Die 1981 gegründeten US Metaller WARLORD kehren wieder zurück aus der Versenkung und kündigen für den 10. Mai ihr Studioalbum ”Free Spirit Soar” an. Zuletzt waren WARLORD 2013 mit ihrer “The Holy Empire“ an die Öffentlichkeit gegangen. Die anstehende Scheibe ist eine Art Tribut an den 2021 verstorbenen Gründungsgitarristen William J. Tsamis, dessen Gitarrenriffs noch auf Demoaufnahmen vorhanden waren und von Mark Zonder und Sänger Giles Lavery zu fertigen Songs gemacht wurden.
Lavery erklärt den Prozess:
“We wanted to finish these pieces of music ‘for Bill’, and the material we felt was certainly strong enough to inspire us to do so. Bill is there where we could pull his tracks off the demo recordings, in much the same way the Beatles were recently able to rescue John Lennon’s voice from an old demo tape. Eric does most of the heavy lifting on guitar, but all music was written by Bill and we stayed very very faithful to what he wrote.
It was a bit of an uncharted adventure delving into Bill’s demos and unfinished music, and also having to write lyrics and vocal melodies to the songs – the only two exceptions being the two Lordian Guard songs that we selected to ‘Warlord-ize’ …as has been tradition on every Warlord album since »Rising Out Of The Ashes«. Everything but two songs have vocals for the first time, so that entire area of the composition is new … As for the music, I think much of it is unheard, a few bits and pieces you might recognize from some of the catalogue reissues, instrumental bonus tracks etc. As producer of the album it was my job to sort through all the pieces and pull together songs.”
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Trackliste:
- Behold A Pale Horse
- The Rider
- Conquerors
- Worms Of The Earth
- The Watchman (CD-exclusive track)
- Free Spirit Soar
- The Bell Tolls
- Alarm
- Twin (CD-exclusive track)
- Revelation XIX