Hey! We made it onto two “best heavy metal of 2009” lists! Both lists are from metalreview.com where John Ray gave us a superb review. Check out the lists here and here. Thank you Jeremy Morse and John Ray. Actually we made it onto three lists sort of if you count my best metal of 2009 list from my heavymetalpower.com blog.

Additionally, we posted another video from KEEP IT TRUE a while back. If you haven’t seen it yet… take a look!

There’s been talk about releasing The Stars of Never Seen on vinyl… but so far nothing concrete has occurred.  The plan is to have it released by April for the KEEP IT TRUE festival. We did the layout with Mr Travis Smith so let’s hope this thing gets released. There might be a poster included with the LP if I’m not mistaken.

Besides all that, were are working on songs for the next album. Mike and I have been tossing ideas back and forth and we’ve settled in on a basic direction for the album’s focus and the music is taking shape to support the theme. That’s all for now. HAIL!

PRESS RELEASE

California’s traditional melodic metal band CRESCENT SHIELD, which features the talents of former DESTINY’S END guitarist Dan DeLucie and ex-ONWARD vocalist Michael Grant, has made the song “Tides of Fire” from their forthcoming album “The Stars of Never Seen” available for streaming on crescentshield.com and the band’s myspace page myspace.com/crescentshield.

Listen to ‘Tides of Fire’

The album will be released by Cruz del Sur Music on the following dates:

May 8: Germany
May 11: Rest of Europe
June 2: USA/Canada

The first pressing will include a limited-edition DVD of the band’s entire performance at Germany’s Keep it True festival in April 2008. A video of the band performing the title track from their debut album “The Last of my Kind” can be viewed below http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQqbTBO19Ls

The artwork for the CD was again created by comic book artist Gerry Alanguilan and can be viewed below.

CRESCENT SHIELD’s lineup is completed by drummer Craig Anderson (IGNITE, ENGINE) and bassist Melanie Sisneros (ex-NEW EDEN, THE IRON MAIDENS, SINERGY), two veterans of the Los Angeles music scene.