Metal Machine

It certainly requires a healthy portion of self-confidence to call the opening track of one's new album ´We Are The Metal Gods`. Midnight Sun from Sweden have good reason to be self-confident, because their latest mixture of powermetal, epic influences, true metal and progressive passages have never sounded as exciting and mature as on this, their fourth album, Metal Machine. Once again mastermind and bass player Jonas Reingold has put together some fabulous metal songs and recorded them with his extraordinarily technically talented band. The result is an album which takes the fans to a variety of mysterious places to face evil witchcraft, metal gods and guardians of magical gates. Appropriately named song titles such as ´Dungeons Of Steel`, ´Temple Of The Graal`, ´Your Blood Burns In Hell`, ´Keeper Of The Gate` and ´Metal Will Stand Tall` speak a clear, unmistakeable language.

The new material was written from September 2000 onwards, after Reingold had badly injured his hand playing soccer and needed to undergo surgery. The instrumentalist was out of the music game for two months, but still worked on the basic ideas for the new album. "Metal Machine is by far the best album that I've ever made," he says proudly. "I think it has an unmistakeable sound, fits into the world of heavy metal perfectly and the music and text form a solid unit. Midnight Sun fans will really enjoy the new album."