Kaledon - Mightiest Hits (2CD) (2012)

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Kaledon - Mightiest Hits (2CD) (2012)

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Kaledon - Mightiest Hits (2CD) (2012)

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Year : 2012
Style : Power Metal
Country : Italy
Audio : 320 kbps + all scans
Size : 292 mb


Bio:

Kaledon was born in the second part of 1998 after the split between the lead guitarist Alex Mele and his band "River of change". After the spilt Alex Mele called immediately the bass player Paolo Lezziroli and the rhythm guitarist Tommaso Nemesio. After many line-up problems, the band started to play live in the big Roman theatres. Kaledon replace the original drummer "Daniele Staccini" for technical problems with Dario Sacco" Kaledon's first release was in autumn of 1999. The band produced their first demo cd, "Spirit of the dragon" without keyboard. With this cd started the collaboration with "Metal Massacre on stagte production". Fabio Bernardi also in "River of change" join the band like a guest for six months. Kaledon played like opening act in Ronnie James Dio Show, in june 16 2000. Kaledon open on the web their page. Kaledon replaced the drummer (Dario Sacco) for personal problems with "David Folchitto", and the singer (Anthony Drago) with "Claudio Conti". Kaledon recorded one other promo cd with "Claudio Conti". Kaledon found in Daniele Fuligni their new keyboardist ex keyboard player of "Ghost Rider". In october 2001 kaledon heve signed a record deal with the Italian SteelBorn Rec. (division of Northwind Records). Between November 2001 and March 2002 kaledon was in studio for the recording session of their debut album. "legend of the forgotten reign". During the recording sessions of the debut album Alex Mele started to write the songs for the second album with the singer Claudio Conti. In April 07 2003 Kaledon started the recording session of their second album called Chapter 2: The king’s rescue. At the end of the recording sessions Kaledon have recorded their “FATHER TIME” version for one Stratovarius tribute album named Within Infinity. The band find in Dario Annibali their new manager. During the 2004 the band worked on the third chapter of the legend of the forgotten reign saga, but unfortunately, during this period the drummer David Folchitto decided to leave Kaledon for personal problems! He wants to dedicate much time to his other projects, but he'll work with the band untill kaledon find a new drummer. In the third Kaledon’s album the drum parts were played by Jorg Michael (Stratovarius). Kaledon started the recording sessions of the drums in july 7th 2004 in Como. The recording studio was in Inverigo near Como, and the rest of the album was recorded in Rome between October and december in The Outer Sound Studios. The recording sessions of chapter 3 was very long and hard... Giuseppe Orlando was a very good and impressive teacher for the band.... and chapter 3 was a very masterpice. During the chapter 3 recording sessions Kaledon have been rejoined by drummer David Folchitto. The third Chapter’s name is : THE WAY OF THE LIGHT. After Chapter 3 release date, the band made a lot of promotion with live dates, with gadgets, and many other ways, The band with Kick Promotion Agency of Rome made tons of interviews and received tons of reviews from all the world! Kaledon began one big reality in the heavy metal world and without vacation started to work on the next album... Chapter 4... At the beginning of the recording sessions of Chapter 4 the band broken up the recording deal with their record company SteelBorn records because they was absolutely not able to follow the band in their way... The closure of the contract foresees the transfer of the whole contract to another famous, important Italian label. With the new label we had lots of e-mail and phone calls to discuss the fact that never on earth they would have worked in a negligent way as the last label did. Their behaviour was worse than the previous one and they told us to find a new label... they never sent us a new contract, and when we had to pay the studios they disappeared. Obviously we found another company... Universal Metal Production... This new company gave to the band a support and of course the great possibility to share Kaledon's music in the United States of America! After that, Kaledon has signed also for a great european record company! Hellion Records from Germany! They will work for kaledon in all europe Chapter 4 name is : TWILIGHT OF THE GODS and it was released on December 2006 in USA, on December 8 in Europe and april 2007 in Japan for Hot-Rockin/DiskHeaven!After this release Kaledon played live in many situation and during these days, something has begun to happend between the band and singer Claudio Conti! There was a lot of fights for personal reasons... and all these problems are finished with the split between Claudio and the band!After a little time Kaledon found a new singer in Marco Palazzi, a young singer and immediately they started to work on the new Chapter of the saga... Chapter 5... Chapter 5 was released via hellion records in Europe, in Asia via hot-rockin and was distributed in usa and canada via nightmare records in july 2008 With the new singer the band started a new period of their musical life, Palazzi gave to the band new power and new strenght. The X Anniversary Concert was a great opportunity to re-join for a day the former singer Anthony Drago and to gave to the fans a very great show. Immediately after the show, Kaledon started to work to the DVD Roaming in The Land... Their first live album! The DVD release was temporary stopped because the band started to work on the new album Chapter 6. The last Chapter of the Alex Mele's saga.Kaledon have inked a deal with Scarlet Records for the release of their next studio album 'Legend Of The Forgotten Reign Chapter VI: The Last Night On The Battlefield', the sixth installment of the saga started in 2002 in July 2010.Kaledon have inked a deal with Scarlet Records for the release of their next studio album 'Legend Of The Forgotten Reign Chapter VI: The Last Night On The Battlefield', the sixth installment of the saga started in 2002 in July 2010.In December 2010 Kaledon went in European Tour with LORDI and THE DOGMA.In May 2011 Kaledon entered the studio for their first best of album, named MIGHTIEST HITS. In this album Kaledon have recorded new version of their most important songs. The result was tunning.Unfortunately after the recording sessions of this album, David Folchitto left the band for personal reasons. After some months and many auditions, Kaledon have confirmed Luca Marini as new drummer on January 1st 2012. With him Kaledon made an european tour with Rhapsody of fire and several show during the year. Luca Marini drummed also the album "Altor: The King's Blacksmith" but immediately after the recording sessions he left the band for personal reasons. The band found in Massimiliano Santori the new drummer. In 2013 also Daniele Fuligni left the band for personal reasons and was replaced by Paolo Campitelli.

