LION’S SHARE, SMASH INTO PIECES & Mike Tramp

LION’S SHARE, SMASH INTO PIECES & Mike Tramp

Und ab geht die Post mit einem neuen News-Beitrag bei metal-heads.de! Als erste Band widmen wir uns den emsigen Schweden von LION’S SHARE. Wir hatten euch zuletzt hier einen Song vorgestellt. Aber die Kreativität der Herrschaften ist ungebrochen, daher haben wir heute mit „Infernal soul“ eine aktuelle Nummer parat. Ich finde, der Songs ist heavy und geht gut nach vorne. Klassische Trademarks und schon geht es rund. Hört mal rein und entscheidet selbst.

LION’S SHARE, SMASH INTO PIECES & Mike Tramp

Eine weitere Truppe aus dem skandinavischen Land, die sich ebenfalls hinsichtlich ihrer Aktivitäten nicht verstecken muss ist SMASH INTO PIECES (=SIP) oder neu kurz SMASH. Die Formation hat jetzt mit „Throne“ eine neue Single für uns am Start und ich finde das Lied gemessen am anderen Material der Band recht heavy. Was aber ja keineswegs schlecht ist. Was meint ihr? Hier kommt das Lyric-Video:

Zum Abschluss noch zu einem guten Bekannten. Mike Tramp, der Ex-Sänger von WHITE LION hat ja eine beachtliche Solo-Karriere hingelegt. Aber auch er kann uns noch überraschen. Das gelingt ihm jetzt mit der Tatsache, dass er sein neues Album komplett in seiner Heimatsprache eingesungen hat: in Dänisch! Klingt erst einmal etwas gewöhnungsbedürftig, aber sicher nicht schlecht. Hier bekommt ihr mal einen ersten Eindruck:

„For Første gang“ soll am 02.09.2022 erscheinen und 10 Songs enthalten. Das sagt Tramp selbst dazu: There was no plan to do it, not on paper not on a wish list, maybe just when someone asked. Will you ever do an album in Danish. I would answer yeah, maybe one day, not giving it more thought, until that day suddenly unexpected came around. One of my best friends who know all about my life and also happens to be the author of my biography “Vagabond”, Lars Daneskov. One day sent me the lyrics to one song.

For the first time…

I had never in my entire career sung other peoples lyrics or written music to lyrics, so this would now be the first time. As I read the lyrics, which was as close to something I would have written myself if I had been fluent and comfortable in my mother tongue. It opened a door to another room or another world I had never been in before. I was drawn to explore this journey which would for always be a For The First time, now also the title of the album. For it to be completely different and separate from anything I had ever done.

I started composing the music and the melodies exclusively on piano and it allowed me to go to musical places I had not been at before, as lyrics to song by song was sent to me. This album and journey had to stand on it’s on and not be compared, not even in the slightest form to what Mike Tramp had done before. I was not thinking about an audience, I wasn’t thinking about how it would end up.

I just followed something natural, almost a reservoir of things I had kept for this day, melodies and styles that would never had fitted my rock career, my rock’n’roll life. But this is as much Mike Tramp as White Lion, Freak Of Nature ever was. It might just be this one and only time I climb this mountain. The songs are about the place I come from, how I grew up and how the world was back then. It is my story, but unfortunately for my international fans. It can’t be translated to English and have the same meaning as when I sing the words of my mother or the sound of the streets I grew up on. With all that being said. I would still imagine some fans finding this album interesting, I personally considered some of my finest songwriting.