01/30/2014 12:22

Axemaster

Axemaster: 3rd album 'Overture to Madness' out in March

The new Axemaster (heavy metal from Kent, Ohio) album 'Overture to Madness' is almost a reality. The finished master recordings are off to Pure Steel Records along with great front cover artwork. The label has issued March 6th, 2015 as an official release date. These are exciting times for everyone involved as this will be the first new material released by the re-formed Axemaster.

Track listing:
1) Entering Madness.....
2) Sanity's Requiem
3) Forsaken
4) Dream or Nightmare
5) Thirty Pieces of Silver
6) Crimson Haze
7) Peeling Skin
8) Sinister
9) Statute of Liberty
10) Ashes
11) Chyld
12) Dark Souls
13) Epic
(All songs by McGraw, Sims, Curtis, Henderson)

You can preview the song 'Sanity's Requiem' by checking out the band's first video from the album: www.youtube.com/watch?v=LU3CxR_17h0

Performers:
Geoff McGraw - vocals
Joe Sims - guitar
Jim Curtis - bass
Brian Henderson - drums

Produced/Mixed/Mastered by Joe Sims at Chamber Studio (USA).

(source: Axemaster)

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Some details from Us power metal band Axemaster's third full length album have been announced.

It's titled 'Overture to Madness'.

Song titles are (in no specific order):
Sanity's Requiem
Forsaken
Dream or Nightmare
Chyld
Statutes of Liberty
Peeling Skin
Ashes
Thirty Pieces of Silver
Epic
Dark Souls
Sinister
Crimson Haze

Lyrics by Geoff McGraw and music by Joe Sims.
Produced by Joe Sims. Production consultant: S.A. Adams.

(source: Axemaster)

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Studio update from US metallers Axemaster:

"In our last update letter we mentioned that technical problems were delaying the production of the new Axemaster album. As it turned out, the problems with the studio computer were rather serious as it had to be completely wiped clean and have a new operating system as well as a new version of the multi-track program installed. Everything had been backed up so fortunately all the original sound files were saved. However, all the original multi-track templates (through which each song is mixed) are no longer able to be used and many of the audio effects levels (as well as some of the audio effects themselves) were totally lost. So for a while now the majority of work has gone to building new templates for each song and completely re-mixing them. There is still a lot of work to be done at this, it's a long and difficult process, but progress is slowly being made.

We hope everyone understands the reasons that it's taking a while for this album to be produced. But rest assured, no matter how much work, time, and effort it takes to finish this project, the new Axemaster album WILL be a reality. We ask for everyone's patience as this will be by far the best Axemaster release to date, it will just take some time!!!!!!"

(source: Axemaster)

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US metallers Axemaster are recording their third album (also a comeback one). Here is the message from the band from a studio:

"It's been a while since our last update and there has been a lot of work done and progress made on the new Axemaster album. The first couple complete advance mixes (songs titled 'Seeds of Tyranny' and 'The Calling') came out outstanding which has raised the already high expectations for this release. A European contact heard the first mix and commented "this song is a killer!!! I love the melodies and the vocals are just brilliant, not to speak of the really, really mean riffing. I love the dark overall sound. Definitely something I would buy instantly and exactly the stuff that all die-hard metalheads over here in Europe would buy".

Unfortunately some recent technical problems with the band's studio has temporarily slowed progress on the production. Luckily though, limited work can still be done while waiting for the problems to be fixed so things continue to slowly move forward with the project. The band is still experimenting with quite a bit of the material and trying different ideas to make every song be as good as it can possibly be."

Guitarist/producer Joe Sims said: "Everyone feels that it's very important to have each track be strong, that there will be no "fillers" or weak spots on the album, so we are treating every song like it will be the main featured track on the release. It takes a lot of work and time, but will be more than worth it in the long run. There are not a lot of releases that totally kick ass from start to finish, our main goal from the beginning has been to make this CD one of those few".

(source: Axemaster)