Developments
 

20 April 2010

Royal Hunt has signed a deal with Scarlet Records for the European release of its new album, "X". Release date – June 7th, 2010.


19 February 2010

A few words from André about RH´s new album: “It was my first time recording an “all-analogue” project – older instruments, mostly tube outboard, 2” tapes etc… even mixing down to an 1/2” tape machine was a challenge, but a very pleasant one J. There’s  certain magic over all that stuff and the way it affects your sound… the “warmth” of the final result is quite seductive. The best way to enjoy this album is – obviously - by listening to it on a vinyl, but even a CD (played on a decent system) will reveal the raw (and yet very sleek somehow) quality of this recording”.
 
On the songwriting process: “I’ve always been – and always will be – a fan of 70´s songwriting… a bit naïve but yet adventurous. For me it was a lot of fun working on songs with total disregard to contemporary schemes/formulas in rock music… quite a liberating experience, actually. Our set-up – back-to-basics instrumentally, with the limitation of having “only” 24 tracks to record to – forced us to dig deeper for the very essence of each song as well as pushing us to work much harder on arrangements and sounds… I couldn’t be more satisfied with the final result”.       

 
11 January 2010

Royal Hunt extended their contract with Marquee/Avalon Records in order to include their new studio album; set to be released on January 21st, 2010 throughout Japan and SE Asia.
 

04 January 2010

Royal Hunt have revealed the track listing for their 10th studio album, "X" , due later this year: Episode X (Arrival) – End of the Line – King for a Day – The Well – Army of Slaves – Shadowman – Back to Square One – Blood Red Stars – The Last Leaf – Falling Down – Episode X (Departure). All songs has been written and produced by André Andersen (see details on www.royalhunt.com)


17 September 2009

The band has been invited to play a one hour set at the biggest rock festival in Japan – Loud Park – on October 18th. The show will be filmed and broadcasted by one of Japanese national TV channels.


08 September 2009

Royal Hunt will be playing at ProgPower USA festival in Atlanta, GA on September 11th. Set list will be about 75 minutes long: The Mission – Never Give Up – River of Pain – The First Rock – Message to God – Tears of the Sun – Back to Square One (song from the upcoming album) - Far Away – Last Goodbye – Martial Arts – Epilogue. The entire show will be filmed for eventual later DVD release.


01 September 2009

Once again instrumentals “Martial Arts” and “Triumph” – due to extension of the existing licensing agreements - were certificated as “the most earning tunes in electronic games in Japan”.


14 August 2009

André has extended his 18-years long partnership with Warner/Chappell Publishing for a minimum of three more years.


08 April 2009

Royal Hunt are entering the very final stages of preproduction for their new – tenth since their debut in 1991 - studio album (the actual recordings will start by the end of this month). This time the band decided to revisit their roots and incorporate some of the musical values of the 70´s into their songwriting as well as – in order to reinforce that particular atmosphere - employing mostly “retro” means of production (recording in analogue format exclusively being one of them).  Music has been described as “an interesting mix of what’s been tagged as Classic Rock nowadays (established by Kansas, Genesis, ELP´s earlier works and Deep Purple, Uriah Heep´s classics from the same era) and Royal Hunt´s trademark composition/delivery”. The album is expected to be mixed/mastered sometime during this fall.


11 October 2008

André started writing new material for yet another RH album – this time promising “an unexpected but a rather pleasant turn” into some kind of a “retro” direction.


05 October 2008

Keyboard Magazine (Japan) featured an exclusive, 6 pages interview with André (who’s been voted Keyboard Player of the Year no less than three times by readers of Burrn Magazine and other various publications in Japan) covering his long lasting carrier as a member of Royal Hunt as well as a solo artist/producer, gear talk and some tips and tricks from his “playing techniques arsenal”.



