Swedish melodic hard rockers Gathering Of Kings third studio
album "Enigmatic" will be released on July 29th via RN Records.
The
album was mixed and mastered by award-winning producer Thomas "Plec"
Johansson in Skövde, Sweden with Ron Dahlgren, Nina Dahlgren and Victor
Olsson as executive producers. The songs was written and produced by
Victor Olsson. Drums were recorded at Nordic Sound Lab in Skara by Mikko
Viitala and Victor Olsson. The cover artwork was created by Markus
Vesper, who also handled the art on the previous two albums.
The
album features a guest appearance from the Swedish pop group One More
Time. Its members are the singers Nanne Grönvall, one of the most
beloved and popular artists in Sweden, Maria Rådsten and Peter Grönvall,
the son of ABBA's Benny Andersson, on keyboards.
Their first
single Highland, 1992, hit the charts all around in Europe. In 1995 they
composed a song for the Swedish Melodifestivalen, "Det Vackraste" that
won a grammy for best song of the year, and in 1996 they won the Swedish
Melodifestivalen and represented Sweden in the Eurovision Song Contest
with their song "Den Vilda", which ended in 3rd place.
Gathering
Of Kings are the successful project built by Ron & Nina Dahlgren,
bringing together top musicians from the current hard rock scene in
Sweden. The idea was to create an AOR/Melodic Hard Rock project/band
like Tom Galley's Phenomena or even Tobias Sammet's Avantasia, with
multiple vocalists and instrumentalists. Victor Olsson quickly became
the main songwriter.
The superlatives have hailed over Gathering Of
Kings, which takes you straight back to the golden age of 80's melodic
hard rock and it is without a doubt one of the hottest acts in Sweden,
now with two critically acclaimed records released, the third album,
"Enigmatic", will be released in July.
After the debut album
"First Mission", Ron & Nina remodelled Gathering Of Kings from being
a project to becoming a band with permanent members.
