Es wird endlich mal Zeit für einen MANILLA ROAD-Thread

Ich hoffe auf ein Schweizerdate. Habe jetzt mal den Kumpel kontaktiert der den Savage Master Gig organisiert hat. Mal schauen.
 
Vielleicht fahre ich nach Hamburg. Schade das es hier in NRW keinen Club-Termin gibt.
Ich bin nicht so der Festival-Gänger.
 
Mannheim wäre an meinem Geburtstag. Das wäre schön. Aber da ist halt leider auch das RHF, wo ich gebucht habe...
:hmmja:

Dann halt BYH.
 
Weiß eigentlich jemand hier, was es mit den beiden bei HR Records für Juni angekündigten LPs "Underground" und "Dreams Of Eschaton" (2-LP) auf sich hat? @Neudi vielleicht?
 
Von der High Roller Webseite:

Manilla Road are a legend in their own right. The band that time forgot! Without the shadow of a doubt one of the most innovative American metal bands of all time. In the late 1970's, Manilla Road practically single-handedly invented what is today called Epic Metal.
Hailed as US Metal pioneers (their debut album »Invasion« was released on their own Roadster label in 1980), the band from Wichita (Kansas) has set the trend for the current renaissance of Epic Power Metal (despite being at best ignored and at worst derided by mainstream metal magazines around the globe for some 25 odd years).
The band's second album »Metal« was once again issued via Roadster Records (seeing the light of day in 1982). In 1983 Manilla Road put out »Crystal Logic« considered to be their best album ever. This led to a deal with French label Black Dragon Records.
However, not a lot of people know that in 1981 Manilla Road had recorded another album which was supposed to be following the release of »Invasion«. The long lost Manilla Road album called »Dreams Of Eschaton«, now issued in its original form by High Roller Records. The material has been carefully restored and remastered by Patrick W. Engel at his Temple Of Disharmony.
The big question is why Manilla Road decided to record »Metal« and shelving the whole »Dreams Of Eschaton« project back in 1981? “We just did not feel the recording represented the true sound of the band at the time,” remarks Mark “The Shark” Shelton. “The studio we were recording in felt that inline recording technology was the way to go with us and so »Invasion« and »Dreams Of Eschaton« were recorded using analog guitar processors more than amplifiers and speaker cabinets. The same approach was used in the »Dreams Of Eschaton« recording and when it was all said and done I did not feel like the sound of the songs or the recording represented what the music sounded like live. So we put that project to bed so to speak and started working on new recordings using amps and speakers with the volume jacked up like we did it at live shows. That is how the songs 'Aftershock', 'Time Trap' and 'Venusian Sea' were recorded. We never actually made it to the stage of thinking out a cover concept because of deciding not to release the album. So I can't say what the cover art would have looked like if we had gone ahead and released it back then.”
According to Mark Shelton »Dreams Of Eschaton« is based on a loose concept: “It's about dreaming of the apocalypse, both, the real possible one and the religious Christian version as well. But it is pretty loose and some songs just don't even relate to the concept at all.”
“Unfortunately there has never been a really good master recording of this material that survived the years,” explains Mark. “But there was a copy of the demo that was found that sounds amazingly like the original recording sounding to me as I remember it. With this newly found tape along with Patrick Engel's new mastering the quality has improved greatly from what was released as »Mark Of The Beast« on Monster Records back in 2002.”
Surprisingly, most of the songs of the shelved »Dreams Of Eschaton« album were indeed played live back in the days: “We played most of the songs live for about a year or two and then they sort of drifted off the live set list. We did play 'Avatar' in France once when the line-up was Vince Golman on bass and Cory Christner on drums with Bryan singing it. There is a youtube video of this on our Manilla Road youtube page if you care to check it out.”
So what would Mark say, does he consider »Dreams Of Eschaton« to be a full Manilla Road album, which just did not make it to be officially released in 1981, or is it rather an experiment/a collection of demos in his eyes? “I would consider it to be a bit of both,” is his straight answer. “It was a full album which was originally going to be called »Dreams Of Eschaton« and with the other songs added, which were actually recorded as demo songs, then it becomes sort of that collection that you speak of as well.“
 
...und hier noch zum zweiten Release:

