Mistheria: GEMINI new album featuring Roger Staffelbach, Leonardo Porcheddu, Ivan Mihaljevic, Roy Z, Chris Caffery

Mistheria: GEMINI new album featuring Roger Staffelbach, Leonardo Porcheddu, Ivan Mihaljevic, Roy Z, Chris Caffery

GEMINI is an instrumental metal album which collects 13 songs written and/or arranged by Mistheria in the metal, neo-classical, prog-metal genres. Release date will be announced soon! Book your exclusive signed edition now: http://www.mistheria.com/gemini-album... *

GEMINI ALBUM FEATURES:
MISTHERIA (Bruce Dickinson, RoyZ, Rob Rock, Vivaldi Metal Project) - music, arrangements, keyboards
ROGER STAFFELBACH (Artension, Artlantica) - guitar
LEONARDO PORCHEDDU (Vitalij Kuprij) - guitar
IVAN MIHALJEVIC (Side Effects) - guitar
STEVE DI GIORGIO (Testament, Death) - bass
DINO FIORENZA (Metatrone) - bass
JOHN MACALUSO (ARK, SymphonyX, Malmsteen) - drums

SPECIAL GUESTS:
CHRIS CAFFERY (Trans-Siberian Orchestra, Savatage) - guitar
ROY Z (Halford, Bruce Dickinson, Tribe of Gypsies)- guitar

1. HANDS OF FIRE (composed and arranged by Mistheria)
2. ANGELS IN THE SHADOW (composed and arranged by Mistheria)
3. FIGHT OF THE BUMBLEBEE (composed by R. Korsakov - arranged by Mistheria)
4. MOONLIGHT SONATA (composed by L.V. Beethoven - arranged by Mistheria)
5. AIR IN E MINOR "THE DAY AFTER" (composed and arranged by Mistheria)
6. DEVIL'S STEPS (composed and arranged by Mistheria)
7. PRAYER TO GOD (composed and arranged by Mistheria)
8. PROG-FANTASY (composed and arranged by Mistheria)
9. FALLING STARS (composed and arranged by Mistheria)
10. MY DEAR CHOPIN (composed by F. Chopin / Mistheria - arranged by Mistheria)
11. ASTURIAS (composed by I. Albeniz - Arranged by Mistheria)
12. ADAGIO IN G MINOR (composed by T. Albinoni - arranged by Mistheria)
13. METAL PIANO SONATA, OP.13 (composed and arranged by Mistheria) Mixed and mastered by Ivan Moni Bidin at Artesonika Recording Studios, hosted by “Nuove Tecniche” (Pordenone, Italy). Artwork and graphic design by Havane. PRODUCED BY MISTHERIA
http://www.mistheria.com


Mistheria - GEMINI album official trailer

Roger Staffelbach: records guitar on GEMINI album

Roger Staffelbach records guitar on GEMINI album

Maestro Mistheria

Some clips from the Roger Staffelbach 's guitar recording session for my upcoming instrumental Metal album GEMINI.

Roger Staffelbach,Mistheria,Chris Caffery: Artlantica - Across The Seven Seas the new album release dates announced

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The debut album "Across The Seven Seas" will be released through SPV / Steamhammer in Germany on May 24th, in Europe on May 27th and in the US/Canada on June 4th (new) as CD and download (incl. 1 bonus track "Stormbringer").

SPV / Steamhammer signed a worldwide deal with new melodic metal outfit ARTLANTICA.

Guitarist Roger Staffelbach says about the signing: "After all the blood, sweat and tears we've put into making that album, we're more than happy and excited to see our album getting released by one of worlds finest companies, SPV/Steamhammer. It's a true pleasure to work with Olly Hahn and all at SPV and we're confident that this is only the beginning. A big hello and thank you go out to Olly Hahn, all at SPV and Peter Knorn from our Management (UTM) for sharing our vision and making this happen."

