{"id":96413,"date":"2022-10-25T00:00:24","date_gmt":"2022-10-24T23:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/?p=96413"},"modified":"2022-10-26T03:42:04","modified_gmt":"2022-10-26T02:42:04","slug":"news-elegant-weapons-sign-album-contract-with-nuclear-blast-records","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/news-elegant-weapons-sign-album-contract-with-nuclear-blast-records\/","title":{"rendered":"ELEGANT WEAPONS: Heavy Metal Supergroup Featuring Members Of JUDAS PRIEST, PANTERA And RAINBOW Sign Album Contract With Nuclear Blast Records (October 25th, 2022) | News @ Metal Forces Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"

ELEGANT WEAPONS: Heavy Metal Supergroup Featuring Members Of JUDAS PRIEST, PANTERA And RAINBOW Sign Album Contract With Nuclear Blast Records<\/strong><\/span>
\nOctober 25th, 2022<\/strong><\/span>
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\nInternational heavy metal supergroup Elegant Weapons have signed an album contract with Nuclear Blast Records, revealing this development on October 25th, 2022.<\/p>\n

Guitarist Richie Faulkner, also of Judas Priest, issued the following statement: \u201cIt\u2019s exciting to be part of a label like Nuclear Blast that has such a rich history and level of respect among fans and the music industry. Monte Conner (Nuclear Blast VP A&R) knows Andy Sneap well, and Andy has always held Monte and label in very high regard. Monte has loved the record from the very early demo stages. It\u2019s very valuable and important to me that the label I sign with understand and connect with the music. This record represents for me more of my DNA as a guitar player and a songwriter. Heavy, but moving slightly outside the realms of \u2018heavy metal\u2019. Those roots are obvious, but I wanted to reach in a bit and see what else came out that wasn\u2019t necessarily \u2018expected\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n

Monte Conner, Nuclear Blast Vice President of A&R, added the following: \u201cI am such a huge fan of all the players involved, especially Richie. As a diehard Priest fan, I have enjoyed watching him help breathe new life into the band and add to their incredible story and legacy. What an amazing player he is. People always focus on leads, and of course Richie is a master in that department, but I can listen to him play rhythm guitar all day long! His rhythm playing is just so tasteful and magical. I can\u2019t wait for fans to hear this album and discover how multi-faceted he is.\u201d<\/p>\n

Elegant Weapons\u2019 line-up is as follows:<\/p>\n

Ronnie Romero (vocals, Rainbow \/ Michael Schenker Group)
\nRichie Faulkner (Judas Priest, guitars)
\nRex Brown (bass, Pantera \/ Down)
\nScott Travis (drums, Judas Priest)<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve always wanted to make a record with Scott outside of Priest,\u201d shared Faulkner, who regards Elegant Weapons as featuring his \u201cdream line-up\u201d. \u201cAdd to that Rex Brown\u2019s unmistakable tone and attitude is something special. Having those guys as the rhythm section is a guitar players dream. The icing on the cake was Ronnie Romero. One of the new breed of instantly classic vocalists, Ronnie brought a character and a swagger to the songs that is instantly iconic, making these songs his own.\u201d<\/p>\n

Debut full-length studio album Horns For A Halo<\/em> will be issued in spring 2013 through Nuclear Blast Records, with production from Andy Sneap.<\/p>\n

Musically speaking, Faulker described Elegant Weapons as \u201ca mix of Jimi Hendrix, Priest, Sabbath, solo Ozzy and Black Label Society \u2013 heavy, catchy, and with melody. Sort of old school and modern at once if that makes any sense, and actually down-tuned a whole step. The Marshall Plexi basically does one thing, but you\u2019ve got to crank it to 11 for it to have that distorted sound. It hasn\u2019t got a lot of bells and whistles on it or different channels and effects. It basically does one thing and does it very well. But again down-tuning creates more of a modern sound, and by using the classic sound of the Marshall Plexi, you get that juxtaposition, that contrast. All told, there are a lot of guitar solos and the songs are on the heavier side. And even though there\u2019s a lot of melody, it\u2019s still going to shake your bones.\u201d<\/p>\n

Specific to the tracks, Faulkner explained that \u201cme and acoustic don\u2019t really get along, so there\u2019s only one mellow song on it, a sort of smoky, haunted, New Orleans kind of tune called \u2018Ghost Of You\u2019, with de-tuned 1920s piano on it. That one is about a memory, or ghost of a lost love. But that\u2019s about as acoustic as it gets. I\u2019m not really attracted to acoustic guitar in general. It\u2019s mainly kind of heavy and full-on, really. There\u2019s a song called \u2018White Horse\u2019, plus \u2018Horns For A Halo\u2019, which is like Tony Iommi crossed with Alice In Chains. That\u2019s about the way we justify the bad things we do. When we turn up on Judgement Day, will the angels kind of confuse our horns for halos, if you know what I mean.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

ELEGANT WEAPONS: Heavy Metal Supergroup Featuring Members Of JUDAS PRIEST, PANTERA And RAINBOW Sign Album Contract With Nuclear Blast Records October 25th, 2022 International heavy metal supergroup Elegant Weapons have signed an album contract with Nuclear Blast Records, revealing this development on October 25th, 2022. Guitarist Richie Faulkner, also of Judas Priest, issued the following […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5071],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-96413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elegant-weapons-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96413","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=96413"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96413\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":96414,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96413\/revisions\/96414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}