Excalion

[mayhem-for-all]

Yes Finally!

I'm soo Happy :funhi:
:bounce2: :ola: :w00t:

[AAAAAAAAA]

Don't take out the fun before the sun goes down. You never know what comes in the dusk...

[mayhem-for-all]

http://excalion.niceboard.net/

This the fanforum at the moment only functional official forum.
It is a bit quiet but there are some people there so come along and start conversations and maybe well hav efully functional forum in the end.

Some one always has to post the first post.
And there is already some converstaion on the Finnish side in there.

[mayhem-for-all]

The recordings will start tomorrow.
and they promised to be as active in writing a studio blog as with the last albums
Thats means sevral posts a day and a video every now and then

In a month they will have a complete record.

[icecab21]

im looking forward to the videos, hopefully they will shoot making of footage and all.

[mayhem-for-all]

im looking forward to the videos, hopefully they will shoot making of footage and all.

Well check their previous diaries and then compare to ehat is ahead.

They have little over 20 days of studio now.
Then they are done. (that includes mixing)

[mayhem-for-all]

One day of studio and they already have a quite long entry and a video

[Rage1979]

Quite good band, but I don't like the singer very much.

[mayhem-for-all]

Quite good band, but I don't like the singer very much.

Now what don't you like about him?
Too short?


BTW I have to note that Megalomania has some sick solo.
(yet the song itself is quite average and in the Excalion scale quite bad)

[mayhem-for-all]

2 days of studio 3 videos

[icecab21]

live of a new song, firewood

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TaU8HOhd ... re=related

[mayhem-for-all]

live of a new song, firewood

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TaU8HOhd ... re=related

Yeah that has been there for a while.
and they haven't confirmed is that the final version of the song as the last finishing touches to all songs were done in june/july.

E: that is from the 24.4 gig which has also some other short quite good quality vids of Dire Waters and I Failed You (Which is with Between The Lines possibly the best live song they have Though all f them are great)

[mayhem-for-all]

Now they are having a bit of break before Vesa gets to studio nailing his guitar parts

Theres one day of editing next week and after that on 7.9 Vesa comes busting those riffs.
Can't wait for we will surely get video material and I already like drum parts very much.
Well the few you can get of it.

[mayhem-for-all]

Now after the little break they have started recording guitars now.
They will propably finish rythm guitars tomorrow and then move on leads .
And they have some more great vids including those studio cats and Henri doing a wild dance

[mayhem-for-all]

It's now official it's now confirmed and it is GREAT!

http://www.excalion.com/news/90/17/Big-news

Big news

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The news that many people have been asking about is here. The title for the third Excalion album is "High Time". It will be released by Limb music in early 2010. More accurate day will be announced as the album is ready.

The mixing of the album started today at studio Watercastle, Jyväskylä. The artwork is being finalized aswell. The band is feeling extremely strong and can't wait to get the album released.

Limb Music may not be the best label out there but they did do well with Waterlines.
Usually albums are available and the Booklets are amazing.

[mayhem-for-all]

Check this out ( I know it is a bit old and I should have posted it earlier)
Excalion covering a song we all know well.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vdPSsg62K0

What do you think?
I think they did awesome!

[Babylonian]

Promising young band. Waterlines is very good album IMO.

[Babylon]

It's now official it's now confirmed and it is GREAT!

http://www.excalion.com/news/90/17/Big-news

Big news

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The news that many people have been asking about is here. The title for the third Excalion album is "High Time". It will be released by Limb music in early 2010. More accurate day will be announced as the album is ready.

The mixing of the album started today at studio Watercastle, Jyväskylä. The artwork is being finalized aswell. The band is feeling extremely strong and can't wait to get the album released.

Limb Music may not be the best label out there but they did do well with Waterlines.
Usually albums are available and the Booklets are amazing.

Awesome! I am really looking forward to this album.

[mayhem-for-all]

Finally.
After years of Search I got Primal Exhale and it should arrive any day by now.
(BTW made some real bargains: Stratos Elements pt.1 + Firewind - Between Heaven and Hell + Excalion- primal Exhale for 20€)

[mayhem-for-all]

Oh yes

HIGH TIME RELEASE DATE & COVER ARTWORK REVEALED


The third Excalion album "High Time" will be released 29th of January 2010. The cover artwork done by Fernando R. Garcia is here.

Starting from tomorrow, each song will be described in the official Excalion blog (accessible from Excalion.com) with additional background information of the creation process. New entries will appear every other day. Stay tuned!



01. Enter A Life 04:07
02. From Somewhere To Anywhere 03:48
03. Sun Stones 04:52
04. The Flags In Line 06:16
05. Bring On The Storm 04:51
06. The Shroud 04:35
07. Firewood 04:44
08. Lifetime 03:33
09. Quicksilver 04:10
10. A Walk On A Broken Road 05:11
11. Foreversong 04:05

Recorded at Studio Watercastle in Jyväskylä, August - October 2009.
Sound engineering & mixing by Arttu Sarvanne.
Produced by EXCALION & Arttu Sarvanne.

