{"id":2856,"date":"2018-07-10T18:46:23","date_gmt":"2018-07-10T16:46:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cruzdelsurmusic.com\/?p=2856"},"modified":"2018-07-10T18:46:23","modified_gmt":"2018-07-10T16:46:23","slug":"pharaoh-after-the-fire-debut-to-receive-vinyl-release","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cruzdelsurmusic.com\/blog\/index.php\/2018\/07\/pharaoh-after-the-fire-debut-to-receive-vinyl-release\/","title":{"rendered":"PHARAOH: \u2018After The Fire\u2019 Debut To Receive Vinyl Release"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Ground-zero, catalog number \u201cCruz01\u201d and the album that started it all for\u00a0Cruz Del Sur Music<\/strong>,\u00a0PHARAOH<\/strong>\u2019s 2003\u00a0\u201cAfter The Fire\u201d<\/strong>\u00a0debut provided an early glimpse of the label\u2019s unflinching commitment to releasing high-quality, true heavy metal. The album also positioned\u00a0PHARAOH<\/strong>\u00a0as one of the most promising and classy melodic metal bands in recent memory, earning the band much-deserved praise both on domestic and international shores.<\/p>\n

Now, 15 years after the fact,\u00a0Cruz Del Sur\u00a0is releasing\u00a0\u201cAfter The Fire\u201d\u00a0on vinyl on\u00a0<\/strong>Aug 31<\/strong>, with\u00a0a different, alternative mixing, new mastering, and fresh, updated liner notes by Matt Johnsen!<\/strong><\/p>\n

CLICK TO PRE-ORDER!<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cPHARAOH<\/strong> and Cruz Del Sur<\/strong> are still doing what we do, in our stubborn ways!\u201d says drummer Chris Black<\/strong>. \u201cHow little has changed in this regard. I guess our producer\/engineer Matt Crooks<\/strong> wasn’t yet on board, but otherwise with \u2018After the Fire\u2019<\/strong>, we have already included all of the same people and roles as we do today.\u00a0I’m talking about the musicians\/songwriters but also Enrico Leccese<\/strong> of Cruz Del Sur<\/strong> and JP Fournier<\/strong>, who has painted all of our album covers.”<\/p>\n

PHARAOH<\/strong>, rounded out by vocalist Tim Aymar<\/strong>, guitarist Matt Johnsen<\/strong> and bassist Chris Kerns<\/strong>, was originally formed to play, according to Johnsen<\/strong>, \u201cthe kind of melodic heavy metal that was highly unfashionable when we first met.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cChris<\/strong> had SAXON<\/strong> and IRON MAIDEN<\/strong> in mind, while I was thinking about RAGE <\/strong>and ANGRA<\/strong>,\u201d he says. \u201cAnd although none of us have the same tastes, exactly, I guess they’re close enough where it counts! \u201cSince \u2018After the Fire\u2019<\/strong>, we’ve all grown immensely as players and writers, but the basic templates we established for ourselves on that record have held up surprisingly well.\u00a0 Our newer songs are much harder to play, but they’re clearly cut from the same cloth as the ones on our debut.”<\/p>\n

PHARAOH<\/strong> has released three studio albums since \u201cAfter The Fire\u201d<\/strong> and are hard at work at their next full-length, tentatively titled \u201cThe Powers That Be\u201d<\/strong>. But, the memories associated with \u201cAfter The Fire\u201d<\/strong> hold lasting impact, making the vinyl release all the more important.<\/p>\n

“Finally having \u2018After The Fire\u2019<\/strong> on vinyl will be great for our fans who cherish this format,\u201d says Black<\/strong>. \u201cIt’s understandable that it didn’t happen in 2003, but as the years have passed and all of the other albums have been pressed on vinyl, it has become way overdue.\u00a0But as it happens now, it’s a great way to say happy 15th birthday to the album and to Cruz Del Sur<\/strong> as well.\u00a0A just reward for our continuity!”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ground-zero, catalog number \u201cCruz01\u201d and the album that started it all for\u00a0Cruz Del Sur Music,\u00a0PHARAOH\u2019s 2003\u00a0\u201cAfter The Fire\u201d\u00a0debut provided an early glimpse of the label\u2019s unflinching commitment to releasing high-quality, true heavy metal. The album also positioned\u00a0PHARAOH\u00a0as one of the most promising and classy melodic metal bands in recent memory, earning the band much-deserved praise […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,218,5,717],"tags":[1464,1505,1354,734,1458,1417,1504,732,1414,80,1077,18],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cruzdelsurmusic.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2856"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cruzdelsurmusic.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cruzdelsurmusic.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cruzdelsurmusic.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cruzdelsurmusic.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2856"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.cruzdelsurmusic.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2856\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2859,"href":"https:\/\/www.cruzdelsurmusic.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2856\/revisions\/2859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cruzdelsurmusic.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cruzdelsurmusic.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cruzdelsurmusic.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}