MMXX Sons Of Apollo

• 1Goodbye Divinity07:15
• 2Wither to Black04:44
• 3Asphyxiation05:07
• 4Desolate July05:58
• 5King of Delusion08:48
• 6Fall to Ascend05:06
• 7Resurrection Day05:51
• 8New World Today15:50
• Total Runtime58:39

Info zu MMXX

Nach ihrem hochgelobten Debut “Psychotic Symphony“ (2017) und dem Livealbum „Live with the Plovdiv Psychotic Symphony“ (2019) kehren Sons Of Apollo im Januar 2020 zurück! “MMXX” heißt der neue Tonträger, mit dem Mike Portnoy (Drums), Derek Sherinian (Keyboard), Jeff Scott Soto (Gesang), Ron ‚Bumblefoot‘ Thal (Gitarre) und Billy Sheehan (Bass) vorhaben, alles aufs nächste Level zu heben. „Stilistisch folgen wir dem Debut“, erklärt Portnoy. „Aber wir haben das Gefühl, dass das Album stärker wird, einfach weil wir uns viel besser kennen. ‚Psychotic Symphony‘ war das erste Mal, das wir fünf zusammengearbeitet haben, deshalb hatte es eine eher experimentelle Atmosphäre. Jetzt können wir auf die Erfahrungen nicht nur aus den Aufnahmen des Albums, sondern auch auf die der vielen gemeinsamen Touren zurückgreifen. Und es gibt jetzt eine viel deutlichere Chemie zwischen uns.“ „Jedes Bandmitglied hat seinen ganz eigenen Sound auf seinen Instrumenten“, ergänzt Sherinian. „Und wenn man das alles zusammensetzt bekommt man ein wunderbares, fünfköfiges Biest. Daraus entsteht der besondere Sound dieser Band, den man auf ‚MMXX‘ sehr gut hört.“ „Man bekommt ungewöhnliche Metren und wunderbar verrückte Performances zu hören. Persönlich habe ich das Gefühl, musikalisch viel tiefer gegangen zu sein als jemals zuvor. Zum beispiel gibt es großartige Harmonien. Insgesamt waren wir dieses Mal abenteuerlustiger als zuvor, und ich bin sicher, dass die Leute lieben werden was wir gemacht haben. ‚MMXX‘ ist ein Album, auf das ich stolz bin.“

"Der Opener ›Goodbye Divinity‹ ist ein Highlight. Der Song liefert das, was man von Portnoy, Soto und Co erwartet: krachende Drum-Tiraden, Tempowechsel, fette Synthie-Sounds und eine Hookline, die sich stante pede in die Gehörgänge einbrennt." (Audio)

Sons Of Apollo:
Jeff Scott Soto, lead vocals, acoustic guitar
Ron "Bumblefoot" Thal, guitar, backing vocals
Billy Sheehan, bass, backing vocals
Derek Sherinian, keyboards, backing vocals, string arrangements
Mike Portnoy, drums, backing vocals, lead vocals

Sons Of Apollo
In early 2017, rumors began circulating about a new secret project including former Dream Theater members Mike Portnoy and Derek Sherinian. Finally, on August 1st, the duo revealed the details to the rest of the world, introducing their new band, Sons Of Apollo.

Reuniting to form Sons Of Apollo, Portnoy and Sherinian join forces with guitarist Ron “Bumblefoot” Thal (ex-Guns N’ Roses), bassist Billy Sheehan (The Winery Dogs, Mr. Big, David Lee Roth) and vocalist Jeff Scott Soto (ex-Journey, ex-Yngwie Malmsteen’s Rising Force). Their debut album, Psychotic Symphony, will be released October 20 on InsideOutMusic/Sony Music.

Psychotic Symphony was produced by the dynamic production duo of Portnoy and Sherinian, also affectionately known as “The Del Fuvio Brothers,” the nickname given to them over 20 years ago during their time together in Dream Theater.

Sons Of Apollo formed very organically, its seeds planted with a predecessor group, as Portnoy explains: “Derek and I reunited shortly after I left Dream Theater in 2010 and we put together an all-instrumental touring band with Billy Sheehan and Tony MacAlpine. That was my first time working with Derek since the ‘90s when he was in Dream Theater, and it was just great to be working with him again. Ever since that tour, which was really just a one-off live thing, he has been nudging me to start a real, original, full-time band. The timing just had never been right, because I had too many other things on my plate. Long story short, the time was finally right to take the bait and put together a band.”

“Mike and I work at a relentless pace in the studio,” continues Sherinian. “The music is modern, but we have an old-school soul. What is unique about Sons Of Apollo is that we have true rock n’ roll swagger along with the virtuosity– a lethal combination!”

But what to call the next great supergroup? “Derek was mainly the one behind the name,” says Portnoy. “I have a list that I keep on my phone of about a hundred different band names, which I constantly have to refer to every time I have a new band every year (laughs). So I pulled up the list and Apollo was one of the names on the list. It was a word that both of us really liked. We started fiddling with different variations of the word. One of the original band names we were working with was Apollo Creed, the character from the Rocky movies, but after lots of different discussions on different variations, Derek suggested Sons Of Apollo and it seemed to stick. Apollo is the god of music, so with that in mind it seemed like a fitting name.”

With Portnoy, Sherinian and Sheehan having previously toured together in the aforementioned lineup that came to be known as PSMS, playing instrumental versions of various songs drawn from each member’s history, Sons Of Apollo was the next logical step.

They kept that fire burning and stoked it higher by bringing in a different guitarist, adding a vocalist, and creating all original material. The nine songs comprising Psychotic Symphony incorporate the progressive style and individual technical prowess Portnoy and Sherinian shared together in Dream Theater, combined with the swagger and groove of Van Halen, Deep Purple and Led Zeppelin.

“I have known Mike and Derek for a long time, so when they came to me with Sons Of Apollo, I jumped on this straight away,” says Thomas Waber, Label Manager/A&R International of InsideOutMusic. “However, the album they ended up recording exceeded my already high expectations by a long mile! We couldn’t be happier about it!” Sons Of Apollo will hit the road in 2018 for their first worldwide tour.

“This is a real band,” Portnoy declares. “This is going to pick up for me and Billy where The Winery Dogs left off, in terms of this being the next logical full-time thing for us. I’m not saying The Winery Dogs have broken up, because we haven’t, we’re just on a break. Sons Of Apollo is absolutely going to be a full-time band and we plan on touring all over the world throughout 2018 and, honestly, it is the priority for all five of us.”

Sherinian agrees, “We will go on a worldwide crusade in 2018 to bring Sons Of Apollo to as many people as possible. Apollo was the God of Music, and we are his mighty offspring!”

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