GOTTHARD - New Video Interview ...

GOTTHARD - New Video Interview Available





GOTTHARD bassist Marc Lynn and new vocalist Nic Maeder are featured in a new video interview with CrankItUp.se. Check it out below:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=P4tTQEdy2iU

On April 20th, Gotthard released the first single from their new
album, Firebirth. The single, 'Starlight' appears in two versions; a
rock and an acoustic variation. 'Starlight' is the virtual shooting star
of album song writing: the song was one of the first that the band
wrote together with Nic Maeder..


“The chemistry between us worked immediately”, says guitarist Leo
Leoni. “It is really unusual to be able to sit down together and
straightway write a song which is later the single.”



“Right from the first, we had a really laid-back atmosphere between
us,” agrees Nic Maeder. “It was therefore not hard to come up with good
ideas. It was really good fun from the start!”






The cover artwork and tracklisting were recently revealed for
Firebirth , due out June 1st by Nuclear Blast/Warner Music (in
Switzerland Musikvertrieb). A total of 13 songs will be on the CD, among
them one with the title 'Where Are You', which is dedicated to their
late singer Steve Lee.


The album – earthy, rocking and played with a great deal of
enjoyment – goes back to the old strengths of the band. “We have
remembered our roots and deliberately given the album the pure
straightforward Gotthard sound. Our goal was to concentrate on the most
important thing – the songs,” explained Leo Leoni, who produced the
album together with Paul Lani.


As well as in the regular CD, Firebirth will feature in a specially
presented limited edition. The album cover depicts the firebird Phoenix,
which symbolically rises “from the ashes to the sky” – this line
expresses what each Gotthard fan feels and underlines the turbulent time
that Gotthard has gone through in the past months.


It will be in Latin America that Gotthard experiences their baptism
of fire – the world tour starts there in May, before the band headlines
several important European festivals. The band starts the German live
premiere as co-headliner at the Bang Your Head festival in Balingen. An
important headline tour round the halls of Europe is already planned for
autumn.


Firebirth tracklist:


'Starlight'

'Give Me Real'

'Remember It’S Me'

'Fight'

'Yippie Aye Yay'

'Tell Me'

'Shine'

'The Story Is Over'

'Right On'

'S.O.S.'

'Take It All Back'

'I Can'

'Where Are You'