DARK TRANQUILLITY's Mikael Stanne To Write Lyrics For New SOLUTION .45 Album
June 8, 2009, 15 years ago
SOLUTION .45 - featuring former members of SCAR SYMMETRY, SONATA ARCTICA as well as members of MISERATION, HATEFORM AND ANGEL BLAKE - have issued the following update from vocalist Christian Älvestam:
"I'm happy to announce that no other than Mikael Stanne of DARK TRANQUILLITY will help us out conducting lyrics for our coming debut album. He recently wrote some additional guest-lyrics for another band of mine, called THE FEW AGAINST MANY (in which Jani (Stefanovic, guitar) can also be found) and since he did such a great job on that one (and also being a great lyricist in general), we thought we'd ask him if he'd be up to making a lyrical contribution to the S.45 album as well.After some discussion between us he agreed to the proposal of not only writing some parts, but to write all lyrics for the album. We couldn't be happier man! I've personally been a huge fan of his earlier work and writing skills, for quite some time now, so it's a great honour and privilege to have him aboard. However, I will still compose the vocal arrangements and melodies for the album, so do not fear in that regard.
Why don't I write the lyrics myself, you may wonder! Well... for starters, I do intend to write some for the album, but mainly just bits and pieces, here and there. The thing is, over the years I've kind of lost the spark, or the driving force (or whatever you'd like to call it), needed in order to write lyrics good enough to satisfy my inner critic.
However, on an impulse, I can still write some decent stuff every now and then, but unfortunately these occasions have grown further and further apart over the last couple of years. Therefore I rather delegate this duty to more suitable people nowadays, who I know can deliver the goods so to speak.
As for the lyrics on the "promo 2008", they are all draft ones, so you should definately take them with a pinch of salt!
More news as it happens!"
More no Solution .45 at the band's MySpace page.
