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VIRGIN STELLE - Nocturnes Of Hellfire & Damnation

Label: SPV
Stil: Power Metal

Seit 1981 treiben Sie bereits ihr Unwesen in der Metal-Szene und bereichern die Szene, bekannt geworden durch ihre mythischen und epischen Songs und den auf Piano basierten Songstrukturen. Im Jahr 2011 fing die Band an ihre alten Alben wieder-zu-veröffentlichen. Von der jedoch schon lange
angekündigten DVD, die den Werdegang der Band aufzeigen soll haben wir bis Weilen noch nichts gehört.

Das letzte Studioalbum `The Black Light Bacchanalia´ liegt nunmehr schon 5 Jahre zurück, aber wie man weiss blieb David DeFeis natürlich nicht untätig.

Was soll ich sagen - Neulich noch in der "Küche" und am "Penne Of The Fearless" brutzeln (Brutally Delicious Folge 89) und jetzt schon auf dem neuen VIRGIN STEELE Album zu hören. Nach einer gefühlten Ewigkeit beglücken uns VS Mastermind David DeFeis und seine Mannen diesen Monat also mit dem neusten Streich namens `Nocturnes Of Hellfire & Damnation`.

Die kompositorisch durchaus guten Ansätze, die sogar teilweise Erinnerungen an die früheren Glanzeiten von VIRGIN STEELE wecken, werden durch die eigentümliche Produktion vielfach zunichte gemacht.


David DeFeis Gesang und Tasteninstrumente stehen sehr weit im Vordergrund, dadurch geht der Punch der Band irgendwie verloren. DeFeis kann durchaus noch gut singen, allerdings ist die Stimme durch viele Effekte irgendwie verfremdet und seine genutzten Jaus & Screams passen leider nicht immer gut zur Musik. Früher hingegen war dies ein stimmiges Konzept.

Fazit: Langsamere Songs als gewohnt. Stimmlich hat David es nach wie vor drauf, auch wenn die Effekte ihn etwas verfremden. Jedoch alles hörbar und mir persönlich gefällt die CD sehr gut! Noble Save Zeiten sind vorbei - aber auch andere große Bands schreiben keine HITS mehr. Man kann ja
schließlich auch nicht immer HITS landen. Und man kann in der heutigen Zeit wo es schon alles gibt das Rad auch nicht mehr neu erfinden. Im Vergleich zu anderen Alben die den Markt erobern brauchen sich VIRGIN STEELE jedoch keinesfalles zu verstecken.



Punkte: 6,5


Susi Rocketqueen Müller

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Steamhammer - News Press Release - Monday April 27th, 2015 VIRGIN STEELE change the title for their forthcoming new studio album in “Nocturnes of Hellfire & Damnation”.

Steamhammer - News
Press Release - Monday April 27th, 2015

VIRGIN STEELE change the title for their forthcoming new studio album in “Nocturnes of Hellfire & Damnation”.

David DeFeis says about the new album:
"Our new album which is called "NOCTURNES OF HELLFIRE & DAMNATION", is not a concept album per se, but there is a through line that connects the tracks. The lyrics essentially deal with relationship issues and by that I mean....the connections between entities....as in all sorts of beings, not only human beings…but also Gods & Goddesses, Spirits, Elements, or whatever, plus various creatures, animal, vegetable and or mineral, but largely the album is about connections between people. People and their belief systems, people and their Gods or Goddesses…people and their life philosophies and also the various substances we invest or inject into our daily or nightly rituals and our worldview, and all the complexities of what drives us, makes us who we are and takes us where we may…or may not be going. To sum it up this album is about....all the various ways in which humans can entangle themselves, or destroy themselves…so the album's title essentially encompasses what the vibe of the whole Work is about. The title relates to the album in the way that the title “NOBLE SAVAGE”, or “AGE OF CONSENT”, expressed each of those particular Works. The title provides a framework and connective tissue, but each song is really its own thing.

Musically the album is pretty heavy, high energy, often dark, at turns melancholy, and at turns aggressive or angry sounding. It does have that over the top bombastic heaviness that we are about, and the whole Barbaric-Romantic thing that we are known for. The overarching theme that comes to mind when I think about the album or listen to it is passion…raw passion. There are big monolithic riffs, moody chord changes, “classical” type bits, sort of Bluesy moments....it retains the VIRGIN STEELE signature, but it adds new dimensions to it. In a strange way it "feels" to me like it could have been the album we might have made to follow up "NOBLE SAVAGE", had I been able to devote all my energies into the more bombastic or progressive side of my musical nature at that time, rather than trying to appease some of the other "factions" around me who wanted some kind of a "hit"...whatever that meant at the time. So to conclude...we have infused the recordings with all that we have gone through over these past months, every fiber of our being.....and I think this album will be something our Fans will really enjoy! "

SPV / Steamhammer will release the new studio album on June 17th in Scandinavia, June 19th in Germany, June 22nd in Europe and June 23rd in the USA.

It will come out with three different covers as a standard 1CD version (the gargoyle cover), 2CD digipak version (the angel cover), 2 LP gatefold version (the flute playing skeleton cover) and download.

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Virgin Steele Newsflash: New album out in June!

Pic source: Virgin Steele official Facebookpage no photographer mentioned... so all credits by the one who took this great pic!

And yes the new album is just about finished. It will appear in a double CD digi-pak form, a regular CD version, and in vinyl Lp form. The title is "NOCTURNES OF HELLFIRE & DAMNATION". The scheduled release date is June 19th.

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