Album Notes

When Icarus Witch released the Roses On White Lace EP in '05, the metal underground took notice. Later that year, the Pittsburgh based band followed up with the full length Capture The Magic album, featuring guests George Lynch of platinum '80s rockers Dokken as well as Frank Aresti of prog metal gods, Fates Warning. The press' hunger grew as the boys were regularly featured in major mags like Metal Maniacs, BW&BK, Outburn, Hit Parader, Pit, Explicitly Intense, Unrestrained & Classic Rock, to name just a few. A video for the title track starring Jasmine St. Claire began circulating on TV, online & in major DVD compilations with luminaries from Dio, Maiden, Queensryche, Priest, UFO, The Cult & Children Of Bodom. Meanwhile, the young group hit the road playing shows with everyone from 3 Inches Of Blood to Yngwie Malmsteen along the way. But it was the 2006 German festival season that opened their eyes to a growing international fan base when they were featured alongside Metal Church at H:O:A. Icarus Witch was becoming a global sensation!

How would they follow up a debut that charted top 40 on both CMJ & FMQB?

How could they avoid the sophomore slump, continue to evolve & please the hordes of new fans while not alienating the old school? Quite simply, Icarus Witch stick to the method that has taken them this far...following their muse, avoiding trends, doing things their own way & producing some of the finest classic melodic metal the world has heard! What they teased with on the first LP, they now deliver convincingly on Songs For The Lost. Better song writing, virtuosic playing, a wider variety of tempos, styles & layers are all expertly produced by studio genius, Eric Klinger, who also handled drumming duties for the record. The rockers rock harder, the mystic balladry takes the listener on candle lit astral journeys, and the doom riffs provide a lush gothic tapestry of sonic, Sabbathy sorrow on one track, only to be lifted by fist-in-the-air arena ready anthems on the next.

What ties it all together is a classy balance of snake charming, seductive sleaze & aristocratic AOR showmanship that lead one prominent writer to call this band "Rainbow for the modern era" - a comparison that Icarus Witch obviously embrace by inviting their vocal hero JOE LYNN TURNER (of Rainbow, Deep Purple & Yngwie fame) to sing on their hair raising version of Def Leppard's "Mirror Mirror." This & many other sonic pleasures await as you enjoy the neoclassic masterpiece that is Songs For The Lost!