12 August 2008

The band has just played the last (as for now) date of their tour (see tour diary on www.royalhunt.com) which – according to fans as well as the press - has been one of the most successful ones in Royal Hunt's history. Almost 2 hours long live set combined equal portions of both "Paradox" albums plus a bunch of all time classics from RH's large back catalogue.  

May 07 Greece, Athens/Gagarin 205
May 09 Greece, Thessaloniki/Milos Xilourgio
May 10 Romania, Bucharest/Club Fabrica
May 11 Bulgaria, Sofia/4km Party Center
May 12 Hungary, Budapest/A 38
May 13 Switzerland, Pratteln/Z7
May 14 Italy, Bologna/Nuovo Sottotetto
May 16 Belgium, Vosselaar/Biebob
May 17 Holland, Nieuw Vossemeer/Borstrock Rock Festival
May 18 Holland, Weert/De Bosuil
May 19 UK, London/Underworld
May 20 Spain, Barcelona/Sala La Nau
May 22 Poland, Warsaw/Progresja Music C
May 24 Russia, St. Petersburg/DK Lensoveta
May 25 Russia, Moscow/Apelsin Club
June 03 Japan, Tokyo/Shibuya O-East
June 04 Japan, Osaka/Shinsibashi Quattro
June 06 Sweden, Sölvesborg/Sweden Rock Festival
July 16 Denmark, Sønderborg/Mølleparken (w/Alice Cooper)
Aug.06 Denmark, Copenhagen/KB Hallen (w/Deep Purple)
Aug.10 Denmark, Odense/Arena Fyn (w/Deep Purple)

25 May 2008

"Gaishniki" (Road Patrol) TV serial - which Andre wrote and produced soundtrack for - reached No.1 on a "Viewers rating chart".

07 May 2008

Royal Hunt's World Tour starts today in Athens, Greece (see tour dates and tour diary on www.royalhunt.com) and will run in a more or less "non stop fashion" through Europe, Asia, Russia and Scandinavia until August 10th where the band will play their last show in Odense Arena, Denmark.

30 March 2008

Royal Hunt's entire back catalogue will be re-released this spring by Marquee/Avalon (Japan/SE Asia) and CD Maximum (Russia/CIS). All albums (Land of Broken Hearts, Clown in the Mirror, Moving Target, 1996, Paradox, Closing the Chapter, Fear, The Mission, Eyewitness, Paper Blood) has been re-mastered by André Andersen and Jan Eliasson at Audio Planet Mastering and completed with bonus tracks (except for live albums).

 
2 March 2008

André’s been working for a while on a new project (yep, no rest for the wicked!) and this time it’s a prime time movie thing for the TV channel “Rossia” – a 7 episodes police thriller “Gaishniki” – “Road Patrol” (produced by Yuri Volodarsky/AFL Productions). The amount of music in this piece is downright astonishing – check it out (should be aired sometime in May) and find some very familiar “licks” here and there :-)

24 February 2008

Royal Hunt's new album "Collision Course - Paradox II" has been released by:
Frontiers Records (Europe), Magna Carta (N.America), Marquee/Avalon (Japan and SE Asia), CD Maximum (Russia and C.I.S).
Track list: Principles of Paradox, The First Rock, Exit Wound, Divide and Reign, High Noon at the Battlefield, The Clan, Blood In Blood Out, Tears of the Sun, Hostile Breed, Chaos A.C.
The album has been recorded at André's NorthPoint Studio and mixed at Medley/EMI, Denmark (see studio diary at www.royalhunt.com).

21 January 2008

It’s been a while since the last update but… albums don’t make themselves (unfortunately) – especially Royal Hunt albums - and this new one’s been quite a challenge.
“As I started writing songs I realized pretty quickly that this album is going to be rather “large scale” sounding… for whatever reason. After a bit of soul searching I figured out that it reminded me quite a bit about “Paradox” - our, probably, most “epic” creation from 1997. Alright, I wrote the continuation of the lyrical concept, added some bits and pieces from the prequel and… well, it took me 5 to 6 months to write it all and another 6 months to record; our most elaborate album to date, no comparison (add to that a few songs which I wrote/produced – in between RH sessions - for other artists and you’ll see that I’ve been having a ball with quite a work load this year :-).
To say that I’m happy with the result is a huge understatement - it’s a really nice piece of music which everybody in the band can be proud of”.
 

