STORMLORD: Another New Song Posted Online

Italian "extreme epic metal" band STORMLORD has posted another new song, the acoustic epic ballad called"The Castaway", on its MySpace page. The track comes off the group's long-awaited fourth full-length album, "Mare Nostrum", due on May 23 via Locomotive Records. The CD was recorded at Giuseppe Orlando's Outer Sound Studios (NECRODEATH, NOVEMBRE, KLIMT 1918) and was mastered at Finnvox Studios by Mika Jussila (HIM, CHILDREN OF BODOM, NIGHTWISH, SENTENCED). The "Mare Nostrum" track listing:

01. Mare Nostrum
02. Neon Karma
03. Legacy Of The Snake
04. Emet
05. The Castaway
06. Scorn
07. And The Wind Shall Scream My Name
08. Dimension: Hate
09. Stormlord

According to the band, "the journalists that had the chance to listen to [the new STORMLORD album] during the studio reports describe 'Mare Nostrum' as a mix of our first two albums, 'Supreme Art Of War' and 'At The Gates Of Utopia', played and arranged with a superior maturity and technical skill.

"We just can say that we love our new songs, they sound epic like in the old times without forgetting the style of 'The Gorgon Cult'. There are a lot of new solutions that we never used before like sitar, folk parts, gloomy clean vocals, 'Mediterrean' ethnic instruments and an amazing drum work. Our singer Cristiano has sealed his best performance so far, going from high pitch screaming to earthquaking growls, while the keyboard work, now up to our guitar/keyboard player Gianpaolo, is the most epic thing weve ever done in ten years.

"Expect a bombastic yet furious avalanche of extreme epic metal, we know that some people has been waiting for this since a long time, we will not disappoint them."

"The Legacy 17 Years of Extreme Epic Metal", a double "best-of" collection from STORMLORD, was released on February 22 through Scarlet Records. The first CD contains 13 songs spanning the band's 17-year career as of one of Europe's most respected metal merchants, including the rare EP "Under the Sign of the Sword", originally released in 1997. The second CD contains a full live show recorded in Montreal on June 14, 2006 during the band's Canadian tour.

Scarlet Records released STORMLORD's first official DVD, "The Battle of Quebec City: Live in Canada", in July 2007 in Europe. A trailer for the DVD can be viewed below.

"The Battle of Quebec City: Live in Canada" contains a complete live show recorded in Quebec City in June 2006 (including a new song, "Dimension: Hate", and a stunning cover of SLAYER's "Raining Blood"),during the band's successful Canadian tour, four bootleg-quality extra songs recorded in Montreal and Toronto and video clips for the songs "I Am Legend" and "Under The Boards (195, M.A.)".