Sweden.The band started back in 1979. The band recorded an EP 1986 that was released 2018 together with collected demos.In the later part of the 70´s and in the beginning of the 80´s there was a band called Warriens. The band consisted of three guys; Roland on bass, Tommy on drums and Ray played guitar and handled the vocals. They played rock music inspired by the 60´s and were gigging everywhere as much as they could. They started to grow their audience over time and they even won a few music contests.After a while, probably around 80/81, they decided to leave their softer rock-based music in favor of a much heavier style. It was not just the music that was updated to a more 80’s based sound. With the inspiration of big arena band as Judas Priest, Saxon, and Iron Maiden they had a bigger plan.The band’s appearance was much more of a visual appearance as Heavy Load and Manowar with the ancient Nordic masculine Vikings in mind. Hence the name – Neptune.In order to make the visual somewhat clearer, the texts were based on just ancient Nordic stories or tales if you want. With that said, this was a choice made for more than 30 years ago and do not have any political meaning either back then or today. The texts are just stories based on our old Viking history.In the beginning, Ray was managing both guitar and vocals. To give him total freedom to do what he does best, they decided to hire another guitarist – Johnny Östergren. They performed a bunch of gigs during that time. After a while, the band decided that it was time to record their first demo. Robert Wellerfors known for working with Axewitch, Roxette, KSMB, and others were selected as recording technician and producer. Several record companies showed interest in the band and their demo in the era of NWOSHM.Late 2017, something happens that no one really could predict. Johnny showed some old songs for the singer from Narnia – Christian Liljegren. He liked it so much that he shared it further. In one or another way the songs ended up at a record company. A few days later Tommy received a message on Facebook from Janne Stark, who was representing the record company Sonic Age/Cult Metal Classics, specializing in re-releasing recordings and demos from the 80s. Somewhat surprised, Tommy picked up the phone, contacted his old bandmates and told them about the record company’s request to re-release several of their old recordings, both on CD and vinyl. The contract was signed and the CD was in the stores early 2018.The story continues - Late autumn 2017 we met again and even though we only had the release of Land of Northern in mind. Someone said, why not make a video to promote the CD release. Said and done, we booked a warehouse for the purpose. Once we all stood in front of the video camera, a feeling arose that we didn’t felt for over 30 years. The idea of actually pulling the band together for real started to arise in our minds. We started to rehearse our old songs. However, it did not take long before both Johnny and Tommy realized that the time needed to put it to get this to work did not really exist.Ray, Roland, and Anders searched for a new guitarist and a drummer. The choice of drummer fell on an old friend named Jan “Tosh” Andersson who played with Ray and Anders during the 90’s. This new constellation resulted in a re-recording of the songs Keep Us Alive and Dreamer which was released digitally late summer 2018.After these songs were released, Janne stepped down to work on some own unfinished musical projects. Thanks to social media we had once again found another original Neptune drummer from the 80’s – Jonas Wikström. Not long after our first rehearsals with Jonas we found more or less by pure coincidence Anders Lindqvist and Neptune were once again complete and the plans for recording new material and bookings of new gigs were in full swing.
Album:
Neptune is a melodic metal band with a long and vibrant history dating back to the early 1980s. Influences from classic heroes such as Judas Priest, Black Sabbath, Deep Purple, and Accept, but of course, with a more modern touch that belongs in the 21st century are obvious.During the 80s, the band recorded several demo tapes which led into meetings with multiple record labels. Ultimately, one of these labels funded the recording of an EP that was never released, causing the band to lose momentum, and eventually split up for what was believed to be for good.It wasn't until 30 years later, specifically in 2018, that these recordings from the 80’s were released along with several of their early demo recordings, resulting in the album "Land of Northern." This release reignited the band's passion, leading them to record a completely new album in 2020 entitled "Northern Steel" whichstill featured three original members from the 80’s line-up. Now, Neptune releases the album "End of Time" on September 20th, 2024 via Germany based Pride & Joy Music which is a musical continuation of the previous record. Since all band members contribute to songwriting, the material covers a wide range of styles and emotions.Neptune's lyrics often have a connection to their ancient Nordic history, and as a sounding board or creative engine, they often use an underlying narrative for their albums. This time it’s based around the last known Viking, Harald Hardrada and several somewhat fictionalized stories about his life and existence. It inspired them to several of the lyrics on the album, especially Harald's final battle at Stamford Bridge that was fierce and relentless, culminating in Harald Hardrada's passing, marking the end of the Viking Age. His followers then celebrated this event as the "End of time."Their full-length album, *End of Time*, is set to be released on September 20, 2024.
Line Up:
Roland "Rowland Alex" Alexandersson - Bass (1980-1987, 2017-2019), Vocals (2019-present)
Anders "Andy Olson" Olsson - Guitars (1985-1987, 2017-present) - See also: ex-JAR
Jan Tosh Andersson - Bass (2019-present) - See also: ex-JAR
Jonas Wikström - Drums (1987, 2019-present)
Johan Rosth - Keyboards (2020-present)
+ backing vocals:
Linda Sonnvik & Caroline Jensen
Production:
Lyrics by: Linda Sonnvik
Produced by: Jan Tosh Ason
Recorded and mixed at Stockholm Soundroom
Mastered by Hoffe Stannow/Cosmos Mastering
Artwork by Spoil Video
recorded & edited by Anders Olsson
Tracklist:
01. Metal Hearts
02. Brightest Steel
03. The end of time
04. Revenge
05. Motherland
06. Sun goes down
07. Nepturion
08. Power
09. Highlands
10. Northern Warriors
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