The new Journey album is on the horizon. It's called Eclipse and will be out May 24th. The title is perfect for Journey and in fact I'm surprised they haven't used it sooner. I am SO looking forward to this as Revelation was just a marvellous disk and they have a lot to live up to. I hope the new one continues in the same vein and according to Nela Schon it rocks harder so maybe only 1 or 2 ballads. Plus we have the Journey, Foreigner, Styx gig just after the release of Eclipse. Hopefully we'll get a taster of the new album before too long. Good times to come in the summer for AOR fans!
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My FAVORITE band ever. so stoked to hear first one with real involvement from Arnel!! not songwriting wise, but vocally speaking.
KingsGene
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From www.melodicrock.com :
"Journey's new album Eclipse is set to deliver a heavier and darker tone and is confirmed for release in North America May 24 via WalMart outlets. A worldwide release will follow via Frontiers Records on or close to that exact date. The album features 12 tracks, one of which is an instrumental. The rest is all new material written over the last 18 months by guitarist Neal Schon and keyboardist Jonathan Cain, with help from frontman Arnel Pineda.
The album was produced and record by Kevin Shirley and mixed by David Kalmusky. Rumors suggest it is quite a lengthy record, with one source stating the album was: "more rock...longer songs..."
Comments from the band have begun to appear, with Neal Schon quoted by VH1 as saying: "The record, it's been done for a while. It sounds amazing. I'm in love with the record, which I haven't said for a long time. I was very involved with this record. Jon Cain and I wrote the whole thing with a little help from Arnel. You know, I really fought for this record to be the way it is. It's a rock record. It's built for the places we're about to play. We're playing a lot of big shows – South America and Europe – and we're going to be touring the whole world on and off for two years. So with the addition of Arnel, we've become more of an international band which has been really great. We busted all kinds of markets wide open. So I wrote for what I felt we were missing in our show. We've got a lot of hits to play and we have to play those but there's plenty of time to do some new stuff too so we're gonna mix it up."
Jonathan Cain last week tweeted: "Journey rehearsals ended today--band sounds great! New songs kick butt--lookin forward to rockin Vegas." Cain also talked to the Las Vegas Review-Journal, describing the album as: "a concept record with some spiritual themes to it. Pretty tough, hard-hitting stuff. This is Journey with big combat boots on. And helmet and a rifle. [Lyrics] searching for soulfulness and enlightenment and love and all the stuff that Journey's about. But the album also has a larger dynamic sweep with some darker stuff in there. We just felt like it was time to send a message to the world about how we feel about life in general," concluding with stating that the album incorporates Hindu principles of Tantra, "the belief that life is kind of a weave, a circle of energy, a life force that's woven with the universe in all of us. We dove deep into it. [The album is] ...one of those headphone records."
Fans attending this weeks show in Vegas will get an exclusive preview of 3 new songs from the album. Stay tuned for more."
"Journey's new album Eclipse is set to deliver a heavier and darker tone and is confirmed for release in North America May 24 via WalMart outlets. A worldwide release will follow via Frontiers Records on or close to that exact date. The album features 12 tracks, one of which is an instrumental. The rest is all new material written over the last 18 months by guitarist Neal Schon and keyboardist Jonathan Cain, with help from frontman Arnel Pineda.
The album was produced and record by Kevin Shirley and mixed by David Kalmusky. Rumors suggest it is quite a lengthy record, with one source stating the album was: "more rock...longer songs..."
Comments from the band have begun to appear, with Neal Schon quoted by VH1 as saying: "The record, it's been done for a while. It sounds amazing. I'm in love with the record, which I haven't said for a long time. I was very involved with this record. Jon Cain and I wrote the whole thing with a little help from Arnel. You know, I really fought for this record to be the way it is. It's a rock record. It's built for the places we're about to play. We're playing a lot of big shows – South America and Europe – and we're going to be touring the whole world on and off for two years. So with the addition of Arnel, we've become more of an international band which has been really great. We busted all kinds of markets wide open. So I wrote for what I felt we were missing in our show. We've got a lot of hits to play and we have to play those but there's plenty of time to do some new stuff too so we're gonna mix it up."
