{"id":14563,"date":"2013-01-19T13:25:44","date_gmt":"2013-01-19T02:25:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maytherockbewithyou.com\/mtrbwy\/?p=14563"},"modified":"2013-01-19T13:28:32","modified_gmt":"2013-01-19T02:28:32","slug":"pretty-maids-to-release-their-new-album-motherland-in-march","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maytherockbewithyou.com\/mtrbwy\/2013\/01\/pretty-maids-to-release-their-new-album-motherland-in-march\/","title":{"rendered":"Pretty Maids to release their new album ‘Motherland’ in March!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Danish Dynamite Rockers PRETTY MAIDS to release their new album “MOTHERLAND” on Frontiers in March !<\/strong><\/p>\n

Frontiers Records<\/strong>\u00a0is excited to announce the release of\u00a0PRETTY MAIDS<\/strong>\u00a0anticipated new album entitled “Motherland<\/strong>” on\u00a0March 22nd in Europe<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0March 26th in North America<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

After their successful and highly acclaimed 2010 album \u201cPandemonium\u201d, Danish melodic Hard Rockers, Pretty Maids celebrated their 30th anniversary with their debut visual release \u201cIt Comes Alive (Maid in Switzerland)\u201d in 2012. \u201cPandemonium\u201d showed the world that Pretty Maids were in a creative spring again, with the band in their finest moment. The melodic approach brought a return to the \u201cFuture World \/ Red Hot and Heavy\u201d era of the eighties, but with an updated sound and freshness that consolidated Pretty Maids as strong as ever.<\/p>\n

In late spring 2012, the band gathered to finally write the follow up album. Singer Ronnie Atkins tells: \u201cWe knew it was going to be a tough one to follow ! I remember back in the day when we had to follow up albums like \u201cFuture World\u201d, we tried more or less to copy the songs from the previous album to keep the same kind of balance. But this time we just wrote what came natural to us and that\u2019s what became \u201cMotherland<\/em>\u201d.<\/p>\n

The band teamed up again with producer Jacob Hansen (Volbeat, Amaranthe) for the new album. Ronnie says: \u201cJacob was a natural choice since we had a great experience with him producing the \u201cPandemonium\u201d album. The recordings went smooth to begin with, but then we had to start touring again during the weekends and this created some stress. Though I really feel strongly about \u201cMotherland\u201d. In my view it has all the ingredients of a good Pretty Maids album, maybe even more melodic than \u201cPandemonium\u201d and absolutely, as far as I\u2019m concerned a worthy follow up<\/em>\u201d.<\/p>\n

Founded in early 1982 by guitarist Ken Hammer and singer Ronnie Atkins, Pretty Maids soon established themselves as a band to be taken seriously in the early eighties, having their breakthrough with the release – in April 1987 – of the album \u201cFuture World\u201d. This record soon gathered a universal recognition as a \u201cClassic\u201d, which endures to date, and allowed the band to perform in from of large audiences thanks to their tour with Deep Purple and their appearances in the \u201cMonsters of Rock\u201d festival. The following album \u201cJump The Gun\u201d kept the momentum for the band, particularly in Europe and Japan.<\/p>\n

Throughout the nineties Pretty Maids continued to release albums, usually followed by European and Japanese tours with the band still maintaining a very high songwriting and production standards. The release of \u201cWake up to the Real World\u201d in 2006 started the band\u2019s relationship with Frontiers Records.<\/p>\n

\u201cMotherland<\/strong>\u201d will include the following tracks:\u00a0Mother Of All Lies; To Fool A Nation; Confession; The Iceman; Sad To See You Suffer; Hooligan; Infinity; Why So Serious; Motherland; I See Ghosts; Bullet For You; Who What Where When Why; Wasted.<\/p>\n

The release of the new album will be preceded by the release of the single \/ video \u201cMother of All Lies\u201d which will hit the streets on January 22nd 2013. A sample of the single can be heard below:<\/p>\n\n

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