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ECLIPSE Release Live Album ‘Viva La VicTOURia’
November 6th, 2020

Stockholm, Sweden-based melodic hard rock band Eclipse issued live album Viva La VicTOURia on November 6th, 2020 through Frontiers Music Srl. The outing was made available in the following formats; 2CD / DVD, Blu-ray, and triple vinyl LP.

Viva La VicTOURia consists of Eclipse’s live performance on December 21st, 2019 at Tradgarn in Gothenburg, as well as featuring bonus material. That respective performance was as part of dates promoting the Paradigm album.

“We’ve talked about properly documenting a live show for ages,” commented vocalist and guitarist Erik Mårtensson. “Well, if anything good came out of the pandemic that brought touring to a halt, this is it. Thanks to this record, Viva La VicTOURia will live forever although it ended up being our shortest tour.”

“Fans have asked us for a live album and video for a long time now,” added guitarist Magnus Henriksson. “Well, here it is. Eclipse live, raw, and naked. Enjoy!”

Bonus material on the CD and LP versions of Viva La VicTOURia include the studio track ‘Driving One Of Your Cars’ (a Lisa Miskovsky cover), acoustic versions of ‘The Downfall Of Eden’ and ‘When The Winter Ends’, as well as three live tracks from the band’s Live From The Quarantine pay-per-view special, which was recorded at Studio Grondahl in Stockholm, Sweden on April 1st, 2020. The triple-LP version also includes the exclusive bonus tracks ‘Hurt’ and ‘Mary Leigh’.

Bonus footage on the DVD and Blu-ray features interviews with the band around the creation of Paradigm and Viva La VicTOURia, additional footage from the Paradigm Tour (backstage, tour bus, behind the scenes, etc.), and some interviews with the band around the development of Eclipse, from the early days up until now, including some historic footage.

The track listing is as follows:

CD1

01. ‘Viva La Victoria’
02. ‘Mary Leigh’
03. ‘Blood Wants Blood’
04. ‘The Storm’
05. ‘Vertigo’
06. ‘Jaded’
07. ‘Shelter Me’
08. ‘United’
09. ‘The Downfall Of Eden’
10. ‘When The Winter Ends’
11. ‘Take Me Home’
12. ‘Battlegrounds’

CD2

01. ‘Black Rain’
02. ‘Blood Enemies’
03. ‘Stand On Your Feet’
04. ‘Runaways’
05. ‘I Don’t Wanna Say I’m Sorry’
06. ‘Never Look Back’
07. ‘Driving One Of Your Cars (Studio Version)’ (Lisa Miskovsky cover)
08. ‘The Downfall Of Eden (Acoustic Version)’
09. ‘When The Winter Ends (Acoustic Version)’
10. ‘Battlegrounds’ (Quarantine Live)’
11. ‘Driving One Of Your Cars (Quarantine Live)’ (Lisa Miskovsky cover)
12. ‘Delirious (Quarantine Live)’

LP bonus tracks

‘Mary Leigh (Quarantine Live)’
‘Hurt (Quarantine Live)’

DVD / Blu-Ray bonus contents

Documentary

Eclipse’s line-up is as follows:

Erik Mårtensson (vocals, guitar and keyboards)
Magnus Henriksson (guitar)
Victor Crusner (bass)
Philip Crusner (drums)

Live performance footage of the tracks ‘Viva La Victoria’, ‘Runaways’ and ‘The Downfall Of Eden’ can be viewed below.

Seventh studio record Paradigm was released in October 2019 via Frontiers.