Artist : Van Canto

Album : To the Power of Eight

Release Date : 04-06-2021

Added : 12-07-2021

After their double album 'Trust in Rust' released in 2018, the Germans of 'Van Canto' continue their metal adventure in capella to offer us a new studio recording, 'To the Power of Eight' which features 8 original compositions and 4 covers, one by the Swedish group of melodic death metal 'Amon Amarth' and 3 iconic rock and hard-rock tracks from the 80s/90s, 'Run To The Hills' from 'Iron Maiden', 'Thunderstruck' from 'AC/DC' and 'I Want It All' from 'Queen'. After a magnificent introduction that you can found in the teaser above, energetic tracks parade one after the other, this time highlighting a trio of singers, since in addition to 'Inga Scharf' and 'Hagen Hirschmann', the former singer of the group 'Philip Dennis 'Sly' Schunke' was invited for the occasion and participates in the whole of this opus. After an unleashed 'Dead By The Night' showing all the energy deployed by this atypical formation, we are carried by melodic lines that we immediately appropriate and 'Faith Focus' (see video here), 'Falling Down' (see video here) and 'Heads Up High' are three typical examples with choruses that immediately become embedded in the head and with still remarkable vocal arrangements. And when the lights are dim, the Germans take us on a journey to calmer but just as addictive atmospheres represented by a magnificent 'Turn Back Time'. We can also note that the four covers are remarkable with this talent to imitate the electric instruments as in 'Thunderstruck' and 'I Want It All', meanwhile, show very beautiful vocal harmonies.

In summary, the Germans of 'Van Canto' are releasing another very nice album which is already the eighth since their debut in 2006 with 'A Storm to Come' and 'To the Power of Eight' should, beyond metal fans, satisfy an audience loving beautiful vocal harmonies in energetic musical atmospheres...

Line Up / Musicians

Hagen Hirschmann (Vocal), Inga Scharf (Vocal), Ross Thompson (Vocal), Stefan Schmidt (Vocal), Jan Moritz (Vocal, Choirs), Ingo Sterzinger (Vocal, Choirs), Bastian Emig (Drums, Choirs) + Guest : Philip Dennis ‘Sly’ Schunke (Vocal)