We’ve known this has been on the cards for a while now, but now it is official! A follow up to 2012’s ‘Ascending to Infinity’ has been announced by Luca Turilli’s incarnation of Rhapsody entitled ‘Prometheus, Symphonia Ignis Divinus‘.
The band announced the upcoming release on their Facebook page:
“The creators of CINEMATIC METAL are finally back with their most outstanding record: »Prometheus, Symphonia Ignis Divinus«, which is set to be released on June 19th (EU), June 22nd (UK), June 30th (US) by Nuclear Blast Records.
The album was composed and produced once again by Luca Turilli, responsible as always of all the orchestral and choral arrangements. It was recorded and mixed at the Backyard Studios of Sebastian Roeder (Bonfire a.o.) and mastered by Christoph Stickel (Michael Schenker’s TEMPLE OF ROCK a.o.) at MSM studios.
Seven months of composition, three months of production, over 50 days of mix, two choirs, several special guests, including Ralf Scheepers (PRIMAL FEAR), Dan Lucas (KARO) and David Readman (PINK CREAM 69). Including 70 minutes of epic music, sounding cinematic, bombastic and dramatic as never before, the new Luca Turilli’s RHAPSODY masterwork will lead the listener to an emotional and memorable journey between quantum gates, parallel dimensions, myths and legends hiding cosmic truths, ancestral secrets and spiritual revelations.
And this time it was not enough for the band to simply sound CINEMATIC. It came the time for RHAPSODY to finally “look” CINEMATIC too. Therefore, the new cover artwork and the album booklet, introducing the new cinematic graphic style of the band, were realized by the well-known amazing artist named Stefan “Heile” Heilemann (EPICA, LINDEMANN a.o.).”
So Rhapsody are back, bigger and better than ever! A hero of power metal, this is an album that has been eagerly anticipated since the acclaimed debut of Luca Turilli’s Rhapsody.
The band will release a new single to precede the June 30th release of the album called ‘Rosenkreuz (The Rose And The Cross)‘ on April 24th, which will not feature on then album oddly enough, but in typical Luca Turilli fashion it will surely serve as the most epic and dramatic precursor on what is to come in ‘Prometheus, Symphonia Ignis Divinus‘.
Get excited folks, this will surely be a big one!
See the tracklist and album art below:
01. Nova Genesis (Ad Splendorem Angeli Triumphantis)
02. Il Cigno Nero
03. Rosenkreuz (The Rose And The Cross)
04. Anahata
05. Il Tempo Degli Dei
06. One Ring To Rule Them All
07. Notturno
08. Prometheus
09. King Solomon And The 72 Names Of God
10. Yggdrasil
11. Of Michael The Archangel And Lucifer’s Fall Part II: Codex Nemesis
I. Codex Nemesis Alpha Omega
II. Symphonia Ignis Divinus (The Quantum Gate Revealed)
III. The Astral Convergence
IV. The Divine Fire Of The Archangel
V. Of Psyche And Archetypes (System Overloaded)
Digipak Bonus:
12. Thundersteel (Cinematic Version)
