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After a long wait, Cruz del Sur Music<\/strong> has finalized a new contract with PHARAOH<\/strong> for the release of three albums. “Bury the Light” <\/strong>is the first and much expected release of awesome metal in the typical style of this much beloved band!! It will be 10 news songs for a total of 48 minutes.<\/p>\n The sessions have some exceptional guest solos by Mike Wead (King Diamond<\/strong>) e Jim Dofka (Dofka<\/strong>).<\/p>\n PHARAOH’s “Bury the Light” <\/strong>will hit the streets on February 24th 2012 in Europe, and on March 6th in the United States. <\/em><\/span><\/p>\n We reached Matt Johnsen and Chris Black to ask some questions about the release, and to provide some comments on the album’s tracklist.<\/p>\n How do you think Pharaoh evolved in this new album?<\/strong> Any particular anecdote from the recording sessions?<\/strong> Do you think the fans will be ready for this new Pharaoh album?<\/strong> The following is “Bury the Light”<\/strong>‘s detailed tracklist with comments from PHARAOH’s band members Matt Johnsen and Chris Black:<\/p>\n 1. Leave Me Here To Dream<\/strong> 2. The Wolves<\/strong> 4. The Year of the Blizzard 6. Cry<\/strong> 7. Graveyard of Empires<\/strong> 8. Burn With Me<\/strong> 9. In Your Hands<\/strong> After a long wait, Cruz del Sur Music has finalized a new contract with PHARAOH for the release of three albums. “Bury the Light” is the first and much expected release of awesome metal in the typical style of this much beloved band!! It will be 10 news songs for a total of 48 minutes. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5],"tags":[827,361,3,374,830,751,828,732,829,62,9,334,1414,29,82,363],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cruzdelsurmusic.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798"}],"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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cruzdelsurmusic.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=798"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.cruzdelsurmusic.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":838,"href":"https:\/\/www.cruzdelsurmusic.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798\/revisions\/838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cruzdelsurmusic.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cruzdelsurmusic.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cruzdelsurmusic.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nMatt- We tried to add more textural elements to our songs while continuing to cut as much extraneous material as possible.\u00a0 The songs on this album are dense, but hopefully they never overstay their welcome.\u00a0 The basic template is the same as on Be Gone, but the album is less dark overall, and perhaps a little faster.<\/p>\n
\nMatt- This album took a long time to make, because shortly after the drums were tracked, our drummer and our engineer both became dads for the first time. Also, the vocals were tracked at my house while my son was only a year old.\u00a0 Thankfully, he doesn’t seem to mind Tim’s voice.<\/p>\n
\nMatt – I think anyone who stuck it out with us after we shed the remainders of our obvious Iron Maiden worship after The Longest Night will be happy with our progression on this album.\u00a0 It’s still crammed full of traditional elements, of course, but we’re not trying to be retro or old fashioned. We want to move melodic metal forward.<\/p>\n
\nChris: Another song about death’s best disguise: sleep.\u00a0 And the desire for the oblivion of dreams.\u00a0 And the power of guitar solos.<\/p>\n
\nMatt: The funny thing about the 99% is that half of them vote exclusively in favor of the 1%!
\nChris: And the other half doesn’t vote at all.\u00a0 Yet this is a very aggressive song, probably the most aggressive song on the album.
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\n3. Castles in the Sky<\/strong>
\nChris: Perhaps the typical Pharaoh nugget, with lots of melodies tightly wound.\u00a0 Brilliant lyrics by Tim.\u00a0 They almost make it sound like The Man is out to get you.
\nMatt: The Man IS out to get you!\u00a0 Guest solo by Mike Wead.<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>Matt: The title is literal.\u00a0 One year under the snow, with supplies running out.\u00a0 Jim Dofka solos.
\nChris: An epic track that shows more 70s hard rock influence than anything we’ve done before.
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\n5. The Spider’s Thread<\/strong>
\nMatt: Based on a short story by Ryunosuke Akutagawa.\u00a0 Buddha gives a sinner a chance to climb out of hell, but he fucks it up.<\/p>\n
\nMatt: Regrets love company.
\nChris: It’s true.\u00a0 And this one was a full-band collaboration!<\/p>\n
\nMatt: Afghanistan will make you its bitch!
\nChris: This song made me its bitch.\u00a0 It’s probably the most complex and challenging song we’ve done.\u00a0 Written by Matt, of course.<\/p>\n
\nMatt: Creative destruction.
\nChris: Along with “Cry”, this is the radio single contender. Which probably means that I wrote it.<\/p>\n
\nChris: This one is about how people are so good at creating their own problems and yet so terrible at creating any solutions.
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