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At the same time, I accept that it was the best I could do at that moment! I worked with what I had and knew. This life doesn’t often give you a Second Time Around, but if it does - consider yourself lucky and grab it. The songs on “Second Time Around” have been with me for a long, long time. I remember writing the first song “When She Cries”, October 2, 2005 the day after my daughter Isabel had been born. It was like a whole new door opened and all these songs came out over the next few months along with a whole other bunch of songs, which have all ended up on different albums. You can say it was the most\u003cbr\u003ecreative time in my 44 years in the rock’n’roll uniform.\u003cbr\u003eStill it was also a time where I was floating around between good and bad and didn’t know where I should go with my career. I was very confused and had no one in my life I could trust to guide me. Should I follow the idea of a new version of White Lion, which at that time I was in the middle of and kept me awake all night and many times left me with so much regret and shame? Or should I continue with what I had started in 1996, when I recorded my first solo album “Capricorn” and became a solo artist, and by 2005 had a total of four solo albums behind me that actually told me, it is clear who Mike Tramp is as an artist. But very unusual for Mike Tramp, I was lost and could not find anything to hold on to. My second child had just been born, life was suddenly different, and my rock’n’roll world was changing faster than I could run.\u003cbr\u003eThe songs on “Second Time Around” are some of my favorite compositions, and for many years I have gone around with a feeling that they were never given a real chance. I have missed them in my live shows and I have missed singing them. 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Two years later the  band  dissolved,  and  Deathstrike  was formed  after  a  failed  search  for  a  guitar  player  for Master!  First  Deathstrike,  and  then  Master  recorded  their  influential  demos  respectively!  A recording  contract  was  eventually  secured  between  Master  and  Nuclear  Blast  and  in  1989 Speckmann (vocals, bass) along with Chris Mittelbrun (guitar) and Bill Schmidt (drums) recorded their debut album in Solid Sound Studios, but things didn’t go quite as planned. “Markus Staiger, the label boss for Nuclear Blast, decided he didn’t like the production of the soon to be released self-titled  Master album!”, Paul Speckmann recalls. “So  after  a  few  brief  conversations  it  was agreed upon from all parties that we would go to Morrisound Studios in Florida and record the album  again,  with  a  new  line-up  featuring  myself,  Aaron  Nickeas  from  Abomination  on  drums and  Jim  Martinelli  from  Burnt  Offering  on  guitar,  and  add  some  additional  songs.  Legendary producer Scott Burns produced the new recording and after it was sent to Nuclear Blast it was once  again  rejected  –  for  being  too  polished!  So  in  the  end  Burns  remixed  the  previous recordings from Chicago and that was released as the Master debut album. I felt that it would be a  waste  to  throw  out  the  Morrisound  recordings,  so  this  was  released  as  the  first  Speckmann Project album in 1991”.\u003cbr\u003eThree  decades  have  passed  and  now the  time has  come  for  a much  awaited follow-up  album, this  time  in  collaboration  with  Swedish death  metal-savant  Rogga  Johansson,  known  from Paganizer, Ribspreader, Revolting and a myriad of other bands. So what inspired Paul Speckmann to do a second Speckmann Project album in 2021? “Rogga  felt  that  the  many collaborations  we  did  with  the  Johansson  \u0026amp; Speckmann  project  were  sadly  not  given  the attention they deserved. Rogga and I have recorded several excellent albums together that have gone  mostly  unnoticed  by  the  general  public!  So  maybe  the  press  as  well  as  the  fans  would relate better to the Speckmann name alone”, Speckmann reasons.\u003cbr\u003eThe music is written by Rogga while Paul Speckmann has penned all of the lyrics, but the riffs  and arrangements are exactly what we’ve come to expect from a pure Speckmann-product. The songs on this album have that thrashing punk-aggression to it and Rogga has clearly learnt how  to  write  in  a  style  that  very  well  mimics  the  old-school  fury  of  the  early  Speckmann-works. “Rogga  is  an  excellent  and  experienced  songwriter,  but  as  for  being  a  mimic  in  this  sense,  I must  explain”,  Speckmann  acclaims.  “When  Rogga  approached  me  regarding  this  revival project,  it  was  basically  in  name  only.  What  I  mean  is  that  Rogga  said  he  would  write  an  old school record for me to sing. In my opinion, Kam Lee, Chuck Shuldiner, and I took the anvil and forged the way for a new genre of music, influencing the Scandinavians, the British, as well as the Americans with this new direction. So obviously the influences of early death metal – as they went  on  to  call  it  –  are  here,  but  the  songs  are  shorter  and  to  the  point  where  the  first Speckmann Project release had some long and and drawn-out lengthy tracks!”\u003cbr\u003eThree decades may have passed, but as far as lyrical themes not much has changed according to Paul Speckmann. “The  themes  are  always  the  same  in  all  the  bands  that  I  am  involved  in; anti-religion,  anti-government  and  genuinely  just  believing  in  yourself  and  trusting  your  own instincts! I believe in freedom, although as the years go by steps are being continually taken to these freedoms and turn the world into machines working for the betterment of the wealthy and influential!”