Galactic Empire‘s new album “Cinemetal” has been unveiled for an October 24th release date through Pure Noise Records. While generally focused on music from the ‘Star Wars‘ franchise, this new entry finds the masked band branching off from a galaxy far, far away, instead taking on songs from the scores of films from the ‘Batman‘, ‘Harry Potter‘, ‘Back To The Future‘ and ‘Lord Of The Rings‘ franchises, among others.
The group’s take on John Williams‘ theme for the 1978 film adaptation of ‘Superman‘ has been served up as the first single, no doubt coinciding with this week’s coming July 11th opening of the latest adaptation of the film franchise. The band’s Lord Sihk commented:
“Puny citizens of Earth, we have once again returned to sonically annihilate all in our presence with the fourth full-length studio album by the mighty Galactic Empire, CINEMETAL. After three albums of tribute to the mighty Sith Lord John Williams, we realized we had run out of Star Wars music and felt like a change was in order. There are many other iconic themes from Earth’s film history that we have yet to explore, and it felt prudent to pay homage to some of the most notable ones. Behold the ultimate power of the Dark Side with CINEMETAL and together we can RULE the galaxy!”
The production duo of Grant McFarland and Carson Slovak mastermind the outfit and had the following to say about this shift in focus for the group:
“For years, we have been wanting to explore more musical material outside of the Star Wars universe. There are so many great film scores out there that stand the test of time. We decided to dig into a small handful of some of what we think are the most memorable and iconic themes from major blockbuster motion pictures from the last 50 years. We worked tirelessly on this album and without a doubt it is the most densely layered, complex arrangement that we have ever tackled. There were a lot of challenges to overcome because of this, but the result is immensely satisfying and we couldn’t be more proud of it.”
“Cinemetal” track listing:
01 – “Superman”
02 – “Avengers”
03 – “Back To The Future”
04 – “Batman”
05 – “ET”
06 – “Indiana Jones”
07 – “Godzilla”
08 – “Harry Potter”
09 – “Jurassic Park”
10 – “Lord Of The Rings”
11 – “Terminator”
12 – “Pirates Of The Caribbean”
Pre-orders are available through lnk.to/GalacticEmpireStores.
With NINI:
08/01 Cleveland, OH – Asylum Room @ TempleLive
08/02 Indianapolis, IN – The Deluxe
08/03 Detroit, MI – The Sanctuary
08/05 Cudahy, WI – X-Ray Arcade
08/06 Des Moines, IA – Wooly’s
08/07 Kansas City, MO – Recordbar
08/08 Oklahoma City, OK – 89th Street Collective
08/09 Dallas, TX – Puzzles
08/10 San Antonio, TX – The Rock Box
08/12 Houston, TX – Bronze Peacock @ House of Blues
08/14 Memphis, TN – 1884 Lounge
08/15 St. Louis, MO – Off Broadway
08/16 Rosemont, IL – Fan Expo Chicago
08/17 Columbus, OH – Ace of Cups
