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Edguy-King Of Fools


Company..: Nuclear Blast
Style....: Metal
Source...: CDDA
Date.....: 01-30-2004

Grabber..: Audiograbber
Encoder..: LAME 3.93
Quality..: VBR kbps
Mode.....: Joint-Stereo


TRACKLIST


01. King of Fools 03:35
02. New Age Messiah 06:01
03. The Savage Union 04:15
04. Holy Water 04:18
05. Life and Times of A Bonus Track 03:25

Total Time: 21:34 min
Band Info:

Soon the waiting will be over: on February 2nd,
German´s Metal-Band No. 1 of the next generation will
strike again – with the release of their new EP King
of fools. This masterpiece will explain why so many
independent- and major labels alike have been fighting
for Edguy in the last few months: that is because not
only insiders see EDGUY as the most promising Metal
band in the world - they already are recognised as one
of the greatest bands in their genre worldwide! There
is not enough time nor space to list all the reasons
for that fact, but it is amazing how a bunch of very
young, ambitioned and talented musicians made their
way from a school-band to one of the European
top-acts: with high positions in the charts
accomplished by their own hard work. This success
speaks for itself! They never followed any trends,
they never got hyped. The band has always been their
own manager and producer. But still - or maybe because
of that - the band secretly climbed to the top of the
international Metal mountain.

It all started in Fulda (Hessen, Germany) in the year
1992 when four fourteen year old schoolfiends decided
to form a traditional Metal band at a time, when
Grunge music was at its peak. First they covered songs
from their favorite bands such as Deep Purple, KISS,
AC/DC and Iron Maiden. Soon they got bored by playing
other people´s songs, so they decided to write and
record their own songs to get a record deal someday.
But in the beginning the plan would not work as hoped.
“Our schoolmates laughed at that kind of music,
unfortunately, says Tobias Sammet, singer of the band,
about those first steps to success, “of course the
record lables, too, did not see any future for our
kind music with eunuch-vocals, two guitars and an
unbearable kick-in-the-ass-joy-of-life! Well, the fact
that we were pretty bad at that time surely proved to
be another reason for our failure. The funny thing is:
now all these companies who rejected us in the past
have offered us a lot of money today. But now we can
sit back, relax and tell them you´ve had your chance
and decline their offers with a smile on our faces.

The turn of the tide went well for Edguy: after five
years of hard work, never ending visits to record
companies and countless failures at band-contests, the
small label AFM-Records took mercy upon the band and
gave them their first record contract. With AFM they
released five studio cd´s between 1997 and 2003
(Kingdom of Madness 1997, Vain Glory Opera 1998,
Theater Of Salvation 1999, Savage Poetry 2000,
Mandrake 2001), the double live album “Burning down
the opera” in 2003 as well as the two solo cd´s
“Avantasia” by Tobias Sammet part one and two (Part
one 2001, part two 2002). With every album the fanbase
grew larger. The constant touring helped the band to
prove that they are one of the best and most
entertaining live acts ever. Wherever Edguy enter a
stage you will find great entertainment, great party
and an over the top demonstration of their musical
talent. The fans could hear and see all this on
Edguy´s last year´s Mandrake headlining-tour (the cd
achieved top twenty status in various European
countries). Even the last doubter was convinced after
seeing Edguy live that their status had been
underrated so often. The tour went through 23
countries travelling around on 4 continents for more
than a year (Europe, Asia, Australia, South America,
USA) - and more than once they´ve played in front of a
full house.

Well, Edguy are a phenomenon and a very likeable, too.
Even though some folks do not like or even hate the
band for their exotic and sometimes extreme (both
funny and strange) public appearances: you can not
deny they brought a bright and colorful new
perspective into the old fashioned and often near
death metal scene. Success paves their way: with
powerful songs, a great portion of humor, a chaotic
but with no doubt charismatic frontman and a great
deal of freshness and glamour they leave other bands
far behind. And now they are back!

First reactions from the magazines and newspapers
confirm what you may have hoped, but not necessarily
may have exspected: they succeeded in topping their
last hit-record “Mandrake” in every account! This is
not just an empty phrase. You will hear that the new
material is much stronger and mature than anything
they have released so far. They got to the edges of
this type of music – without getting lost in alien
terrain. No matter if you listen to Edguy-typical
midtempo hmyns like King of fools, a heavy load like
Mysteria or a stakkato monster like under the moon
everything sounds unmistakeably like Edguy! Even the
Twisted Sister-like party song lavatory love machine
returns to an all Edguy song in its chorus and will be
cherished as the Edguy fun-hymn. Here you can see the
extraordinary virtuosity of the band. No work was too
hard, no price too high and so they hired the "German
film-orchestra Babelsberg for a couple of their songs,
which recorded music for bands like Rammstein”,
Scorpions or Celine Dion in the past besides
recording original movie scores.

You will get more value for money than ever before,
when on February 2nd Nuclear Blast will release the
five track EP King Of Fools including four all new
non-album tracks (and no second class material) – and
on March 15 they will release the all new album
Hellfire Club, which will prove why the Germans are on
their unstoppable way to the top and why fans carry
them on their hands. On one hand it´s all because they
never forgot where they came from, they never lost the
ground beneath their feet and they have always been
there for their fans. On the other hand it´s all
because they are one of the few bands of a new
generation, who play this sort of music for their
young fans with such an authenticity and on such a
high level that they saved this type of Metal in their
own way into the new millenium.


GROUP NEWS


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year of existence. The group is pleased to say
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