Will there be new flower kings this year

Well they are pretty consistant with releasing an album every 1-2 years... I hope they do release one this year as well, but it will probably come out late 2007 if not 2008

kiligian wrote: i read there might then i read theres not... what is it i hpe theres new one i dont thinki can wait till 2008 for nother gem... Paradox hotel is there best cd to date imho it one of the most played tfk discs i own by them.... i also heard there rumor of 2-3 roine stolot solo projects one is with orhcestra other 2 r misc... if there roine stolt cd this year ill be find till 2008  i know there new bodin cd this year for sure.....

I did read a post that gave a statement from Roine on the TFK website. He outlined things he was doing, and what was coming up. According to this, TFK will be working on a new album in September, I think. So it could be a release in time for Xmas, or early next year.

oh great news from mr. stolt but speaking of which this might be off topic I've read in a few posts that there might be a new Kaipa album coming out.  Has Stolt verified this already?

RichardH, do you -have- to troll every TFK thread you see?  You're getting predictable.

Anyway, straight from Roine:

But even more important we are ready to start work on next TFK studio release.
Well it started some time ago with doing demos of course and now we will start reharsing tomorrow and then go into a very cool studio called Varispeed on March 26th .
The studio have a definite 70 retro vibe , it has got 3(!!) NEVE desks and lots of other cool stuff ,vintage mikes Hammond ,Rhodes,old blackface Fenderamps and all that sh*t .

The material is of course impossible to be described and should maybe not be ,
besides too many bands rave about their own music and new recordings way too early, I am of the opinion that the music speak for itself and shall not be hyped,
however .........my very firmly rooted gut feel is that the material we have is by far the best symphonic prog that we've ever had and as if this was not enough Jonas
is even more enthusiastic and both Hasse and Tomas are very fired up too.
So maybe there is something in there after all and when I say "symphonic prog" I mean it in the true sense.
I.o.w . it means there is virually no "filler" ,I mean what some people have accused us for,filling out the CD's with ambient,jazz or electronic experiments.
Whatever you feel about that opinion this CD will not see as much as 5 seconds of it .

Nor have we been aiming at more modern mainstream prog or metal like Porcupine Tree,POS,Mars Volta,Tool, Spocks or Neal Morse for that matter and there will be no real surprises,no experiment for experiments sake ..
So this new CD will only contain the destilled VERY BEST of what most of you concider to be the heart of prog.
The sound is very much Flowerkings and that means in the spirit of when prog was at it's peak,melody reign and bombast was a good thing.

So if I were to describe it for someone who had been sleeping or in a coma since 1978
( no I'm not talking about all the A&R folks on the major labels) I'd probably say it's a mix of Shine On Brightly,Selling England By The Pound,Brain Salad Surgery,Tales From Topographic Oceans,In A Glass House,Abbey Road,Utopia,Hamburg Concerto,
Refugee,The Snow Goose,In The Court Of The Crimson King,Eldorado,One Size fits all,Jusus Christ Superstar and Dark Side Of The Moon .........
Yes it is turning out to be 100% certified symph/prog !!! well now that can change of course and we end up with something like the latest Dimmu Borgir ......""*?%€#

Anyway rest assured that we will pour our hearts into doing the best prog album in 35 years,now if you ask Jonas he's convinced it is going to happen .....and that's a bit odd coming from Jonas .The working title of the album is .......xxxxxxx ,no I won't spoil that fun,or give it away to some copycat (anyway it is a very cool and fitting title that says all about our music ) ....

Anyway we're looking at a few "epics", a main piece of 24 minutes and two "shorter" tracks of around 12 min,plus Tomas have a fast and furious instrumental and I have the odd 5 min track with the quirky 11/8 timesignature;Hasse and I share the vocals about 50/50 and the drumming will be excellent and very proggy (you don't know what I know ),we have Hammond,Rhodes,Wurlizer,Grand Piano,Rickenbacker12string, 2 real minimoogs and plenty of odd percussion ...... ......sounds predictable ?.....shure it is but who gives a sh*t as long as the music is a trip .

Expect nothing but a trip back to when prog ruled and was even hip,we're goona take you there guys .......promise !!!

Man Overboard wrote: RichardH, do you -have- to troll every TFK thread you see?  You're getting predictable. Anyway, straight from Roine: But even more important we are ready to start work on next TFK studio release. Well it started some time ago with doing demos of course and now we will start reharsing tomorrow and then go into a very cool studio called Varispeed on March 26th . The studio have a definite 70 retro vibe , it has got 3(!!) NEVE desks and lots of other cool stuff ,vintage mikes Hammond ,Rhodes,old blackface Fenderamps and all that sh*t . The material is of course impossible to be described and should maybe not be , besides too many bands rave about their own music and new recordings way too early, I am of the opinion that the music speak for itself and shall not be hyped, however .........my very firmly rooted gut feel is that the material we have is by far the best symphonic prog that we've ever had and as if this was not enough Jonas is even more enthusiastic and both Hasse and Tomas are very fired up too. So maybe there is something in there after all and when I say "symphonic prog" I mean it in the true sense. I.o.w . it means there is virually no "filler" ,I mean what some people have accused us for,filling out the CD's with ambient,jazz or electronic experiments. Whatever you feel about that opinion this CD will not see as much as 5 seconds of it . Nor have we been aiming at more modern mainstream prog or metal like Porcupine Tree,POS,Mars Volta,Tool, Spocks or Neal Morse for that matter and there will be no real surprises,no experiment for experiments sake .. So this new CD will only contain the destilled VERY BEST of what most of you concider to be the heart of prog. The sound is very much Flowerkings and that means in the spirit of when prog was at it's peak,melody reign and bombast was a good thing. So if I were to describe it for someone who had been sleeping or in a coma since 1978 ( no I'm not talking about all the A&R folks on the major labels) I'd probably say it's a mix of Shine On Brightly,Selling England By The Pound,Brain Salad Surgery,Tales From Topographic Oceans,In A Glass House,Abbey Road,Utopia,Hamburg Concerto, Refugee,The Snow Goose,In The Court Of The Crimson King,Eldorado,One Size fits all,Jusus Christ Superstar and Dark Side Of The Moon ......... Yes it is turning out to be 100% certified symph/prog !!! well now that can change of course and we end up with something like the latest Dimmu Borgir ......""*?%€# Anyway rest assured that we will pour our hearts into doing the best prog album in 35 years,now if you ask Jonas he's convinced it is going to happen .....and that's a bit odd coming from Jonas .The working title of the album is .......xxxxxxx ,no I won't spoil that fun,or give it away to some copycat (anyway it is a very cool and fitting title that says all about our music ) .... Anyway we're looking at a few "epics", a main piece of 24 minutes and two "shorter" tracks of around 12 min,plus Tomas have a fast and furious instrumental and I have the odd 5 min track with the quirky 11/8 timesignature;Hasse and I share the vocals about 50/50 and the drumming will be excellent and very proggy (you don't know what I know ),we have Hammond,Rhodes,Wurlizer,Grand Piano,Rickenbacker12string, 2 real minimoogs and plenty of odd percussion ...... ......sounds predictable ?.....shure it is but who gives a sh*t as long as the music is a trip . Expect nothing but a trip back to when prog ruled and was even hip,we're goona take you there guys .......promise !!!