HALCYON WAY Announce Cover Artist For New Album
March 11, 2010, 14 years ago
Atlanta-based progressive metal band HALCYON WAY have confirmed that artist Travis Smith will be creating the artwork for the upcoming album.
Travis Smith is a world renowned artist whose artwork has been featured on album covers, t-shirts and movie posters. He has worked with many well known acts such as AMORPHIS, DEVIN TOWNSEND, METALLICA, NEVERMORE, OPETH and SLAYER.
The band plans to unveil the album art shortly.
The new release is the follow-up to the debut by the band, A Manifesto For Domination. It features the debut of new vocalist Steve Braun (ASHENT, SILOAM) , as well as a guest appearance by Pamela Moore of QUEENSRŸCHE fame.
The album was produced by Lasse Lammert (ALESTORM, SVARTSOT) and guitarist Jon Bodan. Drums were engineered by Mike Froedge (DOUBLEDRIVE, BLOODSIMPLE, SPEED X) at Open Sky Studios in Atlanta.
Lammert is mixing the album at his studio, LSD-Tonstudio in Germany.
The band recently released a behind the scenes video of the studio sessions for their upcoming album. Check it out below.
Halcyon Way have confirmed tour plans with FOZZY in the UK in May. The tour will have the band performing four shows over three days in Scotland and England. The last day will feature a 2 PM matinee and a 7 PM evening show.
Dates include:
May
13 - Glasgow, Scotland - Cathouse14 - Nottingham, England - Rock City Basement
15 - London, England - The Relentless Garage (2 shows)
“We’re big fans of the Fozzy and STUCK MOJO guys, so we’re really excited about hitting the road with them,” said lead guitarist Jon Bodan. Guitarist Zane Matthews agrees, “This is a huge opportunity for us to take our music to a bunch of new fans and branch out to the overseas market!”
More on Halcyon Way at this location.
