Blazon Stone - Hymns of Triumph and Death (2019)

Out now from our buddy Stormspell: fifth studio album from the amazingly prolific Cederick "Ced" Forsberg and his merry band of pirate power metallers. For fans of Running Wild, Grave Digger, vintage Accept, etc.



(begin shameless plug) Album review at my blog:

https://hubpages.com/entertainment/Blazon-Stone-Hymns-of-Triumph-and-Death-Album-Review

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"Dance of the Dead" on YouTube:

I own their previous release on cd. Great band but i am in no hurry to pick this one up.

I like these guys but I always end up listening to RW to hear the original.

Blazon Stone is calling it quits...

Quote :

It's time to let Blazon Stone die.
For the last few years I've tried to find suitable band members that are both talented and passionate. I cannot find a singer. I cannot find a drummer. I have tried everything can no longer come up with any new ideas how to keep the ship above surface.

I also don't any longer enjoy the whole concept of Blazon Stone:
The whole idea from the start was just to record a "RW style" album for fun. As the song writing quality stepped up a lot with "War Of The Roses" and "Down In The Dark" (compared to the first 2) I felt like this can actually become something and I got ambitious... And then entered the nightmares of trying to actually have a fuctioning line-up. But the concept is the thing I like the least: There's nothing original about this project I can be proud of. It's just blatant copy of an existing band. There's individual songs I've written that I'm proud of, but that's not enough.

Of course I'm thankful for various temporary live stand-ins like vocalist Philip Forsell, both drummers Daniel Sjögren and Kalle Löfgren, as well as bass players Jimmy Mattsson and Kevin Crona, and let's not forget 2nd guitarist Emil!

But I can't go on like this anymore.

There's obviously no interest among any great musicans to join Blazon Stone for a real line-up. And I cannot afford to hire professinal musicians for live use either, because there's really not a lot of money involved when a band is at this size. Bands like Sabaton or Hammerfall may be able to hire anybody they want to because they have big labels backing if needed. I don't have anything to save this sinking ship anymore.

Of course I'm thankful for all fans who has bought the albums, but I still cannot simply summon any talented musicians out of nowhere.

Now it's over.
I have given up on Blazon Stone.
There's nothing more I can do.
I have tried as much as I can.

Thanks for all /// C.

Kind of a bummer but maybe if he'd branched out the sound more it would've worked better.

Sucks they are breaking up. I own everything they have out, check out the live album.

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Fat Freddy wrote:

Blazon Stone is calling it quits...

Quote :

It's time to let Blazon Stone die.
For the last few years I've tried to find suitable band members that are both talented and passionate. I cannot find a singer. I cannot find a drummer. I have tried everything can no longer come up with any new ideas how to keep the ship above surface.

I also don't any longer enjoy the whole concept of Blazon Stone:
The whole idea from the start was just to record a "RW style" album for fun. As the song writing quality stepped up a lot with "War Of The Roses" and "Down In The Dark" (compared to the first 2) I felt like this can actually become something and I got ambitious... And then entered the nightmares of trying to actually have a fuctioning line-up. But the concept is the thing I like the least: There's nothing original about this project I can be proud of. It's just blatant copy of an existing band. There's individual songs I've written that I'm proud of, but that's not enough.

Of course I'm thankful for various temporary live stand-ins like vocalist Philip Forsell, both drummers Daniel Sjögren and Kalle Löfgren, as well as bass players Jimmy Mattsson and Kevin Crona, and let's not forget 2nd guitarist Emil!

But I can't go on like this anymore.

There's obviously no interest among any great musicans to join Blazon Stone for a real line-up. And I cannot afford to hire professinal musicians for live use either, because there's really not a lot of money involved when a band is at this size. Bands like Sabaton or Hammerfall may be able to hire anybody they want to because they have big labels backing if needed. I don't have anything to save this sinking ship anymore.

Of course I'm thankful for all fans who has bought the albums, but I still cannot simply summon any talented musicians out of nowhere.

Now it's over.
I have given up on Blazon Stone.
There's nothing more I can do.
I have tried as much as I can.

Thanks for all /// C.

I hear their label owner has been stealing all their money to fund his travel expenses where he travels the globe eating awful-looking food. Such a shame.

I feel kinda bad for Cederick. He put the Rocka Rollas to bed for the same reason, he was never able to form a solid lineup that would stay together.  

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I hear their label owner has been stealing all their money to fund his travel expenses where he travels the globe eating awful-looking food. Such a shame.

I've never sat down and done the math, but I'm pretty sure that Ced's various projects have made up at least 25% of that label's annual release output over the past couple of years. How is this gonna affect his traveling/eating budget?

Fat Freddy wrote:

I feel kinda bad for Cederick. He put the Rocka Rollas to bed for the same reason, he was never able to form a solid lineup that would stay together.  

Quote :

I hear their label owner has been stealing all their money to fund his travel expenses where he travels the globe eating awful-looking food. Such a shame.

I've never sat down and done the math, but I'm pretty sure that Ced's various projects have made up at least 25% of that label's annual release output over the past couple of years. How is this gonna affect his traveling/eating budget?

He's gonna have to start releasing pop albums, I'm afraid.