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/:: Artist :: J°rn Lande & Trond Holter ::\
:: Album :: Dracula: Swing of Death ::
:: Year :: 2015 ::
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:: . Genre :: Heavy Metal Source :: CDDA . ::
:: Label :: Frontiers Records R.date :: 2015.04.04 ::
_::__ Cat.nr. :: FRCD676 Size :: 89,49 MB __::_
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. Quality :: 44,1kHz/Joint Stereo .
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Website :: https://www.facebook.com/officialDracula/
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:: 01. Hands of Your God 03:40 ::
:: 02. Walking on Water 05:43 ::
:: 03. Swing of Death 04:39 ::
:: 04. Masquerade Ball 03:34 ::
:: 05. Save Me 04:19 ::
:: 06. River of Tears 04:52 ::
:: 07. Queen of the Dead 06:11 ::
:: 08. Into the Dark 03:35 ::
:: 09. True Love Through Blood 03:57 ::
:: 10. Under the Gun 05:08 ::
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:: Norwegian Rock Stars, singer Jorn Lande and guitarist Trond ::
:: Holter (aka Teeny of WIG WAM), have created a new Rock Opera ::
:: concept album about the life of Count Vlad the III, Prince ::
:: of Wallachia, widely known as Vlad, The Impaler or by his ::
:: patronymic name Vlad Dracul(a). The whole story explores the ::
:: inner struggle inside the multifaceted and engorging ::
:: character that this mysterious 15th Century personality was, ::
:: while also taking into account some of the metaphysical ::
:: aspects that passed into literature, forming the whole basis ::
:: of the vampire mythos. ::
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:: On the album Jorn Lande û who impersonates the main ::
:: character Dracula - shares lead vocal duties with Norwegian ::
:: singer Lena Fl°itmoen (representing Mina/Lucy from the Bram ::
:: Stoker book). The duets feature Dracula and his women, which ::
:: in the original Bram Stoker story is centered around ::
:: Dracula's first true love Mina (when he was a human before ::
:: he sold his soul to the devil and became a vampire). ::
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:: The drama of the story reveals Dracula's inner battle, where ::
:: he still remembers what true love was, and as he wandered ::
:: the Earth for centuries with a thirst for blood, his ::
:: loneliness and desire to be able to love again has led him ::
:: to the brink of insanity. In the original Bram Stoker ::
:: version, he leaves Transylvania by ship and when he meets ::
:: Lucy's best friend, she reminds him so much of his first ::
:: love Mina, that he becomes obsessed. Dracula sees her as ::
:: some kind of "holy grail", too good to turn into a vampire. ::
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:: Musically, "Swing of Death" is not like a typical rock opera ::
:: or musical, since it has no storyteller or long instrumental ::
:: parts or intros. It is an album that gets to the point with ::
:: no detours and even if it exposes some diverse musical ::
:: landscapes, it does include catchy and melodic songs with ::
:: commercial radio potential. Musical influences come mostly ::
:: from Meat Loaf and Queen with the ghost of Alice Cooper ::
:: thrown in plus some Classic and more contemporary Hard Rock ::
:: elements. The lyrics are not limited to the old days of Bram ::
:: Stoker's era and could easily be a Dracula story of today. ::
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:: Jorn Lande - Lead Vocals ::
:: Trond Holter - Guitar ::
:: Bernt Jansen - Bass ::
:: Per Morten Bergseth - Drums ::
:: Lena Fl°itmoen B°rresen - Duet vocals on "Under the Gun", ::
:: "Into the Dark", "Save Me" and "River of Tears" ::
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