Out to Every Nation
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April 26, 2004 |
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| Label (s) | AFM Records | |||
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CD |
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Title (number) |
10 |
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running time |
47 min 31 s |
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Espen Mjøen |
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Studio (s) |
MediaMaker Studio, Skien |
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Out to Every Nation is the third solo album by Norwegian singer Jørn Lande , released under the name Jorn . It was released on April 26, 2004 via AFM Records and is stylistically assigned to the genres of hard rock and heavy metal .
Emergence
After two solo albums in 2000 and 2001 as well as various guest appearances in various studio projects ( Millennium , Beyond Twilight , Ark etc.), Jørn Lande was active with the band Masterplan from 2002 . Following the release of the band's self-titled debut album in January 2003 and long tours through Europe (January / February 2003), Japan (August 2003) and South America (November / December 2003) and festival appearances at well-known festivals such as Wacken Open Air , Bang Your Head , Graspop Metal Meeting or Sweden Rock , the band took a break in the first half of 2004, the land for production.
Compared to the previous solo album "Worldchanger", Lande recorded the album with other musicians. With guitarist Jørn Viggo Lofstad, keyboarder Ronny Tegner and drummer Stian Kristoffersen three members of the band Pagan's Mind took part, on bass a well-known musician was also involved in the recordings with Magnus Rosén from Hammerfall . Lofstad also contributed to the creation of the songs, while the lyrics were written by Lande alone. The recordings took place together with the sound engineer Espen Mjøen in the MediaMaker studio in Skien and, according to Jørn Lande, were much less lengthy than with the Masterplan album, which according to the singer's statements should have been due to the fact that the recording process at Masterplan “right from the start planned and analyzed to the end ”.
The album cover shows an edited photo of Jørn Lande, who is holding a Norwegian flag . According to Landes, the idea for the cover came from the label and he does not see the image as nationalistic .
Lande commented on the title of the album, the title sounds "very powerful". In addition, the success of Masterplan has increased interest in his music:
"This is how the title song came about: Here I am, my time has come!"
The album was released on April 26, 2004 on AFM Records , with which the album was released on the same label as the Masterplan debut. The album was released as a CD in a jewel case , with a "limited edition" with a music video for the song "Living with Wolves" being released as a multimedia track as a bonus. In addition to the European edition, there was also a Japanese edition on the Avalon / Marquee label , which was expanded to include the bonus track “Big”. Furthermore, pressings from France and the USA were published. The cover has been changed for the respective countries so that Jørn Lande now wears a tricolor , a stars and stripes or a sun disk instead of the Norwegian flag.
Before the album was released, an abridged version of the song "Young Forever" was released on various samplers. a. on the booklet CD "Dynamit Vol. 41" by Rock Hard . A label sampler was also released, which contained four songs each from Jorn's current albums and the bands Annihilator (“All for You”) and Perzonal War (“Faces”). From “Out to Every Nation” these were a shortened version ( snippet ) of “Young Forever” and the full version of the title song “Out to Every Nation” as well as other snippets from “Something Real” and “Living with Wolves”. The cover of this promo CD corresponds to that of the Annihilator album. The title track was also published on the Metal Hammer magazine “Off Road Tracks Vol. 79” sampler .
Track list
- Young Forever - 4:53
- Out to Every Nation - 4:22
- Something Real - 5:40
- Living With Wolves - 3:53
- Vision Eyes - 4:11
- One Day We Will Put Out the Sun - 6:25
- Behind the Clown - 4:15
- Rock Spirit - 4:36
- Through Day and Night - 4:43
- When Angel Wings Were White - 4:31
reception
In Rock Hard , “Out to Every Nation” was voted fifth place of the month in issue 204 in the Richter scale and received an average rating of 7.8 / 10 points from the eleven editors. In the individual review of the album, Frank Albrecht commented that the engagement with Masterplan brought Lande the "final international breakthrough", whereupon the singer offers "Bombast Metal at its best" with his solo album. Stylistically, the album was on the one hand brought close to the "main band" Masterplan, on the other hand it was also associated with Dio and Black Sabbath with the singer Tony Martin . The song "One Day We Will Put Out the Sun" was criticized, which was described as "a little tough".
The album was also rated positively on Powermetal.de . Björn Rackes commented that, as on the previous albums, Lande showed “what terrific vocal abilities he has with the album.” The diversity of the song material, with which “Lande always manages to reinvent himself”, was emphasized. Long-term effect of the material "guarantee. Finally, Rackes Lande called "one of the best singers of our time."
No live activities were undertaken by Jorn as a direct consequence of the album's release, as Lande was very soon involved again in the recording process for the second master plan album, "Aeronautics". It was not until 2006, after Jørn Landes left the band Masterplan, that performances could be made with solo material. During the performances, however, the follow-up album "The Duke", published at the time, was the focus, so that only the "Live in America" DVD of "Out to Every Nation" was recorded on the ProgPower USA Festival in Atlanta in September 2006 Title song is documented.
The 2007 AFM Records released best-of album "The Gathering" includes the songs "Something Real", "Young Forever" and "One Day We Will Put Out the Sun". For the compilation "Dukebox" published two years later, "Young Forever" and "Out to Every Nation" were re-recorded, and "Living With Wolves" is also included.
Others
"One Day We Will Put Out the Sun" uses a sample from an American sermon:
“We children, we children are born of sin. We are born of sin. That is why we must let the light of God, the light of God into our hearts, children. We are all children of God, but to the Lord we are sinners. We are sinners. We must let the light, let the love of God, the eternal love of God into our hearts. Or we will burn, burn in Hell. Burn in eternal damnation. "
This sample was also used in 2006 by the Slovenian band Laibach to background music for their interpretation of the US national anthem on the album “Volk”.
The chorus of the song "Rock Spirit" is an allusion to the band name Michael Learns to Rock .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Jenny Rönnebeck: "Locker vom Hocker", Interview with Jorn Lande, Rock Hard No. 205, pp. 58/59
- ↑ Annihilator / Perzonal War / Jorn - All For You on musik-sammler.de , accessed on July 3, 2010
- ↑ Frank Albrecht: Review of “Out to Every Nation” in Rock Hard No. 204
- ↑ Björn Rackes: Review of “Out to Every Nation” on powermetal.de , accessed on July 3, 2010