Album:

The Italian Power Metal band KALEDON needs no introduction anymore. But I’ll go through it all again, though. I got to know about them about 8 years ago or so, at which time I purchased their first two albums, “Chapter 1: The Destruction” (2002) and “Chapter 2: The King’s Rescue” (2003). These were part of a 6-chapters long story, sort of like, for example, RHAPSODY has done (only longer) and ANCIENT BARDS is doing (not yet completed). Of course the production on those first two albums was poor compared to how the guys worked on “Chapter 3: The Way Of The Light” (2005), for which they hired Jörg Michael (STRATOVARIUS) to do the drums, since long-time drummer David Folchitto had left the band, but not without first playing the parts that Jörg needed to record. Everything improved with that third album: the music, the production, the musicianship, and yes, Claudio Conti’s vocals.Then came “Chapter 4: Twilight Of The Gods” (2006), probably KALEDON’s fastest album and somehow their strongest at that time. Fans of fast Power Metal had a real treat here. But this also meant the last stop for vocalist Claudio Conti, due to various differences, of which the musical ones probably also played a role. In any case, I don’t know what happened and that’s not important in the story. Only in the band’s biography, if their ever wish to, say, publish a book about it. In came Marco Palazzi. He has a lower voice with a rough edge. Perfect for Hard Rock and (depending on the music) Heavy/Power Metal too. This in contrast to Claudio’s high-pitched singing, which was a sort of black spot. “Chapter 5: A New Era Begins” (2008) was the perfect title for this new start. The style also changed a bit, more Hard Rock oriented, though the band didn’t forget to add the obligatory Power Metal tracks here and there.“Chapter 6: The Last Night On The Battlefield” was released in 2010 and concluded the story. This is perhaps (yes, perhaps, as it is also subject to taste) the best KALEDON album to date, on all levels. Plus, it brought back the Power Metal that made KALEDON a band to check out. Prior to this release however, there was the live release “Roaming The Land” (2009), which hasn’t seen the light yet (certainly not on DVD – still in the fridge), save as mp3 on iTunes, if I recall correctly.So far I’ve had the pleasure and honour to review each KALEDON album over the years and this also had an influence on my writings, of course. The band grew and so did the length of the reviews. See here (“Chapter 1”), here (“Chapter 2”), here (“Chapter 3”), here (“Chapter 4”), here (“Chapter 5”), here (“Roaming The Land”) and here (“Chapter 6”).Before offering new on a new album, the guys wanted to provide old and new fans with a summary of the past six albums. “Mightiest Hits” is the title of the double CD that was released in January 2012. The first disc features one previously unreleased track (track 1), re-recordings (entirely or just the vocals) of songs off the first 4 albums (two per album, tracks 2 till 9) and two songs off “Chapter 5” (tracks 10 and 11) and “Chapter 6” (tracks 12 and 13) respectively. The second disc is filled with the demos that preceded the studio albums.The first of the hits is the unreleased “Steel Maker”. A left-over from the “Chapter 6” sessions? It begins with melodic building and you can sense that a speedier part is to follow. So it happens. Catchy melodies, fast double-bass Power Metal, … typical KALEDON. Instant effect! The verses are firm and this goes well with the low, dark voice of Marco. Full melodicness, with a hymnic feel, can be heard in the chorus. The solos come from the guitar and keyboards, taking turns. Why wasn’t this song on the band’s last album? This is very good. And so the journey to the past begins. “In Search Of Kaledon”. It’s a fast track, obviously, and everything was re-recorded, music and vocals. This gives the song a more mature sound, feel and character. The arrangements are also better worked out and this has mainly an effect on the keyboards.“Desert Land Of Warrios” is also a high tempo song. It’s a dark one and with the re-recording the keyboards come out more, are more prominent. To the point they can be annoying after a while, because they linger between the riffs and vocals. The chorus is fast, with David’s typical drumming. But somehow this re-recording sounds forced, or like the band is playing on automatic pilot. Maybe because the guys have played so many times. Still, the production helps make it all sound better and (especially, in my humble opinion) David’s drumming stands out, not in the least the kickdrums.Several years ago, KALEDON shot a video for “The New Kingdom”, a fast and catchy song. But since it was a low budget video, and due to the nature of the video itself, it did get the name KALEDON out, no matter how much growth there still was in the band’s music. This re-recorded version with Marco’s vocals sounds better, more mature. The redone keyboards also are an improvement over the original. Another job well done, if you ask me. “The Frozen Dawn” is a ballad and better than the original, it’s sounds smoother. “Mighty Son Of The Great Lord” was not re-recorded, if my ears didn’t fool me. Except perhaps the drums, for they sound different than Jörg’s recordings. So either David re-recorded those parts, or his original parts were used, the ones he recorded before he left the band a first time. About the song: it’s one of the best songs the band has written and hearing with Marco’s voice… it fits. It’s not that Marco’s singing contrasts with the music, which was the case with Claudio’s high-pitched voice, which also was quite good on the original.Since “Great Night In The Land” also comes off “Chapter 3”, the same drum remarks apply here. The song is built first, then the uptempo stuff kicks in. Marco does a good job here and fit very well because of the rough edge, something Claudio didn’t have. But to each his style, of course. “Clash Of The Titans”, one of the fast tracks on “Chapter 4”, was not re-recorded. Only Marco’s input was recorded. The result is good, no real complaints from my part. The same for “New King Of Kaledon”. The last four tracks come directly off “Chapter 5” and “Chapter 6”. See the reviews for more info.Since “Chapter 1: The Destruction” the curve in terms of quality has only gone up for KALEDON. Or was it a straight line going upwards? Over the years I’ve heard the band improve on all levels, getting stronger with each release and it made me happy, as cheesy as it may sound. For fans of the band, “Mightiest Hits” is, all in all, a very nice overview of the past six albums. For people new to KALEDON, this is actually an interesting release to start with. You can complain about the chosen tracks, but it’s not a coincidence the band titled this release with the word hits, also to attract possible new fans. With the story finished and a new drummer in the line-up, Luca Marini, KALEDON is ready for new adventures, but first they have to play several more gigs before planning those adventures.

