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CALLENISH CIRCLE
Pitch Black Effects
Metal Blade |
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From Metal Blade's press release:
After close to 10 years of hard labor and battles to bring their
music to the masses, all of Callenish Circle’s hard work finally
started to pay off when Metal Blade Records offered the band a
worldwide record deal for 4 albums. The first album on Metal
Blade Records (released early 2002) entitled
Flesh_Power_Dominion was received massive feedback from the
press; over 200 interviews were done with magazines and radio
stations all over the world. After doing a Benelux-tour to
promote the new album, Callenish Circle finally hit the European
road in May 2002 with their Swedish label mates Amon Amarth and
Vomitory. The tour, which lasted four weeks, gave the band the
chance to cruise all throughout Europe and left a crushing
impression on the fans. In the summer the band played the world
famous Ozzfest in Holland and several other festivals. After the
summer months passed the band started focussing on writing new
material that would take them to a whole new level of world
domination.
Soon it became clear that the new material was going to be again
a step further into extremity, without losing the typical
melodies and atmosphere, which always have been trademarks in
the Callenish Circle sound. More power, more intensity and more
variation. Because of the ultra-fat sound of
Flesh_Power_Dominion the band decided to work again with
producer Andy Classen in the Stage One Studio and Niklas Sundin
was responsible for all artwork again. All under the slogan
“never change a winning team”. Last but not least the album was
mastered by Peter Neuber at Mega Wimp Sound in Germany. The
band’s 4th album My Passion // Your Pain was released worldwide
on the 5th of May 2003 through Metal Blade Records and received
again a massive response from the worldwide press. Again around
200 interviews were done and the album received top-notch
critics almost everywhere. Besides, the album was exclusively
licensed to Soundholic Records (Japan), Sum Records (South
America), Fono Records (Russia) and Indy Pop Records (South East
Asia) to guarantee an even better promotion and distribution in
these territories. Right after the release of My Passion // Your
Pain, Callenish Circle did a Benelux mini-tour with Swedish
death metal legends Dismember and in August the band played the
2 major German metal festivals Wacken Open Air and Summer
Breeze. In October the band hit the European road again for 3
weeks under the “Bonded by Metal over Europe”-banner with among
others Exodus, Nuclear Assault and Agent Steel. Early 2004
Callenish Circle played a bunch of Dutch headline shows and in
February the band flew over to Spain to play a very successful
show at the Piorno Rock Festival. Due to personal circumstances
drummer Gavin wasn’t able to spend much time in the band for the
rest of the year but still the band played a couple of summer
festivals and in September Callenish Circle did a successful
Benelux mini-tour with Dismember again.
To celebrate their 12th birthday Callenish Circle also re-issued
their complete pre-Metal Blade Records catalogue on a 2-CD
titled Forbidden Empathy. The 2-CD was released in September
2004 through Dutch label Karmageddon Media (formerly Hammerheart
Records) in Europe and overseas in January 2005 through
Candlelight USA. The Forbidden Empathy 2-CD contains the
Graceful... yet Forbidding album (1999), the Escape EP (1998),
the Drift of Empathy album (1996) and the Lovelorn demo (1995)
with brand new artwork from Niklas Sundin (Cabin Fever Media)
and all recordings were digitally re-mastered by Berthus
Westerhuis at Franky's Recording Kitchen in Holland.
After a mini-tour with Dismember the band actively started
writing material for their upcoming and meanwhile 5th album
titled [Pitch.Black.Effects]. Just a month before the recordings
Callenish Circle decided to continue their path without bass
player Rocco. For the studio recordings the band recruited
(session) bass player Maurice Brouwers (Engine of Pain) and live
the band will perform with Wim Vossen (ex-Mangled, Stormrider).
The new album was recorded during the months of May and June at
aRe U Recordings in The Netherlands with producer Gail Liebling
(mastermind behind Gail of God) behind the knobs. The mix was
done in July with the highly acclaimed Tue Madsen (The Haunted,
Illdisposed, Mnemic) at his already legendary Antfarm Studio in
Denmark. The album was mastered again by Peter Neuber at Mega
Wimp Sound in Germany and, last but not least, the artwork for
the new album was created by Danish art talent Mircea Gabriel
Eftemie at Cadaverman Media.
The new album, music-wise… well… imagine the best of what
Callenish Circle did on both Metal Blade albums, add some really
cool groovy parts and combine this already deadly cocktail with
high-tech wacky soundscapes, delivered by Mr. Liebling himself.
The new album will also be released as a limited edition luxury
digi-pack CD/DVD set. The DVD will feature a completely
professional (audio & visual) recorded live-show (recorded at
the 013 venue in Tilburg), festival reports on the band’s trips
to the Piorno Rock Festival in Spain (2004) and the Brutal
Assault Festival in Czech Republic (2005), a full studio-report
on the new album and some other interesting stuff. The release
for [Pitch.Black.Effects] is scheduled for the 10th of January
through Metal Blade Records. After the release Callenish Circle
will hit the road again to promote the album on the live front…
you have been warned! |
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