The Flood Inside
Occupation
- Vocals: Martin Fischer
- Guitar: David Jordan
- Guitar: Florian Füntmann
- Bass: Jan Hoffmann
- Drums: Janosch Rathmer
The Flood Inside is the fourth studio album by the German Postrock-/Post-Metal-Band Long Distance Calling. It was published on 1 March 2013 Superball Music.
Formation
In April 2012 the band announced the amicable separation of Reimut van Bonn, who was previously responsible for the Ambience. A short time later, the musicians started to work on her fourth studio album. Here the musicians noticed that many of the ideas are also suitable for singing. In summer 2012 the band therefore contacted the singer Martin Fischer, who was previously in the bands Fear My Thoughts and Pigeon Toe active was or still is.
The shooting began on September 17, 2012 in the Megaphone Recording Studios in Arnsberg and lasted until October 12. Was produced, mixed and mastered by Martin The Flood Inside My Shepherd. The choice fell on him, as the musicians love my shepherd studio for the organic and spatial sound. In addition, the studio has numerous old microphones and amplifiers.
For the album, the band invited a number of guest musicians. For the song nucleus of the blues musician Henrik Freischlader contributed a guitar solo. In Welcome Change can be heard Petter Carlsen as a guest vocalist Vincent Cavanagh of Anathema the band as well. For the song Waves composed DJ Cool man, a former member of the hip - hop band five star deluxe an intro.
Publication
In addition to the regular CD version until February 14, 2013 five additional versions were available through the webshop of the band. All of these versions contained the bonus song Black Hole. In the other versions it was the limited edition CD version and an LP version with CD, with or without an exclusive t-shirt and an exclusive poster. The fifth version containing both the CD and the LP version with t-shirt and poster. For the song Tell the end a music video was filmed.
Background
The band described the album's title as a reflection of the emotional bandwidth of the technical life. Guitarist David Jordan said in an interview that for him "means absolute chaos with an unclear outcome ," the album.
" But nevertheless, sometimes the chaos of forms structures that can one lead the way. "
Nucleus, in medicine, the collection of nerve cell bodies in the central nervous system refers to the musician from Long Distance Calling as a band. Also taken from the field of medicine is the title duct, illustrating the connection between the aorta and the pulmonary artery. David Jordan explained that the term is intended to represent on the album like a guide in the chaos described above.
Reception
For Tom Küppers by the German magazine Metal Hammer " is new signing Martin Fischer turns out to be the missing, Singing puzzle piece in the band - cosmos " because it " to give the steady - proggigen complex compositions musically yet another dimension ." He likened the album with the work Angel Dust by Faith No More in 1992 and awarded with seven out of seven points, the highest score. Peter Kubaschk by the online magazine Powermetal.de called The Flood Inside as a " just excellent album ." While " represent the familiar class of the band" the four instrumental numbers Kubaschk notes that Martin Fischer's singing a little " the color is missing" and rated the album with nine out of ten. Matthias Olejnik from the online magazine Metal.de spoke of "the high point of the band's career," because the songs " before versatility and playful Can abound ". To this end, there were nine out of ten. For Martin Iordanidis of the music magazine Visions is "The Experiment singing [ ... ] succeeded in principle", but would like to have more of it and awarded eight out of twelve possible points.
The Flood Inside debuted at number 33 on the German album charts, three places higher than the previous album. For the first time Long Distance Calling able to place outside of Germany in the charts. In Switzerland, the album debuted at number 79.