Cover artwork & Logo design by Fernando R. Garcia
Sleeve design by Thomas Ewerhard

All music by Myllyvirta
All lyrics by Vaaja, except "A Walk on a Broken Road" lyrics by Myllyvirta/Vaaja
All arrangements by EXCALION
Female vocals by Sanna Urtti & Inka-Sofia Hokkanen

Ja Pääkkösen Köpi laulaa Firewoodissa

All songs published by Limb Music Publishing, Germany
P & C 2010 Limb Music GmbH

[mayhem-for-all]

The lyrics revealed and they look great!
Also the three first songs have the descriptions now and I am quite amazed how much they write about them.

I mean I can almost hear the songs and having a long page full of stories and facts about the song is great.

[Babylon]

I hope this will be available in NA. I got Waterlines from CD Universe, they usually have future releases on pre-order but nothing on High Time yet.

[mayhem-for-all]

I haven't seen anything about it anywhere either.
If nothing comes in a few weeks I will start asking around.

I need it as soon as possible

[mayhem-for-all]

Enter a Life is now in their myspace!

[Babylon]

Enter a Life is now in their myspace!

Just heard it and I loved it. Really can't wait for this album!

[mayhem-for-all]

Yeah it is such a nice moodlifter.
Gets better every time you hera it too.

The intro sure is interesting and teh Chorus gets better and better towards the end.
And the keyboards on the background of the chorus are great

[mayhem-for-all]

Oh and for those interested (I am trying to keep from touching this thing)

30 sec clips of all the songs: http://www.limb-music.de/cgi-bin/limb.c ... n&s=5&cd=2

[Ragehead91]

I'm sort of surprised about how much I like this song. I didn't really care about the first 2 albums but this sounds really good.

[korruptorius]

Well shit... This song is quite the kickass surprise! "Waterlines" was good but somehow lost its steam after several months. Now I'm looking forward to this album too. :viking:

[mayhem-for-all]

http://www.myspace.com/limbmusic

Another song available.
From Somewhere to Anywhere

In case you didn't read the song descriptions when we got them almost daily, Here goes:

The song described


From Somewhere To Anywhere is as close to ROCK Excalion has ever been to. The song is as catchy as hell and builds on groovy vocal melodies and the motto: "Simple is brilliant!"



How it all started

This song goes way back. I think it was written straight after the songs of "Waterlines" and rehearsed before the second album was released in 2007. The song was made as a demo in Summer 2007 with three other songs. 3/4 made it to the album "High Time". This song has gone through least changes from the point it was written by Jappe. Some lyrical changes and a couple of slight changes with the chorus vocals melodies.

Funny to remember way back thinking that we have played this song in three different rehearsal spaces. Not easy to find stable place to rehearse for a heavy band! heh

-Henri


This song was a long time in the making, it is the oldest song on the album. I have liked this one from the very first day. It is our stadium rock song.

-Tero

What can I say? A simple forward going song. First song I wrote after Waterlines sessions. Composing started from the chorus as usual. Some minor changes were made before the studio. In the demo there was a different intro, but I wanted to some song have a guitar solo in the beginning and this was obvious choice.

-Jappe

This song is played with drop C tuning which creates certain heavy feeling. I remember jamming this song in our rehearsal place and it sounded good. This song has quite a lot of guitar solos but thats nice... (or is it?? )

-Vesa

Now that I did that I might just as well add Enter a Life:

The third Excalion album "High Time" will be described here with additional information on how the songs got started and what the creation process was like.


The song described

The album opener "Enter a Life" is a catchy and energetic uptempo song that was immediately planned to kick start the album with full blaze.
The song starts with a short drum intro and kicks in with a highly melodic theme. The song is pretty simple in its structure, but has extremely nice vocal melodies and catchy guitar shredding in the solo part.

How it all started

This is the weirdest place songwriting has ever begun for us: the lyrics of the chorus. I had the lines, and just for fun I mailed them to Jappe and asked him to make a piece of music to them, and he wrote a whole song. This was an obvious album-opener from the start.

-Tero

I remember discussing with Tero that he had written some of the best chorus-lyrics up to date. Instructing Jappe to write as good melodies.

The second memory of Spring 2009 is that us three (Tero, me and Jappe) are driving away from the rehearsal place trying to sing the chorus as Jappe had just finished writing the melody for it. I'm sure it didn't sound that good sung by us three (Boychoir) but it felt really good and we knew the song would be one of the best we have.

-Henri

We had a different approach with this one. Usually music comes before lyrics. Tero said to me that he had good chorus lyrics in his hands and I thought that lets do the process different this time. The lyrics were inspiring and in no time I had the whole chorus ready and a vision of what kind of song this would be. When I had the song structure ready we hit rehearsals to work on this puppy. After tightening some loose ends it was ready for the rest of the lyrics and for the demo session.

-Jappe