NEW ALBUM FOR PRETTY MAIDS
After their successful and highly acclaimed 2010 album “Pandemonium”, Danish melodic Hard Rockers, Pretty Maids celebrated their 30th anniversary with their debut visual release “It Comes Alive (Maid in Switzerland)”.
Founded in early 1982 by guitarist Ken Hammer and singer Ronnie Atkins, Pretty Maids soon established themselves as a band to be taken seriously in the early eighties, having their breakthrough with the release – in April 1987 – of the album “Future World”. This record soon gathered a universal recognition as a “Classic”, which endures to date.
This album got a wide exposure not only in Europe but also in America and the Far East, allowing the band to perform in from of large audiences thanks to their tour with Deep Purple and their appearances in the “Monsters of Rock“ festival. The following album “Jump The Gun” kept the momentum for the band, particularly in Europe and Japan.
Throughout the nineties Pretty Maids continued to release albums, usually followed by European and Japanese tours with the band still maintaining a very high songwriting and production standards.
The release of “Wake up to the Real World” in 2006 started the band’s relationship with Frontiers Records and the album was followed by several festival appearances in the years to come and a European tour in November 2008.
However it has been the release of “Pandemonium” in 2010 that showed the world that Pretty Maids were in a creative spring again, with the band their finest moment. The melodic approach brought a return to the “Future World / Red Hot and Heavy” era of the eighties, but with an updated sound and freshness that consolidated Pretty Maids as strong as ever.
In late spring 2012 , the band gathered to finally write the follow up album. Ronnie Atkins tells: “We knew it was going to be a tough one to follow ! I remember back in the day when we had to follow up albums like “Future World”, we tried more or less to copy the songs from the previous album to keep the same kind of balance. But this time we just wrote what came natural to us and that’s what became “Motherland”.
In mid August, the band teamed up again with producer Jacob Hansen to start the recording of the new album. Ronnie tells: “Jacob was a natural choice since we had a great experience with him producing the “Pandemonium” album. The recordings went smooth to begin with, but then we had to start touring again during the weekends and this created some stress. Though I really feel strongly about “Motherland”. In my view it has all the ingredients of a good Pretty Maids album, maybe even more melodic than “Pandemonium” and absolutely, as far as I’m concerned a worthy follow up”.
The album’s release will be preceded by the release of the single / video “Mother of All Lies” which will hit the streets on January 22nd 2013.
Pretty Maids are stronger than ever – don’t miss the band while the band will be touring in 2013 !
Source: Frontiers Records
