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| Wednesday, February 3, 2010 - Shadow Gallery Video For 'Gold Dust' Online | News from Shadow Gallery:
American progressive metal giants Shadow Gallery are premiering their new video for "Gold Dust" (in its radio edit version) today on the InsideOut Music Youtube channel.
The song comes from their new album Digital Ghosts, released October 26th, 2009 via InsideOutMusic in Europe, which features the line-up of Brendt Allman, Carl Cadden-James, Gary Wehrkamp, Joe Nevolo and new addition Brian Ashland. The album shows the group focuse their powerful energies on creating a seamless blend of progressive, metal, and symphonic rock. The clip includes both live and location footage and features a cameo by Will Smith Sr. father of movie actor Will Smith. The video, which was filmed by Rick Berk and directed by Shadow Gallery bassist Carl Cadden-James, marked an ambitious step into exciting uncharted waters for the band and can be viewed here.
"We are very excited about having done this and are genuinely pleased with the results. We were surrounded by extremely talented people during production and had a blast doing it", states Cadden-James. "The song 'Gold Dust' was the perfect vehicle for our first video and I think it's nice to be able to introduce Brian as a vocalist visually beyond his vocal performance on the CD".
The lyrical story is played out by model Heather Anthony and displays a very human side of the band that explores the emotional complexities of both desire and heartache and should resonate with almost anyone who has ever loved. Shadow Gallery has transitioned very comfortably from just an aural experience to the visual artistic expression that their music is so well suited.
This news comes on top of their announcement that Shadow Gallery will be performing live in concert on the 2010 Triton Power Cruise. It will be the first live performance for the band, where they will join the stage with Evergrey, Jon Oliva's Pain and many more from April 30th - May 3rd, 2010. You can check out more information on the cruise here.
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| Tuesday, October 13, 2009 - Shadow Gallery - New song online | Shadow Gallery have posted the new song "Gold Dust" on their official MySpace.
Shadow Gallery's Brendt Allman comments the song as follows: "'Gold Dust' is one of the first songs that I started writing for this new record. I just loved the D/ B flat/ E progression used in the chorus, then I just built the other parts around that. I knew that it could be a strong chorus and it turned out to be one of the best on the record. I particularly love the simplicity of the chord changes in the second half of the song, riding one note on the guitar in machine gun fashion while having pretty chord changes over the top of it. I love the fact that there are 4 lead vocalists on that section as well."
Next to the regular CD and Digital Download version of Digital Ghosts, which introduces new lead singer Brian Ashland, there will also be a very special limited edition digipak released in Europe with expanded and slightly modified artwork as well as 4 special bonus tracks *:
'With Honor'
'Venom'
'Pain'
'Gold Dust'
'Strong'
'Digital Ghost'
'Haunted'
'Two Shadows' *
'Gold Dust' (Demo) *
'In Your Window' *
'World Of Fantasy' (Demo) *
'Two Shadows' is a partly upgraded version of the Japan bonus track from the previous album Room V, featuring vocals by former vocalist Mike Baker, who tragically passed away in October 2008. 'Gold Dust' (Demo) features vocals by Carl-Cadden James, 'In Your Window' is an acapella version of vocal harmonies of the album song 'Digital Ghost' and 'World Of Fantasy' (Demo) is a non-album song, also featuring vocals by Mike Baker.
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| Wednesday, April 22, 2009 - Gary Wehrkamp in new project called Roswell Six | News from Shadow Gallery:
Shadow Gallery's Gary Wehrkamp is part of a new project called Roswell Six and the album is "Terra Incognita: Beyond The Horizon". This album is an exciting collaboration of music and book working with bestselling scifi/fantasy author Kevin J. Anderson, who penned the lyrics with wife and best selling author Rebecca Moestra. Gary played rhythm and lead guitar tracks on 8 songs.
