TALISMAN
Frontiers Records is excited to reveal the details behind TALISMAN upcoming studio album "7" to be released on October 20th 2006.
Recorded under the working title of "Bar" which was dropped in the end in favour of the more immediate "7", TALISMAN's brand new album sees once again the combination of four amazing talents flourishing to the highest levels. The experienced swedish bass player and songwriter Marcel Jacob (ex Yngwie Malmsteen) teamed once again with US vocal sensation Jeff Scott Soto (SOUL SIRKUS and now with JOURNEY), drummer Jamie Borger (TREAT) and guitarist Fredrik Akesson (now the second axeman in the Heavy Metal legends ARCH ENEMY) to give birth to a sensational new recording that, according to Jacob, "might simply be our best ever".
"I am much pleased with the result", adds Marcel "more so than I've been in a while. There are a number of tracks that came out really well and I am quite curious as to what the response will be. As a songwriter I tried to write this time more for "other ears" than mine, trying to perceive what others could have liked from what we have been doing before… also this time we tried to go for some ballad and this was a sort of new challenge for us".
"7" is therefore an album that encompasses several music styles, still keeping intact all the magical elements of the TALISMAN trademark: groovy rhythms, soaring and instantly hummable hooklines, aggressive guitar parts and melodies all the way.
Final tracklisting of "7" shall be as follows:
Falling; Nowhere Fast; Rhyme Or Reason; End of the Line; The 1 I'm Living 4; On My Way; Forevermore; Succumb 2 My Desire; Shed a Tear Goodbye; Troubled Water; Back 2 the Feeling.
Release of the album shall happen on Frontiers Records on October 20th 2006 with a Japanese release on King Records.