Black Eyed Children

Astral Doors powrócił w wielkim stylu i z klasycznym heavy metalem. Okładka wykonana przez Felipe Machado który projektował choćby ostatnią okładkę dla Blind Guardian.

Astral Doors are back !!!! The upcoming album, "Black Eyed Children", shows the band at its very, very best. This is classic rock/heavy metal in the next dimension. "Black Eyed Children" is by far the best album so far from Astral Doors and tops the already great previous albums "Notes From The Shadows" and "Jerusalem". This time the cover artwork has been done by Felipe Machado, who did the last Blind Guardian Cover Art.

Formed in Borlänge in 2002, accomplished the all but accomplishable: delighting Power Metal fans and traditionalists alike. Simultaneously, the sound’s unmistakable kinship to Dio-fronted Rainbow and Dio/Martin-fronted Black Sabbath earned Astral Doors momentum with old-school met­alheads who frowned at the perceived blandness and lack of substance in the Power Metal genre.

The debut “Of the Son and the Father” arrived in 2003 to immense critical fanfare, although the crucified priests on the cover succumbed to censorship in Japan where the album was also rechristened (!) “Cloudbreaker”. In the following years, Astral Doors shrewdly made it impossible for the audience to for­get them by bombarding said audience with new releases, one more breathtaking than the other: “Evil Is Forever” (2005), “Raiders of the Ark EP” (2005) and “Astralism” (2006). The band also performed at the perennial Wacken and Sweden Rock Festivals, and did tours with Grave Digger and Blind Guardian – the latter with particular suc­cess. Jerusalem ( 2011) was the best album of the band so far and was followed by a very successful club tour in spring 2012.

“Notes of Shadows” followed in 2014, the band just played a few shows, but the success continued.

Now the Astral Doors are back with their brand new album “Black Eyed Chuldren”. It shows the band stronger than ever.

This is classic rock/heavy metal in the next dimension.