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Welcome To Fantasy World Of Symphonic Speed Power Metal Band.
Pathfinder is a Polish symphonic power metal band. As of 2012, the band has released two full-length albums and collaborated and toured with widely known power metal acts such as Power Quest and Labyrinth. The band’s primary lyrical themes are epic fantasy, and its musical style has been described as consisting of ”sweeping keyboard orchestrations, chugging riffs, blinding guitar solos, frantic rhythms, and soaring vocals”. Pathfinder was formed in Poznań, Poland in 2006 by bassist/composer Arkadiusz E. Ruth and guitarist Karol Mania with the aim of creating
Welcome To Fantasy World Of Symphonic Speed Power Metal Band.
Pathfinder is a Polish symphonic power metal band. As of 2012, the band has released two full-length albums and collaborated and toured with widely known power metal acts such as Power Quest and Labyrinth. The band’s primary lyrical themes are epic fantasy, and its musical style has been described as consisting of ”sweeping keyboard orchestrations, chugging riffs, blinding guitar solos, frantic rhythms, and soaring vocals”. Pathfinder was formed in Poznań, Poland in 2006 by bassist/composer Arkadiusz E. Ruth and guitarist Karol Mania with the aim of creating a combination of film-score music, classical music, and a ”wide scope of metal”. Following the band’s inception, the founding members began composing original music and searching for additional musicians. By 2007, the band’s lineup had been completed with the acquisition of guitarist Gunsen, vocalist Simon Kostro, keyboardist Slavomir Belak, and drummer Kamil Ruth. In the same year, the band created its first demo, the eponymous Pathfinder. 2008 saw the independent release of a 4-track demo CD entitled The Beginning to positive reviews from the international metal world. Following this, the band toured extensively, appearing at several festivals around their home country of Poland. Owing to the success of The Beginning, in 2009 the band toured with Iron Maiden’s ex-vocalist Paul DiAnno and Norwegian Thunderbolt – a formative event in the band’s history. In the year 2009, Pathfinder had begun collaborating with producer/sound engineer Mariusz Pietka from MP Studio in Czestochowa. Here, the band decided to work on their debut album. In the studio, the band was joined by several guest musicians, including vocalists Roberto Tiranti (Labyrinth), Bob Katsionis (Firewind), Matias Kupiainen (Stratovarius), and operatic soprano Agata Lejba-Migdalska, who had accompanied the band since their early days and would become a recurring collaborator. As a pre-album release, in the same year 2009, Pathfinder independently published a power metal cover of Mike Oldfield's Moonlight Shadow via their YouTube channel. The efforts in the studio culminated in Pathfinder’s first professional full-length album Beyond the Space, Beyond the Time, released April 14, 2010 to Asian audiences through Radtone Records and later, in 2011, worldwide through Sonic Attack Records. The band's first music video, for the song Lord of Wolves off of Beyond The Space, Beyond The Time, was released on 15 March 2011. In early 2011, drummer Kamil Ruth left the band and was replaced by Kacper "Drum Kid" Stachowiak. In December 2011, Pathfinder announced that all compositions for a second studio album, which would continue the lyrical story of Beyond The Space, Beyond The Time, had been completed and that the band was back in the studio. On 21 March 2012, Pathfinder revealed that the second studio album was to be entitled Fifth Element and announced its Asian and worldwide release dates (23 May and 26 May, respectively) as well as its track listings including region-specific bonus tracks. On 22 March, the band announced a poll that was to decide which of four original tracks off the upcoming album Fifth Element was to be released early as a taste of the new album. The song Elemental Power won and was publicized through the band's YouTube channel on 23 March. In May, Pathfinder announced that shooting would soon begin for a music video for a song from Fifth Element, and that the expected release date for the video was August or September 2012. On 23 May 2012, Pathfinder's second full-length studio album Fifth Element was released in Asia (through Avalon Sounds), and the worldwide release followed on 26 May (through Sonic Attack Records). The album features 13 tracks including the European bonus track Spartakus and the Sun beneath the Sea (cover song) and the Japanese bonus track If I Could Turn Back Time (Cher cover) and continues Pathfinder's tradition of symphonic power metal. Throughout late May and early June, Pathfinder continued to release the tracks from Fifth Element for free through their YouTube channel. On the 25th of March, 2013 it was announced on the band's official Facebook page that Simon Kostro had left the band due to loss of communication with the other band members. As from April 14, 2013 the band is looking for a new frontman. Two songs from their latest album can be downloaded as karaoke version and used as audition material.
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