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Stone Circle
Stone Circle
CD, 2014, Fehlpressung, Heftbeilage, Cardsleeve
| Herstellungsland | Großbritannien |
|---|---|
| Veröffentlichungs-Jahr | 2014 |
| Zeit | 56:21 |
| EAN-Nr. | nicht vorhanden |
| Label/Labelcode | k.A. |
| Plattenfirma/Katalog-Nr. | Eigenproduktion / FC139 |
| Musikrichtung | Metal: Death Metal, Progressive Metal |
| Sammlungen | Gesucht | Flohmarkt |
|---|---|---|
| 0 | 0 | 0 |
Tracklist
I = Instrumental
L = Live
B = Bonustrack
H = Hidden Track
C = Coversong
| CD | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Track | Titel | Zeit | Besonderheit |
| Gesamtzeit | 56:21 | ||
| 1. | Beekeeper | 8:31 | |
| 2. | Chains | 7:34 | |
| 3. | Easter Island | 8:28 | |
| 4. | Final Thought | 8:17 | |
| 5. | God Shaped Hole | 9:15 | |
| 6. | Mary Celeste | 6:22 | |
| 7. | Sentinel | 7:54 | |
Infos
presented solely with subscriber issues of Terrorizer magazine #255 - December 2014
[manufacturing country: SID-codes]
[SID-code CD-master: IFPI LQ57]
[SID-code pressing plant: IFPI KW**]
[matrix: IFPI LQ57 * 16452-FC139]
[playing times: software]
"Unfortunately, production gremlins crept in and the tracklisting hasn’t come out as planned.
Here is what the tracklisting should be, and how it is on the CD is in brackets:"
1. Beekeeper (track 1)
2. Easter Island (track 3)
3. Sentinel (track 7)
4. Chains (track 2)
5. Mary Celeste (track 6)
6. God Shaped Hole (track 5)
7. Final Thought (track 4)
Engineered by Steve Powell, produced by Stone Circle & Steve Powell.
Mastered by Norman Jankowski. © 2014 Stone Circle
Endorsed by MarkBass
This Month's Fear Candy
Our Fear Candy this month is Brighton Progressive Death Metaller's Stone Circle's entire second album, the eponymously titled 'Stone Cirlce', follow-up to 2011's 'Myth'. We asked the band to talk us through the record, and vocalist/guitarist Joe Ashwin was pleased to oblige.
1. BEEKEEPER
All the guitar parts in this song were created by Skolly (Tom Skelton). He doesn't write an awful lot but when he does it's always savage, it seemed like a fitting explosive and brutal start to the album! Although it's one of the simpler songs sonically, there are a few parts that are pretty tricky to play. All the lyrical content on this album is open to interpretation and the meaning even changes for me with each listen, but at a base level lyrically this one is a slightly tongue-in-cheek little story of a terrible old beekeeper, whose mistreatment of his slaves result in his demise.
2. EASTER ISLAND
One of the more complex songs on the album. Beginning with a melodic section based on one of Jame's (Pearce, bass guitar) bass parts. The song dips in and out of madness really. It's rather unsurprisingly a story about Easter Island, how this tiny island had a population of humans that exhausted their natural resources then turned on each other. Kind of like a bleak little model of a possible future for the planet as a whole. Some of my favourite riffs I have ever written are in this one!
3. SENTINEL
A fast one by our standards, a brutal journey of a tune, I think I wrote some of these riffs just for fun with no intention of it being for the band initially yet it ended up being the first of these new songs we ended up playing live. Really hard work but very fun to play! Another apocalyptically themed set of lyrics written from the point of view of another species judging humanity on our selfishness and need for control.
4. CHAINS
I actually wrote the beginning acoustic part for this song when I was about eighteen. It was part of a really crap old song and I just lifted it and threw the rest away! This is probably the most melodic song on the album. It's mostly clean singing except for a super brutal bit later on. It's hard to summarise any of these songs because they each contain so many themes and parts. It's the most personal for me because of how old some parts are. It's essentially loosely about letting go of things/people/addictions etc. in life that you no longer need and realising that you have changed. The big fat outro riff makes me happy!
5. MARY CELESTE
Sam (Hill, drums) came up with the concept for this one. It tells the story of the merchant ship 'Mary Celeste' that was discovered, abandoned in the Atlantic, in mysterious circumstances. A big pile of big fat groovy riffs, it lures you in with a calm intro then crushes you and throws you around! Not unlike the ocean! (Well that's the idea anyway…)
6. GOD SHAPED HOLE
Definitely the oddest song on the album. I wrote a bunch of riffs that were almost happy and upbeat but I really liked them. So the task was to darken things up and make it really sound like Stone Circle. It's the longest song on the album, there is a lot to take in here with many tempo and arrangement shifts. The clean verses sound like a bit of a nod to some of the grunge bands we used to (and still do) love. Again this one dips in and out of brutality, beauty and is just a bit of a roller-coaster of moods really. Some awesome drum arrangements from Sam here.
