VIRGIN STEELE new blog from David DeFeis
Well….believe it or not…we have actually finished the album and sent it off to our label, Steamhammer SPV for publication/replication. It was a mad, wild time these past few weeks & days recording and mixing like banshees! But….we made it….A week ago seems like an entire lifetime ago. It seems like every possible situation and change of season has occurred in a matter of hours and days. I personally went through the full dynamic range of emotional upheavals possible….
One minute I was on top of the World, the next completely beneath it….and everything in between. Through it all as we say here in the Land Of Steele….we remained…Invictus!
As always when it comes time to actually part with an album and send it off into the World, I get very crazy. I always want to completely re-do it, to go back to the beginning and live with everything longer, but this of course is impossible. I am always frantic and rushed with every album, but this one was exceptionally challenging. Its birth was very much like how they did it in the long, long past, when people like Chuck Berry or Elvis would record a song, and then it would be immediately pressed and released only a few short hours later. After finishing these final mixes, I straight away began the process to send the album over to our label, so I really did not have the opportunity to live with these final mixes, listen back and adjust anything along the way….I trust that all turned out well and can only judge things from my initial gut reaction….which was that everything seems fine and nice and raw! In the end Life goes on and all projects must have their completion, and this one is now well on its way to landing in your hands soon. I hope you enjoy it….All of us here in the House Of Steele stand behind it, and think that it makes a very appropriate soundtrack to the coming Autumnal Season…We poured all of our blood, sweat, & energy into these tracks, and everything from $200 dollar scotch (a very nice gift from a Fan) to 7-ll coffee went into the making of it. May it empower you and take you on journeys both strange & beautiful….
Cheers & BY THE BLACK SUN & MOON,
David DeFeis September 27, 2010
The new album “The Black Light Bacchanalia” will be released in 4 formats with 3 different covers:
=> Limited Edition Digipak incl. Bonus CD with 2 bonus tracks and a spoken history
=> Standard Jewel Version
=> LP boxset incl. 3 LPs with printed inner sleeves, the standard jewel version, 10 page history booklet, poster, sticker and postcard (limited to 3.000 copies worldwide)
=> Download
Tracklisting:
01. BY THE HAMMER OF ZEUS (And The Wrecking Ball Of Thor), 02. PAGAN HEART, 03. THE BREAD OF WICKEDNESS, 04. IN A DREAM OF FIRE,
05. NEPENTHE (I Live Tomorrow), 06. THE ORPHEUS TABOO, 07. TO CROWN THEM WITH HALOS Parts 1 & 2, 08. THE BLACK LIGHT BACCHANALIA (The Age That Is To Come), 09. THE TORTURE’S OF THE DAMNED, 10. NECROPOLIS (He Answers Them With Death), 11. ETERNAL REGRET
Bonus Tracks on the Limited Edition Digipak: 01. WHEN I’M SILENT (The Wind Of Voices), 02. SILENT SORROW, 03. FROM A WHISPER TO A SCREAM-(The Spoken Biography) – spoken by David DeFeis
Release Dates:
Germany: October 22nd, 2010
Europe: October 25th, 2010
USA/Canada: November 9th, 2010
Source: SPV
