Melodic metallers MASTERPLAN will unleash their first-ever concert release on October 9.
“Keep Your Dream aLive” will be available as DVD/CD and Blu-ray/CD sets, both including the entire show from Masters Of Rock festival, recordings from Wacken Open Air, footage from the band’s latest Asian tour and ProgPower USA, as well as all five official MASTERPLAN video clips. The Masters Of Rock show is featured on the CD.
CD track listing:
01. Enlighten Me
02. Spirit Never Die
03. Lost And Gone
04. Crystal Night
05. Betrayal
06. Crimson Rider
07. Back For My Life
08. Time To Be King
09. Keep Your Dream Alive
10. Heroes
11. Soulburn
12. Kind Hearted Light
13. Crawling From Hell
14. Black Night Of Magic
DVD (Masters Of Rock show) track listing:
01. Intro
02. Enlighten Me
03. Spirit Never Die
04. Lost And Gone
05. Crystal Night
06. Betrayal
07. Crimson Rider
08. Back For My Life
09. Time To Be King
10. Keep Your Dream Alive
11. Heroes
12. Soulburn
13. Kind Hearted Light
14. Crawling From Hell
MASTERPLAN will tour Latin America in October.
MASTERPLAN’s new album, “Novum Initium”, was released in June 2013 via AFM Records.
Joining guitarist Roland Grapow (ex-HELLOWEEN) in MASTERPLAN’s current lineup are drummer Martin “Marthus” Skaroupka (CRADLE OF FILTH), vocalist Rick Altzi (AT VANCE, SANDALINAS, THUNDERSTONE), who replaces Jorn Lande, and bassist Jari Kainulainen (STRATOVARIUS, SYMFONIA, DEVIL’S TRAIN).
In an interview with Uber Rock, Altzi stated about the band’s latest CD: “We decided to start afresh, not changing the whole MASTERPLAN trademark too much, but also not trying to think so much about the past. It was really more looking forward into the future. I think it was a very important decision not trying to copy the old style, but look forward and make something really good.”
Speaking to Myglobalmind, Grapow said about MASTERPLAN’s numerous personnel shuffles: “I think that it’s basically hard to explain why we always had singer changes. When we started MASTERPLAN with Jorn [Lande], a lot of people had warned me to be careful saying that he was very difficult. That he was never happy or satisfied with things. I think that the only thing that he really was concentrated on was trading on a solo career called JORN. Everything else for him was just a side project; he never saw MASTERPLAN as his main band. It was especially bad for me as I had put so much love, work and so much feeling for this band. I had given everything to make the band big. Jorn never did anything for us for this band. He never even said anything great about MASTERPLAN. That is not nice; you need a really good team behind you which loves this work. It’s the same as a company — if someone is not dedicated totally 100%, it doesn’t matter what a great voice he has. You stay on the same level, but now with a totally different lineup, we have a really big chance of getting further now. We can play live again. That just wasn’t happening for about six years, which was quite terrible, to be honest.”
MASTERPLAN’s current lineup:
Rick Altzi – vocals
Roland Grapow – guitars
Axel Mackenrott – keyboards
Jari Kainulainen – bass
Martin “Marthus” Skaroupka – drums
Source: Blabbermouth