20 March 2007

The “mini tour” is over – the band managed to make it everywhere by planes´n trains regardless of a snowstorm, which partially paralyzed Kastrup (Copenhagen airport). “It’s been a hard one” – André smiles – “as the schedule has been pretty tight. On a blitz tour like this you can’t sit and relax for a while after the show – there’s another plane to catch in a few hours, so you better pack your stuff and start running. But the reactions we’ve been getting from fans make it all worth while – you’re on stage, watching those smiling faces all around, feeling their appreciation … It’s the best gift a musician can get – watching people enjoying his work : immediately, live, face to face. So I’d like to say thank you to all of you who made it to the shows, who made me feel so welcome … You are the reason why I keep on making music, so don’t go away – there’s a lot more of it coming your way this year!”


20 January 2007

Royal Hunt will be playing the following dates:

Feb 21 (FIN) Helsinki/Nosturi
Feb 22 (DK) Copenhagen/The Rock
Feb 24 (RUS) St.Petersburg/Ice Palace
Feb 24 (RUS) St.Petersburg/Club Roks
Feb 25 (RUS) Moscow/Club Apelsin


14 November 2006

André has extended his 15-year partnership with Warner/Chappell Publishing for a minimum of four more years.
 

21 October 2006

“Royal Hunt 2006” DVD/CD will be released from November 22nd 2006 by following companies : Marquee/Avalon (Japan and SE Asia), Frontiers (Europe) and Soyuz (Russia).
 

  

 

19 October 2006

The DVD from below mentioned show was edited at “Illusion Films” in St. Petersburg (yes, André spend a couple of weeks in this beautiful city, working along with stuff producer Michail Slavsky, who filmed the show in the first place). “We were lucky to have some cool guys to operate those cameras the show was filmed by” – André states – “ which helps you a lot to create an energetic atmosphere on the screen... No dead angels or unusable shaky segments – 99% of what they filmed were up to the standard. The show is quite long – two hours – so you need a lot of “travelling” across the stage to keep it interesting for the viewer... and not to forget a lot of “close ups” which, as I was told, fans love so much :-). As far as quality goes – the show was filmed in “high definition”, so we setteled for a “double layer DVD” format, which gives you an uncompromised/uncompressed picture/sound all the way... A tad more expensive but really worth it.” And now to the set-list : Paper Blood – Time – The Mission – Never Give Up – Can´t Let Go – Last Goodbye – Follow Me – Cold City Lights – Martial Arts – Surrender – Running Wild – Far Away – Lies – Wasted Time – Message To God – Epilogue. On top of that you´ll see a 20+ minutes of “behind the scenes” extravaganza with comments from every member of the band.


01 October 2006

André spend about a month in his studio mixing Royal Hunts new double live album : “Actually, the show mixed more or less itself... My job was – mainly – to clean up eventual noises and other unwanted artifacts from the tracks, give each instrument its own “space” and try not to overdo the “fader dance” (in order to preserve the original dynamics of the show). I must say that guys in the band made the mixing process extremely easy for me – performances are stellar from each and everyone (special thanks to Pontus Norgren – our FOH guy – for capturing our “wall of sound” so clearly on tape)”. Mastering duties were handled by Jan Eliasson at Audio Planet while cover art were supplied by Christina Laugesen. The album – titled “Royal Hunt 2006” is due to release in November 2006 (more info on DVD will follow).

12 February 2006

"3" will be released March 24 2006 by Frontiers Records worldwide (except Japan -  Marquee / Avalon).

06 December 2005

Another pachinko game featuring Andre´s music will be released by CoMix Wave (Japan) in August 2006. This time the company picked a true classic – Martial Arts, an instrumental piece which sold over 100000 copies as a single and has been used in almost every live-set of Royal Hunt.