\u003cbr\u003eWith the first album having such an elaborate origin story, one might wonder how “Fiends Of Emptiness” was recorded and came into being? “We recorded the album rather quickly. Rogga always surrounds himself with the best musicians so he found the additional killer players, Kjetil Lynghaug  (solo  guitar)  and  Jon  Rudin  (drums),  and  recorded  with  them  Then  he  sent  me  the completed  recordings  and  I  entered Shaark  Studios  here  in  the  Czech  Republic  and  recorded  the vocals with the lyrics I had written. I usually sing two songs per week over a six week period.  Then the mixes are done in Norway and we discuss the mixes and take it from there! I hope one day  to  be  able  to  record the  complete  project  together  in  a  studio  in  Sweden.  Fingers  crosses  that this will one day come to fruition!”\u003cbr\u003eThe second Speckmann Project album, entitled “Fiends Of Emptiness”, will hit the airwaves like a sledgehammer in 2022 and according to Paul Speckmann we will not have to wait another 30  years for the next one after that! “I have signed a contract for two releases with Emanzipation in Denmark and off-shoot of the Target Group! 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Such was the career of the Danish technical death metal export number one band of the late 90s, Iniquity. They did help define the “Scandivanian sound” in extreme metal – and particularly of death metal – since their debut album “Serenadium” in 1996 and created a classic record of the genre right there. “Five Across The Eyes”, three years later, showed an evolution sound, much more clear in production and somehow more harmonic, without losing the brutality and technical prowess. But the best was saved for their swan-song. And this swan-song is called “Grime” and was released originally in 2001.\u003cbr\u003eFor the very first time, Iniquity had almost a stable line-up, with only the guitar player Kræn Meier (nowadays in Artillery) as the new member, replacing Brian Eriksen. They enjoyed this stability with a smooth and faster composition, releasing “Grime” only two years after “Five Across The Eyes”. And their obvious domination of Scandinavian – and European – death metal was quite obvious right from track one. Mads Haarlev turned into a monster vocalist – in technicality, spitting the words clear and fast, but also brutality and intensity, with one of the most recognizable growls, even today, in death metal. Backing it up, were ten amazing technical death metal tracks, oozing with double bass drumming and blastbeats as well as unbelievable technical details that sent shivers down the spine of every genre fan in each one of the 46 minutes of the album.\u003cbr\u003eNot surprisingly, “Grime” was received with great praise from both fans and press alike and helped bringing the most technical death metal a step forward in popularity. Iniquity were definitely a hot band in the yes of the fans and extreme metal media darlings with the scene at their feet... But unfortunately, the turbulence returned to the line-up shortly after the release of “Grime” and the project disbanded two years after the album release. Iniquity returned a couple of times since then, only to play a few shows and slip back to a quiet and silent subject of cult adoration in the death metal scene. But their record legacy lives on, with “Grime” being the most accomplished, final format of their musical excellence ever recorded.\u003cbr\u003eNow, for the first time ever, the final Iniquity studio album will be re-released in vinyl format, with the sound remastered at Angioni Studios, and two different LP colour variants, each limited to 300 copies: black and marbled grey\/black. 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But also a few others that, in the following years, saw their career follow different paths and fates, loading to disbanding with a band or simply fading away. Formed in 1983, Copenhagen-natives EVIL were one of these bands. Their debut demo, already in ‘83, set the Danish heavy metal on fire with their heavy metal frenzy and their now-mythical 1984 EP “Evil’s Message” was the confirmation that Denmark had probably one of the strongest metal scenes in Europe back then. Unfortunately, that wasn’t meant to last and the band disappeared from circulation in 1985. A return to action was later tried in 2015, with original drummer Freddie Wolf, now on guitars, leading a new line-up that released the debut album “Shoot The Messenger”. But Evil’s career still wasn’t meant to be and the band laid dormant again... Until now! 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The result is “Sempiternity”, an album that started out as a “swansong”, but had the band leaving the door open instead of closing it once and for all. “When we were in the studio doing those songs, we realized we didn’t want to say that, to see those as our final recording”, vocalist Scott Reigel says. “And we asked Michael not to promote this as our swansong anymore… It started with us listening to the live stuff at Maryland and thinking how fucking incredible it sounded, especially with now Jarrett on second guitar. 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Nigel Palmer (Raging Speedhorn, Satan’s Empire) then polished altogether in Lowland Masters. This typical British environment helped Trespass maintain their NWOBHM signature twinguitar sound, while having a drive and energy in the rhythm section that transports them right back into the 20s. The artwork, by Mark Wilkinson (Iron Maiden, Judas Priest) put the final touch in a release that won’t disappoint the old-school fans, as well as new ones. Trespass was formed in 1979 in Sudbury, Suffolk by Mark Sutcliffe (guitar, vocals) and his brother Paul on drums. The band enjoyed success and critical acclaim as part of the New wave of British Heavy Metal in the early 80s, although it has only released a few singles and\u003cbr\u003ean EP - the cult “Bright Lights”, from 1981. 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