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RING OF FIRE "Burning Live Tokyo 2002 - CD"European Import : Frontiers Records - FRCD163 STOCK STATUS: IN STOCK - ships in 1 day |
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| Ring Of Fire's story begins
in the year 2000. Having completed a successful mini-tour of the
U.S., Asia and Oceania with Yngwie Malmsteen in late 1999 on the
heels of the 'Alchemy' album, vocalist Mark Boals set about creating
his second solo album, a collection of songs very neo-classical
in their nature. When deciding on a line-up for the album, Tony
MacAlpine came highly recommended and Tony in turn recommended Virgil
Donati (Planet X) on drums. The impressive line-up was completed
by classically-trained Artension keyboardist Vitalij Kuprij, with
Boals and MacAlpine splitting bass duties between them. Combining
melodic metal songs with fantasy-based lyrics, topped off with virtuoso
performances from the line-up, the resulting album "RING OF
FIRE" proved to be exactly what many neoclassical-metal fans
had waited for. While the majority of the music on the album was
created by Boals and MacAlpine, a highlight of the album was the
Kuprij/Boals collaboration 'Atlantis', a song that gave us a hint
of what some of ROF's future output. Despite having recorded another
album with Malmsteen (WAR TO END ALL WARS) just prior to the ROF
sessions, as fate would have it, Boals did not participate in Malmsteen's
initial "War" tour. Instead, Boals, Donati and Kuprij
agreed to make their project more ongoing, with the aim of taking
the band on the road. Tony MacAlpine was unable to commit at the
time but remained on good terms with the other musicians. With Shrapnel
Records shredder George Bellas filling the guitar spot, and ex Rising
Force bassist Barry Dunaway coming on board, RING OF FIRE the band
was born, being announced on November 16, 2000. The band commenced
work on their 'debut' album during the first few months of 2001,
though Dunaway's tenure was over before it began. He was replaced
by Steve Vai's bassist Philip Bynoe. With the line-up confirmed,
the band went about recording the album 'The Oracle': a melodic
metal tour de force, combining superb musicianship with imaginative
songwriting and progressive neo-classical concepts. While the band prepared for their February 2002 tour of Japan, it became clear that guitarist Bellas would not be able to satisfy the requirements of being in the band. With the tour looming, a quick call from Mark Boals was all it took to welcome back Tony MacAlpine, to the delight of both band and fans alike. On the last day of the Japanese tour, on February 21st 2002, the performance held at the Shibuya On Air East was faithfully recorded in sound and vision by an expert crew of 5 cameramen. The result is an unbelievably good live album which captures the superlative performances of 5 of the best musicians of the nowadays hard rock / heavy metal scene! |
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