ROYAL ANGUISH: New CD recording update, plus much more news!

We wanted to give everyone an update on the happenings surrounding the ROYAL ANGUISH camp:

First and foremost, the recording process for our upcoming CD The Grand Deception is moving forward full steam. As many of your know, the original production of this CD saw recording start last summer. Unfortunately the recordings were not coming along as anticipated, so we made the decision to blow the whole thing up and start from scratch once we had resolved the issues that had hindered the original sessions.

After reassessing our processes and songwriting, we "restarted" the process in December of 2007 with a new outlook, and we are happy to report that we have a large portion of the process complete. We are deep into the guitar and keyboard tracking and hope to have a few advance / rough versions up on the web for all to hear in the not too distant future. We are much happier with the path the CD has taken and we are very eager to get new tracks out to the masses so that we can officially start the newest chapter of RA's existence.

The CD currently is slated to have 11 songs (plus an opening). The song titles are as follows:

DAWN OF THE NEW AGE (intro)
ONLY THE WEAK SURVIVE
PLEASE EDUCATE ME
INTO THE WILDERNESS
THY PALE EXISTENCE
SULLEN EYES REVISITED
BLOOD ON YOUR HANDS
LOVELORN BETRAYAL
DIRT AT YOUR FEET
THE GRAND DECEPTION
DEMON SEED
KINDRED SPIRITS

We also are proud to announce that MORPHIA's frontman Jasper Pietersen will make a guest appearance on the title track of our CD. Jasper's a great guy and we couldn't be any happier finding a way to include him on this project. We have multiple other guest appearances lined up, but we'll wait until we have the tracking done and in hand before making those official announcements.

The coverart for our CD is also complete and will be released shortly. This masterpiece was produced by Alexandra V. Bach (Ravendusk Designs) who is most known for her work with Kamelot and Wykked Wytch.

Lastly we'd like to give a shout out to our bassist Sean Tibbetts who once again will be out on the road with KAMELOT during the upcoming European tour. I think everyone (in both bands) is keeping their fingers crossed that Sean returns back without any injuries this time (last KAMELOT tour he blew his knee out during the first bar of the first song of the first show... yeeeouch!). Please check the KAMELOT website for tour dates and make sure to come out and show support!

Never got into them, but it's good to hear they're making progress on a new cd.
Also Mophia is pretty nice.

Well hopefully you'll give RA another chance when the new material is out. We've definitely cleansed / focused our sound for this CD...

BTW all male vocals now (except for backing on one song)...

Sounds promising and of course I'll give them a change =)

I'm looking forward to this one!

good to see you found this little board Matt

Awesome news,
every Royal Anguish disc has been better than the next,
Although the tracks on Tools of the Trade still rock :p

I'm looking forward to this album.
And indeed, welcome

MAx thanks. Yeah I was here when it was hosted by guitar6.... Ann told me about a month ago that it was back...

Matt thanks for the kind words.... we've been working hard on this one so hopefully it'll continue the trend upward!

Yeah, the forum has been up for a little over a month now
I thought it would've been a good idea to open a new forum.

And I am sure your album will slay.
And it's cool to hear that Jasper also will be on it,
his grunts are sweet.

yeah it cool having him do something totally different than Morphia's doom style also.... the song he's on is very fast and aggressive and he fits in perfectly :-)

That's sweet to hear
This sounds more interesting with every post I read

i'm very curious about this one. (: