CRYSTAL EYES Complete 'Basic Recordings' For New Album

May 23, 2006

Sweden's CRYSTAL EYES have completed the basic recordings for their new album, "Dead City Dreaming", at Crystal Sounds studio with producer Fredrik Nordström. "Only some detail work remains, which [guitarist] Mikael [Dahl] will carry out during the summer," the band write on their web site. "Fredrik Nordström has set a fantastic sound, and everything's been working so much smother thanks to him. Fredrik will start mixing early September."

Commented Mikael: "The songwriting process has been a bit different this time. I've written songs for CRYSTAL EYES since 1992, and there are so many great songs that never ended up on our records. So last year I took a deep dive into my archives, and found over 50 full songs! There were so many good ideas I just couldn't leave them like that. So some of that stuff have been reworked and included in the new material, and in doing so I think we've ended up with a really fresh and revitalised CRYSTAL EYES. (I also found some whole songs that definitely deserves being properly recorded, but that's a whole other project.) Adding Nico's [Danish singer Søren Nico Adamsen, who is also a member of STARRATS] very powerful vocals to this makes it feel like a new start for the band. Nothing drastic, just very fresh."

According to a posting on the band's web site, the projected title track's lyrics are based upon the short story "The Call of Cthulhu" by H.P. Lovecraft, which is also being used as an inspiration for the ideas that are currently being tossed around for the cover artwork. The artwork will once again be created by Mattias Norén.

"Dead City Dreaming" tentative track listing (in no particular order):

01. Dawn Dancer
02. Dead City Dreaming
03. Roads of Loneliness
04. The Narrow Mind
05. The Quest Remains
06. Wall of Stars
07. Into the Light
08. Temple of Immortal Shame
09. Battlefield
10. The Halls of Valhalla

CRYSTAL EYES' fourth full-length album, "Confessions of the Maker", was issued early last year. Their first two albums, "World of Black and Silver" (1999) and "In Silence They March" (2000),were re-released at the same time.

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