Description
Double album on black vinyls with gatefold cover
Lancer met at the Music Academy Of Ingesund in Arvika, Sweden, the common passion for heavy metal forged them together and Lancer was born. They invaded the metal scene in the spring of 2012 with their debut EP Purple Sky and received a warm welcome from music labels and fans all around the world. In early 2013 Lancer released their self-titled debut album. It received amazing reviews from the metal press all around the world. Sweden Rock Magazine named the band a new hope for European power metal – and this hope grew day for day. The follow up of the first EP, their second album Second Storm, concentrated on melodic metal and followed a long tradition of outstanding Swedish metal bands like Hammerfall and Sabaton. Classical acts like Iron Maiden, Helloween and Gamma Ray inspired Lancer’s sound, but the Swedish melodic metal band adds a personal and modern touch to the sound to land a new modern heavy metal sound that was strongly needed. Their third album, Mastery, has a different sound again. We wanted to make this album sound as close as possible to how we sound live, and with that I mean no over-dubs, no keyboards and of course no cutting out every single note we play and putting it in perfect order. You can write bombastic and varied metal songs with just four instruments, it’s all in the arrangements. Thats why our album has such a great organic feeling!? explains Isak. Thematically, the record focus on fantasy topics, inspired by old tales, myths, as well as religion, for example from the ancient Egypt, the Hebrew and the Christian bible to Greek and Northern mythology. Furthermore, also science fiction and history play a major role – and in these stories everything always goes wrong. You cant hold back the strife that ends up in catastrophe. But thats just why this creation is that exciting.
Track list:
1. Dead Rising Towers
2. Future Millenia
3. Mastery
4. Victims Of The Nile
5. Iscariot
6. Follow Azrael
7. Freedom Eaters
8. World Unknown
9. Widowmaker
10. Envy Of The Gods
11. The Wolf And The Kraken