25 November 2005

“3” – that´s the name which will be on the cover of the upcoming album featuring André (keyboards, guitar, bass), David Readman (vocal) and Paul Laine (vocal), not to forget the troopers who´s pulled the weight along with them : Kenny Lubcke (backing vocals), Bjarke Hopen (solo guitar) and Kaj Laege (drums). Here´s the track list for you : Rise – Dust To Dust – The Way It Goes – Straight To The Heart – Tell Me Your Lies – Don´t Need A Thing – End Of My Rope – Scared To Live – Bulletproof – Learning To Fly. We´ll let you know about release dates – stay tuned!

04 November 2005

After playing a string of European dates RH picked the historic stage of Sct.Petersburgs Music Hall to film their new “live in concert” DVD on. A beautiful old theatre and some 1000+ enthusiastic fans created great atmosphere for this event, which lasted about 2 hours (the band played a wide selection of songs from all of their releases since 1991 and some tracks from the latest one – Paper Blood) and was captured by 6 cameras. Estimated release date is spring of 2006.

29 August 2005

Pre-production for the upcoming RH tour started today – the guys got together in the rehersal studio in Copenhagen, where they´ll spend almost a month working on – according to André - “the best live-set we´ve ever put together”.

22 July 2005

David Readman (Pink Cream 69) was chosen as a second vocalist for the below mentioned project and he has already recorded his tracks for 5 of the new songs which will be mixed/mastered very shortly.

18 June 2005

ArtMusicGroup invited André for a short promo visit to Moscow, Russia to talk with the press about RH´s new release – Paper Blood. A meet-and-greet party for the fans will be arranged in one of the biggest CD stores in the city - “Sojuz” - on the 25th of June.

 

07 May 2005

André is back in the studio to continue working on  a project for Frontiers Records, which started to take shape last year. Five songs were already recorded in the fall of 2004 (featuring Canadian singer Paul Laine), so another bunch of tunes should be written in a couple of weeks.

27 April 2005

CoMix Wave (Japan) will be releasing their new pachinko game (pachinko is like combination of a pinball game and a slot game) named “CR Keiji Muto”. The company signed an agreement with Warner Chappell Publishing which will secure them the rights to include Andre´s instrumental tune – Triumf – as a part of the soundtrack for the game.

18 April 2005

Recording  of RH´s new album – Paper Blood – is over. The process which took almost a year of studio time, countless miles of international flights, gallons of sweat – blood´n tears and even more gallons of Jack Daniels is, finally, in the past. During some “pre-“ listening parties (and the band/management held quite a few in the last couple of weeks) the reaction from journalists and some – very fortunate – fans was overwhelming : everybody agreed that this is the most energetic, inspiring RH release ever! For more info check out www.royalhunt.com

21 February 2005

Light are still on ´til way pass midnight in the studio. “Well, everybody´s working pretty hard these days” – says obviously tired but excited producer – “it´s still hard to grasp how much enthusiasm´s going down those tracks. John and Marcus (new guitarist) are really up to make it our strongest release ever, so we´re pushing the envelope every single day. They also noticed that I´ve been stepping back a little on my “soloist side” on our latest albums, so on this one I´m just about everywhere... It will be a blast to play some of this stuff live on stage!”

07 December 2004

Some of the basic tracks for RH`s new – yet untitled – album are done. We asked  Andre, while he was toying with his keyboard parts, if he did anything special/different this time around, as we noticed that his sound changed a bit since his last work with the band :

“Yes, this time I went for a more “organic” sound, or should I say “less synthesized”. Hammond, piano and my old trusty “Beast” became my main axes for this album, pushing all other synths/samplers out of the picture. This time it`s about playing – production got stripped down a couple of notches, but no sacrifices were made in “wow” department – this thing still sounds huge... just more muscular and focused”.


