Year : 2024
Style : Melodic Retrowave , Melodic Hard Rock , AOR
Country : Greece
Audio : 320 kbps + front
Size : 101 mb
Bio:
It all began around 1998, when two long time friends who used to spend their summer vacation together, Andreas V. – guitar and Vagelis Lekos – bass, decided to form a band, eventually named “Floating Worlds”, after various changes.After a lot of failed attempts to record their first songs, they succeeded in completing their first album, titled “Only A Dream, Can Kill A Dream…” in the autumn of 2007. Following the completion of the recordings, the collaboration with the session musicians that appeared in the album had come to an end, so Andreas V. Vagelis Lekos and T. Thomopoulos (drums) were the only permanent members of the band. The obvious need to promote the new album through live performances, made the search for permannt band members imperative and finally the first gig of the “Only A Dream… Tour ’10 – ‘12”, took place on May 2010.This tour came to an end after 17 gigs on July 2012 with a lot of lineup changes, of which the most important and crucial for the future of the band, was the taking over of the male vocals by Jon Soti, on November 2011.The band entered the studio in December 2012, in order to record their second full length studio album, entitled “Below The Sea Of Light” which was released on October 1st 2013.On February 2014, the first show of the: “Sea Of Light Tour ’14 – ‘15” took place in Athens, Greece. The milestone of this period was definitely the first European tour of the band in March 2015, simultaneously with the return of S.Assarioti on the keyboards and female vocals and the taking over of the bass by M.Papadopoulos.In November 2015, the “Sea Of Light Tour ’14 – ‘15” ended with four memorable shows in Serbia and immediately afterwards, the band entered a two year period of composing the songs of their third album entitled “Battleship Oceania”, the recordings of which were completed in the end of 2017 with N.Mandolas on the drums.“Battleship Oceania” is going to be the first concept album of the band, narrating the story of a legendary battleship and its crew.In order to celebrate the completion of this long task, the band performed a small number of shows, for the first time in Russia, in March 2018. “Battleship Oceania” is set to be released on May 17th 2019.
Album:
The FLOATING WORLDS journey started in the late Nineties, a Greek based band who has released two albums so far, and are ready to present their third installment “Skywatcher” to the world. “Skywatcher” delivers a radical shift in sound & style for FLOATING WORLDS, previously quite progressive rock with some Savatage influences.On “Skywatcher” FLOATING WORLDS seems a completely different band: take a look at the album cover: quite retro and ’80s influenced. Well, the music packed inside is very melodic, at places AOR / melodic rock, others Rock&pop, lyrically with a sci-fi concept reinforced by many synthwave sounds / arrangements.“Skywatcher” tells a story, pretty dark by the way, based heavily on atmosphere and keyboards – there are electric guitars, real bass & drums, but at the service of the overall melodic sound, really well obtained thanks to the thoughtful production.
Line-Up:
Jon Soti - Vocals - See also: Charons Claw, InPhaze, Coverkill, Sirens, ex-Fallen Arise, ex-Quadrus, ex-Secret Illusion, ex-Deified (live), ex-The Silent Rage (live), ex-Crusade of Steel, ex-Elisadeath, ex-Erupted, ex-Sunrisers, ex-Tribe in Decay, ex-Under the Volcano
Andreas V - Guitars, Vocals (backing)
Michalis Papadopoulos - Bass - See also: Cerebrum, Limbo-X
Nikitas Mandolas - Drums - See also: Bionic Origin, Crimson Fire, Fall of Order, George Constantine Kratsas, Quadrus, W.E.B., Drama Noir (live), ex-Disharmony (live), ex-Dementia, ex-Manhattan Project
Tracklist:
01. Strange Kid
02. Starlight Wish
03. Parade
04. Nostalgic Alleys
05. Ignorance Goodbye
06. Hello From Out There
07. In The Dark
08. Lost
09. Skywatcher
10. Extraterrestrial
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