Stream TWISTED TOWER DIRE’s “Fight To Be Free” HERE.
Invisible Oranges is hosting the public debut of “Fight To Be Free,” the original recording of the beloved anthem found on TWISTED TOWER DIRE’s Crest Of The Martyrs Demos
– an alternate/demo version of the bands admired third album – as
Nameless Grave Records prepares to make the recordings available for the
first time.
In
the days of olde, after classic heavy metal was supplanted by extreme
music and before the current reignition of interest that the genre has
enjoyed, Northern Virginia’s TWISTED TOWER DIRE
tirelessly defended true heavy metal in all forms as they sought to
breathe new light into a then largely dead genre. By the time their
now-legendary third album Crest Of The Martyrs
was written they were on top of the world, having played Wacken for the
first time a couple years earlier and having released two full-lengths
on The Miskatonic Foundation, run by Rich Walker of Solstice fame, as
well as a wide array of EPs, splits, compilation tracks, and more.
Crest Of The Martyrs was the next step: a bigger power metal label, sleeker production, and TWISTED TOWER DIRE’s
biggest hooks and choruses yet. Underneath the gleaming power metal
edge provided by the production provided by the label and studio still
lurked the same triumphing true metal band, however, and for the first
time Nameless Grave Records is proud to present Crest Of The Martyrs
the way the band originally intended it: as a devastating, lean set of
heavy metal bangers untouched by modern power metal production, and
alternate studio decisions. Here, old fans of the band can rejoice to
have this different set of recordings available for the first time, and
new fans can marvel at the powerhouse of one of America’s finest bands
playing at their best.
Recorded in 2002 at Killabrew Studios, produced by Matt Crooks and TWISTED TOWER DIRE, and mastered by Dan Lowndes at Resonance Sound Studios, Crest Of The Martyrs Demos is completed with artwork personally done for this release by guitarist Scott Waldrop.
With the public unveiling of the original recording of “Fight To Be Free,” the members of TWISTED TOWER DIRE offer,
“This version of ‘Fight To Be Free’ delivers a very different feeling
than the official 2003 release. We were really going for a Slayer type
of feeling with this track, but it was neatly wrapped up in a power
metal production and lost a lot of the grit. Both versions are good, but
the demo has a little more meat on the bone. The raw production does it
justice! Fight!”
Invisible
Oranges writes with the recording’s debut, “The most notable
differences between the 'demo' version of ‘Fight To Be Free’ and the
studio recording are the lack of vocal overdubs and the significant
reduction in reverb and gloss—and while the former doesn't seem like a
big deal on paper, the momentum and pacing of the track feels
significantly different without them… On this demo recording, ‘Fight To
Be Free’ comes with significantly more grit and grime, and that
appropriately gives its message a far more combative bent.”
Hear TWISTED TOWER DIRE’s instinctive initial recording of "Fight To Be Free” through Invisible Oranges now at THIS LOCATION.
The CD version of Crest Of The Martyrs Demos
features bonus tracks not included on the vinyl, including a second
demo as well as a live track from Wacken 2003, and both the CD and vinyl
editions bear liner notes from the band. The LP will be pressed in a
total run of 500 copies, including 300 on Black and 100 on Silver. No
Remorse Records (Greece) will have an exclusive 100 copies on Light Blue
vinyl. The album is highly recommended for fans of Visigoth, Pharaoh,
and Omen.
Crest Of The Martyrs Demos will
be released through Nameless Grave Records on March 4th. Find preorders
at Bandcamp where "Some Other Time, Some Other Place" is streaming HERE and the label webshop HERE.
Additional portions of Crest Of The Martyrs Demos will be leaked over the weeks ahead preceding its release.
Review copies of Crest Of The Martyrs Demos are now available, and TWISTED TOWER DIRE is enthusiastic to respond to inquiries and interviews supporting its release. Please direct coverage requests to dave@earsplitcompound.com.
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