US Metal powerhouse WildeStarr are going to release their new album 'Beyond The Rain' on December 8th on Scarlet Records.
WildeStarr is the combined talents of 3 of the most dynamic musicians in heavy metal today: Dave Starr (Vicious Rumors, Chastain) on all guitars & bass, London Wilde on vocals (who many regard as highly as Rob Halford, Dio, and Geoff Tate), and power house Josh Foster on drums. Through 3 studio albums WildeStarr has established themselves as the masters of their craft with melodic and aggressive metal full of drama, and conveyed via a huge wall of sound.
The tracklist is as follows:
1. Metamorphose
2. Beyond The Rain
3. Pressing The Wires
4. Double Red
5. Down Cold
6. Rage And Water
7. Crimson Fifths
8. Undersold
9. From Shadow
10. When The Night Falls
WildeStarr’s new album ‘Beyond The Rain’ takes the listener on a harrowing ride and emotional roller coaster. Some might think its a concept album, but its actually much more than that. The songs are London Wilde’s lyrical expression of pain, torment, hope, and love based on the real life tragic suicide of her brother Gary in 2012. Gary was a gifted musician who suffered the sad pitfalls of many others who pickup the guitar and dream of success in the music biz. After his death, Gary essentially became a not so silent 4th member of the band, and his presence and spirit was deeply felt throughout the songwriting and recording process. ‘Beyond The Rain’ contains 10 tracks of classic heavy metal in the vein of Judas Priest, Queensryche, and Dio, complete with Dave Starr’s soaring guitar harmonies, pounding bass and drums, and out of this world vocal melodies and lyrics by London.
The album artwork was made by world renowned digital artist Jonas De Ro. Jonas has worked on many blockbuster movies as a concept artist, including ‘Batman v Superman: Dawn Of Justice’, ‘Guardians Of The Galaxy’, ‘Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation’, ‘Terminator Genisys’, ‘Jupiter Ascending’, ‘Edge Of Tomorrow’, and many others!
In Dave Starr’s own words: “The original artwork is titled “Moscow Ruins”, I found this on the internet a year ago and London and I fell in love with it. It really seemed to fit the mood for ‘Beyond The Rain’, so I contacted Jonas and purchased the rights to use it”.
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LINEUP
London Wilde - Vocals, keyboards.
Dave Starr - All Guitars and Bass.
Josh Foster - Drums.
BIOGRAPHY
WildeStarr hails from the San Francisco Bay Area, now relocated to Houston Texas in 2014. The band was Formed in 2003 by metal veteran and original Vicious Rumors bass player Dave Starr, and studio vocalist, songwriter and recording engineer London Wilde. The two were long time friends, going back to 1988 where they met at a local rock club in San Francisco called The Stone. Married in 2001 The two are a rarity in the field of Heavy Metal.... a husband and wife team.
It wasn’t until 2003, when London was engineering Starr’s bass tracks for an upcoming Chastain album “In an Outrage” that the two began talking about forming a band together.
With Starr handling Guitars and Bass, and Wilde on vocals and keyboards, the duo released their first Demo single in 2007 called "Generation Next". The tune quickly recieved over 20,000 plays on the bands myspace page, and encouraged the band to release a full length album.
Joined by drummer Jim Hawthorne in 2008, the band began recording "Arrival", a dark, atmospheric, powerful and driving 10 song LP. The album was completed in Late spring 2009, and self released on Furnace Maximus Records in August 2009. Arrival recieved world wide critical acclaim, and charted number 8 in Burrn! Magazine’s Japanese import list in Feb 2010. The band released a video to go with the albums’ single “Arrival” in January 2010.
The band returned to the studio late 2010 and began writing material for their next album, this time joined by drummer Josh Foster. The new album entitled “A Tell Tale Heart” was released October 2012 by Hydrant/EMI in Japan, and Scarlet records in the US and Europe, and ranked #11 in Rock Hard magazine’s top new releases staff picks. The band received great critical reviews, and garnered feature interviews in major metal magazines Rock Hard, Young Guitar, BURRN!.
Just as the band was preparing to write their third record, the tragic suicide of London’s brother hit an emotional chord for the band. He was a guitarist and musician frustrated by struggles in the industry, which was something everyone in the band could relate too. The inspiration resulted in a new 10 song record called “Beyond The Rain”. Free download track “When The Night Falls” was released January 2016, album release date to be announced.
DISCOGRAPHY
Arrival Full-length 2009
A Tell Tale Heart Full-length 2012
Beyond The Rain Full-length 2017