Artist: NARNIA
Album: GHOST TOWN (CD)

Year: 17.03.2023
EAN/UPS: 0726667942858
Media type: CD

Twenty-seven years into a career that continues to grow, Swedish metal band Narnia takes huge steps into an exciting chapter with the new album 'Ghost Town'. The seasoned five-some once again shows how to shape a masterpiece with this melodic metal future classic.

On the ninth studio album, 'Ghost Town', Narnia has picked the icing on the cake from its vast catalog. You can't simply label this album a neoclassic metal album or a power metal album, even though these elements are present. There are also parts that are progressive, modern, heavy, or just creatively different. But you can summarize by saying this is well-crafted piece of classic and melodic metal.

Co-founder, guitarist, and producer CJ Grimmark is the crucial architect of the band's sound, and also its primary songwriter along with co-founder and lead singer Christian Liljegren and bassist Jonatan "Jono" Samuelsson. Through well formulated lyrics and melodies created to enhance the music, the songwriting team has explored new modes of expression that are well represented in songs such as 'Thief', with its dramatic arrangement, anxiety-laden, expressive imagery, and the progressive 'Modern Day Pharisees', a song dealing with the subject of hypocrisy.

Lyrics that make you reflect combined with the broad musical breadth the band possesses, along with a solid production, is Narnia's musical trademark which runs throughout the entire album.

If the latest studio album 'From Darkness to Light' from 2019 marked the way, 'Ghost Town' is a more than worthy sequel with a life of its own.

'Ghost Town' is produced and mastered by CJ Grimmark, and mixed by the band's sound engineer Viktor Stenquist, and will be available on all digital platforms, CD, and vinyl on March 17th 2023 in collaboration with Sound Pollution Distribution.

Sound Like: Yngwie J Malmsteen, Masterplan, Europe, Dream Theater, Rob Rock, Theocracy, Edguy, etc.

CD:

01. Rebel
02. Thief
03. Hold On
04. Glory Daze
05. Descension
06. Ghost Town
07. Alive
08. Modern Day Pharisees
09. Out of the Silence
10. Wake Up Call