7. FINAL THOUGHT
This was originally intended to be a short album opener but it morphed into something else really. It's a very slow building emotional track. Not a huge amount of vocals, but I am very proud of the ones that are there. It's an epic song and one of my favourites. It kind of sucks you in and takes you somewhere else. Some post rock/metal learnings to be found. It ended up being a great atmospheric and conclusive end to the album.
www.Facebook.com/StonerCircleMetal
[manufacturing country: SID-codes]
[SID-code CD-master: IFPI LQ57]
[SID-code pressing plant: IFPI KW**]
[matrix: IFPI LQ57 * 16452-FC139]
[playing times: software]
"Unfortunately, production gremlins crept in and the tracklisting hasn’t come out as planned.
Here is what the tracklisting should be, and how it is on the CD is in brackets:"
1. Beekeeper (track 1)
2. Easter Island (track 3)
3. Sentinel (track 7)
4. Chains (track 2)
5. Mary Celeste (track 6)
6. God Shaped Hole (track 5)
7. Final Thought (track 4)
Engineered by Steve Powell, produced by Stone Circle & Steve Powell.
Mastered by Norman Jankowski. © 2014 Stone Circle
Endorsed by MarkBass
This Month's Fear Candy
Our Fear Candy this month is Brighton Progressive Death Metaller's Stone Circle's entire second album, the eponymously titled 'Stone Cirlce', follow-up to 2011's 'Myth'. We asked the band to talk us through the record, and vocalist/guitarist Joe Ashwin was pleased to oblige.
1. BEEKEEPER
All the guitar parts in this song were created by Skolly (Tom Skelton). He doesn't write an awful lot but when he does it's always savage, it seemed like a fitting explosive and brutal start to the album! Although it's one of the simpler songs sonically, there are a few parts that are pretty tricky to play. All the lyrical content on this album is open to interpretation and the meaning even changes for me with each listen, but at a base level lyrically this one is a slightly tongue-in-cheek little story of a terrible old beekeeper, whose mistreatment of his slaves result in his demise.
2. EASTER ISLAND
One of the more complex songs on the album. Beginning with a melodic section based on one of Jame's (Pearce, bass guitar) bass parts. The song dips in and out of madness really. It's rather unsurprisingly a story about Easter Island, how this tiny island had a population of humans that exhausted their natural resources then turned on each other. Kind of like a bleak little model of a possible future for the planet as a whole. Some of my favourite riffs I have ever written are in this one!
3. SENTINEL
A fast one by our standards, a brutal journey of a tune, I think I wrote some of these riffs just for fun with no intention of it being for the band initially yet it ended up being the first of these new songs we ended up playing live. Really hard work but very fun to play! Another apocalyptically themed set of lyrics written from the point of view of another species judging humanity on our selfishness and need for control.
4. CHAINS
I actually wrote the beginning acoustic part for this song when I was about eighteen. It was part of a really crap old song and I just lifted it and threw the rest away! This is probably the most melodic song on the album. It's mostly clean singing except for a super brutal bit later on. It's hard to summarise any of these songs because they each contain so many themes and parts. It's the most personal for me because of how old some parts are. It's essentially loosely about letting go of things/people/addictions etc. in life that you no longer need and realising that you have changed. The big fat outro riff makes me happy!
5. MARY CELESTE
Sam (Hill, drums) came up with the concept for this one. It tells the story of the merchant ship 'Mary Celeste' that was discovered, abandoned in the Atlantic, in mysterious circumstances. A big pile of big fat groovy riffs, it lures you in with a calm intro then crushes you and throws you around! Not unlike the ocean! (Well that's the idea anyway…)
6. GOD SHAPED HOLE
Definitely the oddest song on the album. I wrote a bunch of riffs that were almost happy and upbeat but I really liked them. So the task was to darken things up and make it really sound like Stone Circle. It's the longest song on the album, there is a lot to take in here with many tempo and arrangement shifts. The clean verses sound like a bit of a nod to some of the grunge bands we used to (and still do) love. Again this one dips in and out of brutality, beauty and is just a bit of a roller-coaster of moods really. Some awesome drum arrangements from Sam here.
7. FINAL THOUGHT
This was originally intended to be a short album opener but it morphed into something else really. It's a very slow building emotional track. Not a huge amount of vocals, but I am very proud of the ones that are there. It's an epic song and one of my favourites. It kind of sucks you in and takes you somewhere else. Some post rock/metal learnings to be found. It ended up being a great atmospheric and conclusive end to the album.
www.Facebook.com/StonerCircleMetal