End of Eden
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| Studio album by Amberian Dawn | ||||
| Released | October 20, 2010 | |||
| Recorded | 2009 - 2010 | |||
| Genre | Power metal, symphonic metal | |||
| Label | Spinefarm Records | |||
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End of Eden is the third studio album by Amberian Dawn, and the first released on Spinefarm Records, previous albums having been released on KHY Suomen Musiikki. The album was released on October 20, 2010, but was preceded by its online single Arctica on August 23.
In November 2009, Amberian Dawn settled back in Finland after their The Clouds of Northland Thunder tour with Epica and Sons of Seasons. On November 23, the official website announced that main composer Tuomas had many new songs finished for a third album, to be released in 2010, and that lyricist Heidi Parviainen had started writing the new lyrics. The recordings started in late 2009 with drums, and were finished within a half year.
On July 12, 2010, Amberian Dawn officially announced that the next album would be called End of Eden, and that it would be released on October 20 of the same year. They also reported having signed with Spinefarm Records. The album title was thought up relatively late in the process, when all music was finished and the lyrics were on the way, alongside the album art inspired by the name and concept.
On July 18 the band announced on their website that the upcoming album was to be called End of Eden, and on August 23, they announced the cover art and track list. At the same time they released an online single, Arctica, for download on MySpace and Spotify.
The album was released on October 20, alongside the music video of the lead single Arctica.
The album was early reported to be "more diverse, faster and darker than [...] previous albums" and to have "a bigger, more polymorphic sound". The music site Necroweb points out in a review that many songs have a much more melancholic approach than on earlier albums, especially in "War in Heaven" and "Come Now Follow".
This album also has more complex song structures. Composer and keyboardist Tuomas Seppälä has commented that "I just wanted to try something different and quite boldly experimented with different kind of musical styles. Those styles are not new to me, but I haven't composed this kind of stuff to AD before. I'm planning to continue this kind of experiments in the future also and will definitely do some even more shocking stuff for AD in the future."
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