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A Life To Die For
(Frontiers Records - 2013)
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With A Life To Die For Danish rockers Royal Hunt present their 12th studio album and the second since D.C. Cooper returned. This time they hired some orchestra players and a choir for the recording sessions to get an authentic symphonic sound. |
20th Anniversary (Special Edition)
(Frontiers Records - 2012)
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To celebrate the 20th anniversary Royal Hunt put together an compilation of 3 CDs and a DVD. On CD1 & 2 you get songs from all stages of their career - and so also with all singers. CD3 they kick off with Save Me, a new song. A mid-paced rocker with the typical symphonic / bombastic edge. It's not the strongest song, but perhaps they keep the stronger ones for the next album... Then you get 3 old tunes, but newly recorded and unplugged. You also get on the CDs some tracks which were single releases, etc.
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Heart Of The City
(Scarlet Records - 2012)
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The latest studio album of Royal Hunt was released via Frontiers Records, now Scarlet Records is presenting Heart Of The City, a compilation of Royal Hunt songs from the 90's. So you get 10 songs of their 5 studio albums released between 1992 and 1999. It gives a good impression of the Danish, and also let you compare the singers. At the first two albums Henrik Brockmann was their singer, fan favorite D.C. Cooper joined them in 1995 and at the end of the 90's John West took over for Fear. Fans of keyboarder Andre Andersen and his band will know the songs, so it isn't necessary to go into detail. But the chronological order of the songs shows the progression of Mr. Andersen as a song writer. Die-hard fans will have the albums anyway, but for fans of symphonic melodic metal who just discovered the band with their latest album it's a good way to get an idea about the early years of Royal Hunt. Some might be a bit disappointed when listening to singer Henrik Brockmann, coz he can't keep up with D.C. Cooper, a very charismatic singer. But Brockmann did a great job on Land Of Broken Hearts and Clown In The Mirror - just listen to the title track of Clown In The Mirror. At least it's a fair treat, coz every album is represented with 2 tracks, so song haven't been chosen in favor of the most popular singer - and might get the others a bit more attention. Personally I prefer John West as a singer and so I'm happy that 2 tracks off Fear on this compilation - and hope that more music lovers discover this album. But at the end of the day it's all a matter of taste!
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Show Me How To Live
(Frontiers - 2011)
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Many fans of Royal Hunt were waiting for the return of DC Cooper and finally he is back. Royal Hunt's albums Moving Target and Paradox are for most fans the highlights of the discography and so their fans will be curious to hear Show Me How To Live. In a nutshell, if you loved the above mentioned albums, then just go ahead and buy Show Me How To Live! |
Paradox II - Collision Course
(Frontiers - 2008)
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In 1997 Royal Hunt presented Paradox, a conceptual album about God. But also about the two sides of God - as he stands for love and peace, but also is the force behind wars. Now it's time for Paradox II Collision Course! The band changed through the years and with Mark Boals they have a new singer recruited. But still its mainman André Andersen who is responsible for music, lyrics and the overall concept. The lyrical concept is about the collision course Islam and christianity take these days - and the artwork shows that quite good! The 2 religious movements have the same origin and so the question is legitimate, why do they fight each other? And even the Koran says that they should only fight polytheism and that religions with the same origin 'just' have to be convinced to follow the latest prophet - like the Islam does. |
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The last release of Royal Hunt was the conceptual album The Mission which based on the novel The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury. Now they are back with The Mission! This CD offers for the first time the complete track Intervention, a 14+ min. long instrumental. Part I of Intervention was released on the Japan only-EP Intervention - Part 1. Also on the Japanese release are the live versions of Lies & Flight. These versions been recorded in summer 2000 and are as well on The Mission. Additionally There are live versions of Message To God and Epilogue, beside that there are a few old tunes re-recorded which are One By One, Legion Of The Damned, Clown In The Mirror and Day In Day Out. At the end there is the radio edit version of Intervention. Personally I love the new versions with singer John West which is no offense again D.C., but I prefer D.C.'s solo album and his work with Silent Force. But I think that it ain't a good start with Intervention, even if this is the CD title, but an instrumental of more than 14 min. is too much for most listeners! I would have preferred the radio edit as opener and the full-length version at the end of the disc. But that's just my opinion.... |
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Royal Hunt is one of the most successfull bands from Denmark beside Pretty Maids. Now presenting themselves with a new singer... John West! An american who worked with Badlands, Lynch Mob and his band Artension, beside that he toured last year with Chris Caffery of Savatage in Europe as American Rock Live. Did that change the sound of Royal Hunt? Yes, the epic melodic power metal got a new element.... A bluesy voice! Fear present just 7 tracks, but the shortest (Voices) is 5:20 minutes! Value for money: 7 songs are nearly 50 mintues long. Okay, there are CDs with 74 min., but are they always high class? This a great record presenting amazing songs e.g. Fear and Follow Me. If you like Royal Hunt in the past you'll like their latest release and if you like old Whitesnake or Badlands you'll like them, too. "Follow me - though I don't know where I'm going, Guess that's a feeling everbody knew..... Listen to it!!!! Personally an aspirant for "top 10 albums of the year"! |
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