WALLS OF BLOOD, the new project led by Canadian guitarist Glen Drover, will release its debut album, "Imperium", on February 22 via Metalville. The disc will contain 10 songs of "high-class power metal," with guest appearances by some of the genre's most acclaimed vocalists, including Tim Owens (JUDAS PRIEST, ICED EARTH), Chuck Billy (TESTAMENT), Todd La Torre (QUEENSRŸCHE) and Henning Basse (METALLIUM, FIREWIND). Drover handled all guitars and keyboards on the album, while the drums were tracked by Scott Barrymore and bass by Chris Myles (except the songs "Discordia" and "Tarnished Dream", which feature bass by Joe DiBiase). All music was recorded, produced and engineered by Drover at Eclipse Recording in Windsor, Ontario, Canada. "Imperium" track listing: 01. Leave This World Behind (feat. Nils K. Rue) 02. Discordia (feat. Todd La Torre) 03. Waiting To Die (feat. Chuck Billy) 04. Blood Sacrifice Ritual (feat. Henning Nasse) 05. Tarnished Dream (feat. Tim Owens) 06. Walls Of Blood (feat. Matt Cuthbertson) 07. The Fault Of Man (feat. Henning Basse) 08. Dark Lords Of Sleep (feat. Dan Cleary) 09. Junkhead (ALICE IN CHAINS cover) (feat. Lance Harvill) 10. Seven Spirits (feat. Henning Basse) The "Imperium" cover artwork was created by Mario Lopez and can be seen below. In a 2017 interview with the "American Made Guitar Show", Drover said that "Imperium" would feature "just a bunch of really good singers, be it both buddies of mine that I met through my travels with the bands that I was in and became friends with or just singers that I really looked up to and really wanted to work with and hadn't worked with in the past." Glen said that he is "really proud" of his rendition of the ALICE IN CHAINS classic "Junkhead", which features his brother Shawn Drover (ex-MEGADETH) on drums and Lance Harvill on vocals. Drover left MEGADETH at the end of 2007 and was replaced by Chris Broderick, who previously played with NEVERMORE and JAG PANZER. Glen's debut solo album, "Metalusion", was released in April 2011 via Magna Carta Records. Drover said in a 2015 interview that he quit MEGADETH due to "personal stuff… I wasn't really happy at the time there, in the situation. I wasn't happy in the band at that time, and I just felt like I was away from my family too much, which I was. You know, my son was very young. It's personal, but it's true. That's what happened. He was very young, and I was missing out on a lot of his youth. And being that I wasn't happy in the band at that point, it was magnifying that. And that's pretty much what it is."
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