Nov 09

Heavy Christmas – Revisited
 
25 years ago we were approached with the idea to record a Christmas song. We were already set in the studio for the Mind Over Muscle sessions and a song was written in record time – Heavy Christmas. It was primarily regarded
as a publicity stunt but the single soon found its way to radio stations around the world and a proper release was launched including a “Heavy Christmas Tour”.
 
Through the years we’ve been asked to make the single available but due to legal issues this has not been possible…..until now. As the song was approaching a 25 year anniversary we all agreed to re-record it.
It was now or never! While at it we decided to include a few additional songs in order to provide something special for our hard core fans. Heavy Christmas has been altered slightly. Firefall, the classic album and live concert-opener
from the Power Games album, In the End and  Electric Messengers from the Mind Over Muscle album
(Electric Messengers compilation album in the US) were re-recorded true to the originals…sort of...
 
The re-recording sessions feature:

Mats Karlsson, Lead Guitar
Thomas Drevin, Lead Guitar
Joakim Lundholm, Vocals
Michael Krusenberg (fka Larsson)
Björn Höglund, Drums and Percussion 

Oktober 09

An upgraded download-version of "Lethal Illusion" will be released on October 30th.
The album will be released on all major download sites such as iTunes and so on.

It will contain no less than 4 bonus tracks (2 **have been released in Japan only)
The other 2 tracks are from the same recording sessions but never released before.
This also means that the bands first ever single which was on the original version will be withdrawn from this release.
 
Tracklist looks as follows:
 
 1. Lethal Illusion
 2. Don't You Believe Me
 3. Chicago
 4. Private Queen
 5. Good For Me
 6. Shotgun Sally
 7. Disappointed
 8. The Great Escape
 9. Big Business
10. Before You Go
11. Worlds Apart * (new track)
12. Son In Law * (new track)
13. Scene Of The Crime ** (bonus track)
14. What Have I Done ** (bonus track)
 
"Volume 1" and "Made In Jamtland" are already available at these stores: iTunes (worldwide),CDON.com, Napster.com
Musicload in Germany/Austria/Switzerland, Mediamarkt (De), Elgiganten (Dk) and lots of other sites.

And if that wasn't enough!!? There'll be even more news about releases in a week or two so stay tuned!