ROYAL HUNT

Voici le communiqué officiel annonçant le départ du chanteur John West . Pour ma part , je ne serai pas contre le retour de DC Cooper .

Danish/American hard rock act ROYAL HUNT has issued the following statement:

"ROYAL HUNT and John West [vocals] have decided that at this time (after numerous albums and concert tours) they are no longer able to contribute creatively to each other's future musical development. It's been a hell of a ride, but both parties feel like it is about time to move on and explore different musical paths — therefore, they mutually agreed to part ways as of March 16th, 2007."

"We're not ruling out possible future collaborations for a joint venture or a side project," ROYAL HUNT mainman André Andersen and John said in a joint statement, "but it won't be under the ROYAL HUNT moniker."

John joined ROYAL HUNT in 1999 during the recording of the "Fear" album and he worked with the band until its latest release — the "Royal Hunt 2006" live CD/DVD.

The band added in a statement: "We'd like to express our gratitude to John for a great eight-year run and we wish him all the best in his future endeavors."

ROYAL HUNT is currently working on material for a new album, which it expects to begin recording later in the year. Also in the works is a reissue of the band's live releases "1996" and "Closing the Chapter" (originally released in 1998). More details will be made available soon.

ROYAL HUNT released a DVD and double live album, entitled "Royal Hunt 2006" in November. The set was recorded (and filmed) on the historic stage of St. Petersburg, Russia's Music Hall on November 2, 2005. The show, which was witnessed by some 1,500+ enthusiastic fans, lasted about two hours (the band played a wide selection of songs from all of their releases since 1991 and some tracks from the latest CD, "Paper Blood") and was captured by six cameras. The DVD package also includes backstage/pre-production footage as well as interviews with all the bandmembes and their roadcrew. All mixing duties on the double CD were handled by André Andersen at NorthPoint Productions in Copenhagen. The set was mastered by Jan Eliasson at Audio Planet.

ROYAL HUNT's last studio album, "Paper Blood" was recorded at NorthPoint Productions and was mixed at EMI/Medley Studio with André Andersen (keyboards) and Lars Overgaard behind the board.

j'adore ce groupe et j'ai deux albums dont je me souviens plus les noms mais situés vers 2000/2002.. de la musique comme j'aime !! ça me donne envie de réécouter !! faut que je fouille ce soir !

J'ai l'album qui s' appelle Double Live

Royal Hunt, c'est le genre de groupe qui n'est pas parmi mes favoris mais qui ne me déplait pas quand même. Je trouve toujours de bons morceaux dans leurs albums, mais il faut souvent trier.
Quant au départ de John West, je ne sais pas quoi penser, c'était correct avec lui mais qui va le remplacer ???

J'ai Paradox. DC Cooper est un sacré chanteur; je l'ai vu sur scène avec Silent Force.

Un nouvel album intitulé Show Me How To Live avec au chant DC Cooper est prévu pour décembre :

Royal Hunt's new album (estimated release - Dec 2011, Frontiers Records) has been titled Show Me How to Live and will contain these following tracks: One More Day – Another Man Down – An Empty Shell ll – Half Past Loneliness – Hard Rain's Coming – Show Me How to Live – Angels Gone. The band described new material as "highly melodic with rich, lush arrangements and stellar production" which should please fans of neoclassical yet progressive music. Featuring DC Cooper on vocals.

Un coffret célébrant les 20 ans du groupe, va sortir le 23 novembre en Europe et le 21 janvier en Amérique du Nord :

ROYAL HUNT TO CELEBRATE THEIR 20TH ANNIVERSARY WITH A SPECIAL BEST OF BOX SET!:
Frontiers Records is pleased to announce the release of Royal Hunt celebrative Box Set release entitled 20th Anniversary – Special Edition on November 23 in Europe and January 21 in North America.
After the highly successful 20th anniversary tour in support of their latest album Show Me How To Live, ROYAL HUNT celebrate the band's 20th Anniversary with this very special “Best of” package including 3 CDs and one DVD.
The release will include the best Royal Hunt songs from all 11 albums, a brand new song plus 3 newly recorded acoustic version of three additional songs and a DVD including all the promotional videoclips shot by the band during their long ride...
The tracklisting shows the incredible amount of amazing songs that the band wrote and performed during their long and successful career.

