{"id":1212,"date":"2011-12-10T20:30:32","date_gmt":"2011-12-10T20:30:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skylight.gr\/administrator_wordpress\/index.php\/2011\/12\/10\/new-superband-featuring-michel-kiske-and-kai-hansen\/"},"modified":"2011-12-10T20:30:32","modified_gmt":"2011-12-10T20:30:32","slug":"new-superband-featuring-michel-kiske-and-kai-hansen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/2011\/12\/10\/new-superband-featuring-michel-kiske-and-kai-hansen\/","title":{"rendered":"New superband featuring Michel Kiske and Kai Hansen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.michael-kiske.de\/images\/stories\/kiske_home.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"134\" height=\"155\" \/><br \/>UNISONIC \u2013 the new super group uniting the legendary heavy rock musicians Michael Kiske<br \/>(vocals, ex-Helloween), his former bandmate Kai Hansen (guitars, Gamma Ray, ex<br \/>Helloween), Mandy Meyer (guitars, ex-Gotthard, ex-Krokus), Dennis Ward (bass, Pink<br \/>Cream 69) and Kosta Zafiriou (drums, Pink Cream 69) is finally unveiling the cover artwork<br \/>for its debut EP and precise details about the album release.   <!--more-->  <br \/>The artwork for the mini album &#8220;IGNITION&#8221;, the band&#8217;s long-awaited first release to see<br \/>daylight by end of January 2012, can be checked at www.youtube.com\/earmusicofficial<br \/>. <br \/>Fans can listen to the first single \u201eUnisonic\u201c on earMUSIC&#8217;s official channel at the following link<br \/>http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=9og0g_l-NlI with immediate effect, also checking a first<br \/>band picture of the five-piece (full embed code: &lt;iframe width=&#8221;420&#8243; height=&#8221;315&#8243; src=&#8221;<br \/>http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9og0g_l-NlI &#8221; frameborder=&#8221;0&#8243; allowfullscreen&gt;&lt;\/iframe&gt;). <\/p>\n<p>UNISONIC have signed a record contract with earMUSIC \/ Edel most recently. &#8220;IGNITION&#8221;,<br \/>the mini album to herald the major longplay output in March, will feature the band&#8217;s self titled<br \/>anthem &#8220;Unisonic&#8221;, and the brand new song &#8220;My Sanctuary&#8221; from the album, a demo<br \/>version of the song &#8220;Souls Alive&#8221; and the Helloween classic &#8220;I Want Out&#8221; &#8211; a live rarity,<br \/>performed by the band at Loudpark Festival in Japan October 2011. <\/p>\n<p>UNISONIC\u00b4s music is very versatile and shows a broad approach to heavy rock, but never<br \/>misses the power and strong, sticking melodies that made all the members famous in the<br \/>metal scene in the first place. Says singer Michael Kiske: \u201cIt feels great to finally bring the<br \/>band to the studio and record the songs we\u00b4ve been working on for some time. We took our<br \/>time to grow as a real band, but it definitely was worth it and we are very proud of the result!\u201d <br \/>Bassist\/producer Dennis Ward adds: \u201cWe have a bunch of very strong songs and can\u00b4t wait<br \/>until people can hear them. Everyone in the band is looking very positive into the future.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>The band&#8217;s web site www.unisonic.de is also &#8220;live&#8221; with immediate effect. The extended and<br \/>elaborate version of the band&#8217;s online home will be launched in January. <\/p>\n<p>Now it\u00b4s time to listen to &#8220;UNISONIC&#8221; &#8211; crank it up!!!\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p>earMUSIC is the international rock label of Hamburg based entertainment group Edel, releasing internationally the works<br \/>of Foreigner, Chickenfoot, Blue October, Lostboy Aka Jim Kerr, Bush, Joe Jackson, Gamma Ray, Stratovarius, Kamelot, <\/p>\n<p>Skunk Anansie, Europe, Status Quo, Deep Purple, Marillion, <br \/>Chrissie Hynde, Savatage, Crash Test Dummies and many others. <\/p>\n<p>Source: earMUSIC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UNISONIC \u2013 the new super group uniting the legendary heavy rock musicians Michael Kiske(vocals, ex-Helloween),&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1212\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}