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[ReQ] Wuthering Heights -2010- Salt

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Fifth Full-Length...

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Originally formed in the beginning of the nineties, the symphonic speed metal band Wuthering Heights started to draw attention in the small metal-scene of Copenhagen. Different musicians as well as names like Minas Tirith and Vergelmir have come and gone in the history of the band, and the only founding member in the band today is guitarist, lyricist and songwriter Erik Ravn.

In the beginning of 1998 Wuthering Heights started up the co-operation with the American progressive metal label Sensory Records, with the Worldwide release of the debut album “Within”.

At that time Wuthering Heights featured guitarist Erik Ravn, keyboardist Rune Brink (Cornerstone), bassist Kasper Gram (Manticora, Evil Masquerade), drummer Morten Nødgaard and vocalist Kristian "Krille" Andrén (Tad Morose, Memento Mori).

With a slightly altered line-up incorporating new drummer Morten Sørensen (Pyramaze, Aurora), guitarist Henrik Flyman (Evil Masquerade, Moahni Moahna) and bassist Lorenzo Deho (Time Machine) the band recorded and released the next album entitled "To Travel For Evermore", an album that is nothing short of a brilliant epos of majestic and symphonic speed/progressive metal. This time with more focus on the technical aspects, better melodies and a huge production.

After the release of "To Travel For Evermore", Erik and the band got really busy with interviews and promotion, but due to line-up changes never made it out on tour.

With new vocalist Nils Patrik Johansson (Astral Doors, Lions Share) on board, the band recorded their third disc, "Far From The Madding Crowd", at Jailhouse Studios with producer Tommy Hansen (Helloween, TNT, Jorn) in the summer of 2003.

"Far From The Madding Crowd" came out as a less progressive and more melodic album than it’s predecessor - in many ways more of a classic hard rock album with big inspiration from Thin Lizzy to be found throughout the album - but it's still very much what you would expect from any Wuthering Heights release. This time the band have injected even more of the folk-music roots into the songs, and the album functions lyrically as the last part of the trilogy about the lonely wanderer.

The media and fans loved this amazing album, released by Toshiba-EMI in Japan, Sensory Records in USA, Hellion Records in South America and Locomotive Music in Europe over the winter of 2003/2004. To this day, “Far From The Madding Crowd” stands as one of the most well-received power metal albums by fans Worldwide, ending up top on many “best of the 90’s” lists in major magazines and webzines.

In 2004 Wuthering Heights went through another string of line-up changes, as Andreas Lindahl (Platitude, Murder Of My Sweet, Narnia) jumped in on keyboards, Martin Arendal (Manticora) took the place as lead guitarist and Teddy Möller (Loch Vostok, Mayadome) joined as bassist.

The band performed the first gig outside of Europe ever, at the prestigious ProgPower Festival in Atlanta, GA, USA in August 2004 and the following summer did their first gig on European soil in many years, as they played the Park Rock Festival in Sweden in front of a very enthusiastic crowd.

During 2005 Erik began composing the 4th disc, "The Shadow Cabinet", which was released fall 2006 through Soundholic Records in Japan, Locomotive Music in Europe and Sensory Records in the US. The album stands as the one that solidified Wuthering Heights' status as one of the most interesting bands to emerge on the international heavy metal scene in recent years.

After 3 years of silence from the Wuthering Heights camp, the time has come for the 5th album, "Salt", to be released. With the same line-up as on "The Shadow Cabinet", Erik and the boys have created their absolutely strongest album to date.

"Salt" sees the band moving into new conceptual territory as the whole thing takes a somewhat maritime twist. While writing the lyrics for the album, Erik found that the imagery of the sea was a great vehicle for his increasingly dark tales of personal and global armageddon. And consequently the music has traded some of its celtic delicacy for the rawness of the sailor..s tunes.

The title "Salt" sums up many different aspects of the album's lyrics - from salty seawinds to salty tears, from the salt of the earth to the salty taste of whisky! And musically the band delivers these "shanties from hell" with burning intensity. Never before has the end of the world sounded this uplifting.

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Denmark (Copenhagen)

Current line-up
Nils Patrik Johansson - Vocals (Astral Doors, Lion's Share, Space Odyssey)
Erik Ravn - Guitars, Bass, Keys, Vocals
Martin Arendal - Guitar (Manticora)
Andreas Lindahl - Keyboards (Audiovision, Platitude, Zool, Loch Vostok, guest for Manticora, Crash the System, The Murder of my Sweet)
Teddy Möller - Bass (Loch Vostok, Mayadome, F.K.Ü., Flagellation (Swe), Tradore, Vivaldis Disciples)
Morten Gade Sørensen - Drums, Percussion (Scornfull, Pyramaze, Aurora (Dnk))

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Power

Epic Folk / Power Metal

256 k

110.78 MB

10 files

10/04/2010

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