Line Up:

Marco Palazzi - Vocals
Paolo Lezziroli - Bass, Vocals (1998-present)
Alex Mele - Guitars (lead) (1998-present) - See also: ex-Prayers, ex-River of Change
Tommaso Nemesio - Guitars (rhythm) (1998-present)
Daniel Fuligni - Keyboards (2001-present)
Luca Marini - Drums (2012-present) - See also: Mysterhydden, ex-Aurion, ex-Enemynside, ex-Chthonian Nemeton

Tracklist:

CD1:

01. Steel Maker (Previously Unreleased) 04:28
02. In Search of Kaledon 03:38
03. Desert Land of Warriors 05:34
04. The New Kingdom 04:30
05. A Frozen Dawn 04:54
06. Mighty Son of the Great Lord 05:41
07. Great Night in the Land 04:00
08. Clash of the Titans 04:34
09. New King of Kaledon 03:31
10. The End of the Green Power 04:19
11. The God Beyond the Man 04:54
12. Surprise Impact 04:20
13. Demons Away 05:42

CD2:

01. In Search of Kaledon (Demo) (04:29)
02. Spirit of the Dragon (Demo) (04:07)
03. Thunder in the Sky (Demo) (04:15)
04. God Says Yes (Demo) (04:35)
05. Army of the Undead King (Demo) (04:17)
06. Desert Land of Warriors (Demo) (05:31)
07. God Says Yes (Demo) (04:34)
08. Thunder in the Sky (Demo) (04:04)
09. Desert Land of Warriors (Demo) (05:31)
10. Home (Demo) (06:21)
11. New Soldiers for a New Army (Demo) (04:39)


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