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Written by Chris
Sunday, 08 February 2009
Hi Callers,

Good news!!!! The recordings of the new Freedom Call album are on their last legs.
After spending a couple of month in the studio, recording the new Freedom Call album, we are proud of the work we did and we can hardly wait to present it to you.

There will be a couple of very fast and melodic speed hymns in the typical Freedom Call style as well as some groovy, heavy midtempo songs which demand your headbanging.
The melancholic side of Freedom Call will be featured again in some of the songs as we already did on the Dimensions album e.g. „Blackened Sun“ .

But above the 12 brandnew tracks we have another piece of news for you:

Many of you guys who attended the last tours and shows have probably noticed the new face on stage in the Freedom Call line up.
Due to family affairs Armin Donderer was not available for most of the shows Freedom Call did during the last two years.
Finally Armin quit his job as the bass player of Freedom Call
At this point we want to thank Armin very much for the good times we had together. We wish him success and all the best for the future!

And now the good news.....?

The new face in the Freedom Call line up is our new bass player. His name is Samy Saemann from Karlburg. He was temporarily playing the bass for Freedom Call instead of Armin during the last year.
From the beginning on Samy did good performances and we understood each other very well. After we found that Samy and Freedom Call fit together in a musical and personal way we made him an offer and he didn’t hesitate to join in.

Please welcome our new band member Samy Saemann.

More details about the new bass player will be released on this webpage soon.

Recently some rumors spread around that Daniel Zimmermann has left Freedom Call. The reason for his one-year absence on stage was the world tour with Gamma Ray in 2008. He was very busy doing many live shows all over the planet with Gamma Ray. There were many overlappings of touring activities of both Gamma Ray and Freedom Call.
For this reason Freedom Call decided to engage Klaus Sperling, the actual „Sinner“ drummer as a substitution for one year. At this point we want to thank Klaus for his great performances at the drumkit and the mega fun we had on tour.

Now we hope, we could clear up a few things and we are now looking forward to present the new Freedom Call album to you. We hope that we can play lots of exciting shows during the following tour.

We hope you all join in again, when the Metalparty goes on...

Cheerz from Nürnberg

Un nouveau bassiste : Samy Saemann et l'album sera un concept album :

German metallers FREEDOM CALL, whose current lineup includes GAMMA RAY drummer Daniel Zimmermann, are putting the finishing touches on their new album, tentatively titled "Legend Of The Shadowking", for an August/September release. According to the band, "The basis of concept is an aristocratic person of the German history in the 19th century, which inspired us in writing lyrics and harmonies."

The group adds, "There will be a couple of very fast and melodic speed hymns in the typical FREEDOM CALL style as well as some groovy, heavy mid-tempo songs which demand your headbanging. The melancholic side of FREEDOM CALL will be featured again in some of the songs as we already did on the 'Dimensions' album e.g. 'Blackened Sun'."

In other news, FREEDOM CALL has parted ways with bassist Armin Donderer and replaced him with Samy Saemann from Karlburg. The band says, "[Samy] was temporarily playing the bass for FREEDOM CALL instead of Armin during the last year. From the beginning, Samy did good performances and we understood each other very well. After we found that Samy and FREEDOM CALL fit together in a musical and personal way we made him an offer and he didn't hesitate to join."

01. Out Of The Ruins (4:21)
02. Thunder God (3:31)
03. Tears Of Babylon (3:38)
04. Merlin – Legend Of The Past (4:17)
05. Resurrection Day (3:34)
06. Under The Spell Of The Moon (5:08)
07. Dark Obsession (4:45)
08. The Darkness (5:06)
09. Remember! (4:21)
10. Ludwig II – Prologue (2:19)
11. The Shadowking (5:13)
12. Merlin – Requiem (2:34)
13. Kingdom Of Madness (3:59)
14. A Perfect Day (3:58)

Ca faisait longtemps que je n'avais pas posté une niouz. Celle là c'est de la bonne. C'est le trailer de l'album. Où on n'apprend rien et où on entend encore moins de musique. Ils ont du filmer ça au moment de la fête de la bière.

1ère écoute, Freedom Call a enfin un peu évolué, un titre comme Under the spell of the moon est assez surprenant, sombre et lent et sinon y a toujours le style mais c'est moins naif on va dire, plus consistant

Et l'influence Wagner ?

Franchement je la trouve pas, mais ça leur fait du bien d'évoluer un peu je dois dire

Hop il est sorti, voici ma modeste chronique et l'avis d'un de mes camarades de forum juste en dessous :

http://www.musicwaves.fr/frmChronique.aspx?PRO_ID=5196

Justement, je viens d'y jeter quelques oreilles, et je ne partage pas le même enthousiasme que toi noise.

J'en suis à deux écoutes. L'album est plus sombre que d'habitude, le côté vaguement pop des deux albums précédents a pratiquement disparu. Y a de très bons titres en début d'album (Out of the Ruins, Tears of Babylon), plutôt classiques, mais avec un côté "dramatique" assez inhabituel pour le groupe. La suite est plus surprenante: sonorités gothiques, intonations à la Peter Steele sur "Under the Sign of the Moon", riff sabbathien et chant agressif sur "The Darkness".

A réécouter, mais je suis agréablement surpris pour le moment. C'est bien meilleur que les deux précédents dans tous les cas.

Sinon, "A Perfect Day", c'est une reprise de "Ca plane pour moi" de Plastic Bertrand.

Album très décevant pour ma part.
4-5 titres assez sympa au début et puis ensuite le néant.
Vraiment bof.

La même chose. FREEDOM CALL sait faire du FREEDOM CALL de façon parfaite, ils devraient s'en tenir là.