Jonathan Cain last week tweeted: "Journey rehearsals ended today--band sounds great! New songs kick butt--lookin forward to rockin Vegas." Cain also talked to the Las Vegas Review-Journal, describing the album as: "a concept record with some spiritual themes to it. Pretty tough, hard-hitting stuff. This is Journey with big combat boots on. And helmet and a rifle. [Lyrics] searching for soulfulness and enlightenment and love and all the stuff that Journey's about. But the album also has a larger dynamic sweep with some darker stuff in there. We just felt like it was time to send a message to the world about how we feel about life in general," concluding with stating that the album incorporates Hindu principles of Tantra, "the belief that life is kind of a weave, a circle of energy, a life force that's woven with the universe in all of us. We dove deep into it. [The album is] ...one of those headphone records."
Fans attending this weeks show in Vegas will get an exclusive preview of 3 new songs from the album. Stay tuned for more."
Purveyor Of Evil
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From Infinity to Generations, I love Journey...have heard the Arnel stuff and just am so bored by it...it makes me sad because I still consider them one of my top bands ever, but I can't stand to listen to anything but Perry or Augeri material...this new album does not sound interesting to me at all...
Revelation sounded to me like one of the 20 other bands that try to sound like Journey these days...and don't think the irony of my being in Line Of Fire is lost on me...what made Journey "Journey", IMO, is gone.
Revelation sounded to me like one of the 20 other bands that try to sound like Journey these days...and don't think the irony of my being in Line Of Fire is lost on me...what made Journey "Journey", IMO, is gone.
Justin G
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You realize we're talking about Journey here right? Heavier and darker probably just means there will be a couple of songs that sound like Bad English.
Purveyor Of Evil
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I didn't mention JOURNEY in my reply.You realize we're talking about Journey here right? Heavier and darker probably just means there will be a couple of songs that sound like Bad English.
I'm looking forward to this. Journey is one of my favorites. Would be really cool to be "heavier and darker" AND have Mr. Perry on it, but I'm still looking forward to it...
Justin G
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I'd be more stoked for this if it had Jeff Scott Soto instead of Arnel, but I'm sure this will be a great album. 2011 will be the year for AOR haha!
I'm looking forward to this album as well, and I really hope I can afford to catch them when they tour for it. I have yet to see Journey with Pineda, but the footage I've watched is very good. Journey has been a consistently great band, and "Revelation" proved that for me.
Stay metal. Never rust.
Albert
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KingsGene
God of Thunder
From www.melodicrock.com :
"Writer Neil Danniels has issued this statement in relation to some online speculation about his upcoming Journey book. He says:
"To clarify; I conducted my own exclusive and lengthy interviews with Herbie Herbert, Robert Fleischman and Jeff Scott Soto et al for Don't Stop Believin' – The Untold Story Of Journey. It will also have an album-by-album/track-by-track review of Journey's complete back catalogue and there is also a bonus chapter on Steve Perry's solo music for which I conducted exclusive interviews with former producers and personnel. The book will be published on 3rd May and is now available for preorder Neil Daniels, www.neildaniels.com." "
EDIT: Preorder available via Amazon.co.uk : http://amzn.to/eJ1fiG
"Writer Neil Danniels has issued this statement in relation to some online speculation about his upcoming Journey book. He says:
"To clarify; I conducted my own exclusive and lengthy interviews with Herbie Herbert, Robert Fleischman and Jeff Scott Soto et al for Don't Stop Believin' – The Untold Story Of Journey. It will also have an album-by-album/track-by-track review of Journey's complete back catalogue and there is also a bonus chapter on Steve Perry's solo music for which I conducted exclusive interviews with former producers and personnel. The book will be published on 3rd May and is now available for preorder Neil Daniels, www.neildaniels.com." "
EDIT: Preorder available via Amazon.co.uk : http://amzn.to/eJ1fiG
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Heavier and darker probably just means there will be a couple of songs that sound like Bad English.
Awesome. Right up there with observing that Styx going for Hard Rock would just result in Damn Yankees.
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you, my good friend, are on CRACK!
Arnel's vocals on Revelation top anything Augeri did, and i love him too, but Arnel is in a league of his own. i am so ready to hear him let loose on this new album. he was getting his feet wet on the last one.
Jeff Scott Soto doesn't fit their sound at all, so why try?
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