U.S. metal veterans VIRGIN STEELE will release, "Seven Devils Moonshine", a special five-CD box set, for their 35th anniversary. Founder and mastermind David DeFeis states: "As some of you may know, we have been reissuing the VIRGIN STEELE catalog bit by bit over the past several years, and in doing so we have consistently been adding copious amounts of bonus material to accompany all these various reissue offerings. The last two albums scheduled as part of the reissue campaign we began are the albums 'The Book Of Burning' and 'Hymns To Victory'. When those two albums first appeared, they were released simultaneously. Therefore, we thought why not once again issue them at the exact same time, but, this time, let's include a brand new album and create a kind of box set package. Well, once we began planning and recording for such an endeavor, we very soon accumulated far more material than what could possibly fit on one disc, so we thought, 'Okay, fine. We'll plan on releasing two new discs chock-full of new material to go along with these last two reissues, and, shortly after that decision was made, we managed to record even more new material, so now we have in addition to the two reissues (which, by the way, do contain one bonus track each), well, friends, we now have actually three brand new discs of VIRGIN STEELE material included within this special box set release. "I wish to stress the fact that what we have done here with our box set is include three brand new albums, not bundle in merely a collection of old bonus tracks we had hanging around for ages and ages. These three new discs contain either brand new original songs written and recorded within just these past few months, or brand new rewritten covers of songs that we enjoy and felt could be re-cast in the VIRGIN STEELE style, or new recordings of classic VIRGIN STEELE material done either in a special orchestral type setting or stripped way down and reimagined in vastly different form. Again, at the risk of repetition, these aren't tracks that have been sitting around in the vaults waiting — these are all newly recorded tracks completed specifically for this particular box set release. I don't know if anyone has ever done this kind of thing before, but we felt that for us it was absolutely necessary to do this, and it makes perfect sense for where we are... at this moment. SPV/Steamhammer will release "Seven Devils Moonshine" on November 23, including five CDs (a total of 88 songs), where three CDs contain totally new songs and new versions. The package will also include a sticker and a 24-page booklet with new lyrics and photos by David DeFeis. Track listing: CD 1 "Ghost Harvest (The Spectral Vintage Sessions)" Vintage 1 - Black Wine For Mourning (new album) 01. Seven Dead Within 02. Green Dusk Blues 03. Psychic Slaughter 04. Bonedust (Orchestral Version) 05. Hearts On Fire 06. Child Of The Morning Star 07. Murder In High-Gloss Relief 08. Feral 09. Justine 10. Princess Amy 11. Wicked Game Clouds Of Oblivion Medley (Tracks 12 & 13) 12. Little Wing 13. The Gods Don't Remember... CD 2 "Ghost Harvest (The Spectral Vintage Sessions)" Vintage 2 - Red Wine For Warning (new album) 01. The Evil In Her Eyes (Piano & Vocal Version) 02. Feelin' Alright 03. Sister Moon Summertime Darkness Suite (Tracks 4, 5, & 6) 04. Sweating Into Dawn 05. Summertime 06. Black Leaves Swirl Down My Street 07. Rip Off The Gods Are Hungry Triptych (Tracks 8, 9, & 10) 08. The Gods Are Hungry Poem 09. The Poisoned Wound 10. The Birth Of Beauty 11. Profession Of Violence... 12. Rock Steady 13. Nutshell 14. Slow & Easy "Intro" 15. Jesus Just Left Chicago Late Night Barroom Hoodoo Medley (Tracks 16, 17, 18, & 19) 16. Soul Kitchen 17. When The Music's Over 18. Crawling King Snake 19. When The Music's Over "Reprise" 20. Imhullu The Drained White Suite (Tracks 21, 22, & 23) 21. After Dark 22. Wake The Dead 23. The Graveyard Dance 24. The Triple Goddess 25. Twilight Of The Gods (Live Acoustic Rehearsal Version) 26. Transfiguration (Live Acoustic Rehearsal Version) CD 3 "Gothic Voodoo Anthems" (new album) 01. I Will Come For You (Orchestral Version) 02. Queen Of The Dead (Orchestral Version) 03. The Orpheus Taboo (Orchestral Version) 04. Kingdom Of The Fearless (The Destruction Of Troy) (Orchestral Version) 05. The Black Light Bacchanalia (Orchestral Version) 06. Zeus Ascendant 07. By The Hammer Of Zeus (And The Wrecking Ball Of Thor) (Orchestral Version) The Gothic Voodoo Suite (Tracks 8, 9 & 10) 08. Rumanian Folk Dance No. 3 "Pe Loc" 09. Delirium "Excerpt" 10. Snakeskin Voodoo Man (Orchestral Version) 11. The Enchanter The Fire & Ice Medley (Tracks 12, 13 & 14) 12. Bone China 13. No Quarter 14. Bone China "Reprise" Passion In The French Quarter Medley (Tracks 15 & 16) 15. Chloe Dancer 16. Gentle Groove 17. Darkness-Darkness 18. Death Letter Blues 19. Spoonful CD 4 "Hymns To Victory" (re-release) 01. Flames Of Thy Power (From Blood They Rise) 02. Through The Ring Of Fire 03. Invictus 04. Crown Of Glory (Unscarred) (In Fury Mix) 05. Kingdom Of The Fearless (The Destruction Of Troy) 06. The Spirit Of Steele (Acoustic Version) 07. A Symphony Of Steele (Battle Mix) 08. The Burning Of Rome (Cry For Pompeii) 09. I Will Come For You 10. Dust From The Burning & Amaranth (Orchestral Versions) (Bonus Tracks) 11. Noble Savage (Long Lost Early Mix) 12. Mists Of Avalon 13. Emalaith CD 5 "The Book Of Burning" (Re-Release) 01. Conjurtion Of The Watcher 02. Don't Say Goodbye (Tonight) 03. Rain Of Fire 04. Annihilation 05. Hellfire Woman 06. Children Of The Storm 07. The Chosen Ones 08. The Succubus 09. Minuet In G Minor 10. The Redeemer 11. I Am The One 12. Hot And Wild 13. Birth Through Fire 14. Guardians Of The Flame 15. The Final Days 16. A Cry In The Night 17. Queen Of The Dead (Nordic Twilight Version) (Bonus Track)
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