{"id":46960,"date":"2017-01-13T00:00:28","date_gmt":"2017-01-13T00:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/?p=46960"},"modified":"2022-03-24T17:24:13","modified_gmt":"2022-03-24T17:24:13","slug":"news-victorius-release-fourth-studio-album-heart-of-the-phoenix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/news-victorius-release-fourth-studio-album-heart-of-the-phoenix\/","title":{"rendered":"VICTORIUS Release Fourth Studio Album \u2018Heart Of The Phoenix\u2019 (January 13th, 2017) | News @ Metal Forces Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"title2\"><strong>VICTORIUS Release Fourth Studio Album \u2018Heart Of The Phoenix\u2019<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: arial; font-size: 8pt\"><strong>January 13th, 2017<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-content\/themes\/metalforces\/images\/spacer.gif\" width=\"10\" border=\"0\"><br \/>\nLeipzig, Germany-based power metal band Victorius issued fourth full-length studio album <em>Heart Of The Phoenix<\/em> on January 13th, 2017 through Massacre Records.<\/p>\n<p>The album has been made available for streaming in its entirety through YouTube, and can be accessed below.<\/p>\n<p><em>Heart Of The Phoenix<\/em> was produced and mixed by Freedom Call guitarist Lars Rettkowitz, while mastering was handled by Mystic Prophecy frontman R.D. Liapakis.<\/p>\n<p>Cover artwork duties fell to Stan W. Decker.<\/p>\n<p>The track listing is as follows:<\/p>\n<div class=\"image floatedright\">\n<table width=\"100%\" align=\"center\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" border=\"0\">\n<tr valign=\"top\">\n<td><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-content\/themes\/metalforces\/images\/spacer.gif\" width=\"10\" border=\"0\"><\/td>\n<td>\n<div align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/victorius_heartofthephoenixnews.jpg\" height=\"250\" width=\"250\" border=\"0\"><\/p>\n<table width=\"100%\" align=\"center\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" border=\"0\">\n<tr valign=\"top\">\n<td>\n<div align=\"left\"><span class=\"smalltext\"><\/span><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<div align=\"right\"><span class=\"smalltext\"><\/span><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<p>01. \u2018Shadow Warriors\u2019<br \/>\n02. \u2018Hero\u2019<br \/>\n03. \u2018End Of The Rainbow\u2019<br \/>\n04. \u2018Die By My Sword\u2019<br \/>\n05. \u2018Sons Of Orion\u2019<br \/>\n06. \u2018Heart Of The Phoenix\u2019<br \/>\n07. \u2018Empire Of The Dragonking\u2019<br \/>\n08. \u2018Hammer Of Justice\u2019<br \/>\n09. \u2018Beyond The Iron Sky\u2019<br \/>\n10. \u2018Virus\u2019<br \/>\n11. \u2018A Million Lightyears\u2019<br \/>\n12. \u2018Flames Of Armageddon\u2019 (Japan \/ digipak bonus track)<\/p>\n<p>Victorius\u2019 line-up is as follows:<\/p>\n<p>David Ba\u00dfin (vocals)<br \/>\nDirk Scharsich (guitar)<br \/>\nFlorian Zack (guitar)<br \/>\nAndreas Dockhorn (bass)<br \/>\nFrank Koppe (drums)<\/p>\n<p>A music video was created for the track \u2018Hero\u2019, while an official lyric video was created for the song \u2018Empire Of The Dragonking\u2019. Both clips can be viewed below.<\/p>\n<p>Third studio record <em>Dreamchaser<\/em> was released in October 2014.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"625\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cyxW_sZCfRc\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"625\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HNkSSHhC0WM\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"625\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/F2JxM6swMcc\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VICTORIUS Release Fourth Studio Album \u2018Heart Of The Phoenix\u2019 January 13th, 2017 Leipzig, Germany-based power metal band Victorius issued fourth full-length studio album Heart Of The Phoenix on January 13th, 2017 through Massacre Records. The album has been made available for streaming in its entirety through YouTube, and can be accessed below. Heart Of The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3079],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-victorius-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46960"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46960\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93031,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46960\/revisions\/93031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}