wo years after their debut album “New Romantic Industry” was released, Halo Effect are very happy to announce that they’re coming back with a new studio album. The second album is called “The Fourth Zone” and will be released on 11/01/2009 as digital download at all common download stores like iTunes, Amazon, Napster, Rapshody, eMusic, etc. A CD-copy of the album will only be available as limited edition at their live gigs, which will start in October 2009.The new album is very powerful, strong and dark, orientated on Synthpop / EBM / Industrial with more up-tempo songs on it: The music and the lyrics create a perfect mix, a deep and strange atmosphere influenced by the tragic days regarding of the Nuclear Reactor explosion in Chernobyl in 1986, until these difficult days today in which the people live over there.
But The Fourth Zone is not only the physical zone where the reactor is located: by analyzing the other side of the tragedy one can see a rebirth of life, a place which is no longer contaminated by human life: a pure world – a place where nature is recovering space and life – a new beginning.
The Fourth Zone could also be considered as the darkest place inside of us all: where we put anguish, suffering, disappointment, fragility and all broken dreams and hopes – which we don’t want to show or share – inside, like a hidden place of the soul, where we take refuge in the saddest moments of our life…in hope to find the forces going ahead.
But it could even be considered as a probable photo of the world one can forsee in the near future, if the humans continue destroying this dying planet. In conclusion, this album offers several different points of reflection, this is a conceptual album speaking about the past, the present and the future.
Tracklisting
- 01. Scram
- 02. Hammer the gear
- 03. Life goes on
- 04. Deeper than you
- 05. Days of violence
- 06. Drain
- 07. Hidden Place
- 08. Funeral
- 09. It was nothing
- 10. Their G.O.D.
- 11. Mirror
- 12. 26041986
Maxi-single releases
Halo Effect decided to release three maxi singles remixed by international bands and DJs from various countries on Ionium Records as free downloads. The first maxi single, “Hammer the gear”, will be released on 09/01/09, followed by “Their G.O.D./Days of violence” on 10/01/09 and finally “It was nothing/Life goes on” on 11/16/09. More info and details about the bands and dj remixes can always be found on Ionium Records website.
Source: http://www.ionium-records.info/
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