PAUL SAMSON: Collection Of Final Recordings To Surface This Summer

January 24, 2006

A brand new Paul Samson CD, consisting of recordings the leader and founder of the seminal NWOBHM act SAMSON was working on in the months prior to his death in 2002, will be issued this summer under the title "PS..." No further details are currently available.

In other news, Angel Air Records will be releasing a SAMSON retrospective CD on April 3. Entitled "Tomorrow and Yesterday", the album will include an extensive (4,000-word) biography, and a 20-page booklet, featuring many previously unseen pictures.

Samson passed away at his Norfolk, England home during the afternoon of Friday, August 9, 2002 following a lengthy battle with cancer. Paul was 49 years old.

SAMSON had previously featured in their ranks IRON MAIDEN frontman Bruce Dickinson, who sang on two of the group's albums (1980's "Head On" and 1981's "Shock Tactics"),before moving on to fame and fortune with his current outfit.

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