A&R Steamhammer Olly Hahn ads: "What do we have here: great melodies, awesome guitar virtuosity and a tight band which knows how to play melodic metal how it should be. We are more than happy to welcome Artlantica to the SPV family!"  https://www.facebook.com/artlanticamusic

John West - Vocals
Roger Staffelbach - Guitars
Mistheria - Keyboards
John Macaluso - Drums

Guests

Steve Digiorgio - Bass
Dani Löble - Drums
Chris Caffery - Guitars

Mistheria,Roger Staffelbach,John Macaluso: keyboard star working on new instrumental CD "Gemini"

Mistheria is working on an instrumental album titled "Gemini", to be released in early 2013. According to the musician, "Gemini" is an instrumental metal effort which, unlike his previously released classical instrumental CDs — "Solo Piano" (2007) and "Keys Of Eternity" (2011).

Joining Mistheria on the new album are the following three musicians:

* Roger Staffelbach - Guitar
* Steve DiGiorgio - Bass
* John Macaluso - Drums

Mistheria - GEMINI album: John Macaluso recording session


Mistheria - For the love of God (Steve Vai)

Mistheria,Roger Staffelbach : working on new CD

Mistheria has announced the official lineup for his new instrumental metal album, "Hands Of Fire", to be released later this year.

The effort will feature Mistheria on keyboards, piano, keytar, organ, and bass pedal, along with the following three musicians:

* Roger Staffelbach - Guitar
* Steve DiGiorgio - Bass
* John Macaluso - Drums

Commented Mistheria: "Songwriting and arrangements are completed, recordings will start in the next weeks. The album will feature both original songs and heavy-arranged classical masterpieces (Albinoni, Bach, Beethoven, Chopin, Paganini, Rimsky-Korsakov). Songlist, artwork and label will be announced soon."

Mistheria,George Bellas,Neil Zaza,Roger Staffelbach,Emir Hot: Dragonfire details

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Keyboard virtuoso Mistheria returns with an all star cast for the neo-classical progressive metal tour de force “Dragon Fire”. Home to 13 tracks of full on metal pomposity, this is music crafted around stirring vocal melodies and impassioned first class musicianship. The virtuoso meter of the personnel involved sets a new standard and fans of artists such as Symphony X, Malmsteen and Artension will find this a sheer musical delight.

The grandiose music on offer has its home within the classical music masters but the metal charge brings “Dragon Fire” firmly into the present day. Yet this is more than musical virtuosity. Mistheria has taken great care to produce songs first and foremost with catchy vocal melodies and big choruses and just one listen will prove that he has succeeded in his aim producing captivating compositions. After demos for the album had been made the personnel was then hand selected by Mistheria to bring out the best in each track with the highest calibre musicians within the genre chosen to do justice to his songs.

The vocalists comprise of John West (Artension/Royal Hunt), Rob Rock (Impellitteri/Solo), Mark Boals (ex Malmsteen/Ring Of Fire/Royal Hunt), Lance King (Balance Of Power) and Titta Tani (ex Astra / Ashent). Each vocalist’s unique style has been selected for the appropriate track to deliver Mistheria’s vision. The same process was used for the guitarists with George Bellas (solo/Ring Of Fire), Neil Zaza (solo), Roger Staffelbach (Artension/Angel Of Eden) andEmir Hot (solo) plying their virtuoso guitar work which blend beautifully with Mistheria keyboards to recreate the classic guitar/keyboard pairing in all its glory. The bass was ably handled byAlberto Rigoni (Twinspirits) and drums come courtesy of John Macaluso (Ark, TNT, ex Malmsteen) whose performance is full of high-power heavy grooves and tons of energy making this one of his best performances to date.

