Year : 2024 (Pride & Joy Music Records)
Style : Melodic Hard Rock
Country : Germany
Audio : 320 kbps + front
Size : 71 mb
Bio:
With an artistry and groove that is never less than inspiring and absorbing, new German Hard Rock project Lazarus Dream featuring multi-instrumentalist Markus Pfeffer and powerhouse vocalist Carsten Lizard-Schulz gives a pleasure as immense and deep as the sounds and abilities which pour from their album ‘Alive‘.Carsten Lizard-Schulz delivers a powerful, emotion filled performance and makes this an album full of incredibly poignant vocals listeners worldwide are used to get delivered from him and appreciate on critically appraised albums by Evidence One, Domain, Dead End Heroes, Midnite Club and Carsten Lizard-Schulz Syndicate, to name only a few.Markus Pfeffer used to be a member of internationally praised German AOR band Scarlett in the early nineties and delivers riffing and fret board acrobatics you rarely get to hear him play on albums by his main band Winterland, which used to top the German Amazon Download charts in late 2010. On the Lazarus Dream album, he not only plays guitar, but also bass and keys.The powerhouse drumming by Markus Kullmann (Sinner, Voodoo Circle, Glenn Hughes) not only completes the hearing pleasure but also adds an incredible groove which lifts the songs to a new level. More musical guests featured are percussionist Thomas Rieder, flute player Sabrina Roth and Thomas Nitschke on Hammond and synths.The album was mastered by Markus Teske at Bazement Studios (Vanden Plas, aga, Mob Rules,…)
Album:
The German hard rock band LAZARUS DREAM with their third album "Imaginary Life" in the starting blocks. The core team, consisting of multi-instrumentalist/composer Markus Pfeffer (BARNABAS SKY, ex-SCARLETT) and vocalist Carsten Lizard Schulz, (ex-DOMAIN/EVIDENCE ONE) has meanwhile been expanded by drummer Markus Herzog (a.o. DOUBLE CRUSH SYNDROME, CHERIE CURRIE/ex-THE RUNAWAYS). From the more experimental approaches of the previous album "Lifeline", the trio consciously took distance and 0returns specifically to the melodic hard rock roots of the debut album "Alive" and puts the focus back more on catchy hooks and choruses, groovy riffs and melodies. On the title track, VANDEN PLAS guitarist Stephan Lill shines with an impressive guest solo (Lill was Markus Pfeffer's guitar teacher in the late '80s, by the way). The first single "My Prayer" is an elegiac standout track that combines clean delay guitars à la PINK FLOYD, edgy riffs and filigree guitar solos of the "eighties shredder" brand with emotional vocals and bombastic vocal arrangements by Schulz that would also have suited a gospel choir. Other highlights are the AOR opener "The Sweetest Chaos", the ballad "Beauty Among The Ruins", the synth-hooked up-tempo rocker "Rebel Again" and the seven-minute-long closing epic "Empire Of Thorns". The impressive artwork is the brainchild of the well-known French artist Stan W. Decker (NIGHT RANGER, STRYPER, BLUE OYSTER CULT, among others), mastering was done by Rolf Munkes at Empire Studios/Bensheim. 3rd studio album of one of Germany’s finest Melodic Hard Rock bands / Album mastered by Rolf Munkes (Empire Studios) / Guest solo by Stephan Lill (Vanden Plas) / Artwork by Stan W. Decker (Night Ranger, Stryper, Blue Oyster Cult) / The CD version contains the bonus track “Colours Of The Moon” / For fans of: Barnabas Sky, Evidence One, Michael Bormann’s Jaded Hard, Dokken, Tyketto.
Line-Up:
Carsten "Lizard" Schulz - vocals (Domain, Evidence One)
Markus Pfeffer - guitar (Winterland)
Markus Herzog: Drums
+ guest:
Thomas Rieder: Percussions
Tracklist:
01. The Sweetest Chaos
02. Vulture's Cry
03. Rebel Again
04. My Imaginary Life
05. Beauty Among The Ruins
06. Disaster Love
07. Vertigo
08. My Prayer
09. Drink My Blood
10. Empire Of Thorns
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