Year : 2020
Style : Power Metal
Country : United States
Audio : 320 kbps + scans
Size : 229 mb
Bio:
Demons & Wizards are a power metal band conceived as a side-project by vocalist for Blind Guardian, Hansi Kürsch, and the guitarist for Iced Earth, Jon Schaffer. Schaffer writes the music and Kürsch writes the lyrics. The band's line-up during the recording of their first album in 1999 (Demons & Wizards) also featured Mark Prator, who was the drummer on a few Iced Earth albums, and Jim Morris doing most of the guitar solos, Morris also having worked with Iced Earth in the past. The personnel for the second album (Touched by the Crimson King), released in 2005, included Morris at lead guitar and Bobby Jarzombek on drums. The original goal of the band was to forge the different musical styles of both Iced Earth's dark melodies and Blind Guardian's powerful vocals into one sound. In fact, according to the musicians, the band name is meant to describe the two styles: the self-proclaimed demon-like themes and sounds of Iced Earth and wizard-like themes and sounds of Blind Guardian (the moniker "Demons & Wizards" was inspired by Schaffer's wife always referring to him and Hansi as "Demons and Angels". Hansi always corrected her, since he claims to "not be at all angelic", and that it is more properly stated "Demons and Wizards", in reference to Uriah Heep's album of the same name). The band met with a fair deal of commercial success, though not as much as either of their individual bands.The band's first full-length release was in 2000, with the self-titled album Demons & Wizards. In 2005, the band released their second album entitled Touched by the Crimson King. Touched by the Crimson King is partially based on The Dark Tower series of books (written by Stephen King), in which the Crimson King is the main antagonist.
Album:
Century Media Records and Demons & Wizards are proud to announce the worldwide release of the band's highly anticipated studio album, "III"!Jon Schaffer states: "I'm excited to release another D&W album after all of these years. I feel like we've put together something really special and I'm looking forward to hear what the fans think about it. I'm proud of this album. It's definitely a journey of epic proportions."Hansi Kürsch adds: "2019 is an extremely exciting year for Demons & Wizards in general. We have accomplished a lot. A lot! This third album is the peak of our career for sure. Mark my words, you will love this album!" Demons & Wizards is one of the most legendary collaborations in the history of heavy metal, uniting the talents of Jon Schaffer (Iced Earth) and Hansi Kürsch (Blind Guardian), who have been friends for nearly three decades.Musically Demons & Wizards embodies both musicians' stylistic trademarks and has resulted in two hugely celebrated studio albumsso far, "Demons & Wizards" and "Touched By The Crimson King". Both records have been reissued in 2019 on time with the band's extremely successful return to the world's stages. Throughout the year, Demons & Wizards presented an impressive stage production and intense sets, toured North America for the first time, performed at renowned festivals such as Wacken Open Air (DE), Hellfest (F), Sweden Rock (SE), GMM (BE), Barcelona Rock Fest (ES), Copenhell (DK), Chania Rock (GR), Metaldays (SI) and played shows in Moscow, London and many more.Now, the band presents "III", a stunning monument of dynamic and powerful heavy metal that simply has all you would expect from these iconic musicians! "III" is epic, melodic, crushingly heavy, atmospheric and all in between. 65 minutes of heavy metal mastery!
Line-Up:
Jon Schaffer - Guitars, Bass (1997-present) - See also: Iced Earth, Purgatory, Sons of Liberty, ex-The Rose
Hansi Kürsch - Vocals (1997-present) - See also: Blind Guardian, ex-Lucifer's Heritage, ex-Executor
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Brent Smedley - Drums
Jim Morris - Guitars (additional)
Jake Dreyer - Guitars (additional)
Ruben Drake - Bass
PA'dam Chamber Choir - Vocals (choirs)
Hacky Hackmann - Vocals (backing)
Olaf Senkbeil - Vocals (backing)
John Jaycee Cuipers - Vocals (backing)
Zakery Alexander - Vocals (backing)
Jeff Brant - Vocals (backing)
Todd Plant - Vocals (backing)
Jerome Mazza - Vocals (backing)
Tracklist:
CD1:
01. Diabolic
02. Invincible
03. Wolves In Winter
04. Final Warning
05. Timeless Spirit
06. Dark Side Of Her Majesty
07. Midas Disease
08. New Dawn
09. Universal Truth
10. Split
11. Children Of Cain
12. Final Warning (Demo) (Bonus Track)
13. Children of Cain (Demo) (Bonus Track)
CD2: Instrumental
01. Diabolic
02. Invincible
03. Wolves In Winter
04. Final Warning
05. Timeless Spirit
06. Dark Side Of Her Majesty
07. Midas Disease
08. New Dawn
09. Universal Truth
10. Split
11. Children Of Cain
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