Gotthard To Release 'Heaven - Best Of Ballads Part 2'

from sleazeroxx:

Swiss hard rock icons GOTTHARD will release "Heaven - Best Of Ballads Part 2" on November 26, 2010!

"Heaven - Best Of Ballads Part II" represents the most successful era of a band that has been together in the same line-up since the late 80s and which would only be split by death when singer Steve Lee tragically died on October 5, 2010 while on a motorcycle trip near Las Vegas. It stands for eight years of band history in which GOTTHARD had their big international break-through and were awarded diamond status for more than one million copies sold in their home country. No other band is such a symbol for Swiss music history as GOTTHARD.

"Nobody's really in the mood for a driving rock song at the moment." states bass player Marc Lynn. "This ballad compilation might also help our fans to cope with their sadness and grief."

"We lost not only one of the best rock voices of the world, we also lost a really exceptional person, friend, brother and musician." states drummer Hena Habegger. "Despite his tremendous success, Steve Lee always had his feet on the ground and never lost his sensitivity for the environment."

The compilation will only be issued as a simple but very elegant all black digibook version and will include 2 previousley unreleased acoustic versions of the songs "Have A Little Faith" and "Falling" as well as a brand new track called "What I Am".

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It will be mine!

Yea I just got the first one in the mail yesturday I'll get this one as well. I also just got Dfrosted on ebay today and it was autographed by the band. Lets hope its real. Looked it from the pictures but who knows. Kinda wierd it didn't really have any bids on it.

I think i'll have most of the songs.

I will get this for sure.
The Gottard Best Of Ballads 1, is one of very few of my albums i can play in my car when the rest of the family is with me .
It will also be a nice tribute to a great vocalist who passed away so tragically.
BTW does anyone know if they will continue as Gotthard and get a new singer? It will be hard to replace Steve.

I am not sure and I havent heard the band address that question. Rightly so, they still seem to be in shock..

Though I want to get more of these guys (I only have the last two) I have a seven album backlog to go through so I may get this until I have all the albums these songs are on.

It is very much worth the time and expense to get the back catalog. They kinda went a tad too commercial on the 2 cds leading up to Lip Service but their whole discography is very good. One of those bands who I couldnt believe I hadnt heard until Lip Service..

My limited exposure to this band is from a Ktel comp from Northern Europe...finest of hard rock volume something and the tunes they had on those nuclear blast dvd things.

hard way to go, the way the singer died. My father, older brother and cousin all died in motorcycle accidents.

by the way....good band for what they do. It is a mood thing for me.

James B. wrote:

by the way....good band for what they do. It is a mood thing for me.

That's how I used to be until the past few years. These days I'm almost melodic hard rock all the way (with eveything else mixed in for varitey and to keep me from getting tired of MHR).

DallasBlack wrote:

James B. wrote:

by the way....good band for what they do. It is a mood thing for me.

That's how I used to be until the past few years. These days I'm almost melodic hard rock all the way (with eveything else mixed in for varitey and to keep me from getting tired of MHR).

exact33 wrote:

It is very much worth the time and expense to get the back catalog. They kinda went a tad too commercial on the 2 cds leading up to Lip Service but their whole discography is very good. One of those bands who I couldnt believe I hadnt heard until Lip Service..

Well, those two leading to Lip Service and the one before that have just been ordered from Amazon, but being commercial has never been a problem with me so I'm sure I'll like them.

DallasBlack wrote:

exact33 wrote:

It is very much worth the time and expense to get the back catalog. They kinda went a tad too commercial on the 2 cds leading up to Lip Service but their whole discography is very good. One of those bands who I couldnt believe I hadnt heard until Lip Service..

Well, those two leading to Lip Service and the one before that have just been ordered from Amazon, but being commercial has never been a problem with me so I'm sure I'll like them.

I dont think they are bad - its just Lip Service was such a great cd.

Then next time I get a Gotthard CD, I will order that one.

I rank the top Gotthard CDs as:

Lip Service
Dial Hard
G
Domino Effect

...but I have them all.

tohostudios wrote:

I rank the top Gotthard CDs as:

Lip Service
Dial Hard
G
Domino Effect

...but I have them all.

I think i would agree with that.