Manilla Road are a legend in their own right. The band that time forgot! Without the shadow of a doubt one of the most innovative American metal bands of all time. In the late 1970's, Manilla Road practically single-handedly invented what is today called Epic Metal.
Hailed as US Metal pioneers (their debut album »Invasion« was released on their own Roadster label in 1980), the band from Wichita (Kansas) has set the trend for the current renaissance of Epic Power Metal (despite being at best ignored and at worst derided by mainstream metal magazines around the globe for some 25 odd years).
The band's second album »Metal« was once again issued via Roadster Records (seeing the light of day in 1982). In 1983 Manilla Road put out »Crystal Logic« considered to be their best album ever. This led to a deal with French label Black Dragon Records.
The mini-album »Underground«, issued via High Roller Records, marks Manilla Road's first trip into a professional recording studio. The »Underground« demo contained the three songs “Far Side Of The Sun”, “Manilla Road” and “Hermann Hill”. Those were originally recorded way back in 1979 (even before »Invasion«). The fourth song “Flakes Of Time” has been added from a rehearsal tape.
Mark “The Shark” Shelton explains in more detail: “There are three songs from the »Underground« demo recording. The other song was a live rehearsal recording from our place that we called the 'Roadhouse'. Those three songs though were our first actual recording session in a professional studio. These songs were recorded with our amps and gear turned up loud and to tell the truth this recording sounds more like the band did back in that day than »Invasion« or »Dreams Of Eschaton«. They were recorded at Miller Studio when it was just getting started and we had no idea what the hell we were doing, ha, ha. We were fortunate enough to find the original master copy tape in perfectly preserved condition making for a great sound.”
The Manilla Road chronology in the early days has not always been crystal clear, take the song “Far Side Of The Sun” for example. Mark laughs: “ 'Far Side Of The Sun' has appeared on three Manilla Road releases already and now this will be the fourth. This version is pretty much like the version on »Invasion« except that you have a different drummer with Miles Sype on the »Underground« material and the song is done much slower with almost a doom feel to it. For that matter the band at that time had a real early doom sort of sound going on. 'Far Side Of The Sun' also showed up on »Live Roadkill« with a super hyped up live version with Randy Foxe playing drums.”
And "Herman Hill" is to be found on »After Midnight Live« as a live
track. This now is the studio version... Mark Shelton: “Yep. This is the actual first studio recording of the song. This would be the version that was played on the radio in Wichita for a brief period of time after the riot occurred.”
"Flakes Of Time" though, the fourth track on »Underground«, comes from a different source: “It's just another one of those songs that I wrote and we played live for a while but we never recorded in the studio and eventually it just drifted off the live set list never to be heard again. That is until we found this rather poor sounding recording of it.”
Mark Shelton concludes: “»Underground« was really never meant to be an official professional release for sale back then. There was no real connection between the three songs at all. One thing that I think is interesting that I really sort of forgot about until I heard the recording of the song 'Manilla Road' again for the first in like some 30 plus years is that the saying that we used on the back cover of the »Invasion« album is a line from the song 'Manilla Road'. I had totally forgotten this. You know the saying that goes “People ask us what do you play – there's only one thing to say we're Manilla Road.'”
 
Okay, danke, hatte es mir eigentlich auch schon gedacht. Dann dürfte "Dreams Of Eschaton" ja im Prinzip von den Songs her das gleiche sein wie "Mark Of The Beast".
 
Okay, danke, hatte es mir eigentlich auch schon gedacht. Dann dürfte "Dreams Of Eschaton" ja im Prinzip von den Songs her das gleiche sein wie "Mark Of The Beast".


Bin ich mir nicht sicher. Du bist sicher weiter drin in der Materie wie ich, ich habe aber vom KIT diverse Griechen Boot-CDs für jeweils 3€ gekauft, die m.E. vom Material genau die Grundlage für die Platten bieten könnten. Und dann erwartete uns grosses, aber kein Mark of the beast. Aber, ich kann mir halt nicht sicher sein. Gekauft wird es ja eh'.
 
Bin ich mir nicht sicher. Du bist sicher weiter drin in der Materie wie ich, ich habe aber vom KIT diverse Griechen Boot-CDs für jeweils 3€ gekauft, die m.E. vom Material genau die Grundlage für die Platten bieten könnten. Und dann erwartete uns grosses, aber kein Mark of the beast. Aber, ich kann mir halt nicht sicher sein. Gekauft wird es ja eh'.
Die griechische Bootleg-CD mit dem Titel "Dreams Of Eschaton", die ich kenne, ist im Grunde "Mark Of The Beast" mit ein paar Songs weniger.
 
Ich hoffe, dass es nicht nur die Vinyls auf HRR gibt, sondern auch wieder CD-Version(en) auf ZYX/GC. Aber davon will ich doch mal ausgehen. Kaufen werde ich in dem Fall dann beides.
 
Die "Underground/Dreams...."-CDs wurden hier vor ein paar Seiten auch schon mal auf HRR angekündigt, wenn mich nicht alles täuscht, als Doppel-CD. Freue ich mich auch schon mächtig drauf.
 
Die "Underground/Dreams...."-CDs wurden hier vor ein paar Seiten auch schon mal auf HRR angekündigt, wenn mich nicht alles täuscht, als Doppel-CD. Freue ich mich auch schon mächtig drauf.

Jupp. Hab's auch wieder gefunden. Separate Vinylreleases oder alles zusammen als Doppel-CD, beides auf HRR, VÖ wohl in Juni.
 
Fang erst mit höherem Alter damit an mich mit klassischem "Metal" zu beschäftigen, also eher Zeugs aus den 80ern/70ern und klar, da stößt man schnell auf Manilla Road oder Cirith Ungol aber poah, wie geil sind denn bitte Manilla Road? Ich bin noch nicht so tief im Geschehen wie viele Andere hier, aber aktuelle Faves sind OPEN THE GATES und klar, Chrystal Logic. Arbeite mich so durch und kann kaum glauben, wie viele coole Sache hier zusammen kommen.

Also erstmal weiter hören und dann hier einsteigen :D Wollte nur angeben, das ich auch infiziert bin mit diesem Juwel :)
 
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