{"id":2333,"date":"2013-01-25T11:44:37","date_gmt":"2013-01-25T11:44:37","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2013-01-25T11:44:37","modified_gmt":"2013-01-25T11:44:37","slug":"","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.livestagemusic.com\/?p=2333","title":{"rendered":"Upon wings &#8211; Afterlife"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>American female fronted band Upon Wings are due to release their Afterlife EP in March.  The EP features some guest vocals from Brett Hestla (ex-Creed, Dark New Day) and was mastered by Kid Rock recording engineer Glenn Brown.<\/p>\n<p>Opening track &#8221;Afterlife&#8221; is absolutely superb.  Vocally the best comparisons are probably Epica and Delain, and musically Delain are definitely a good comparison too.  A very impressive start to the EP.<\/p>\n<p>&#8221;Take away&#8221; is a heavier track with the guitars and drums being harder and making it more of a metal track.<\/p>\n<p>&#8221;The dream&#8221; has an operatic vocal style for the main vocals with some beautiful haunting vocals alongside them and the music is kept  fairly soft and in the background. It&#8217;s a beautiful track. <\/p>\n<p>The final track, &#8221;You are my weapon&#8221; is another metal track.  Guitars and solid drums give the song plenty of punch and the superb vocals  are clear and light and work perfectly with the music.<\/p>\n<p>An excellent EP that will appeal to a lot of fans of female fronted metal,  in particular those who like the more operatic style of vocals. <\/p>\n<p>The EP will be released on 5th March<\/p>\n<p>Track listing:<\/p>\n<p>1. Afterlife<br \/>\n2. Take away<br \/>\n3. The dream<br \/>\n4. You are my weapon<\/p>\n<p>Upon wings are:<\/p>\n<p>Anne Autumn Erickson &#8211; lead vocals<\/p>\n<p>Contributors:<\/p>\n<p>Glenn Brown &#8211; keyboards<br \/>\nKevin Jardine &#8211; guitars<br \/>\nBrett Hestla &#8211; guitars, drums, guest vocals<br \/>\nPeter Tzaferis &#8211; drums<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>American female fronted band Upon Wings are due to release their Afterlife EP in March. The EP features some guest vocals from Brett Hestla (ex-Creed, Dark New Day) and was mastered by Kid Rock recording engineer Glenn Brown. Opening track &#8221;Afterlife&#8221; is absolutely superb. Vocally the best comparisons are probably Epica and Delain, and musically [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":295,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cd_reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.livestagemusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.livestagemusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.livestagemusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.livestagemusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/295"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.livestagemusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.livestagemusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2333\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.livestagemusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.livestagemusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.livestagemusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}