MYSTIC PROPHECY

MYSTIC PROPHECY To Issue New Single Next Week





German melodic power metallers have issued the following update:

"We will release our new album, Satanic Curses, on October 19th via Armageddon Music. An appetizer there will be the release of our single 'Dark Forces' (pictured left) on August 24th. WWW.Powermetal.de will offer a fan the chance to meet the band in the studio, to listen to the complete new album, having dinner with the band together and much more. All you have to do is visit www.powermetal.de and answer the question until September 6th, 2007. There you will find all the necessary info you need to participate."

MYSTIC PROPHECY Streaming New Music Online

German melodic power metallers MYSTIC PROPHECY have updated their MySpace page to stream two new tracks. Check out 'Damnation' and 'Demons Blood' at this location.

The tracks are lifted from Mystic Prophecy's new album, Satanic Curses, due out on Friday, October 19th via Armageddon Music.

The tracklisting for the album (artwork pictured):
'Back From The Dead',
'Sacrifice Me',
'Dark Forces',
'Satanic Curses',
'Evil Of Destruction',
'Demons Blood',
'Damnation',
'Rock The Night',
'We Will Survive',
'Grave Of Thousand Lies',
'Paranoid' (BLACK SABBATH cover),
'We Fly'.

MYSTIC PROPHECY Places "Satanic Curses" On Metal Scene

The part German, part Greek combo of MYSTIC PROPHECY has seen the North American release of its fifth album, Satanic Curses, via Locomotive Music.

With a title sure to grab attention in the power metal world, frontman R.D. “Lia” Liapakis explains that it’s a reflection of and commentary on the surrounding world.

“Take a look into this world… What will you see?,” Liapakis said. “Crime, hate, war, despair, rape, mayhem. Those are true facts and these are the things that I wrote in my lyrics! It’s time to speak the truth…we must change something in this world or we will have a total black out in a few years. The world is going down day by day and that’s our Satanic Curses.”

On a positive front, Mystic Prophecy delivers a strong riff-laden album of pure power metal on Satanic Curses. Written by guitarist Markus Pohl and Liapakis, the pair worked individually at home, making use of mp3s to avoid paying costly gas prices for the 120-mile commute between the cities of Memmingen and Stuttgart. Once finished, the band convened in its rehearsal studio to put the finishing touches on the songs.

“The work was very relaxed,” Liapakis said. “The chemistry between Markus and me is very good, and Markus exactly knows what kind of music I need. I think that the new record is a very good trademark for Mystic Prophecy - hard melodic heavy metal with a lot of power.”

A career highlight for the group happened in December when they discovered that the 'Dark Forces' single, which had limited retail distribution, entered the singles charts in Liapakis’ native Greece.

“One day I read my mails and I got a message from my parents that we are in the charts in Hellas and that the radio is playing ‘Dark Forces,’” he said. “I couldn’t believe it and wrote a mail to our distributor in Greece. ‘Lia, that’s true,’ the distributor said. ‘The people like 'Dark Forces' and you entered the Single Charts at 15!’ That was the greatest moment in the history of Mystic Prophecy!”