ALTARIA: 'Divine Invitation' Compilation to Include New Material
February 9, 2007Finnish melodic metallers ALTARIA have issued the following update:
"ALTARIA has been busy both [rehearsing] for the upcoming live shows and composing new material for the follow-up of 'The Fallen Empire', to be released tentatively in the autumn. ALTARIA will play few shows during the spring plus multiple festivals during the summer. The year 2007 will be extremely busy for ALTARIA.
"In other news, since the first two albums are sold out, Metal Heaven is releasing a compilation album entitled 'Divine Invitation' including songs from the first two studio albums. The compilation will also include two new tracks with the new lineup, including Marco [Luponero] on vocals. There'll be also more bonus material."
Check out pictures from rehearsal sessions at this location.
ALTARIA parted ways with vocalist Taage in early December. Drummer Tony Smedjebacka stated at the time that it became "clear during this year that Taage and the other members of ALTARIA had different priorities. When we wanted Taage to invest more time for ALTARIA, he decided to quit. The band and Taage had different perspective on few other things, too, which might have been part of the reason he decided to leave the band."
ALTARIA recently posted its video for the song "Frozen Hearts" at YouTube.com. The clip features footage from the band's European tour with SONATA ARCTICA and DORO.
"Frozen Hearts" comes off ALTARIA's third album, "The Fallen Empire", which was released last March. The follow-up to 2004's "Divinity" was mixed the Black Lounge Studios in Sweden. Former DIO guitarist Rowan Robertson makes a guest appearance on a track called "The Lion" and keyboardist Henrik Klingenberg (SONATA ARCTICA, SILENT VOICES) is featured on a song called "The Dying Flame", which is an eight-minute epic.
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