 


23 October 2004

Andre will be appearing again as a “guest soloist” on the second release from Scandinavian rockers Evil Masquerade (www.evilmasquerade.com), delivering his signature flashy – yet – melodic style lead break on one of the songs.

12 September 2004

 It`s Royal Hunt time! Andre told us that he was working on a collection of songs for a future RH release for almost half a year : “I started writing material sometime around X-mas 2003. It`s been very productive period of time – no pressure from the record company at all... kind of unusual situation for me. The music  became more focused, tempos got picked up quiet a bit and some of my “trademark” stuff – which was pushed back just a tad on the previous album – came out forward much stronger.
In a way it`s a new era for the band, so I`ll put an extra efford to make it a great one”.
23 May 2004

Andersen/Laine collaboration is taking shape – both musicians are pretty busy with recordings. Judging by a few – unpolished yet – songs we`ve heard so far, the musical direction is waving from modern rock to traditional AOR/Hard Rock in a very effordless fashion, showing different aspects of each individual performer. Fans of both artists will be most definately pleased.
11 March 2004

New project`s on the way – Andre teamed up with Canadian singer Paul Laine (Danger Danger, Shogaazer). The outcome expected to be a bunch of highly melodic and rather rockin` songs. Frontiers Records initialized the project and will be handling distribution worldwide.

 

19 January 2004

Art Music Group released “OceanView” in Russia.
 
28 September 2003

"OceanView" - Andre`s first contemporary classical piano album - will be released in Japan and Australia on November 11, 2003 by Wood Bell Corp.
 
17 August 2003

The HQ of Andre`s operations - North Point Studio - will be relocated soon. Moving to the more suitable surraundings were long overdue, and from the beginning of October 2003 the place will see an addition of a new office for the North Point Productions - a company, which will be in charge of all Andre`s activities outside Royal Hunt.
 

21 July 2003

Another particular destination of the promo tour - Moscow, Russia. Andre spend a couple of days there, talkin to journalists and meeting the fans on the sighning session organized by RH`s new label in Russia - Art Music Group. Possibilities of establishing a couple of "master class" keyboard clinics - sometime next year - were discussed with the local KORG distributers.
 

10 May 2003

From 08 June 2003 to 14 June 2003 Andre will be Japan to promote RH`s new release - "Eyewitness". Lots of interviews, radio/TV appearances and performances/clinics are already lined up. Also, on request from M&I Promotions (Japan), he`ll be participating in editing of RH`s new video clip for one of the tracks from "Eyewitness".

05 May 2003

Royal Hunt will be playing on both "Gods Of AOR" festivals - 25 May 2003 in Bradford, UK and 27 May 2003 in Rom, Italy.
For details go to www.royalhunt.com

02 May 2003

While "Eyewitness" is on its way to the different record companies around the world (look for details on www.royalhunt.com), we asked Andre to comment on this new release : "I think it is a very diverse album - being a concept, build on the idea of "Headline News - like - thing", so I had an opportunity to mix and match different musical styles - from acoustic to jazz to gospel to neoclassical to progressive to nurock - to fit the issue of each song. At the same time it was a challenge to make them still sound like RH - with all those elements which our fans are expecting from us. The result is great - a lot of emotional ups and downs, plenty of musical variety, some nice - some weird - flow changes here and there, great musicianship from everybody involved... well, we`ll see how the reaction will be".



28 January 2003

The songwriting process of the new Royal Hunt album - working title "Eyewitness" - is almost completed. The actual recording will start at 10 Feb 2003 and will be carried on in three studios in Copenhagen : Media Sound, EMI/Medley and Mirand Studio. We got hold on some of the titles : Edge Of The World, The Prayer, Can`t Let Go and 5th Element.
 
