DOMAIN Close To Completing Work On New Album
September 4, 2008, 16 years ago
German power metallers DOMAIN have issued the following update:
"After almost two years, the deed is nearly done. The finish of the (recordings for the) upcoming Domain album, The Chronicles Of Love, Hate And Sorrow, is within spitting distance.
Producer and guitarist Axel "Ironfinger" Ritt resides again at the Meadow Studios / Darmstadt, Germany, to put the final cut on the metal opera.
As previously reported, Domain's ninth studio album, The Chronicles Of Love, Hate And Sorrow, will be a concept album like the Last Days Of Utopia album, but this time arranged and conceived as a 'metal opera'.
Vocalist Nick Ruhnow created a 12 chapter drama, based on the legendary epistolary novel Die Leiden Des Jungen Werther by famous German poet Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. The opus will be performed by guitarist Axel Ritt, keyboarder Erdmann Lange, bassplayer Steven Wussow and Nick Ruhnow himself, enriched with hard and anthem metal, epic heavy rock and ballad elements.
Released for the first time in 1774, the story Die Leiden Des Jungen Werther became a key work in German literature regarding the 'Storm And Stress' period and describes an impossible love against all moral concepts, which provokes extreme emotional reactions up to the point of a spate of suicides among young readers of the novel.
The release date of the new album in Europe will be November this year, USA and Asia in January 2009.
