FALCONER heads into the studio to record new album!

Created: 30 January 2020 | Written by Edvardsen | Hits: 990

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Long time running Swedish folk metal pioneers FALCONER will head back into the studio in February to record a new full length.

The album is yet untitled but will consist of a total of 13 songs, including bonus tracks. Expect folkish power metal with a velvet voice to crown it!

Comments mainman/guitarist Stefan Weinerhall: "This time around we have a few instrument surprises as a treat, something that has been a wish for a long time finally happening! It is due time for a new album after a 6 year wait. In the meantime we did our last and final live show at Prog Power USA in 2015."

Once again FALCONER will be entering Sonic Train Studios with Andy La Rocque (King Diamond) as engineer. Jan Meininghaus will as always do the cover art.

"We are really looking forward to it, in a way it feels like going back home again!"

A release date hasn't been set yet, but expect the new FALCONER album in the 2nd half of 2020!

ONLINE

http://www.falconermusic.com/

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https://falconer.bandcamp.com/

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BIOGRAPHY

In 1999, FALCONER recorded a demo as a solo project by Stefan Weinerhall (ex-MITHOTYN) and Mathias Blad was found to do the vocals as a session member. Karsten Larsson (ex-MITHOTYN) joined on drums and the project became an official band.

The debut album “Falconer” was released in March 2001. They were heralded as one of the year’s best new acts by many leading magazines. From the beginning, the band had not planned to play live, but with the success of the album many offers came.

Exactly one year after the last recording session, FALCONER returned to the studio to record “Chapters From A Vale Forlorn”, which was released in March 2002. Joining the band’s touring line-up were Anders Johansson on second guitar and Peder Johansson on bass. In order to play live regularly, they had to get a new vocalist. Mathias had a tight schedule at work and could not devote enough time to the band. They split amicably in November 2002.

Kristoffer Göbel came in to fill Mathias’ shoes. In November 2003, the album “Sceptre of Deception” was released. After its release, the band embarked on a small tour of Europe.

Anders and Peder parted with the band in mutual agreement in 2004 and were soon replaced with Jimmy Hedlund (guitar) and Magnus Linhardt (bass). The band now had their most consistent bassist and greatest lead guitarist to date.

In May 2005 “Grime vs. Grandeur” was released, but it wasn’t the typical FALCONER album. It was harder and more mainstream than before. Many thought that it didn’t fit under the FALCONER moniker. Slowly the band started to realise this as well. As the song writing for a next album progressed, folk music and epic metal found it’s way back into the band’s style. They felt that to do this material justice, it had to be sung by former member Mathias Blad, who returned in November 2005.

The album “Northwind” was released in September 2006. FALCONER spent the summer of 2007 playing various festivals throughout Europe before heading back home to being work on the next album.

For the sixth time, they’ve returned to Andy La Rocque’s Sonic Train Studios to record “Among Beggars and Thieves”. The new album has more tempo variations and guitar action than its predecessor and the lyrics revolve around the misery, poverty and hard times of medieval Sweden.