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| Sunday, May 9, 2010 - Pretty Maids - New Bass Player | Pretty Maids have announced their new bass player, Hal Patino (King Diamond). Hal Patino has been a friend of the band since the eighties, and is familiar with the sound, style and history of the band, and was therefore a natural choice to take the spot as the new bass player.
Hal Patino will play his first gig with Pretty Maids on Saturday the 8th of May in Aalborg (DK), and we welcome Hal onboard, and hope you all will give him a good reception on the upcoming Pandemonium tour.
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| Monday, March 8, 2010 - Pretty Maids studio report - March 2010 | The official Pretty Maids website has been updated with the following studio report:
As usual, there's always one song that sort of catapults the whole songwriting process into action. In this case it was the song now called " Cielo drive " that started the whole thing. It was written last summer (2009) during a rehearsal for some festival we were about to do, and as with the best songs it was more or less written within half an hour or so.
Up until then we barely hadn't written any new music since the Wake Up to the Real World sessions, nor had we any specific plans on doing a new album for that matter. But it sort of started something and during the autumn we negotiated a new deal with Frontiers Records.
Since the members of the band these days logistically are spread out all over Denmark, it makes it difficult to rehearse as we did in the old days on a regular basis. So we decided to hire some locations that we used on the WUTTRW sessions to speed up the process and get the album ready for a spring 2010 release.
So we teamed up altogether in the beginning of November for a three day rehearsal at what we call, "Camp rock" and sort of cooked up several ideas that through the process actually ended up as finished songs.
On through November and December we did another three of these "Camp Rock" gatherings and played whenever we felt like it and partied at the rest of the time (not exactly surprising to those who know us).
I guess that none of us actually believed that we would be ready to start recording in January since there was a lot to be written and it was really uphill. But never the less before New Years Eve, we had eight songs more or less ready to go. During the period of writing we also for the first time in 20 years had ourselves a permanent keyboard player since Morten Sandager, who'd been playing live with us since 2006 split with his former band Mercenary and became a full time member (of course not until he passed the examination of the mandatory drinking test, ha ha)
That of course means that all the songs this time was written with keyboard in mind and the fact that writing and playing with a keyboarder being physically there gave the songs a new and different dimension, compared to the way that we have worked in recent years.
Personally I think that a lot of the songs on Pandemonium have elements of the Future World/Red Hot and Heavy era. But then again some of the stuff is also pretty modern and up to date and above all really melodic. And the combination of all that has just turned out to be a real good album, which we all in the band are pretty proud of, the best we've done in many years.
So on January 11th, with eight songs under our belt, we entered The Hansen studios with producer Jacob Hansen with whom we were about to work with for the first time. We'd briefly met and didn't as such know much about each others way of working, but things went smooth from day one.
During the recordings we spent quite a lot of time trying to detune the individual songs to see how it worked and sounded, one song was in fact totally ripped apart and changed, for the better though. We also wrote a brand new song while being there since eight songs weren't enough. On top of that we've taken a left over track from the WUTTRW sessions (Beautiful Madness) and redone the vocals as well as added keyboards to it + one cover song (yet a secret, maybe a bonus track, but definitely not anything you expect from us, ha ha)
As I'm writing this little update we're still in the process of mixing the album, but so far we're really pleased with the sound of the first mixes. I think Jacob Hansen is doing a seriously fucking good job here, these songs really comes out of the speakers, right in your face.
All I've got left to say is that we all sincerely hope that you share our feelings about the new album and that you'll enjoy it as much as we enjoyed doing it.
The album Pandemonium will be released on frontiers Records on May 21 2010, and will include the following songs:
Pandemonium
I.N.V.U
Little drops of heaven
One World One Truth
Final Day of Innocence
It Comes at Night
Cielo Drive
Old Enough to Know
Breathless
Beautiful Madness
Ronnie Atkins
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| Monday, November 23, 2009 - Pretty Maids - Album News | News from Pretty Maids:
Just wanted to give you all an update on the new album. The tracks are coming together just fine, and it is the plan that recordings will start in January 2010, and we are all really exited about it.
