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Austria's symphonic metal force Edenbridge has announced the first details about its forthcoming album. Shangri-La will be released on 26 August via recently signed with AFM Records. Featuring nine epic tracks, seeing the band deliver its most diverse album to date!
Shangri-La takes the dedicated Edenbridge listener on a musical ride into the realms of finest symphonic metal. The band's eleventh studio album unleashes a sophisticated range of compositions along with an intoxicating and bombastic sound atmosphere. Despite constantly high-quality standards and as the new offering proves, Edenbridge continually expands its musical expression from album to album without abandoning its trademarks. This time, the band has created a fine balance between emotionally magical moments, an ever-present mystical atmosphere and heavy, fast-paced riffage.
Today, Edenbridge presented the first track (lyric video), taken from Shangri-La - "Somewhere Else But Here", available also in the player below.
Says lead vocalist Sabine Edelsbacher: "'Somewhere Else But Here' is about our phantasy, that takes us on a journey into a world we would like be different. In some extent, we also use it to write a part of our book of life, which lies at the bottom of the lake and life leafs through it".
Formed in 1998, Edenbridge belongs to one of the most style-defining bands of its genre, spearheading its domain since its pathbreaking debut album Sunrise In Eden (2000). Its forthcoming magnum opus, Shangri-La, was recorded at the Farpoint Station Studio, mixed by Karl Groom and was produced by Lanvall himself. "Instead of going on a European tour in spring 2020, it was a matter of flipping on our creative switch and channelling those intense energies into a transformative song writing process for the new album", he says.
The cover art was created by United Arab Emirates artist, Muhammad K. Nazia, and features a pictorial representation of Shangri-La embodied as a synonym for paradise. The term was first mentioned in the novel "Lost Horizon" by James Hilton. It is described as a mystical place where people live in peace and harmony. However, the story is based on the ancient Far Eastern legend of "Shambala" depicted in long-preserved Buddhist scriptures. The legend depicts a paradise that is to become accessible again only when humankind is ready for it and only when a few have the spiritual maturity to understand and preserve the teachings.
Sabine reveals: "For me, Shangri-La is a wellspring of wisdom, a deeply secluded spiritual centre and a realm of retreat that casts a magical allure over we humans. And there is a reason why it is so meaningfully said: 'You do not enter paradise with your feet, but with your heart'." Link
Shangri-La tracklist:
01. At First Light
02. The Call Of Eden
03. Hall Of Shame
04. Savage Land - feat. NDR Radio Orchestra flutist Daniel Tomann-Eickhoff
05. Somewhere Else But Here
06. Freedom Is A Roof Made Of Stars
07. Arcadia (The Great Escape)
08. The Road To Shangri-La
09. The Bonding (Part 2) - feat. Erik Martensson (Eclipse, W.E.T.)
I. The Bonding Overture
II. Alpha and Omega
III. The Eleventh Hour
IV. Round and Round
V. The Timeless Now – Finale
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