3 December 2002

"Battle City" - title of the album which Wood Bell Corp. released today. "Martial Arts 2002" - now renamed as "Hard Crash" - is the first track on the album

 

8 November 2002

"Martial Arts 2002" was mixed succesfully last week and now the master tape is on the way to the future production/distribution in Japan. The original tune became 4 min.3o sec long, featuring a brand new, atmospheric kind of intro and an extended keyboard solo - flashy, yet melodic - in the middle part of the song, not to mention a vast amount of rearrangements down the line.
We`ll let you know the format in which the song will be published, as well as the actual date of it`s release.


18 September 2002

After several requests from Wood Bell Corp., Andre agreed to produce yet another instrumental track for the company. Wood Bell`s choice of the producer is understandable, considering the success of Andre`s two previous works for this organisation - "Crash" and "Triumph". The about 4 minute long song - working title is "Martial Arts 2002" - will be used as a theme melody by the Wrestling Federation of Japan and expected to be released as a single / EP of some sort in the near future. The actual recording will start in the end of october.
21 August 2002

Through the last couple of weeks Andre`s been working on some new material for the next Royal Hunt album. "Nothing is final at this stage" - he states - "just some very rough ideas, which I`m trying to organize in some sort of order - just to see if it will make any sense. The basic feel of it is very diverse - crossing over genres and styles while still maintaining that typical Royal Hunt vibe. It will take me another 4 - 5 weeks to figure out some kind of a structure for the album - until than it`s all fun and experiments". The album is expected to be released in the late spring 2003, so there should be enough time to toy around with ideas.

 

17 July 2002

Mixing of the "OceanView" has been completed at Medley/EMI Studio. After several hours of careful listening, Lars Overgaard (engineer) and Andre created a very intimate yet powerful sound, which compliments compositions and the actual playing perfectly. It creates an illusion of you being right there, close to the players and their instruments in a rather large - but not intimidating - comfortably sounding room. 
Majestic Ent.Inc. (management) and Warner Chappell (publishers) will receive their copies in a couple of days, so they can secure the album release through one of the record labels in the near future. 


Lars Overgaard (Medley/EMI Studio)

 

02 July 2002

The actual recording of Andre's contemporary classical, piano album "OceanView" took 5 days. The sound of the grand piano played in a "movie theatre-converted-into-recording studio" were captured on tape by Lars Overgaard (Andre's all time favorite engineer) during the first 3 days, while the last 2 days were used to work with the guest musicians : Soma Allpas - cello, Eva Vasarhelyi - violin and Rene Rieland - acoustic guitar. The final track list is :

Horizons - Martial Arts - The Autumn Song (feat.cello) - OceanView - Heather Waltz - Latin Affair (feat.guitar) - Third Stage - Arabesque - Hourglass/Time Will Tell (feat.violin) - Moving Pictures - 1000 Miles Away.

This is probably the most beautiful album Andre's ever made - true classical but innovative at the same time. This kind of music, while clearly appealing to the "real classical listener", could possibly grab the attention of a dedicated "rock fan" of Andre's - excellent melodies, ever changing structures and an over-all sans of high quality - in his piano playing, composing skills, production…An unexpected, but a very welcomed project, showing Andersen's diversity - again.



18 June 2002

"Black On Black" - Andre's second solo album - has been released today in Europe through FRONTIERS RECORDS.

09 June 2002

The Royal Hunt's tour is over - after 30+ shows the band performed in front of ca. 50 000 people, traveled through Europe to Japan, Korea to Russia and than some - time to rest? No, it's time to go back to this piano album. Some bits have to be re-written, some guest musicians had to be called to, rehearsals to be planned and studios to be booked. Who needs rest, anyway ?

23 May 2002

Andre's second solo album - "Black On Black" - has been released in Japan today through MARQUEE Inc.

