NEPTUNE (Melodic Metal – Sweden) – Their new EP “The Rebirth” is out now and also streaming online #Neptune

The band Neptune has so far released one album with their old songs and demos from the eighties – ‘Land Of Northern’ and also an album with newly written songs in 2020 -‘Northern Steel’. The album ‘Northern Steel’ gave the band many new fans and they thought that there were some of their older songs on the first album which had too much of a demo sound. So, the plan is to show the new fans that they gained with ‘Northern Steel’ some of their older songs. They re-recorded four songs from the ‘Land Of Northern’ album and as they gave the songs a new life, they decided to name the album ‘The Rebirth’. All songs on ‘The Rebirth’ are re-recorded with the band’s new 2020 band setting, still with three original members from the eighties.

Influences for the album:
The Rebirth is a compilation of songs from 1983 to 1986, therefor we had several different influences at the time when the songs were written. The influences that stick out the most were Iron Maiden and Judas Priest

Bio:
The band sees themselves as one of the earlier pioneers during the FVASHMera. Ray Alex, Tommy Mikk, Johnny Östergren and Row Alex founded the band Neptune already in the late 1970s or if it was early eighties. Even though the band had a solid foundation, the band underwent a few member changes where names such Jan Granvik, Jonas Edler and Anders Lindqvist appeared.

After several demos that unfortunately never saw the light of the day, the band decided to make a slightly more professional recording. With that recording, one had intended to raise record labels and pump them on a pleasing record deal. The recording took place in the prestigious Soundtrade studio with Alar Surna (Roxette) behind the mixing desk. Several meetings were held and one of the record companies thought it was so interesting that they paid for the entire recording.

For several reasons, it all went down the drain and the recording were put on the shelf for good… they thought. The band once again underwent some member changes and recorded a few more demos. After a while, the band split up 87/88 and the singer Ray Alex was sought out by the former member Jan Granvik and the seed of the band Glory was born.

In late 2017 the band was contacted by a record label from Greece (Cult Metal Classics) where they asked if the guys were interested to release an album with some of their old recordings from the eighties. Said and done, a few months later, the album was out, and the band decided to restart the engine only thirty years after they decided to call it a day. The band was contacted by various bookers from day one without the band having even put together a set list yet.

Everything went very fast in the beginning, maybe a little too fast, which meant that Johnny and Tommy felt that it was too much for them and chose to step down. Not long after that came the next tragedy, their vocalist Ray Alex passes away of a stroke. The band had a discussion on how to move forward and the choice falls on Roland taking over his late brother’s role as the band’s vocalist. Not long after that, the band gets their current set-up, and they started the recording of the follow-up album to ‘Land of Northern’ – ‘Northern Steel’. In addition to these two full-lengths albums, the band has also released two EPs and a 3-piece cassette compilation box and are right now in the studio to record their third full-length album.

CD Track Listing:
1. Enemies
2. Ready To Fight
3. Protector
4. Hard To Be Right

Discography:
Land of Northern – 2018
The Last Flight Of The Rafven – 2018
Northern Steel – 2020
Legends From The North – 2022
The Rebirth – 2022

Band Line-Up:
Row Alex – vocal
Anders Olsson – guitar
Jonas Wikström – drums
Tosh A-son – bass/backing vocal
Johan Rosth – keyboard

Web and Social Media Links:
https://www.neptune.nu
https://www.facebook.com/NeptuneBandOfficial
https://www.instagram.com/neptune_band_official
https://twitter.com/neptune_sw