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Greek power metal gods Firewind revealed the tracklisting of their forthcoming album “The Premonition” on their myspace page.The third track off the album,”Mercenary man”,also to be released as a single in Greece,can be streamed at the band’s myspace page.”The Premonition” is scheduled to be released in Europe on the 24th of March.According to Firewind’s myspace blog,the tracks are as follows;

1. Into the fire.
2. Head up high.
3. Mercenary man.
4. Angels forgive me.

5. Remembered.

6. My loneliness.
7. Circle of life.
8. The silent code.
9. Maniac.(cover of 80’s pop hit from the movie Flashdance).
10. Life foreclosed.

According to the Firewind axeman Gus.G “….the CD,starts out with a pretty intense song “Into the fire”,which is like a six and half minute riffing,shredding and double bass madness,the next few are what I’d call modern hard rock-if I have to put a tag on it.”

You heard him friends,”Modern Hard Rock”!!!

Commenting on inspirations and the sound of the forthcoming album,Gus.G stated “I think there’s a lot of cool guitar stuff all over the album and generally this is a more guitar-oriented effort.”(Well,obviously,because Firewind have always produced guitar-oriented music.)“….Our influences draw from Thin Lizzy to Black Sabbath and Megadeth and you can clearly hear that on the riffs and guitar melodies.”That’s quite true,by judging the very Thin Lizzy-sque “Mercenary man”.

Considering “Mercenary man”,Firewind seem to have yet again produced a masterpiece that not only stays true to their Power/speed metallic roots,but also good rock ‘n’ roll that kicks ass.Gus.G also commented on not changing the typical Firewind sound much(”much” being the key word here) and the chemistry within the band.”Song writing-wise I think a ll songs are special and once again everyone was involved in the writing-we basically kept the Allegiance “winning team” together.”They sure have,but while listening to “Mercenary man” the first impression I had was “Wow,if only Chity sang this instead of Apollo”.Not that Apollo is a bad singer or anything,but honestly this new-yet-typical Firewind sound literally suits ex-vocalist Chitral “Chity” Somapla.

According to the band,the name “The Premonition” was suggested by the Drummer Mark Cross.”The Premonition” was recorded at Studio Fredman,Sweden and mastered by Peter in de Betou’s Tailor Made Productions.For more information visit Firewind’s myspace page here.