| CALLENISH
CIRCLE
PITCH.BLACK.EFFECTS
Line-up:
Patrick Savelkoul (vocals)
Ronny Tyssen (guitars)
Gavin Harte (drums)
Remy Dieteren (guitars)
Rene Rokx (bass)
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!
In
stores January 10th 2006
DISCOGRAPHY
• Forbidden Empathy
(Candlelight USA, 2004)
•
My Passion//Your Pain
(Metal Blade Records, 2003)
•
Flesh_Power_Dominion
(Metal Blade Records, 2002)
•
Graceful... yet Forbidding
(DSFA Records, 1999) |
