ELVENKING - Temporary Violinist/Keyboard Player Announced
September 10, 2007, 16 years ago
Italian folk metallers ELVENKING have issued the following update:
"Last week Elyghen (violin/keyboard player) has temporarily moved to Ireland for working reasons. Don’t worry: he won’t leave the band! He’ll try to be here with us as much as possible, but of course this won’t be easy all the time. That’s why in this period, Eleonora (a girl who has played the violin in the quartet that played in Elvenking albums), will help the band with the live gigs where Elyghen cannot be present. She played with us Friday night and the result was great! The same gig saw also the debut of our new live guitarist Raffaello (Luca was forced to leave his duties with the band for personal reasons) and the impact on stage has been wonderful for all of us! Pictures of this event will be put online in the next days but here you can have a small taste of our two new live companions!In other news, we want to spend a couple of words for Greg 'Super-G' Marchak, the sound engineer and producer of JON OLIVA'S PAIN, who sadly disappeared Thursday night. This was a very sad news for all of us, since we spent so much great time together on tour last year and he has been incredibly kind with Elvenking, helping us out with sounds each and every night! Like all the other guys from Jon’s crew he has been a friend to us those days, and as a friend he will be remembered. R.I.P. Greg."
Elvenking's forthcoming album, The Scythe, will see the following release dates:
- Europe: AFM Records - September 14th - Limited Digipack version with bonus track ('Horns Ablaze'), bonus video track ('The Divided Heart'); Regular version.- USA: Candlelight Records - November 6th - Regular version.
- Japan: Soundholic Records - November 21st - Regular version with bonus track ('The Open Beach' from The Winter Wake sessions ).
The complete tracklist for the European edition is as follows: 'The Scythe', 'Lost Hill Of Memories', 'Infection', 'Poison Tears', 'A Riddle Of Stars', 'Romance & Wrath', 'The Divided Heart', 'Horns Ablaze' (digipack limited edition bonus track), 'Totentanz', 'Death And The Suffering', 'Dominhate'.
