MICHAEL KISKE, BRAZEN ABBOT, HOUSE OF LORDS Artwork Prints Available

April 1, 2007

Carl-André Beckston, designer of Michael Kiske's (ex-HELLOWEEN) last solo album ("Kiske") and PLACE VENDOME's debut CD (the project featuring Kiske alongside PINK CREAM 69 members Dennis Ward, Uwe Reitenauer, Kosta Zafiriou and VANDEN PLAS' Gunther Werno),has opened a webshop where you can buy prints of his artwork in various sizes. Beckston's gallery can be accessed at this location.

According to MichaelKiske.net, Beckston is currently working on Kiske's new album cover and booklet art.

As previously reported, Kiske is currently rearranging and re-recording all of the songs that he wrote with for an upcoming CD, to be released later this year through Frontiers Records. The projected track listing for the album is as follows:

01. We Got the Right
02. A Little Time
03. Kids Of the Century
04. Goin' Home
05. You Always Walk Alone
06. When the Sinner
07. I Believe
08. Longing
09. In the Night
10. Your Turn
+ as-yet-undisclosed new song

When asked by a fan named Deborah Schwichtenberg what he thinks of people who are criticizing his decision to re-record the HELLOWEEN classics, claiming that Kiske "used to eat from HELLOWEEN's songs" before slamming them in the press and now once again wanting to "eat" from HELLOWEEN by selling new recordings of their material, Kiske responded, "I don't give a hack about this! Unfortunately, the metal world is full of people who bark and complain and bark and complain forever anyway, no matter what I do. They will always search for reasons to cry.

"I was part of that band, so I didn't just 'eat' from them. That's a very weird way of thinking. I was BUILDING the band together with the original members, and no one can forbid me to re-record acoustic versions of MY OWN music. I don't think I have to ask 'metal popes' for their permission to do that at all. Those are MY songs — if I feel like doing this, I do it anyway!

"The good first HELLOWEEN years (with Kai Hansen) were also absolutely great; I don't reject them at all! And I think it was a good idea from Serafino (Frontiers Records) to give my songs of the past a new acoustic sound that fits me today. Because on one hand this shows that I don't reject my past; and on the other hand, it can also give some (more open and intelligent) people another perspective at those songs. And if anyone doesn't like that idea. no one forces him or her to listen to it! These new recordings will NOT AT ALL sound like HELLOWEEN or metal, so it is VERY stupid to put it the way some do. I have already started to go through some arrangements, and it's big fun; I'm really excited about it. Those early songs of mine were not so bad at all, and they work great as acoustics."

Michael Kiske's latest solo album, simply entitled "Kiske", was released last May via Frontiers Records.

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