Symphony X bassist started solo project

Symphony X bassist Mike LePond`s new musical project: Silent Assassins. Donate now to breathe life into the recordings, production and whatever is needed to make it big. Let us procure more money to make it big and to make it a success without being reliable on a record label. It is Mike`s baby so let Mike`s dream come true. Donate now! Any amount is welcome! Thank you in advance for your time and donation. Please also share this pressmailing with your media partners/partnerradiostatioins/partnerblogs etc.

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The name of the project and the album will be called "Mike LePond's SILENT ASSASSINS". It is a heavy metal/power metal record that combines all the influences of Mike`s favorite bands from the past and present. It is a full hour of headbanging riffs, kick ass vocals, and epic tales. There is something in there for any style of metal you enjoy! Metal Mike (Halford, Testament) is on lead guitar and Alan Tecchio (Autumn Hour, Watchtower) is on vocals.

SYMPHONY X European Tour

World Management announced that the mighty Symphony X is touring Europe this fall on their newest release “Iconoclast”.  Support will be by Norway’s Pagans Mind and Italy’s DGM.  The band are excited and looking forward to play for their European fans.  

DATE - CITY, VENUE - SUPPORT BANDS

SEPTEMBER 2011

Michael Romeo - guitar
Russell Allen - vocals
Michael Pinnella - keyboards
Michael LePond - bass guitar
Jason Rullo - drums

wed    28 - HAMBURG, KNUST - Pagan’s Mind + DGM

thu    29 - BOCHUM, ZECHE - Pagan’s Mind + DGM

fri    30 - ZOETERMEER (NL), BOERDERIJ - DGM

OCTOBER 2011

sat    01 - BAARLO (NL), SJ SJIWA [ProgPower Festival] - Long Distance Calling + DGM

+ In Mourning + White Walls + Schizoid Lloyd

sun    02 - BERLIN, C-CLUB - Pagan’s Mind + DGM

tue    04 - ASCHAFFENBURG, COLOS-SAAL - Pagan’s Mind + DGM

wed    05 - MUNICH, BACKSTAGE HALLE - Pagan’s Mind + DGM

fri    07 - MILAN, LIVE CLUB - Pagan’s Mind + DGM

sat    08 - RIMINI, VELVET - Pagan’s Mind + DGM

sun    09 - ROME, ALPHEUS - Pagan’s Mind + DGM

wed    12 - BARCELONA, SALAMANDRA - Pagan’s Mind + DGM

thu    13 - MADRID, SALA PENELOPE - Pagan’s Mind + DGM

fri    14 - LISBON, INCRIVEL ALMADENSE -     Pagan’s Mind + DGM

sat    15 - PORTO, HARD CLUB - Pagan’s Mind + DGM

sun    16 - SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA, CAPITOL - Pagan’s Mind + DGM

tue    18 - BORDEAUX, THEATRE BARBEY - Pagan’s Mind + DGM

wed    19 - LYON, NINKASI KAO - Pagan’s Mind + DGM

thu    20 - PRATTELN (CH), Z7 - DGM

fri    21 - MONTHEY (CH), PONT ROUGE - DGM    

sun    23 - VOSSELAAR, BIEBOB - DGM

tue    25 - MANCHESTER, ACADEMY 3 - DGM

wed    26 - LONDON, ISLINGTON 02 ACADEMY - DGM

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Electric Messiah From the SYMPHONY X album, Iconoclast (2011)

  SYMPHONY X - Electric Messiah by NuclearBlastRecords


Nuclear Blast Records just uploaded a new public track called SYMPHONY X - Electric Messiah, you can heard it above! 

Tracklist

CD 1
1. Iconoclast
2. The End Of Innocence
3. Dehumanized
4. Bastards Of The Machine
5. Heretic
6. Children Of A Faceless God
7. When All Is Lost

CD 2
1. Electric Messiah
2. Prometheus (I Am Alive)
3. Light Up The Night
4. The Lords Of Chaos
5. Reign In Madness

From the SYMPHONY X album, Iconoclast (2011)

Released by: Nuclear Blast Records 
Release date: Jun 21, 2011 

SYMPHONY X

SYMPHONY X: “WORKING HARD ON THE NEW CD”

Michael Romeo, guitarist & songwriter for North America’s progressive metal gods SYMPHONY X, comments on the band’s recent signing with Nuclear Blast Records and the arrival of the follow-up album to 2007’s Paradise Lost:

“We are really excited to be a part of the Nuclear Blast Family, a great label with a cool roster of bands, which we are proud to be a part of. As of now, we are working hard on the new CD and are looking to finish it up late Winter 2009 / Spring 2010. We can’t wait to hit the road and play some of the new cool stuff for everyone and especially all our loyal fans. We look forward to a long relationship with all the great people who work at the label all over the world.”

Formed in 1994 in New Jersey, SYMPHONY X has seven studio albums and one live album to their credit. Their discography has sold 170,000 copies in the U.S. alone!

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After the release of Michael Romeo's demo tape, The Dark Chapter, Symphony X was formed in April 1994. Besides Romeo, the original lineup included keyboardist Michael Pinnella and drummer Jason Rullo. The same year saw the band recording their self-titled debut. This was followed eight short months later by their tremendously received second album, The Damnation Game, which featured the new singer, Russell Allen, for the first time.

They made a huge leap up the ladder in Autumn 1996 with the release ofThe Divine Wings Of Tragedy, which was especially well received in Europe, and which received high placing in the Readers' Polls of Europe's most important music magazines. Accolades such as 'the best Progressive Power Metal band in the world' and 'the best Progressive Metal album of the year' were heaped onto Symphony X. March 1998 saw the release of their fourth studio albumTwilight In Olympus, and the band's first, eagerly awaited concerts.

Their fifth studio album, V - The New Mythology Suite, took Symphony X on a European tour in Autumn 2000. During the tour, they recorded their live double album, Live On The Edge Of Forever, in the legendary Paris venue Elysee Montmartre. The live album was released in October 2001, which documented the huge technical capabilities of the five band members.

With their sixth studio work and latest release, The Odyssey, Symphony X united recognized progressive elements and their clean, sharp melodic vocals with a somewhat harder, rawer production. "The lyrics of 'King Of Terrors' are based on a novel by Edgar Allen Poe", says Romeo. "We had the feeling that this dark, heavy song needed dark spooky lyrics. Edgar Allen Poe is perfect for stuff like this." But the proof that this heavier sound has not completely buried the band's more melodic and epic side is documented in 'Accolade II'--the continuation of the song 'Accolade' from the 1996 album, The Divine Wings Of Tragedy; as well as the title track, divided into seven chapters with a total length of 29 minutes. In a breathtaking musical trip through the Greek Odyssey, Symphony X have put to music such stages as the Sirens' song ('Sirens'), the conquest of Circe ('Circe (Daughter Of The Sun)'), the perilous sea journey ('Scylla And Charybdis') and finally the arrival at Ithaca ('The Fate Of The Suitors / Champion Of Ithaca'). In order to realize their visions of an exciting and deliberately harder album, Symphony X took over almost all the work on The Odyssey; the songwriting and arranging, the pre-production and the work in the studio was all firmly in the musicians' hands. "It needed a hell of a lot of energy, but it was definitely worth it", Romeo says with satisfaction.

The band's seventh studio release, Paradise Lost, was released on June 26, 2007.

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