“Digital Ghosts” CD / Ltd. Digipak CD
European street date: October 26th, 2009
With Digital Ghosts, SHADOW GALLERY’s members Brendt Allman, Carl Cadden-James, Gary Wehrkamp and new addition
Brian Ashland have focused their powerful energies on creating a seamless blend of progressive, metal, and symphonic rock. A
transcendent work of musical art, Digital Ghosts advances the boundaries of these genres into new directions.
Upon releasing three albums in the 90’s (Shadow Gallery in 1992, Carved in Stone in 1995 and Tyranny in 1998), SHADOW
GALLERY had not only met great worldwide acclaim from both media and fans alike for their original and very profound
stylistic approach but also by this time, there was no doubt that the band had established themselves as a major force in
progressive metal. In 2001, SHADOW GALLERY released their 4th album, Legacy, their last album on the Magna Carta label.
Duke Egbert of the Daily Vault wrote, “Legacy is a brilliant, elegant, musically complex, melodic work, worthy of a band many
call one of the founders of the prog-metal genre.” By 2005 SHADOW GALLERY had signed a new deal with Inside Out Music
and returned to the scene with their newest album, Room V, which once again stunned the critics, prompting one reviewer to
write “SHADOW GALLERY is for metal what Queen was for rock.”
Immediately after the release of Room V, SHADOW GALLERY began writing their next musical project for Inside Out Music
but tragedy struck in October of 2008 with the death of lead singer and original band member Mike Baker. Deeply saddened and
shocked by his passing due to a heart attack, the band vowed to honor their fallen band mate and the fans who loved him by
moving forward with their 6th studio album, Digital Ghosts.
While recording with different guest vocalists, the band discovered a comrade in singer Brian Ashland, their newest member who
debuts on Digital Ghosts. Coming off a series of deep concept albums that cover personal drama, political indifference,
spirituality and the maturing of morality, SHADOW GALLERY has turned their musical wands towards telling their musical
tales through individual songs on Digital Ghosts. During the writing and recording of this mature set of songs, the theme of "loss"
became an obvious overtone that made its way to the emotion in the music and the lyrics, and still the mood, while dark at times,
is full of passion and power and has a great uplifting appeal. In true SHADOW GALLERY tradition, Digital Ghosts features
guest artists including Ralf Scheepers (Primal Fear) with lead vocals on “Strong”, Clay Barton (Suspyre) with lead vocals shared
with Carl Cadden-James on “Venom”, guitarist Srdjan Brankovic (Expedition Delta, Alogia) on “Strong” and keyboardist Vivien
Lalu (Shadrane) on “Gold Dust”. Acclaimed drummer Joe Nevolo returns to guest on the songs “Venom” and “Gold Dust”.
Digital Ghosts - created with honor and passion, emotional, complex with superior musicianship is a progressive rock tour d’
force with influences derived from acts such as Genesis, Rush, Queen, Yes, Pink Floyd or even Iron Maiden and Judas Priest,
presented in a contemporary shape and format that is set to also impress followers of bands like Dream Theater and Symphony X.
As the ending drum motif of the album’s closing track “Haunted” hammers the point home, it is clear that Digital Ghosts is a
benchmark classic album for SHADOW GALLERY. This concise disc of a plethora of ideas and emotions runs from the
ravaging heaviest of guitar riffs to the softest moments of reflection. You will feel like you were on the ride of your life, eager to
get back for more. SHADOW GALLERY has lined it all up, and is inviting the listener in to complete the equation of progressive
rock in its finest of moments.
SHADOW GALLERY - "Digital Ghosts" CD (55:26)
1. With Honor (9:59)
2. Venom (6:22)
3. Pain (6:22)
4. Gold Dust (6:45)
5. Strong (6:50)
6. Digital Ghost (9:37)
7. Haunted (9:37)
SHADOW GALLERY online:
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Bonus material for limited edition Digipak CD (74:09):
Band Line-Up:
Gary Wehrkamp - Electric & Acoustic Guitars, Bass
Guitar, Keyboards, Vocals and Drums
Brendt Allman - Electric & Acoustic guitars, Bass Guitar,
Keyboards, Vocals
Carl Cadden-James - Bass Guitar and Vocals
Brian Ashland - Lead Vocals, Guitar
8. Two Shadows (5:07)
(Reworked Japan bonus song off “Room V” with vocals by Mike Baker)
9. Gold Dust (Demo) (6:02)
(Demo version of album song with vocals by Carl-Cadden James)
10. In Your Window (2:52)
(A capella version of vocal harmonies of album song ‘Digital Ghost’)
11. World Of Fantasy (Demo) (4:42)
(Demo version of non-album song with vocals by Mike Baker)
Discography:
Shadow Gallery - 1992
Carved In Stone - 1995
Tyranny - 1998
Legacy - 2001
Room V - 2005
Prime Cuts (Best Of Compilation) - 2007
Digital Ghosts – 2009
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