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Topic: Sieges Even New Album Update
Posted By: johnobvious
Subject: Sieges Even New Album Update
Date Posted: February 22 2007 at 11:48
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Haven't seen this anywhere else yet. From their Website, posted Jan 31: "Sieges Even have finished the songwriting for the upcoming new album 'Paramount'. Along with new tracks like 'Duende', 'A Wallflower on the day of St. Juliana', 'Tidal', 'Leftovers', to name a few, the band will also record older tracks 'Where our Shadows Sleep', and 'The Valparaiso Dreaming', which have been rearranged for the new CD. "Paramount' will be released by the end of September 2007 through Inside Out Records, followed by an extensive tour. " They also posted tour dates for October in Europe. Tall order to follow up The Art of Navigating by the Stars but let's hope they can do it. Looking forward to it.  ------------- Biggles was in rehab last Saturday |
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Posted By: Forgotten Son
Date Posted: February 22 2007 at 22:37
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Score. The Art of Navigating by the Stars is fantastic, one of my favourite albums. Even if this new album is only a fraction as good, it'll probably make it into the top albums of this year for me. 2007, is going to rock.
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Posted By: R_DeNIRO
Date Posted: February 23 2007 at 19:14
Totally agre  ------------- We were always be much human than we whish to be. |
Forgotten Son wrote:Posted By: Bj-1
Date Posted: February 23 2007 at 19:21
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Im really looking forward to it. I love their other stuff (at least from what i've heard). Can't wait, excellent band ------------- RIO/AVANT/ZEUHL - The best thing you can get with yer pants on! http://www.last.fm/music/Exerior" rel="nofollow - EXERIOR Experimental tech/death/progmetal from Norway! |
Posted By: johnobvious
Date Posted: June 24 2007 at 20:15
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Posted By: johnobvious
Date Posted: June 24 2007 at 20:19
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Their website is a little weird. Here is the link to the cover http://www.siegeseven.com/ - http://www.siegeseven.com/ ------------- Biggles was in rehab last Saturday |
Posted By: JayDee
Date Posted: June 24 2007 at 20:27
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I'll be looking forward for that. Tahnks for the info. Excellent band with great musicianship. Hope the album would be as awesome as The Art of Navigating The Stars. Nice album cover. Love the clouds. :-p -------------  |
Posted By: Rivertree
Date Posted: July 28 2007 at 19:51
 Yes, going to see them live in October in Bünde/Germany - I'm very curious ------------- https://awesomeprog.com/users/Rivertree" rel="nofollow">  |
Posted By: johnobvious
Date Posted: July 30 2007 at 19:57
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^Curious, how? Have you heard The Art? Fabulous. Just saw the new album got added to the Archives. Two months before I can get it in the states. The wait is killing me. ------------- Biggles was in rehab last Saturday |
Posted By: johnobvious
Date Posted: August 15 2007 at 09:43
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According to InsideOut Music, reformed cult German
progressive metal band SIEGES EVEN are going to release their much
anticipated 7th album, Paramount, on Oct 9th (USA) and Sept. 21st, 2007
(EUR) via InsideOut Music /SPV. InsideOut Press release: Sieges Even - "Paramount": The album forges an atmospheric arch to the band's beginnings back in the
late eighties, documenting the topicality of their music at the same time.
After all, prog rock and prog metal are more popular at the moment than they
have been for a long time, and SIEGES EVEN are among Germany's elite
when it comes to these musical directions. "Compared to our previous CDs, we focus more on the song itself these
days," guitarist Markus Steffen describes SIEGES EVEN's
present attitude, adding: "We don't think so much about how many notes we
can cram into a particular number. The new songs are more compact in
themselves, and certainly occasionally tougher than the compositions on The
Art Of Navigating By The Stars, but always supported by a strong melody.
Although we love Navigating, we wanted to embark on a different path
without betraying our roots. I think we've become more open to different
stylistic influences since Arno's [Menses - vocals]arrival." Steffen is referring to vocalist Arno Menses, who joined SIEGES
EVEN three years ago and has been at the epicentre of this perfectly
measured soundquake ever since. Together with the brothers, Oliver and Alex
Holzwarth (bass and drums), Steffen and Menses have
concentrated on the essence of their talent more than ever before. Paramount
consists of ten fascinating songs that take the listener on an adventurous
journey, setting free a diversity of emotions. SIEGES EVEN's lyrics
consciously do without messages, or indeed indoctrination. Menses: "We go about our lyrics the same way we go about our
music: every one of them is intended to create its own movie in the listener's
mind. Interpretations by us would only have a manipulative and irritating
effect." Yet the contents of the songs are anything but mundane. The title
track and 'Bridge To The Divine', for example, are about the wide range
of things people dream of, while 'Tidal' is more personal and allows the
listener the freedom of individual interpretation. Musically, SIEGES EVEN operate at the most accomplished level. The
above mentioned 'Tidal' contains pretty much all the components that
make Paramount a complete work of art: toughness, melodiousness,
progressive parts, melancholia, e-guitars, acoustic guitars, discreet keyboards
and tasteful synthesizer sounds. The instrumental, 'Mounting Castles In The Blood Red Sky', is a kind
of musical version of Martin Luther King's famous "I have a
dream" speech, contrasted by the folk prog AOR ballad, 'Eyes Wide
Open', which is carried by Menses' vocals and seems the kind of
track that few people would have expected from this band. "Before Arno's
arrival we wouldn't have risked such a number, but now it seems totally
conclusive and fitting," Steffen points out. Paramount was recorded in collaboration with sound engineer Kristian
'Kohle' Kohlmannslehner at his studio in Seeheim/Jugenheim. Kohlmannslehner
also mixed the songs, his colleague Kai Stahlenberg taking care of the
mastering. The result is a perfectly arranged, cleverly produced and extremely
melodious album that invites its listeners to dream along to and promises to
work well on stage, too. That's why the band's fans should seize the opportunity to check their latest release out in an audio-visual context: SIEGES EVEN are scheduled to embark on a tour of Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium and Switzerland in October." Thanks to ytsejam.com for the info------------- Biggles was in rehab last Saturday |
Posted By: ian picken
Date Posted: August 15 2007 at 10:09
I have got stars and sense of change, and they have just rereleased uneven and sophisticated, i have not heard these cds, are they any good???? 
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Posted By: johnobvious
Date Posted: August 15 2007 at 10:56
I don't have those two. They don't have Markus Steffan on them and I am not enough into metal right now to take the plunge. And I don't really like Sense of Change. They are both supposed to be shred fests. Just waiting for the new CD. ------------- Biggles was in rehab last Saturday |