NORTHWARD Issue Lyric Video For ‘Storm In A Glass’ Track
October 19th, 2018
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European hard rock project Northward have released an official lyric video for the track ‘Storm In A Glass’, which can be viewed below.
Northward issued their self-titled debut full-length studio album on October 19th, 2018 through Nuclear Blast Records.
At ProgPower USA in 2007, members Floor Jansen (Nightwish) and Jørn Viggo Lofstad (Pagan’s Mind) spontaneously performed cover tracks onstage, having never met before. The pair formed a friendship, launching Northward, and composed an album’s worth of material in 2008. Due to tight schedules with their main bands, this never saw the light of day.
In 2017, while Nightwish were on break, Jansen contacted Jørn Viggo Lofstad in the hope of resurrecting Northward. “Jørn Viggo was positive about the project and we started to make the overall plans, meeting again in March of 2017 in Sweden to go through all the material together to see if we still felt happy with what we had created,” Jansen recalled.
Jacob Hansen handled production. “The music is melodic, but also in-your-face and kick-ass rock,” Jansen commented. “Cool riffs, good melodies and tasteful arrangements. We would simply like to call it ‘good music.’ We wanted to explore a basic rock sound, with drums, bass, guitar and vocals. Not the heavy layers of keyboards, choirs etc.”
Cover artwork duties fell to Hannes Van Dahl and Chris Rörland.
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The track listing is as follows;
01. ‘While Love Died’
02. ‘Get What You Give’
03. ‘Storm In A Glass’
04. ‘Drifting Islands’
05. ‘Paragon’
06. ‘Let Me Out’
07. ‘Big Boy’
08. ‘Timebomb’
09. ‘Bridle Passion’
10. ‘I Need’
11. ‘Northward’
Northward’s recording line-up is as follows;
Floor Jansen (vocals, Nightwish / ex-ReVamp / ex-After Forever)
Jørn Viggo Lofstad (guitars, Pagan’s Mind)
Morty Black (bass, TNT)
Django Nilsen (drums)
Stian Kristofferson (drums, Pagan’s Mind)
Irene Jansen (duet vocals on ‘Drifting Islands’)
Produced by Ville Lipiäinen, a music video was filmed for the track ‘While Love Died’. In addition, an official lyric video was created for the song ‘Get What You Give’. Both clips can also be viewed below.
Promotional photograph by Marko Simonen.
