BRAINSTORM – Wall Of Skulls

Listening to the latest Brainstorm album ‘Wall Of Skulls’, you immediately realise how much the band surrounding vocalist Andy B. Franck has benefitted from the group’s impressive predecessor offering, ‘Midnight Ghost’ (2018). ‘Midnight Ghost’ was a musical turning point for the power metal act from southern Germany which saw the band members reach an even higher level of quality and broaden their artistic horizon even further. “When we released the recording, we immediately felt that we were holding probably the most important album in Brainstorm’s history in our hands,” explains Franck. “Sales figures as well as audience reactions during the subsequent tour confirmed that impression. Our fans celebrated the new material as enthusiastically as they did our classics.” And that’s precisely the point where ‘Wall Of Skulls’ picks up, taking Brainstorm’s musical concept even further. Franck talks of an “almost uncanny energy at the rehearsal room when we wrote the material. We’ve included more powerful and fast-paced numbers than ever before on this album. All that happened totally unintentionally and without a masterplan but in a completely natural way. We simply worked on the songs without compromises and never changed course once we’d embarked on a specific direction. So ‘Walls Of Skulls’ is definitely not ‘Midnight Ghost 2.0’, but another and very obvious step in the evolution of our music.”

Tracklist:

01 – Chamber Thirteen
02 – Where Ravens Fly
03 – Solitude
04 – Escape the Silence
05 – Turn of the light (feat. Seeb)
06 – Glory Disappears
07 – My Distopia
08 – End of innocence
09 – Stigmatized
10 – Holding On
11 – I, The Deceiver

Line-Up:

– Andy B. Franck – Vocals
– Torsten Ihlenfeld – Guitar
– Milan Loncaric – Guitar
– Antonio Ieva – Bass
– Dieter Bernert – Drums