Other performers include: keyboardist/composer Erik Norlander (ROCKET SCIENTISTS/SOLO), vocalists James LaBrie (DREAM THEATER), Lana Lana, Michael Saddler (ex-SAGA) and John Payne (ASIA featuring John Payne). Among the accomplished musicians contributing their talents to the project are David Ragsdale (KANSAS), Gary Wehrkamp (Shadow Gallery), Bassist Kurt Barabas (who played with Gary on AMARANS PLIGHT's 'voice in the light'), Chris Quirarte (Prymary),Chris Brown (Ghost Circus), and Mike Alvarez. Together, the creative team has sold over 40 million copies worldwide. You can check out the MySpace page and hear 4 full tracks, which Gary is part of, you can also get some pretty special limited items and pre-sale pricing and hear 60 second samples of each song at ProgRock Records we'll be shipping at the end of this week ( April 24th, 2009 ) and that's when pre-sale pricing will end. Hope you enjoy it.
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| Saturday, November 1, 2008 - Shadow Gallery vocalist passes away | Shadow Gallery have posted the following sad news on their website:
It is with deep sadness and regret that we announce the passing of Shadow Gallery vocalist, Michael A. Baker. Mike suffered a heart attack, Wednesday afternoon, October 29th, 2008. He was 45 years old. Mike was a founding member of Shadow Gallery and for the past 16 years, helped shape the sound of the band with his magical voice. Additionally, he made many appearances on rock records around the world. Those who knew him best were moved by his gentle spirit, sincere kindness, fun nature and passion for both music and sports. He was a warrior in the studio, a true professional. Mike was our friend, our singer and our brother. We loved him and will miss him enormously, but he will always be remembered in our hearts and through his music.
At this time we are setting up a condolence book on the Shadow Gallery Band website that you will be able to leave a message.
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| Monday, April 25, 2005 - Shadow Gallery news | News from Shadow Gallery:
Laura Jaeger returns again to sing on 2 songs for the new release, Room V. Arjen Anthony Lucassen will be performing a solo on one of the tracks and new performer, Joe Stone will be performing a solo on another track. Also appearing will be Libby Molnar. The bonus disk for the European release will also have performances by Jim Roberti and Mark Zonder along with Arjen Anthony Lucassen.
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| Monday, April 18, 2005 - Shadow Gallery trailer online | The first promotional trailer for the highly anticipated new Shadow Gallery album "ROOM V" is here! The trailer is available in Quick Time format as an 8.67 MB version and a 17.4 MB version.
Here is the full tracklisting for the album:
ACT III
Manhunt
Comfort Me
The Andromeda Strain
Vow
Birth of a Daughter
Death of a Mother
Lamentia
ACT IV
Seven Years
Dark
Torn
The Archer of Ben Salem
Encrypted
Room V
Rain
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| Monday, November 29, 2004 - Shadow Gallery sign with InsideOut | InsideOutMusic is happy and proud to announce the latest addition to the ever growing InsideOut family of artists: Shadow Gallery .
Shadow Gallery - one of the pioneers of the Progressive Power Metal Genre - are currently recording the anticipated follow up to their last studio album "Legacy". The new album, going under the working title of "Room Five" is the fifth album from this well respected American six piece. All of their albums are considered to be classics amongst fans of this type of music and their new concept album, which will be a continuation of the "Tyranny" story, will no doubt be heralded as the welcome return of Shadow Gallery.
This is what guitarist Gary Wehrkamp says about signing to InsideOut and the upcoming album: "As we begin to approach the later stages of recording, we are finding ourselves excited about our upcoming release. We remained quite busy after our last record, but took some time to team up with InsideOut, noting how much respect they had for their bands and visa-versa. I believe they are a good vehicle for our upcoming disc and look forward to working with them.
We are ready to put some new music back in the hands of progressive rock fans this spring."
"We are glad, to finally have the chance to work with these guys. I bought their first album when it came out and have been a fan of the band ever since!" says InsideOut managing director Thomas Waber.
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| Thursday, March 18, 2004 - Shadow Gallery record new album | On March 18, 2004 the recording of the drum tracks for the 5th Shadow Gallery CD will begin in San Diego, California. The recording sessions of drummer Joe Nevolo, along with Gary Wehrkamp was originally slated for February 8th, but due to an unforseen family emergency they were rescheduled for March 18th. At this time the title of next CD has not been released. For now this is just the next chapter in the book of Shadow Gallery.
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Interview - Interview with Gary Wehrkamp
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Album Review - Room V
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Album Review - Tyranny
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