Artist: Visions of Atlantis
Title: Pirates
Label: Napalm Records
Cat #: NPR1000DGS
Release Year: 2022
Duration: Album
Format: CD
Packaging Type: Digiapk

Pirates is the eighth full-length album from the Austrian symphonic metal band Visions of Atlantis.

"With their latest chart-topping studio album, Wanderers (2019), and the recent release of their first ever live BluRay/DVD, A Symphonic Journey To Remember, symphonic metal visionaries VISIONS OF ATLANTIS have, without a doubt, proven that they are on top of the scene.

Now, the band sets sail on another adventurous journey and new exciting chapter, marking a turning point of their discography with the upcoming album, Pirates. With their eighth full-length, VISIONS OF ATLANTIS deliver their most confident and honest record so far, proving that they have definitely stopped wandering to finally unleash their rebellious side and a free spirit untamed as the seven seas.

The band invites its listener to join on a marvelous ride through intriguing soundscapes and hauntingly beautiful melodies along with smashing symphonic heaviness, that musically and lyrically embodies a form of transition and self-discovery.

With “Legion Of The Seas” VISIONS OF ATLANTIS present their heaviest side so far without losing their inimitable feeling for creating dreamlike symphonic melodies. Pirates reaches the harbor for now with mesmerizing “I Will Be Gone”, building up a dramatic wall of sound accented by harmonizing flutes and bagpipes, delivered by no less than FEUERSCHWANZ virtuoso Ben Metzner, who joins also on “In My World”, “Master the Hurricane” and “Heal The Scars”.

This emotive twelve track experience allows you to taste the salt of the sea in the air and embrace the wilderness that only true Pirates know!

Recommended if you like: Within Temptation, Nightwish, Kamelot, Epica, Leaves' Eyes, Tarja, Edenbridge, Sirenia, Delain, Sonata Arctica, Rhapsody of Fire, Dark Moor

Track Listing:
1. Pirates will Return
2. Melancholy Angel
3. Master the Hurricane
4. Clocks
5. Freedom
6. Legion of the Seas
7. Wild Elysium
8. Darkness Inside
9. In my World
10. Mercy
11. Heal the Scars
12. I will be Gone