Ashes And Madness Release Date 9/16/08

[YanLeviathan]

Hi Everyone,

Just wanted to let you all know that we are nearly done with the mastering of the new cd and we are confirmed for a release date of 9/16/08 via Nightmare Records. As many of you know, the new album is called Ashes And Madness and it features Lance King on vocals, myself, Yan Leviathan, and Bill Hudson on guitars. We’ve posted a video that has our first single, The Lost And Forsaken, set against some of the artwork that will be included in the booklet that was created by Mattias Noren. You can view this video at our home page, www.avianband.com, or at our myspace at www.myspace.com/avianband, or right here: We will release a high quality audio download of The Lost And Forsaken in a couple of weeks.

The new cd will feature 10 songs and will run approximately 55 minutes. Here’s the final tracklist:

1) Ashes And Madness 7:38
2) The Lost And Forsaken 5:08
3) Into The Other Side 4:35
4) Esoteric Lies 5:18
5) Fall From Grace (Instrumental) 1:13
6) Beyond The Hallowed Gates 5:00
7) Thundersoul 5:00
8) All The King’s Horses 5:15
9) Never Fade From Me 5:11
10) Time And Space Part II: Unlock The Mystery 10:14

We have a couple of live dates confirmed for September and October that has us opening for Kamelot, Edguy, and Sonata Arctica. We will be adding some more dates including a cd release party in Minnesota so check out our tour dates section.

Thanks!!

 

[J-Man]

Good Grief!!!!!! It's awesome Yan, I can't wait to get a copy of this in my grubby little hands and then wear it out playing it.

 

[INFINITE-DREAMS]

JUST IN TIME FOR PROGPOWER, BRING LOTS TO THE SHOW!!

 

[Metalmilitia2000]

And then the world tour follows... with me driving... argh... hah

 

[MEGALOUD]

Let me know your thoughts on my gutteral vocals in the intro, after seeing Testiment at Chicago Powerfest, I was inspired, Chuck is amazing.

 

[Metalmilitia2000]

Yea, Yan pointed those out for me. We were listening to the album a few weeks ago and I really liked that part. He told me about your inspiration for it. I would say go with it for sure.

 

[MEGALOUD]

LOL, that wouldn't have anything to do with the fact that I saw your head practically rolling off your shoulders when Testiment was playing would it? LOL
I know you like the heavier sh*t, been working on a screamo vocal too, but don't think this is the right enviroment or at least, I've not felt the right place for it yet, obviously I'm a melodic vocalist but a little attitude here and there is just good spice ; )

 

[Metalmilitia2000]

Hahahaha, yea, that was the hardest I had ever headbanged... Even harder than when I finally saw Priest do the best song ever written, Painkiller.

 

[MEGALOUD]

A Little known fact is that I play Keyboards and Guitar,
since I haven't done either since I played either live or recorded since before I joined Balance of Power, while I was in Gemini '86-93 and Kings Machine 93-97. On this album, I play key's, sing and am producing/Mixing, was a lot of fun to do this again!

 

[Metalmilitia2000]

Yea, Yan told me that was you on keyboards! I was like, HOLY SHIT?! LANCE PLAYS KEYS?! He said yea and I had been meaning to ask you about that.