Yet despite the number of musicians involved there is an impressive sense of cohesion to the material all thanks to the quality of Mistheria’s initial vision shining through in all aspects. Even the sound of the album has produced and mixed to his own personal taste. Mistheria comments, “Since I only wrote vocal melodies and lyrics for “Dragon Fire” and vocal melodies for “Eye of the storm” songs (although I gave ideas for the others), all singers involved influenced the songs prominently with really great lyrics and melodies. John Macaluso’s job on drums has been nothing short of astonishing starting from my programmed drums guideline. The guitarists moved on my own demo ideas as well as Alberto Rigoni on bass and their job has been simply perfect. Ivana Greguric wrote a song exclusively for the album (The Beast) and her work is really remarkable”.

TRACK LISTING

01. Dragon Fire.

02. Lies & Deception.

03. Killing The Pain.

04. Two Of Us.

05. Metal Opera pt.1: A.D.1982

06. Metal Opera pt.2: Eye Of The Storm.

07. Now It’s Never.

08. Fire & Flames.

09. Prelude 18 In F min.

10. Chopin Fantasy.

11. The Power Of One.

12. The Beast.

13. A Beautiful Dream.

MUSICIANS

Mistheria – Keyboards, Piano and Keytar.

John West – Vocals on 1, 3, 7, 11 & 12.

Rob Rock – Vocals on 2.

Mark Boals – Vocals on 6.

Lance King – Vocals on 4.

Titta Tani – Vocals on 1, 8 & 13.

George Bellas – Guitar on 2, 4, 6 & 10.

Neil Zaza – Guitar on 7.

Roger Staffelbach – Guitar on 3, 11 & 12.

Emir Hot – Guitar on 8.

Alberto Rigoni –Bass.

John Macaluso – Drums.

ALBUM CREDITS

Produced, mixed and mastered by Mistheria.

Engineered by Mistheria at "Hit Produkcija Studios" (Croatia) and "Dragon Studios" (Italy) between January 11, 2009 and June 30, 2010.

Cover art by Alvaro De Amicis

OFFICIAL WEB LINKS

www.mistheria.com

www.reverbnation.com/mistheria

www.myspace.com/mistheria 

George Bellas,Mistheria,Michael Harris,Neil Zaza,Emir Hot,Roger Staffelbach: to feature on new lion releases

01. Dragon Fire.
02. Lies & Deception.
03. Killing The Pain.
04. Two Of Us.
05. Metal Opera pt.1: A.D.1982
06. Metal Opera pt.2: Eye Of The Storm.
07. Now It’s Never.
08. Fire & Flames.
09. Prelude 18 In F min.
10. Chopin Fantasy.
11. The Power Of One.
12. The Beast.
13. A Beautiful Dream.

MUSICIANS
Mistheria – Keyboards, Piano and Keytar.
John West – Vocals on 1, 3, 7, 11 & 12.
Rob Rock – Vocals on 2.
Mark Boals – Vocals on 6.
Lance King – Vocals on 4.
Titta Tani – Vocals on 1, 8 & 13.
George Bellas – Guitar on 2, 4, 6 & 10.
Neil Zaza – Guitar on 7.
Roger Staffelbach – Guitar on 3, 11 & 12.
Emir Hot – Guitar on 8.
Alberto Rigoni –Bass.
John Macaluso – Drums.

TRACK LISTING
01. Seizure Salad.
02. Wizard of Odd.
03. Rocket Surgery.
04. Blue Shift.
05. Left of Right.
06. Nitrous Oxide Strut.
07. Professor Grunklesplat’s Math Assignment .
08. Pathos.
09. Prosthetic Brain .
10. Ocean Blues .

MUSICIANS
Michael Harris – Guitar, Guitar synth, Keyboards
Adam Nitti – Bass
David Harbour – Bass
James Martin – Bass
Bunny Brunel – Bass
Mike Haid - Drums
Marco Minnemann – Drums
Bernard Wright – Keyboard solo on “Seizure Salad”

Mistheria,George Bellas, Roger Staffelbach, Emir Hot, Neil Zaza: new solo album details

All recordings and mixing are now complete for the forthcoming solo album from one of metal leading keyboard maestros - Mistheria. The keyboard wizard has checked in with the following guest updates.