04 May 2002

An unexpected thing happened - keyboard player of PRETTY MAIDS (the band which ROYAL HUNT shared some dates of the tour with - check them out on the www.prettymaids.com ) had to leave for a short period of time, so Andre was asked to join PRETTY MAIDS for 4 shows in order to keep them on tour. ANDRE : "It was nerve wracking. I was learning their entire 1,5 hour set on the tour bus, just listening to their songs on my Discman - trying to remember the most of it and writing down notes. Doing soundcheck with PRETTY MAIDS, quickly smoking a cigarette, than soudcheck with ROYAL HUNT, back on the bus to listen to their songs a bit more, grab a sandwich, do a show with ROYAL HUNT, run backstage, have a drink, run back on stage and do a show with PRETTY MAIDS. I tell you, by midnight, then it was all over, I was on the bus sleeping like a baby while both bands were partying to 4 o'clock in the morning. But MAIDS are really nice guys, so it was a pleasure doing that - even if it was a bit hectic at times".

23 March 2002

IMPERIAL RECORDS (Japan) announced that they'll release Royal Hunt's Greatest Hits album by the time the band will hit Japan in the middle of May, during their "On The Mission 2002" World Tour.

20 March 2002

This tour will bring ROYAL HUNT to most of Europe, Korea, Japan and Russia - (see tour dates on www.royalhunt.com). There will be 12 dates together with another Danish band - PRETTY MAIDS. The rest - about 20 shows - will be headlined by ROYAL HUNT (incl. festivals in France and Korea). What about this gig in Russia, Andre? "Well, I have mixed feelings about that" - he smiles - "the fans are great, but the general organization in the promoters camp leaves much to be desired. It's an extremely tough job to make it all work over there".

11 February 2002

ROYAL HUNT started the pre-productions for their upcoming "On The Mission 2002"-world tour. Set list is quite long as the show will run for about 1h 45min and everybody - musicians and crew - look very exited while trying out songs, discussing the running order of the show and setting up lights. Andre's keyboard set-up became as follows : Roland D-50, Hammond XB2, Alesis Q6, Korg N10EX, Yamaha TG500, E-mu Proteus and E-mu FX. "It's very flexible"- he states - "so I can make my rig smaller or bigger, depends on the way we'll travel and the territories we'll travel to".

23 January 2002

We got hold on some of the titles from Andre's "piano-album-in-the-works" - Heather Waltz, Moving Pictures and Hourglass. The work is still in progress and, if you can judge by the bits we've heard so far, sounds really like classical music - rich, beautiful and passionate.

16 December 2001

ROYAL HUNT's latest album - "The Watchers" - will be released in a few days through IMPERIAL RECORDS (Japan), PONY CANYON (Korea), FRONTIERS (Europe) and CENTURY MEDIA (USA). The album was produced by Andre in his NORTH POINT STUDIO and includes some new tracks as well as some live recordings from ROYAL HUNT's previous tour (details on www.royalhunt.com).

By the way - happy birthday, Andre!

02 November 2001

Only a couple weeks after the last "Black On Black" session, Andre has been seen in the studio again! Here's what he had to say about it :
"I've always had a dream to record a pure piano album, but never had the time to do that. Now I have a couple of months off (until the next ROYAL HUNT tour - spring 2002) to sit down in front of the piano and work quietly - no drums, no loud guitars, no singers - something completely opposite to "Black On Black". I've had some compositions in my head for a while - just bits and pieces, you know - so let's see how it all will turn out".

15 October 2001

The last day of mixing Andre's second solo album - "Black On Black" - on the very private premises of the legendary SUN STUDIOS. This album turned out to be a very guitar driven, no-thrills rock affair with it's roots in the 70's tradition, but produced and executed by very current standards. Andre states : "This album is much darker and heavier than anything else I've ever recorded. Relatively simple guitar riffs, powerful singing by Ian (Parry) and some good melodies - that's the primary aspect of this piece. The lyrics are very personal, kinda describing some of the situations I've experienced or observed lately - a lot different from my last concept album with ROYAL HUNT, where the sci-fi story got put into some kind of a high-tech/sample driven environment with lots of progressive, complicated musical parts. "Black On Black" just rocks - end of story". 


Jan Elliason (Tocano Mastering)