Disc 1: Flight; Kingdom Dark; Stranded; Clown In The Mirror; Wasted Time; Epilogue; Time; Far Away; 1348; River Of Pain; Tearing Down The World; Message To God.
Disc 2: Cold City Lights; Follow Me; Surrender; The Mission; Can't Let Go; Paper Blood; Season's Change; The First Of Rock; Tears Of The Sun; The Well; Shadowman; Hard Rain Is Coming; Half Past Loneliness.
Disc 3: Save Me (new song) ; One by One (new recording, unplugged version) ; Bodyguard (new recording, unplugged version) ; Restless (new recording, unplugged version); Bad Luck; Double Conversion; U-Turn; Sixth Sense; Day is Dawning.
Disc 4 DVD: Videoclips for: Land of Broken Hearts, Day In Day Out, Clown in the Mirror, Far Away, Last Goodbye, Stay Down, River of Pain, Tearing Down the World, Martial Arts, Third Stage, Wasted Time, Interview, Message to God.

Un nouvel album intitulé Devil's Dozen sortira le 21 août avec donc notre ami DC Cooper au chant :

Frontiers Music Srl will release the brand new studio album from ROYAL HUNT titled "Devil's Dozen" on August 21 in Europe and North America.

The song "So Right So Wrong", taken from "Devil's Dozen", can be streamed below.

With keyboardist and songwriter André Andersen still at the helm, ROYAL HUNT have once again created an album that combines the basic sound and core values of classic rock with progressive rock and more current musical elements.

André Andersen says: "We're very pleased to be able to present our new, thirteenth studio album. While staying on course with all traditional ROYAL HUNT's musical values this one contains quite a bit of variety — from an up-tempo, double-kick-driven 'May You Never (Walk Alone)' to the bluesy 'Heart On A Platter' and probably our best ballad to date — 'Until The Day'. Counting in ROYAL HUNT's usual attention to details — playing wise as well as production wise — I'm sure that any fan of symphonic/melodic yet hard rocking music will be pleased with our latest offering."

The new recording stays true to the original, larger-than-life ROYAL HUNT sound, with imaginative instrumentation, intricate arrangements, soaring vocals and catchy, massive choruses. Yet the addition of classical musicians/instruments and contemporary, modern day production elements move to twist the outcome into a unique sonic palette. The album is chock full of carefully crafted songs, recorded and mixed by a team who combined crystal clear sonics with a weighty punch.

Featuring once again the talents of the awesome American singer D.C. Cooper — who, after numerous requests from fans and promoters worldwide decided to reunite with the band in 2011 — ROYAL HUNT features, besides Andersen on keyboards, longtime member Andreas Passmark on bass, Jonas Larsen on guitar and new drummer Andreas Habo Johansson (ex-NARNIA).

"Devil's Dozen" track listing:

01. So Right So Wrong
02. May You Never (Walk Alone)
03. Heart On A Platter
04. A Tear In The Rain
05. Until The Day
06. Riches To Rags
07. Way Too Late
08. How Do You Know (bonus track)

ROYAL HUNT is:

D.C. Cooper: vocals
Andre Andersen: keyboards
Andreas Passmark: bass
Jonas Larsen: guitars
Andreas Habo Johansson: drums

Un titre, extrait du double album live "Cargo" (sorti le 18.3.2016), est en écoute sur cette page:
http://www.pledgemusic.com/artists/royalhunt

Je trouve le son assez énorme...

Alors ça, je vais le prendre, ce live. Par contre, je ne vois d'édition LP. Merci Js....

Cast In Stone, le 14ème album studio de ROYAL HUNT, sortira le 21 février prochain chez @NorthPoint Productions.

Merci à MetalDen.

Réédition du 1er album Land Of Broken Hearts agrémenté de 4 bonus tracks plus un inédit :

ROYAL HUNT are proud and excited to announce a worldwide release of the re-mastered version of Royal Hunt´s debut album – Land of Broken Hearts (Special Edition 2018) which includes an extended booklet with rare pictures, “the making of” – story written by André Andersen, 4 bonus tracks and one previously unreleased song (recently restored/re-recorded).

Tracklisting: Running Wild – Easy Rider – Flight – Age Gone Wild – Martial Arts (Instrumental) – One by One – Heart of the City – Land of Broken Hearts – Freeway Jam (Instrumental) – Kingdom Dark – Stranded – Day in Day Out – Land of Broken Hearts (Acoustic Version) – Age Gone Wild (Acoustic Version) – Bad Luck – What Goes Around Comes Around.

While going through the archives in search of bonus material, some raw video footage was found which was shot all the way back in 1992 but never used: the band performing “Age Gone Wild” from their debut.

Now the film has been restored/edited and finally published, giving all Royal Hunt fans a unique opportunity to re-discover this once lost and now – fortunately – newly found gem -

Pour Phil
https://metaljournal.net/royal-hunt-anuncia-un-album-conceptual-con-mark-boals-mats-leven-y-mas-cantantes-invitados/