new message from Hellroadie on Facebook. They've got a new bass player now and the new album will presumably come out in early 2011!
posted on Friday, September 24, 2010 at Facebook (message to all fans/friends)
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Manilla Maniacs Worldwide please give our new bass player......Joshua Castillo a EPIC BATTLE CRY Welcome!!
Josh has been working with us for a few months now. He has shown tremendous dedication to learning the songs that we have chosen for him to learn....and he will be giving more songs to work up for next years tour. So here is your chance to put in your request to songs that you might want to here us play!! HINT!
Josh and Cory have a band together called CUCUI and are active here in the Kansas area. They have been working in the studio and recording their demo...so keep your eye out for the release!
We are in the process of finishing up the recordings of the next Manilla Road album. We are looking at possibly a early 2011 release! Keep your hammers held high for us brethren...for we need all of your prayers to give us strength and inspiration!!
Our new material that will be released on the new album is really sounding pretty tight in our rehearsals the last few weeks!! I really can't wait to unleash them in front of all of you this next year...powerful riffs...logical lyrics....with lots of killer mammoth pounding hardcore drumming!
Stop by the Manilla Road Facebook page and give us your thoughts!!
Take care and a mighty up the hammers to you all,
Hellroadie
Gaëtan au KIT a écrit :Y'a des sites sur internet où tu marques ce que t'as picolé et ça te dit combien de temps il te faut pour dé-saouler. Et ben des fois c'est une semaine...
Avec un groupe qui s'appel CUL-CUIT, ils sont surtout prêt à ce que je les sodomise.
Gaëtan au KIT a écrit :Y'a des sites sur internet où tu marques ce que t'as picolé et ça te dit combien de temps il te faut pour dé-saouler. Et ben des fois c'est une semaine...
The album is finished. The name is.........Playground Of The Damned and I personally think it rocks. It will be out soon on Shadow Kingdom Records and High Roller Records. I will expose more about the project in a couple of days. Up The Hammers-Mark Shelton
I will give you the scoop now. Sorry for the delay in the news but the studio tugs at me every minute of my life and it is hard to say no.
Manilla Road - Playground of the Damned track listing:
1. Jackhammer
2. Into the Maelstrom (supposed to be a couple of dots over the o in maelstrom but I don't know how to get my keyboard to do that, duh).
3. Playground of the Damned
4. Grindhouse
5. Abattoir de la Mort
6. Fire of Asshurbanipal
7. Brethren of the Hammer
8. Art of War
The whole project was recorded at Midgard Sound Labs in Wichita, KS (which is my studio hehe. I just love saying that). I have to give special props to Derek Brubaker for all the great engineering he did with us on this album. He also was a big inspiration for some of the concepts and lyric ideas in this project.
Band Line-up:
Vince Golman - Played bass on the last 2 songs. These songs were recorded first actually, while Vince was in some serious pain because of physical problems he was having with his hand which resulted in him giving up his position as bass man for Manilla Road.
E.C. Hellwell - Played bass on all the other songs. Ernie (he hates it when I call him that) and I were getting ready to start working on a project together and even though he considers himself a keyboardist he has considerable prowess as a bassist also so we decided to use him for the rest of the album. Due to other obligations he could not sign on with the Road as our touring bass man though. So Joshua Costillo has joined MR as our new bass player since the recording of the album.
Cory Hardcore Christner - Played totally awesome skins (drums) on the whole project.
Bryan Hellroadie Patrick - Sings lead and backing vocals on the album.
Mark Shark Shelton - (sort of strange referring to myself in the third person) Guitars & lead and backing vocals.
Every album the Road does turns out a bit different than the others while oddly enough retaining a certain amount of familiarity with the bands overall style which has taken three decades to to create. This album follows that path as well as any other that we have done. It is not really a concept album even though some of the songs could be considered inter-related. I think this is the best production we have achieved yet in Midgard Sound Labs and I am more than proud to put my name on this project.
Playground of the Damned will be released on High Roller Records for the LP version and Shadow Kingdom Records for the CD version.
The only touring that we are planning at the moment for 2011 will be the Hammer of Doom festival in Germany in October. This will be a special show where we shall play primarily songs from the first two eras of Manilla Road. Andreas Neurdith will be our special guest drummer at this event.
In the interim I am working on a new project with a new band called Hellwell. Yes E.C. is in the band and it was all sort of his idea therefore the name. Joshua Costillo is also working on this project with us and Hellroadie too. So you say well that is almost like having another MR project. It does have a bit of the road sound to it but very different because of keyboards and synthesizers being used. It is really heavy artistic and epic though. Plus we have a different drummer for this project as well...Jonny Benson. So even though you can catch a tinge of the Road in it there is quite a difference as well.
I guess that is enough for you to assimilate at this time. I will post more info as time rolls on.
oui, c'est toujours un evenement en soi un nouvel album de Manilla Road, vivement que l'album sorte et qu'une tournée digne de ce nom soit organisée pour 2012 !
Le concert qu'ils vont faire au Hammer of Doom va être axé sur les " 2 premieres périodes du Road", c'est à dire la période 70' et Mark of the Beast/Crystal Logic ? ou bien toute la disco jusqu'à Courts of Chaos " ?
Hellroadie, le chanteur bis de MANILLA ROAD vient de m'envoyer un extrait du morceau "playground"; et ça promet! Tout est là! Vous allez aimer, c'est sur!
