Colin Parks
Ghosts Of Atlantis
I am very good and is a pleasure to meet your acquaintance
I work as a front line career, so for me personally it's been very busy and a time that is very anxious for our team, For the music side of things it has been relentless launching an album on top of 60 hour weeks caring for other people has been a massive challenge.
I think the whole world is not used to dealing with anything like this on a global scale, Mistakes have been made here in the UK, yet I am not one to cast stones. I believe that anybody trying to deal with this would be under significant pressure, and an amount of decisions that none of us can really fathom. So far in the UK at the end of January we have vaccinated nearly 8 million people, (including myself) so that is a step in the right direction.
Pretty much spot on, Dani is very busy with Cradle Of Filth for the foreseeable future, I was presented with lots of down time musically. I spent what time I had getting Devilhead Studios ready, and leaping in to the world of recording and production. This allowed me to place my future in to my own hands, rather than waiting for scraps to fall from the table.
I reached out to my amazing friends and family from TCW (The band I was in pre- Devilment) and told them to get ready, as I would be locking myself away to create something special.
We love the dark vibe, we wanted something a bit unique and sinister but not cliché, yes I can see the image changing and evolving as the band grows, but these elements will remain.
That is a secret………(p.s. you are so unbelievably close)
We have taken elements of historic writings and have merged them with our own Lore and fantasy. I do not want to give away too much about the image and how it becomes entwined with the music, however, that being said, the Ghosts of Atlantis themselves are echoes through time, not of this mortal plain. There are Sci-Fi elements to the lore which will be explored in album 2. For the debut we wanted to create a solid foundation to expand upon in every sense.
Yes, mankind is greedy, driven by power, money and territory, it is documented that the Atlantian people lived in a land that is rich with minerals and were subject to higher learning. Alas, they grew inward and became driven by greed and the lust of power would anger the gods and other civilizations.
Not a sole protagonist as such, we explore the different civilizations and the type of people they were, the Gods are also heavily featured, with some twists along the way to the stories that you will know.
Not really, our Lore is purely fantasy based, however we certainly do touch upon many things that are very prevalent today, things that would harm us as a species.
The chains were taken off, I no longer had to write to a style, or exclude certain elements from other genres, for the fear of encroaching on other bands' sounds and standing in the industry. Devilment and Cradle are very different bands, and despite the fact they share members, the sounds would have always had to be different, which is fair enough really.
I always took notice of the way Dani wrote his vocal patterns, and the way that they sat within the music and added another layer of mystery. I grew as a composer because my heart was in Devilment so much, as a child I had always loved storytelling and poetry, that never changed, however with GOA I had a very strong vision as to what elements I wanted to set in stone to become the hallmark of our sound.
There are two songs with guitar solos on, this was the first album that I had ever orchestrated, recorded and produced so I wanted everything to be massive and solid, I am a guitarist that will place solos in to a song when they are required to add another dimension to the piece of music. Everyone else is playing solos, I wanted to instead use other instrumentation to carry the melodic passages to make it more cinematic and then when a solo is encompassed within the song it means something.
I spent time getting used to the equipment I had at my studio, I am a singer first and foremost, and a guitarist second strangely enough, it was great to be able to sing again in a band environment. I worked with Pip on getting solid guides to him and passages and phrases and he did a phenomenal job. I really pushed him hard in the vocal tracking, it was a learning curve at first but after a while we found our dynamic as vocalists for GOA. We have both been vocalists in TCW for around 7 years previously, so we know our chemistry is on point.
It is not all about the equipment, the mic we recorded on was £120 and the interface £130, the bond of friendship and brotherhood we both have stems from years of working together, what was interesting was the new dynamic of vocalist to producer. I am very proud of Pip on this album, he is a credit to the band, and a great human being, they all are, seriously, they are incredible people, I am so lucky to call them my family and friends.
It was tough! I had to learn every single element of making the album, luckily James Stephenson over at Stymphalian Productions mixed and mastered the album, and he did an insane job as you can hear! The main challenge was writing all the orchestras and music, then getting all the imagery and assets to be as strong as the music!!!
I reached out to my very close friend Drake Mefessta who handles all of our visual assets and also composed the piano intro and outro on "The Lost Compass" and played some piano over the middle eight orchestra also!
It's just solid and impactive, aggressive yet melodic, somber yet uplifting, it depicts the story of the Atlantian people on a great pilgrimage, and the time travel of the Ghosts Of Atlantis. Its super interesting, and paves the way well for what's to come!
This song is a song we have had as a band for 9 years, it has undergone massive, massive changes however and now really stands as an epic tale of the battle between humanity and god. The music had to be that big to get the message across, I think it will be a fan favorite!
We are not interested in live streaming, the budget required to make this show would be colossal and we are a new band finding our feet in the world.
Yes there is another two videos! One lyric video is due very late Feb and one more full video after the album launches, this will likely be around June release
My pleasure, and we all thank you for doing what you do.
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