Blue Mammoth´s new album - Stories of a King

The musical material presented on this second album came along with the first album, which means, all this songs were composed on the same period of time. So this songs were set apart for a while during the production and release of the first album, still with no lyrics, but already with some ideas settled. The three songs which make up the suíte "The Story of a King" that finished inspiring the title of the album, were already known to cover this theme.

As the lyrics of the songs were brought out, a conceptual album begun to emerge. Each of the songs of this album tells the story of a character, an individual drama. And each story of each song becomes a spiritual saga visited by the listener in the company of a storyteller. To get to this point, André Micheli had to slightly change the first version of the lyrics of the first song of the album "The Endless Road" that was previously called "The wanderer". On the final version the storyteller - which happens to be the band itself - invites the listener to a long journey watching the endless road travelers; learning, suffering, rejoicing along with the misadventures of life of each former character.

To finally frame the songs and lives lived through them, one last song was composed especially for this purpose. The beautiful ballad "Waiting Room" portrays a last drama of a last character, an internal crazy man in a sanatorium that receives a message and finds out that it was all an illusion. He is free to another journey on the endless road. The message also reveals to the listener that all lives observed were actually one. The message was "once you were a king, and once you were a simple man, now you have to follow the light and take another chance". In fact he once were a poor african one who had all his known world slaughtered on childhood, once a fabulous winged creature, once a killer soldier, once someone involved on a scientist trial. And who knows whom else can he be now?

About the production of the album, the road was much more tortuous than that of the first album. Some revisions of some arrangements and some dissatisfaction with the results obtained in the first drums recordings made us go back to studio and search for the right sound. We still had a replacement on guitars with Vinicius de Oliveira assuming the post in the process. This did happen some launch frustrated announcements of the new CD, some apologies to fans, and finally the expected release came in the first half of 2016.

Now we are proud to present to the public our second album. A ten track conceptual one, following the tradition of the good ages of prog rock. Not only good songs reunited, yet an epic work able to take the listener to a great playful and spiritual journey, telling stories, thrilling and making to think. And of course, we have rock. Good rock!

We hope you enjoy it!

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