News 2012
14.12.2012: Even if you don't like Christmas songs...
Urban has posted a Swedish Christmas song on his website. You can download it for free in the resources section - if you like it, donations are welcome though.
You can also watch it on youtube here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SnjuWZA7bac
Even if you do not really like Christmas songs, you might check out this one, it is really beautiful. Completely different to anything Urban has released thus far, but it's just a relaxeing and calming melody.
Furthermore, in the last two months, we have gathered tons of reviews for Shades of Art here: http://www.urbanbreed.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1148. There is not a single bad one among them.
...Criss
26.10.2012:
Shades of Art out now!
The new Trail of Murder album Shades of Art is released in Europe today.
I read several reviews by now and there is not a single bad one. "Superb melodic power metal with great vocals" seems to be the consensus. You can find links to a load of reviews here: http://www.urbanbreed.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1148
In the past weeks Urban has been in Bulgaria to shoot two videos with Project Arcadia and also had his first gig with the band. Two videos of this gig can be found here: http://www.urbanbreed.com/forum/showthread.php?p=5796#post5796
During his stay in Sofia, Urban also gave an interesting interview to Rock Live BG revealing some details regarding Project Arcadia (obviously), Trail of Murder and Pyramaze. You can read the whole interview here: http://rocklivebg.com/web/latest-news-bg/3-interviews/1641-interview-with-urban-breed-from-project-arcadia-en
So, make sure to grab a copy of Shades of Art, it's really worth it!
...Criss
22.09.2012: Samples and Urban live with Project Arcadia!
The new Trail of Murder album Shades of Art will be released on 26th of October. If you want to get a glimpse of what to expect, check out the link below, it features short samples of every song. Enjoy!
http://www.nehrecords.com/SHOP/TrialShades.htm
Furthermore, Urban will play a gig with Project Arcadia on 20th October in Sofia. They will support Accept on their Stalingrad Tour. Venue is the UNIVERSIADA HALL in Sofia, Bulgaria. See also in the tour section.
...Criss
06.09.2012: Shades of Art released on October 26th!
The new Trail of Murder album "Shades of Art" will be released in Europe on October 26th, 2012! You can already pre-order it via amazon.de (and probably some other sources as well).
Have a first look at the album cover below - an amazing artwork of Urban!
The tracklist is also revealed now, check it out here: http://planetmosh.com/trail-of-murder-full-track-listing-and-artwork-for-shades-of-art/
So the long wait is almost over!
...Criss
01.09.2012:
A short update!
The new Trail of Murder album "Shades of Art" will be released this year. Most probably, yes really! The official release date will be announced soon I guess.
Furthermore, I updated a few things here and there.
By the way, I eventually found a demo version of a Tad Morose song called "A Lesser Evil" on youtube, a pretty cool song. Check it out here: TAD MOROSE - A Lesser Evil
...Criss
02.07.2012:
News Update!
Urban will be recording the vocals for second album of the Bulgarian band PROJECT ARCADIA. Check out the band on one of the links below, really good stuff and I guess Urban's voice will fit nicely.
http://www.facebook.com/projectarcadia
If Urban will become a new full-time member or just doing the vocals for the next album remains to be seen. From what I heard of this band I would hope the latter.
Here is Urban's official announcement (including some news about Pyramaze and Trail of Murder as well):
"I believe most of you are aware that I am working on the next Pyramaze album. This has been delayed and made more complicated than necessary by lots of different things including having to
make a bit of money, moving and just sheer pickiness on my part. Sorry guys... It will be worth the wait though.
More recent news (These are two very different beasts and I am quite interested in hearing the end results.): I am also tackling the next Project Arcadia album. I am starting that one off
with re-recording the vocals for the song "Shadows of the Night". After that it will be all new songs. Most of the lyrics are already written. (This is a good thing as that is something I like to
take my time doing otherwise;)
And regarding Trail of Murder: Shades of Art is one step closer to being released.
Yes, really."
...Criss
08.03.2012:
Pyramaze - Keys are done!
Jonah has announced he has finished his work for the new Pyramaze album. So we can hope to hear a sample some time in the not too distant future.
Some more news about this site: I did change the layout, hopefully for the better? Let me know what you think.
...Criss
PS: I incidentally deleted the original post before putting it here into the archive, so I had to recreate it from my memory. It's not 100% accurate, but the basic news are here again.