The merchandise is also on the way (as it has been for a while), and we will have some really cool items for you very soon. The stuff will be both available here on the website as well as in the merch stands when we do live performances. Hopefully, everything will be in place when we play Amager Bio (København S, Denmark) on December 3rd.
Check out the official Pretty Maids website for more information on the band.
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| Wednesday, May 27, 2009 - News from Pretty Maids | Pretty Maids are currently negotiating new recording deals for Europe and Asia. The band intend to start recording new material in the autumn and a new album is set for release early spring 2010. We will continue to update you on the process as soon as there's anything new.
On Friday, May 29th Pretty Maids will make their first appearance in a string of summer dates on the Jelling Festival (DK). The keyboards for these dates will be handled by John Brandt who is standing in for Morten Sandager, who cannot take part in the summer gigs for various reasons. However Morten Sandager will return to the fold later this year.
The Pretty Maids' summer festival schedule is as follows:
May
29 - Jelling Festival - Jelling, Denmark
June
26 - ProgPower Festival Scandinavia - Copenhagen, Denmark
27 - Metalway Festival - Zaragoza, Spain
July
23 - Kongens Have - Odense, Denmark
24 - Headbanger's Open Air - Elmshorn, Germany
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| Wednesday, July 12, 2006 - Pretty Maids sign with Frontiers Records | Frontiers Records is excited to announce the signing of Danish Metal legends Pretty Maids for a multi-album deal which will start with the release in the fall of the band's brand new album "Wake Up to the Real World", the long awaited follow-up album to 2002's 'Planet Panic'.
In singer Ronnie Atkins' words: "The new record has all the trademarks a good Pretty Maids album should have, and that's the overall combination of good melodies and strong guitar riffs. But the key word, as far as I'm concerned, is it's gotta be melodic: whether it's the heavier and faster tracks or the more ballad/AOR-oriented kind of stuff; in other words 'good songs', and I think the album has got that!"
Songwriting-wise, the new Pretty Maids material "lean sa bit towards their early '80s roots with obvious similarities to 'Planet Panic' and updated and strong production," according to a press releasee. The new record will be the first release to feature former Royal Hunt and Kingdom Come drummer Allan Tschicaja, who replaced Michael Fast in April.
"Wake Up to the Real World" track listing:
01. Wake up to the real world
02. All in the Name of Love
03. I Am the End
04. As Guilty as You
05. Why Die for a Lie
06. Such a Rush
07. Where True Beauty Lies
08. Brave Young New Breed Terminal Violence
09. Perfect Strangers
10. Another Shot of Your Love
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| Tuesday, January 13, 2004 - Pretty Maids news | The re-constructed official Pretty Maids homepage is up and running, and it looks like some action is planned for this year.
A message from the site:
"Pretty Maids has recently started writing materiel for their next studio album which is set for release in the autumn 2004, followed by a fullscale tour. The band is expected to start recording their new album during the upcoming spring. More information will follow.
Pretty Maids is currently planning to do festivals in the summer of 2004, please check out " tourdates" where dates will be announced as they get confirmed.
Ken Hammer was struck by a bloodcloth in his heart on dec. the 6th. Though it is a serious matter Kenny is in good spirit and is currently on his way to full recovery and his normal day to day life
Pretty Maids wishes you all a happy new year."
Read more at www.prettymaids.com
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Album Review - Planet Panic
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Event - Live with Nice Try at Hollywood Hard Rock - Fredericia, December 17. 2004
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Event - Live at the Skanderborg Festival 2006
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Event - Live at Train - Aarhus Denmark, December 13th 2006
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Event - Live at Open Air Varde - July 27th, 2007
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Album Review - Pandemonium
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Album Review - Wake Up To The Real World
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