Mark Boals (Royal Hunt, Ring of Fire, Y. Malmsteen) has completed his recordings on the song "Eye of the Storm - Metal Opera 82". Of course, the song sounds nothing short of awesome! With a mix between elegant melody and metal power, Mark’s vocals made the song totally captivating! After long years trying to make real our collaboration, I’m really proud to feature Mark, one of the greatest metal singers, on my new album!

Mark comments, "This song brought back fond memories of the roots of Neo-Classic Metal. I had a blast recording it, and working with Mistheria!"
Rob Rock has posted the following statement on his involvement in the album.
"Recording for Mistheria was a pleasure for me. Lies and Deception is a great song we wrote together and the song is just full of monster musicians exploding all over the place. A very interesting song to be a part of. The song is also very energizing and my vocal performance is high octane, somewhat like my Wicked Maiden (Impellitteri) and Slayer of Souls (Rob Rock) vibe in a way. A very "live" vocal take, with lots of "on the spot" ad-libbing, which added a very emotional and natural performance attitude to the song. I really like it!" - RR

Italian Bass player Alberto Rigoni (Twinspirits / solo) completes the "Dragon Fire" album line-up. Thanks to a great mixture of perfect performance and powerful rich sound, Alberto did an excellent job recording whole album with his fantastic 6-strings Elrick Bass.

The album's personel in full is: Vocals - John West, Mark Boals, Rob Rock, Titta Tani, Lance King.
Guitars - George Bellas, Roger Staffelbach, Emir Hot, Neil Zaza
Bass - Dino Fiorenza, Alberto Rigoni
Drums - John Macaluso

Lion Music can now confirm the track listing is as follows:

01. Dragon Fire.
02. Lies and Deception.
03. Killing the pain.
04. Two of us.
05. Metal Opera (part 1): A.D. 1982.
06. Metal Opera (part 2): Eye of the storm.
07. Now it's never.
08. Fire and Flames.
09. The Prelude of my life.
10. Chopin Fantasy.
11. The power of one.
12. The Beast.
13. A beautiful dream.

Mistheria - Dragon's Fire will see release later in 2010.

Mistheria: George Bellas,Roger Staffelbach,Neil Zaza,Emir Hot to appear on ‘Dragon Fire’new CD

Six years on from his last studio album ‘Messenger Of The Gods’ keyboard virtuoso Mistheria is hard at work with the recording of his new 11 track neo-classical / progressive metal album entitled set for release in the second half of 2010 (tbc).

Mistheria, the keyboardist of choice for Bruce Dickinson on the ‘Tyranny Of Souls’ album, has pulled in a number of great names for 'Dragon's Fire' in vocalists John West (Artension/ex Royal Hunt), Mark Boals (ex Malmsteen), Rob Rock(Impellitteri), Lance King, and Titta Tani (Astra). Guitars come courtesy of George Bellas (Ring Of Fire, Mogg/Way),Roger Staffelbach (Artension/Angel Of Eden), Neil Zaza and Emir Hot. The rhythm section comprises of drummer John Macaluso (ARK) and bassist Dino Fiorenza.

Some working track titles for the album include ‘Fire & Flames’, ‘Killing The Pain’, ‘The Power Of One’ and ‘Chopin Fantasy’with the rough demos already showing this will be an essential release for fans of early Artension, classic Malmsteen and Symphony X.

 

Last week George Bellas recorded all his guitars and John Macaluso is currently in the process of tracking his drums and has just checked in with the following, "I just did half the tracks for Mistheria's album and it came out amazing! Over the top with heavy groove and orchestrated kicks everywhere. I've got a really fat drum sound, its like Bonham playing double bass in an orchestra. You will dig it I think!".

More updates on the progress of ‘Dragon Fire’ to follow soon.

Official Websites
www.mistheria.com
www.myspace.com/mistheria