Guitar virtuoso Steve Dadaian is premiering his new track “Backyard of Stars,” that includes Dream Theater keyboardist Jordan Rudess, completely through Heavy Consequence.
The observe, from Dadaian’s forthcoming album Revenant City, is a five-minute progressive metallic exercise that options copious shredding from the guitarist, who steers the preparations along with his axework. Observe-y lead passages are balanced with lush, neoclassical elements which might be crammed out by Rudess.
The music video is especially eye-opening and gives a glimpse into the sheer musical capability on show. Dadaian and Rudess look to have captured footage of their respective takes, with the latter taking part in alongside to the sheet music. Even the DT keyboard grasp seems exasperated throughout among the track’s sooner runs, as Dadaian pushes his collaborator to the restrict.
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“‘Backyard of Stars’ … was one of many final songs I completed engaged on for the album,” Dadaian stated, “and after I introduced it to Jordan, he added parts that not solely accomplished however elevated the track. It’s an excellent illustration of recent progressive metallic and the album itself with heavy riffs, technical and melodic leads, and orchestral preparations.”
Relating to the track’s advanced construction, the guitarist added, “It opens with a unison lead between each of us to set the stage and even in sections the place the keyboard leads aren’t obvious, Jordan organized ambient textures to comply with the chord modifications. The collaboration was very pure and informal as we had been engaged on concepts in his studio.”
Rudess added, “I’ve had the pleasure to work with Steve Dadaian on quite a lot of songs, each alone album and his upcoming launch Revenant Metropolis. Not solely is his guitar taking part in off the charts, his songwriting and musicianship can be subsequent degree which I actually worth and units him aside. We had numerous enjoyable with this one; the leads are energetic and the ambient and orchestral elements add an entire totally different dimension I feel listeners will love. I’m trying ahead to everybody listening to ‘Backyard of Stars’ and all our future collaborations collectively!”
The brand new LP follows up Dadaian’s debut album Observe the Mild, which was launched in 2019. “I needed to construct upon most of the issues I launched with that idea document,” said the guitarist of his method to the brand new album. “Revenant Metropolis follows it its footsteps with every observe providing one thing distinctive that embodies my model as a musician.”
He continued, “My background is diverse, having a standard classical guitar background in addition to having a progressive metallic affect on electrical guitar, every track has these parts in numerous varieties.”
You’ll be able to stream the video for “Backyard of Stars” under.