Dignity

My suggestion for you guys: an Austrian band (with a Swedish singer) named Dignity. Their first album was released in 2008, and has been pretty well received I hate labelling band, but for the sake of doing it, I'd call it melodic power metal or something among those lines...
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http://www.myspace.com/dignityband
http://www.dignityband.com
http://www.dignityfans.com (forum)
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A little bit of background (from their myspace):

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DIGNITY was founded in fall 2006 by drummer Roland Navratil and keyboarder Frank Pitters. At that time Roland was member of the band Edenbridge with whom he recorded five studio albums and one live album. Martin Mayr and John Boy Bastard completed the DIGNITY line up. Martin and Frank knew each other for years. They both played in the band Invictus and recorded a demo in 1999. In winter the band began working on the songs and finally recorded the first demos.

In April 2007 the songs for the album "Project Destiny" were selected and the band started to search a matching vocalist. Roland quit Edenbridge to focus on DIGNITY. In May the band started by recording drums, bass, and guitars at the "WildOneStudio" in Vienna. In the meantime they were rehearsing different vocalists but none of them seemed to fit the songs. At the end of the summer Martin finished his guitar studies at the university and focused on the band. The Columbian artist Felipe Machado Franco took care of the script, the cover, and the artwork for "Project Destiny". In October, the band found in the Swedish singer Jake E the perfect vocalist. While Jake worked on the lyrics and the vocal lines, Frank improved the keyboard sounds.

In late January 2008, early February Jake E came to Vienna and recorded the vocals. In the end of February Roland and Frank went to Sweden to get the CD mixed by Jonas Kjellgren at the Black Lounge Studios. The mastering was done by Mika Jussila at the Finnvox Studio.

Check them out, I think they're great
http://www.myspace.com/dignityband
http://www.dignityband.com
http://www.dignityfans.com (forum)

i bought this album after poermetaliveson recommended Dignity to me hehe

And what were your thoughts about it?

Gurther wrote:

And what were your thoughts about it?

Excellent, if you enjoy uplifting, melodic power metal with clean vocals and good lyrics, Dignity is sure to be enjoyable for ya ;D

Pretty good.
I like they're vocals, they sound pretty original.
I'll probably be listening to them more.

AJ190 wrote:

Pretty good.
I like they're vocals, they sound pretty original.
I'll probably be listening to them more.

Yayy!

I especially like Edge of the Blade, Icarus, Arrogance and Rapture, Dreams Never Die, and Don't Pay the Ferryman. The whole album is good, but those are my favorites from it ;D

Vggamegod wrote:

I especially like Edge of the Blade, Icarus, Arrogance and Rapture, Dreams Never Die, and Don't Pay the Ferryman. The whole album is good, but those are my favorites from it ;D

It would be the same for me, except I'd add Inner Demons somewhere... I'm really looking forward to the next album!

Gurther wrote:

Vggamegod wrote:

I especially like Edge of the Blade, Icarus, Arrogance and Rapture, Dreams Never Die, and Don't Pay the Ferryman. The whole album is good, but those are my favorites from it ;D

It would be the same for me, except I'd add Inner Demons somewhere... I'm really looking forward to the next album!

Let's go find the band and make violent threats against them to make a new album >

Vggamegod wrote:

Gurther wrote:

Vggamegod wrote:

I especially like Edge of the Blade, Icarus, Arrogance and Rapture, Dreams Never Die, and Don't Pay the Ferryman. The whole album is good, but those are my favorites from it ;D

It would be the same for me, except I'd add Inner Demons somewhere... I'm really looking forward to the next album!

Let's go find the band and make violent threats against them to make a new album >

Good idea... Haha Nahh...

The next album was planned to be released before the end of 2009, however, it took longer then expected in the studio, so I guess it'll be released in Q1 of 2010... But there's no deadline, the band doesn't want to rush themselves (which is fine with me ), and there's not much I can say really, except they're working hard on it!

But apparently, so far, it's great (not that I expected him to say "NO! IT'S GOING TO BE BAD!"... )

ive just gave them a try! pretty awesome i can say. i love their style of music especially the vocals