{"id":62443,"date":"2017-11-24T00:00:11","date_gmt":"2017-11-24T00:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/?p=62443"},"modified":"2021-08-11T14:21:14","modified_gmt":"2021-08-11T13:21:14","slug":"news-houston-release-fifth-studio-album-iii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/news-houston-release-fifth-studio-album-iii\/","title":{"rendered":"HOUSTON Release Third Studio Album \u2018III\u2019 (November 24th, 2017) | News @ Metal Forces Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"title2\"><strong>HOUSTON Release Third Studio Album \u2018III\u2019<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: arial; font-size: 8pt\"><strong>November 24th, 2017<\/strong><\/span><\/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 decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/houston2017promophoto2news.jpg\" 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>Stockholm, Sweden-based AOR group Houston issued fifth full-length studio album <em>III<\/em> on November 24th, 2017 through Livewire \/ Cargo Records UK.<\/p>\n<p>The outing was recorded with producer Martin Karleg\u00e5rd.<\/p>\n<p>Vocalist Hank Erix commented: \u201cIt\u2019s been a very creative time with Martin, it\u2019s great to find a producer that brings out the best in you for every single take. Personally I\u2019ve never delivered such a vocal performance as on this album. I really found my sound and I have matured musically since our last album and especially since our debut in 2010. This is a new beginning for Houston.\u201d<\/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\/2017\/10\/houston_iiinews.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>The track listing is as follows:<\/p>\n<p>01. \u2018Cold As Ice\u2019<br \/>\n02. \u2018Everlasting\u2019<br \/>\n03. \u2018Dangerous Love\u2019<br \/>\n04. \u2018Lights Out\u2019<br \/>\n05. \u2018Amazing\u2019<br \/>\n06. \u2018To Be You\u2019<br \/>\n07. \u2018Glass Houses\u2019<br \/>\n08. \u2018Twelve-Step\u2019<br \/>\n09. \u2018Road To Ruin\u2019<br \/>\n10. \u2018Interstate Life\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Houston\u2019s line-up was as follows:<\/p>\n<p>Hank Erix (lead vocals)<br \/>\nCalle Hammar (guitars and backing vocals)<br \/>\nSoufian Ma&#8217;Aoui (bass)<br \/>\nOscar Lundstr\u00f6m (drums)<br \/>\nVictor Lundberg (keyboards and backing vocals)<\/p>\n<p>An official lyric video was created for the track \u2018Dangerous Love\u2019, which can be viewed below.<\/p>\n<p>Fourth studio record <em>Relaunch II<\/em> was released in September 2014 via Livewire \/ Cargo Records.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"625\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zNaxuH55qjY\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HOUSTON Release Third Studio Album \u2018III\u2019 November 24th, 2017 Stockholm, Sweden-based AOR group Houston issued fifth full-length studio album III on November 24th, 2017 through Livewire \/ Cargo Records UK. The outing was recorded with producer Martin Karleg\u00e5rd. Vocalist Hank Erix commented: \u201cIt\u2019s been a very creative time with Martin, it\u2019s great to find a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3706],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-houston-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62443","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=62443"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62443\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90393,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62443\/revisions\/90393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}