IMAGIKA To Release Portrait Of A Hanged Man Through Metalville
September 17, 2009, 15 years ago
IMAGIKA to release Portrait Of A Hanged Man through Metalville Records worldwide in 2010. A spring release date in tentative. The band will once again work with Andy LaRocque at his Sonictrain Studios.
Guitarist Steve Rice comments: “Metalville is great solution for us as a band. They will give us worldwide distribution and exposure while still retaining the rights and artistic control of our music. The collective experience involved in Metalville and Flying Dolphin Entertainment makes it an excellent choice for Imagika who have always had the DIY approach to our music and career. This attitude by both band and label is even more relevant with the current direction the music industry is headed. We look forward to taking Imagika to the next level.
Regarding the release, Imagika for the first time has collaborated with an outside writer in John Macko from Fifth Angel. The title track was for a project John, Norm and I had been working on, but came out sounding like a great tune for Imagika. It was a cool bit of fun working outside of our usual method and we were able to get a unique song from it.
The music we’ve put together for this CD will be some of the most aggressive material we’ve done in awhile. Seven-string guitars, dark lyrics and thrashing riffs while still having all the melodic content we’re known for. We always strived to not make the same record twice and I believe we’ve achieved that again.”
