Barcelona-based power metal frontrunners, Kilmara, have unleashed the epic title track from their upcoming studio album Journey To The Sun, slated for release on January 31 via ROAR! Coming as a CD jewel case, limited to 300 copies "Mediterranean Aura" marbled vinyl and digital streaming/download, the album pre-sale is now available here.

About their first single release, guitarist John Portillo reveals: "This song was born when we started putting ideas together for this new album. Carles had just joined the band at that time and it was exciting to see that we were walking together in the same musical direction. It was a lot of fun creatively since it finally became a song that gives concept to the cover and is the title of the album."

Carles Salse adds: "'Journey To The Sun', preceded by its introduction, is probably the most epic song on the album and serves as a link to the fans who are familiar with the previous album Across the Realm of Time. In addition, it presents representative ingredients of this new stage such as the incorporation of many more orchestrations, retro synthesizers as well as more prog elements."

"This story can relate to everyone in many different levels," says vocalist Daniel Ponce. "It can make you feel empowered to reach difficult goals in your life. It can take you on an intergalactic adventure. It can be a metaphor of the passing of life. It can be about friendship or your family... Whatever you wish to imagine, it's all possible here!"

Stream "Journey To The Sun" on all digital services here. The accompanying 80s retro music video can be viewed below.

On Journey To The Sun, Kilmara sounds more current, more powerful and heavier than ever, thanks to an excellent and careful production. With the aim set on finding the best and most current sound possible, Kilmara put the recording of the album in the hands of Carles Salse in his Sureau Studio, and they also teamed up with world-renowned and award-winning producer Seeb Levermann (Orden Ogan, Rhapsody Of Fire, Riot V). Conceptually, Journey To The Sun is set in the Arcade halls of the late '80s, where first loves, unbreakable friendships, rivalries, defeats and victory celebrations took place. Kilmara pick up the baton as heirs of the heroes of Power Metal and bring back the singer of the legendary and sorely missed swedish band Lost Horizon, Daniel Heiman, one of the best voices of the genre who will undoubtedly overwhelm you with his performance as a special guest on “Take Me Back”.

After the additions of Eric Killer, a real steamroller on drums, and guitarist, producer and composer Carles Salse, the band is renewed in every way and presents their new work Journey To The Sun, an adventure of epic proportions that transcends the limits explored up to this point by the band from Barcelona. With this new chapter in their career, Kilmara tells us about the power and strength that all human beings are capable of gathering when we are united by the same purpose. They also tell us about the struggle to discover the path to truth and freedom. All of this in a journey to the impossible, crossing borders beyond this very dimension to finally reach contact with the Sun.

Tracklisting:

"Point Of No Return"
"Journey To The Sun"
"Alliance Of The Free"
"Chances"
"Liberticide"
"Wildfire"
"An Even Whole"
"Power Of The Mind"
"Take Me Back"
"Journey To The Sun" (8 Bit Version)

"Journey To The Sun" video:

(Photo credit: Manuel Damea Morenas)