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CD/DVD Releases: Amberian Dawn To Record New Album This Summer

Posted on Monday, April 11 @ 15:00:00 UTC by nightowl

Finnish female-fronted symphonic metallers Amberian Dawn will enter the studio in the summer to begin recording their new album. Amberian Dawn mainman, keyboardist and guitarist Tuomas Seppälä composed all ten songs for the CD and vocalist Heidi Parviainen has already started working on the lyrics.

Commented Tuomas: "There's going to be some changes in our working methods and the next album is going to sound different compared to our previous albums. We're going to use backing vocalists, for example. Earlier we have had only guest lead singers and no backing vocalists at all. There's some really fast songs on this album and also some '80s- style songs like 'Valkyries' and 'Kokko' from our previous albums. Technically, there's great challenges for the band and all the skills possessed by the new lineup will be essential. We're going to break some new limits again and lift the level of our quality even higher than before. With some guest vocalists or musicians on this album, just like on all our previous albums, this new album is going to be more solid than our latest album, End Of Eden."

Added Heidi: "There's going to be some new elements on the lyrics, for example some horror themes."

"Arctica," the latest video from Amberian Dawn, can be viewed here. The clip was directed by Markus Nieminen of Routafilmi. "Arctica" comes off Amberian Dawn's third album, End Of Eden, which was released in October 2010 via Spinefarm Records.

End Of Eden features a guest appearances by keyboardist Jens Johansson (Stratovarius, Ygnwie Malmsteen), opera singer Markus Nieminen and vocalist Peter James Goodman.

In other news, Amberian Dawn last year parted ways with Tommi Kuri (bass), Emil Tobias Pohjalainen (guitar) and Joonas Pykälä-aho (drums) and replaced them with Jukka Koskinen (Norther, Wintersun), Kimmo Korhonen (Waltari, Helion, Solacide) and Heikki Saari (Norther, Naildown), respectively.

Amberian Dawn's current lineup:

* Heidi Parviainen - Vocals
* Tuomas Seppälä - Keyboards, Guitar
* Kasperi Heikkinen - Guitar
* Kimmo Korhonen - Guitar
* Jukka Koskinen - Bass
* Heikki Saari - Drums

[Source: Blabbermouth.net (yeh, again); photo: AD website]

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