Description

In 2006, VAN CANTO surprised the world of metal with a revolutionary idea to perform metal music with vocals and drums only. Nine years later, after five top 20 releases in Germany, sold out headlining tours throughout Europe and festival performances taking the band from Wacken to Australia, Van Canto now mark a new chapter in the story of ldquometal a cappellardquo Vocal Metal Musical.For this release, the band has teamed up with German bestseller author Christoph Hardebusch ldquoDie Trollerdquo ndash engl. ldquoThe Trollsrdquo.ldquoWe are barely able to tell what came first the music as part of the novel or the novel as part of our album. Christoph Hardebusch and we worked hand in hand on this. Our compositions did influence the novel and vice versa. Simply put, we created our own world ndash a world full of competing kingdoms, epic battles, dragons, fire and bards. Not always deadly serious but full of adventures to set your imagination running wildhellip like Van Canto does,rdquo explains lead singer Sly who developed the plot of the novel together with Christoph Hardebusch.bdquoOn the one hand working closely with Van Canto was a lot of fun but on the other hand it was also very demanding,rdquo adds author Christoph Hardebusch. ldquoThe great picture can only be achieved when creative minds interact with each other the whole is more than the sum of its parts. Right from the start, story and music has been a unit which has influenced and fueled each other.rdquonbspFor the first time, Van Canto is working with the London Metro Voices ndash a choir which also sang on the soundtracks of the popular blockbuster saga ldquoLord of the Ringsrdquo.ldquoNowadays, especially in metal, everyone is creating this pseudo symphonic metal, trying to squeeze as many drum machine tracks and fake orchestra sounds in one song as possible. We wanted to do it differently. We wanted to create an album full of human sounds ndash either by using onersquos hands for drumming or using your voice,rdquo drummer Bastian, who is responsible for directing the various international choirs on the album, explains.The cover artwork for ldquoVoices Of Firerdquo as well as its various illustrations were created by fantasy artist Osmar Arroyo from South America.ldquoFor this album, we wanted people to actually see the most important scenes. Omar is a great artist who understands our vision,rdquo Ross, responsible for the guitar vocals, adds.The cover artwork for ldquoVoices Of Firerdquo as well as its various illustrations were created by fantasy artist Osmar Arroyo from South America. The impressive graphics and their developing stages can be seen in the 44 page strong hardcover mediabook.nbsp Van Canto Deluxe-CD is available for home delivery from Vinyl Records London, only £10.99