Frontiers Recordsis excited to announce the
release of PRETTY MAIDS anticipated new album entitled « Motherland »
on March 22nd in Europe and March 26th in North America.
After their successful and
highly acclaimed 2010 album “Pandemonium”, Danish melodic Hard Rockers,
Pretty Maids celebrated their 30th anniversary with their debut visual release
“It Comes Alive (Maid in Switzerland)” in 2012.“Pandemonium”
showed the world that Pretty Maids were in a creative spring again, with the
band in their finest moment. The melodic approach brought a return to the
“Future World / Red Hot and Heavy” era of the eighties, but with an updated
sound and freshness that consolidated Pretty Maids as strong as ever.
In late spring 2012,
the band gathered to finally write the follow up album. Singer Ronnie Atkins
tells: “We knew it was going to be a
tough one to follow ! I remember back in the day when we had to follow up
albums like “Future World”, we tried more or less to copy the songs from the
previous album to keep the same kind of balance. But this time we just wrote
what came natural to us and that’s what became “Motherland”.
The band teamed up
again with producer Jacob Hansen (Volbeat, Amaranthe) for the new album.
Ronnie says: “Jacob was a natural choice
since we had a great experience with him producing the “Pandemonium” album. The
recordings went smooth to begin with, but then we had to start touring again
during the weekends and this created some stress. Though I really feel strongly
about “Motherland”. In my view it has all the ingredients of a good Pretty
Maids album, maybe even more melodic than “Pandemonium” and absolutely, as far
as I’m concerned a worthy follow up”.
Founded
in early 1982 by guitarist Ken Hammer
and singer Ronnie Atkins, Pretty
Maids soon established themselves as a band to be taken seriously in the early
eighties, having their breakthrough with the release – in April 1987 – of the
album “Future World”. This record
soon gathered a universal recognition as a “Classic”, which endures to date, and
allowed the band to perform in from of large audiences thanks to their tour
with Deep Purple and their appearances in the “Monsters of Rock” festival. The
following album “Jump The Gun” kept
the momentum for the band, particularly in Europe and Japan.
Throughout
the nineties Pretty Maids continued to release albums, usually followed by
European and Japanese tours with the band still maintaining a very high
songwriting and production standards. The release of “Wake up to the Real World” in 2006 started the band’s relationship
with Frontiers Records.
“Motherland” will include the following tracks:
Mother Of All Lies; To Fool A Nation; Confession; The Iceman; Sad To See
You Suffer; Hooligan; Infinity; Why So Serious; Motherland; I See Ghosts;
Bullet For You; Who What Where When Why; Wasted.
The release of the
new album will be preceded by the release of the single / video “Mother of
All Lies” which will hit the streets on January 22nd 2013. A sample of the single
can be heard following this link: http://youtu.be/KuqCwrdojho
Pretty
Maids will play numerous festivals this summer such as Wacken Open Air and
Bang Your Head !!!, followed by an extensive world tour in support of “ Motherland”.
Pretty Maids are
stronger than ever – don’t miss them on tour !!!
PRETTY MAIDS
Ronnie Atkins – vocals
Ken Hammer – guitars
Morten
Sandager – keyboards
Allan Tschicaja – drums
Rene Shades – bass
