Truth to Promises

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Truth to Promises
Symphorce Truth to Promises.jpg
Studio album by Symphorce
Released 1999
Recorded Maryland Studios, Merklingen, Germany
September–November 1998
Genre Heavy metal, power metal
Length49:51
Label Noise
Producer Andy B. Franck, H. Peter Walter, Rüdiger Gerndt and Jörg Umbreit
Symphorce chronology
Truth to Promises
(1999)
Sinctuary
(2001)

Truth to Promises is the debut album by Heavy/Power metal band Symphorce. [1]

Heavy metal is a genre of rock music that developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s, largely in the United Kingdom. With roots in blues rock, psychedelic rock, and acid rock, the bands that created heavy metal developed a thick, massive sound, characterized by highly amplified distortion, extended guitar solos, emphatic beats, and overall loudness. The genre's lyrics and performance styles are sometimes associated with aggression and machismo.

Power metal is a subgenre of heavy metal combining characteristics of traditional heavy metal with speed metal, often within symphonic context. Generally, power metal is characterized by a faster, lighter, and more uplifting sound, in contrast with the heaviness and dissonance prevalent for example in extreme metal. Power metal bands usually have anthem-like songs with fantasy-based subject matter and strong choruses, thus creating a theatrical, dramatic and emotionally "powerful" sound. The term was first used in the middle of the 1980s and refers to two different but related styles: the first pioneered and largely practiced in North America with a harder sound similar to speed metal, and a later more widespread and popular style based in Europe, South America and Japan, with a lighter, more melodic sound and frequent use of keyboards.

Symphorce was a German progressive power metal band, originally assembled in 1998.

Contents

Track listing

  1. "Truth to Promises" – 4:32
  2. "Drifted" – 4:57
  3. "Wounded" – 4:18
  4. "Retracing the Line" – 3:34
  5. "Stronghold" – 3:57
  6. "Across the Plains" – 4:27
  7. "Forevermore" – 5:15
  8. "Pouring Rain" – 4:18
  9. "Circles Are Broken" – 6:37
  10. "Sea of Life" – 7:56
  11. "Yap over Bamis" (bonus track) – 4:01

Credits

Band members

Production

Dennis Ward is an American bass player and music producer. He is known for his various works as a producer for heavy metal and hard rock bands in Europe, as well as for being the bassist and founder of the band Pink Cream 69. Dennis is also currently working with a band formed in with ex-Helloween members Michael Kiske and Kai Hansen called Unisonic and performs lead vocals for the AOR studio project Khymera. In 2017, he joined a new band called Panorama. The same year he also joined Firewind and former Ozzy Osbourne guitarist Gus G to produce his solo album Fearless and be part of his supporting band as the bass player and vocalist.

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References

  1. "Symphorce – Truth to Promises". Encyclopaedia Metallum . Retrieved 30 May 2011.