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GOTTHARD Release Live Album ‘Defrosted 2’
December 7th, 2018

Swiss hard rock group Gotthard issued live album Defrosted 2 on December 7th, 2018 through Nuclear Blast Records.

Defrosted 2 consists of live acoustic versions of past Gotthard tracks, recorded in March 2018 on the Defrosted tour. D Frosted was released in 1997.

The outing was produced by Leo Leoni in collaboration with Nicolo Fragile, while Charlie Bauerfeind handled mixing. Further refinement took place in the Wisseloord Studio in Hilversum, Netherlands.

Defrosted 2 includes two newly recorded tracks; the ballad ‘What I Wouldn’t Give’ and ‘Bye Bye Caroline’, the latter lyrically inspired by 1973 Status Quo song ‘Caroline’. ‘Bye Bye Caroline’ was created with Status Quo frontman Francis Rossi, who contributed guitar and duet vocals. The track was spontaneously written backstage on the 2018 instalment of the Rock Meets Classic tour.

The track listing is as follows;

CD1

01. ‘Miss Me’
02. ‘Out On My Own’
03. ‘Bang’
04. ‘Sweet Little Rock ‘N’ Roller’
05. ‘Beautiful’
06. ‘Feel What I Feel’
07. ‘Hush’
08. ‘Remember It’s Me’
09. ‘Stay With Me’
10. ‘Tequila Symphony No. 5’
11. ‘Mountain Mama’

CD2

01. ‘Why’
02. ‘C’est La Vie’
03. ‘One Life One Soul’
04. ‘Tell Me’
05. ‘Starlight’
06. ‘Sister Moon’
07. ‘Right On’
08. ‘Lift U Up’
09. ‘Heaven’
10. ‘Anytime, Anywhere’
11. ‘Smoke On The Water’
12. ‘Bye Bye Caroline (Acoustic Version)’
13. ‘What I Wouldn’t Give (Acoustic Version)’

Gotthard’s line-up is as follows;

Nic Maeder (vocals)
Leo Leoni (guitar)
Freddy Scherer (guitar)
Marc Lynn (bass)
Hena Habegger (drums)

Music videos were filmed for new tracks ‘Bye Bye Caroline’ and ‘What I Wouldn’t Give’, which can be viewed below.

Twelfth studio record Silver was released in January 2017 via G Records.

Promotional photograph by Franz Schepers.