"Free Spirit Soar" is out now on High Roller Records. Order your copy and the entire WARLORD discography at www.hrrecords.de/WARLORD
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Giles Lavery - vocals
Eric Juris - guitars
Diego Pires - guitars
Philip Bynoe - bass
Jimmy Waldo - keys
Mark Zonder - drums
Additional guitars - William J Tsamis, Riccardo Demarosi, D Kendal Jones.
Background vocals - Giles Lavery, Linda Chase, Jimmy Waldo.
All songs were created from either fully arranged or partially complete instrumental musical demos of William J Tsamis, with the exception of “Behold A Pale Horse” & “Revelation XIX” which were originally written and recorded in full (that being all words and music) by William J Tsamis and were released on his ‘Lordian Guard' 1995 and 1997 releases.
All other lyrics and vocal melodies by Giles Lavery, except “The Bell Tolls” Lyrics by Jon Wilde and Giles Lavery and "The Watchman" lyrics and vocal melody by Steve Blaze of Lillian Axe.
00:00 Behold A Pale Horse
07:48 The Rider
12:13 Conquerors
17:31 Worms Of The Earth
23:18 The Watchman
27:00 Free Spirit Soar
32:58 The Bell Tolls
37:36 Alarm
43:26 Twin
49:00 Revelation XIX
Mixed by Riccardo Demarosi
Mastered by Patrick W. Engel at TEMPLE OF DISHARMONY in October 2023
Artwork by Velio Josto
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With »Free Spirit Soar«, a brand new studio album by Warlord with all songs having been recorded between March and September 2023, it’s Drummer Mark Zonder and singer Giles Lavery paying tribute to the musical heritage of Bill Tsamis. They are joined by Jimmy Waldo on keyboards/synthesizer, Phillip Bynoe on bass and Eric Juris on guitars. “We wanted to finish these pieces of music ‘for Bill’,” explains Lavery, “and the material we felt was certainly strong enough to inspire us to do so.” Regarding the guitar parts he specifies: “Bill is there where we could pull his tracks off the demo recordings, in much the same way the Beatles were recently able to rescue John Lennon’s voice from an old demo tape. Eric does most of the heavy lifting on guitar, but all music was written by Bill and we stayed very very faithful to what he wrote.”
All in all, Giles Lavery is very satisfied with how »Free Spirit Soar« turned out: “It was a bit of an uncharted adventure delving into Bill’s demos and unfinished music, and also having to write lyrics and vocal melodies to the songs - the only two exceptions being the two Lordian Guard songs that we selected to ‘Warlord-ize’ …as has been tradition on every Warlord album since »Rising Out Of The Ashes«. Everything but two songs have vocals for the first time, so that entire area of the composition is new … As for the music, I think much of it is unheard, a few bits and pieces you might recognize from some of the catalogue reissues, instrumental bonus tracks etc. As producer of the album it was my job to sort through all the pieces and pull together songs.”
MATTHIAS MADER
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