Jerusalem

Jerusalem uznawany jest przez wielu za najlepszy album Astral Doors. Spora w tym zaśługa producenta płyty Daniela Bergstranda.

TRACKLIST

1 Seventh Crusade
2 With A Stranger's Eye
3 Child Of Rock 'n' Roll
4 Pearl Harbor
5 Lost Crucifix
6 Babylon Rise
7 Suicide Rime
8 The Battle Of Jacob's Ford
9 Operation Freedom
10 The Day After Yersterday
11 Jerusalem

Swedens hottest classic rock band with their best album so far! For fans of Black Sabbath & Dio!

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.

Sadly, the delightfully Power Metal-laden “New Revelation” (2007) did not lead to Astral Doors’ expected Big Break. The album met with raving reviews, but the band somewhat prematurely ventured their own headline tour, preaching to a still

comparatively small choir. Album sales were satisfactory but hardly overwhelming. “Requiem of Time” in January 2010 – introducing new bassist Ulf Lagerström – saw the band gracefully back on track.

– We may have listened to the wrong people, made some bad choices and turned down a few tours too many, Nils Patrik Johansson admitted when I interviewed him for Sweden Rock Magazine before the album’s release. We’re a good band and ought to be bigger.

Erik Thompson (Head writer, Sweden Rock Magazine)

– Astral Doors upcoming album, "Jerusalem", shows the band at its very, very best.

– With world famous producer Daniel Bergstrand behind the mixingboard, their classic rock/heavy metal is brought to new dimensions.

– "Jerusalem" is by far the best album so far from Astral Doors and the concept of the lyrics is darker, more political and more provocative than ever before in the history of the band.

– The amazing cover artwork has once again been done by Mattias Eriksson who also did "Of the Son and the Father" and "Testament of Rock".

Artwork, Layout – Mattias Eriksson

Bass – Ulf Lagerström

Drums – Johan Lindstedt

Guitar, Keyboards, Bass – Joachim Nordlund

Mixed By, Mastered By – Daniel Bergstrand, Rickard Sporrong

Organ, Keyboards – Jocke Roberg

Photography By – Frank C. Dünnhaupt

Photography By [Additional Photos] – Sven Yfver

Recorded By – Joachim Nordlund

Songwriter [All Songs By], Producer, Liner Notes – Astral Doors

Vocals – Nils Patrik Johansson