PLACE VENDOME, the melodic rock project featuring UNISONIC and former HELLOWEEN singer Michael Kiske on all lead vocals and production from Dennis Ward (PINK CREAM 69), have released their third album, Thunder In The Distance, via Frontiers Records.

The official Michael Kiske fanclub has issued an interview conducted with Michael Kiske, Dennis Ward and Uwe Reitenauer who talk about the album and more. An excerpt follows:

Q: Can you tell us some differences between the latest Place Vendome album and the previous ones?

Michael: "To me the third one is way more AOR than the once before."

Dennis: "Well, for a start it’s blue :) Mainly I think the biggest difference is that it’s much more keyboard influenced and more traditional."

Uwe: "The first album Dennis, Gunter and me wrote the music for the album-so there’s more personal input from us-If the results are better on the latest album, which is written from a couple of songwriters-this question should answer PV fans."

Q: One of the strengths of this album comparing with the two previous in my opinion is that this album has a great guitar work (solos and riffs), for example songs like ‘Broken Wings’, ‘Fragile Ground’, ‘Never too Late’ ‘Thunder..’ do you think this album has the best guitar work in PV discography?

Uwe: "Oh I never thought about that. I’m always more in arranging the whole songs. I don t really try to make a killer riff on every song, because good songs don t need it sometimes."

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Thunder In The Distance tracklisting:

'Talk To Me'

'Power Of Music'

'Broken Wings'

'Lost In Paradise'

'It Can’t Rain Forever'

'Fragile Ground'

'Hold Your Love'

'Never Too Late'

'Heaven Lost'

'My Heart Is Dying'

'Breakout'

'Maybe Tomorrow'

'Thunder In The Distance'

'Talk To Me' video:

'Power Of Music' lyric video:

Track samples: