ROUGH SILK To Release 'A New Beginning' Next Month

February 16, 2009

German epic/melodic metallers ROUGH SILK will release their new album, "A New Beginning", on March 20 via Dockyard 1 Records.

Mastermind Ferdy Doernberg teamed up with André Hort (bass),Mike Mandel (guitars) and Alex Wenn (drums),who are young and hungry musicians from the Hannover area to bring fresh blood and enthusiasm into the band and most important to bring back more metal into ROUGH SILK's sound again.

The CD was produced by Ferdy Doernberg at the Droehnwerk Studios in Bad Nenndorf, Germany, with the exception of the track "A Song For Hilmer", which was written and recorded in Los Angeles one day after Doernberg received news that original ROUGH SILK guitarist, Hilmer Staacke, passed away.

"A New Beginning" track listing:

01. Temple Of Evil
02. Home Is Where The Pain Is
03. Reborn To Wait
04. The Roll Of The Dice
05. When The Circus Is Coming To Town
06. Sierra Madre
07. A New Beginning
08. Warpaint
09. Black Leather
10. We've Got A File On You (feat. SUBCULTURE SQUAD)
11. Deadline
12. We All Need Something To Hold On To In This Life
13. A Song For Hilmer

Check out audio samples at www.myspace.com/roughsilkmusic.

Doernberg stated about the track "A Song For Hilmer", "The last song on the album is dedicated to Hilmer Staacke, the former guitar player of ROUGH SILK, and was written, performed and recorded on May 26, 2006 in the dressing room of Ralph Freud's Theatre in Los Angeles, California one day after I got the news that Hilmer had died the day before. Two friends of mine, Roy Z [HALFORD, BRUCE DICKINSON, JUDAS PRIEST] and Warren DeMartini [RATT] helped me recording it right away on an old piano in the dressing room. The piano was a little out of tune, I made a few mistakes and if you listen carefully you can hear the Uli Jon Roth soundcheck in the background, but we kept it the way it was because it's authentic. It wouldn't be the same if we would recut it in the studio. We combined it with a guitar solo performed by Hilmer Staacke himself in 1995 so you have the chance to listen to a great guitar player one more time."

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