ADAGIO Guitarist Looking To Sign Bands To Publishing Company

November 24, 2006

French progressive metallers ADAGIO have announced that guitarist Stephan Forté's publishing company, Sanctusignis Publishing, is actively looking to sign bands.

Commented Stephan: "I felt it could be better for the band to hold the rights of ADAGIO's music, but as it was not an easy task, we first decided to work for ADAGIO only. The experience has been really satisfying with 'Dominate' and we felt it was time to sign talented bands, and help them to recollect their royalties worldwide, as well as helping them to make their songs available for concerned medias. Most of the publishing companies are trying to work on heavy metal bands like they do with pop. Of course, it is absolutely not the same media partners and clients and as a consequence, the result is generally that your songs are not properly worked."

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ADAGIO recently finished making a pre-production recording of four songs for its fourth album, entitled "Archangels in Black". According to a posting on the group's official web site, the overall vibe of the tracks "Archangels in Black", "Undead", "The Fear Circus" and "Twilight At Dawn" is "very dark and massive. The band came back to a more orchestral style of composition but kept the heaviness of songs like 'Dominate' or 'Children of the Dead Lake' from the previous album released in 2005 in Japan."

Commented guitarist Stephan Forté: "This album is a sort of tribute to dark arts, including horror movies and gothic literature. It's our own musical representation of what darkness is. I think the song 'Archangels in Black' would be a cool hymn for all those of us who enjoy sinister arts."

ADAGIO will enter the studio in December to record "Archangels in Black" for an early 2007 release.

ADAGIO issued its latest album, "Dominate", in North America and Europe (outside France) in July via Locomotive Music. The CD — which was issued in Japan in December 2005 via Avalon/Marquee and in France in March through Double Vision (via Sony/BMG distribution) — was produced by Stephan Forté and Kevin Codfert, and was mixed at House of Audio Studios in Germany by Dennis Ward.

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