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Qu'est ce qui te fait dire ça ??, j'ai vu qu'ils avaient décrochés une prestation au BYH cool pour eux et le public .
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Dernier message de la page précédente :
Qu'est ce qui te fait dire ça ??, j'ai vu qu'ils avaient décrochés une prestation au BYH cool pour eux et le public .
Dans les chansons dont je me souviens la voix est plutôt claire, pas forcément thrash/speed mais plutôt agréable à l'oreille, du coup je me demandais
Champions in blending classic heavy metal, hard rock, and '80s hair metal, Canadian shredders STRIKER will release their sixth studio album, "Play To Win", on October 26 via their independent label Record Breaking Records. The LP features 10 fist-pounding shredtacular anthems produced by the band, with mixing and mastering by Hendrik Udd (FIREWIND, POWERWOLF, HAMMERFALL, DELAIN).
"Play To Win" follows STRIKER's 2017 self-titled full-length that the band supported with tours across Europe and North America with SONATA ARCTICA, DARK TRANQUILLITY and WARBRINGER, along with festival appearances at 70000 Tons Of Metal, Bang Your Head!!! (Germany) and more to add to the almost thousand shows performed in the group's decade-plus career. That fifth studio album also garnered them a nomination from Canada's Juno awards, the country's highest music prize, along with wins at the Edmonton Music Awards and Western Canadian Awards.
In support of the release of "Play To Win", STRIKER will launc a crowdfunding campaign via their official web site Striker-Metal.com beginning August 9.
Guitarist Tim Brown comments: "Play to win: if you want to win, you have to play the game. Find the rules and break them.
"This is our sixth album and third independent release.
"If we followed the rules and listened to the industry people, we'd have gone absolutely nowhere.
"'Play To Win' is about listening to yourself, following your own path, and playing that fifth ace hidden in your sleeve.
"This album is designed to light a fire under your ass and get you moving, and we made sure to get the most modern, ear-melting sounds possible. It's all about where metal is going, not where it has been, and this is our soundtrack to success."
"Play To Win" track listing:
01. Heart Of Lies (4:04)
02. Position Of Power (3:40)
03. Head Of Power (4:02)
04. On The Run (3:51)
05. The Front (4:02)
06. Play To Win (3:48)
07. Standing Alone (4:56)
08. Summoner (4:04)
09. Heavy Is The Heart (4:54)
10. Hands Of Time (3:46)
Every day is a new day! And Striker has a new music video, "Live To Fight Another Day", to announce their upcoming US and Canada tour dates with Floridian power metallers Seven Kingdoms, Hamilton, ON's melodic metallers Lutharo, and Calgary, AB's thunderous progressive symphonic metallers Osyron, whom will support select dates.
Striker will kick off preliminary dates with a performance at ProgPower USA in Atlanta, GA on September 4, followed by Canadian shows with Lutharo in September, and then push things into full gear in November to start the "Shredding North America Tour" in Corpus Christi, TX on November 9 and wrap up the month-long tour in Orlando, FL on December 8 (dates listed below).
"Live To Fight Another Day" is off the shred master's new album, ULTRAPOWER, produced with Josh Schroeder (Lorna Shore, Tallah, King 810) released this past February.
The band explains the track: "Originally this was just a regular Striker song. Tim had the idea that we should just try turning it into a synth-wave track. It fits like a glove. We’ve always been into Synthwave but never had the guts to do it ourselves. Until now! This is our first attempt at it and we are stoked about how it turned out. This one is another track about keeping it together and taking on life one day at a time."
ULTRAPOWER is the seventh full-length from Striker and follows their Juno Award-winning self-released record Play To Win (2018) unleashed on their label Record Breaking Records.
With the band writing material since 2018, ULTRAPOWER is a collection of Striker tinkering and exploring new avenues. From the album's opening track "Circle of Evil", a Malmsteen-esque metal banger about secret societies and the evil dealings behind closed doors to their previously released single "Best Of The Best Of The Best" serving up some big riffs and hockey arena vocals to "Blood Magic", which might be one of Striker's most progressive songs, taking cues from bands like King Diamond, with its unconventional structure and punctuated guitar solos. From the band delving into their obsession for late 80s AOR and pop rock with "City Calling", an ode to 1987, and bands like Toto and Kenny Loggins with their hook-powered albums. To fans experiencing the band's first attempt at a synth-wave track with "Live to Fight Another Day", this new offering sees Striker making a shredding love letter to the hard-rocking era of guilty pleasures.
The band comments on the album: "Starting with the album cover, we wanted the artwork to represent how we feel as a band right now. We are an engine that is fired up and ready to roll. We’re made of metal and our circuits gleam! The album itself is an amalgamation of 5 years of writing and exploring music. With influences from AOR to Speed Metal, Hardcore to Hair Metal, Steely Dan to Deathcore, you name it, it made its way into the album. In the end with the help of Josh Schroeder’s guiding hand, we melted it all together to present something uniquely Striker. Lyrically we’ve stuck to the Striker tradition of writing montage songs for movies that don’t exist, songs about our spiraling serfdom, and lyrics about the evils that lurk in the shadows."