Jorn - Traveller (2013)

Jorn - Traveller (2013)











INFO:

The Norse God of Metal. The leader of the renaissance of classic hard rock on its highest level. One of the most prolific and sought-after singers of today, whose immense vocal talent has reserved him a status of a living legend to be counted amongst the greatest giants in the history of rock.


After more than 30 album releases with various projects, working with some of the best musicians around, he is now ready to unleash upon the world yet another masterpiece under the Jorn banner. “Live in Black” is the title of the new livealbum and DVD and was released on June Aufust 26th in Europe and August 23rd in the USA. Once again, get ready for another unique and classic hard rock masterpiece from this productive and gifted Norwegian Viking.


Jorn Lande is one of our greatest Rock Giants: his strong and diverse voice and solid songwriting skills have become powerful trademarks in the Hard Rock world. We all remember him for his famous effort and role as front man in german metal act Masterplan, which has achieved great success around the world. Two albums and two maxi singles were released during this period; “Masterplan” and “Aeronautics”.


Powerful albums such as “The Duke”, “Lonely are the brave” and “Spirit Black” are just a few of this man’s releases during his almost 30-year old career.



In 2008 Jorn Lande featured on spectacular projects as Tobias Sammet’s “Avantasia”, along with stars like Alice Cooper and Eric Singer (KISS), Rudolph Schenker (Scorpions), Bob Catley (Magnum). The album titled "The Scarecrow" and the following world tour was a huge success and a another album is already scheduled to hit the stores in 2010. Other artists confirmed to participate are Scorpions singer Klaus Meine and Tim 'Ripper' Owens (Ex-Judas Priest).

Band:

Jørn Lande (born May 31, 1968), is a Norwegian hard rock and heavy metal singer who has sold over 2 million records worldwide. He is known for being the former vocalist of bands Masterplan, Ark, Beyond Twilight, Millenium, Vagabond, and The Snakes, as well as for his successful solo career as Jorn.

In late May, a Jorn music video honoring legendary heavy metal singer Ronnie James Dio, who had died of stomach cancer just five days before, was posted on YouTube. Soon after it was announced that Jørn would release a Dio tribute album in July. Later on, it was announced that Jørn was included in the line up of Heaven & Hell, when the remaining members played the one off tribute to Ronnie James Dio at the 2010 High Voltage festival. He was one of the vocalists together with Glenn Hughes.

The third Allen/Lande album titled The Showdown has been announced for release in September 2010. To promote the album, Frontiers Records released a videoclip of the song Judgement Day featuring Jørn singing, via YouTube.

In 2011, Jorn released the second live album with footage from the concert of the 2010 Sweden Rock Festival, the album was called Live in Black. Also in 2011, he was a guest on female singer Amanda Somerville's first metal project Trillium singing on the vocal duet track 'Scream It'.

A new Jorn album called Bring Heavy Rock To The Land was released on June 1, 2012 in Europe and June 5, 2012 in North America via Frontiers Records. It has a single for the title track released in May 14, 2012.

In November 2012, the record company AFM Records announced the production of a new Masterplan album with a new line-up, including Rick Altzi (At Vance) replacing Jørn Lande as vocalist.

Jorn's first release for 2013 is called Symphonic, a compilation of previous recordings with classical music arrangement.

On April 15 of 2013, it was also announced a new Jorn full-lenght album called Traveller, which will be released in June 11 in North America and June 14 in Europe.


Current Line-up:

Jørn Lande -- Vocals (2000-present)
Willy Bendiksen -- Drums (2005-present)
Bernt Jansen -- Bass (2012-present)
Trond Holter -- Lead Guitars (2012-present)


TRACKLIST:

01. Overload -- 05:20
02. Cancer Demon -- 04:27
03. Traveller -- 05:37
04. Window Maker -- 04:25
05. Make Your Engine Scream -- 04:11
06. Legend Man -- 04:00
07. Carry The Black -- 06:08
08. Rev On -- 04:43
09. Monsoon -- 04:19
10. The Man Who Was King -- 05:52
Total time: 49:08

Genre: Heavy
Subgenre: Progressive Power Metal / Hard Rock / Heavy Metal
Bitrate: 320 k
Size: 113.14 MB