Category: Magnus Karlsson’s FREE FALL

Only nine months after the release of last year’s magnificent “We Are The Night”, relentless workaholic MAGNUS KARLSSON has conjured yet another gloriously overblown celebration of metal and melody. This time around it’s a full-blown concept album, replete with multiple vocalists playing an assortment of roles, but the essence of the Swede’s eminently classy take on prog, power and symphonic metal remains the same.
HEART HEALER The Metal Opera by MAGNUS KARLSSON is/are all about big, bombastic and fervently glossy melodic metal, but delivered with such breathless conviction that the only sane response is to sit back and soak up the remorseless barrage of sugary pomp. This stuff will clog your arteries, but what a way to die.

Swedish guitarist & producer MAGNUS KARLSSON is the ‘wonder guy’ of the present Melodic Hard Rock (and also Melodic Metal) scene. Apart from his permanent slot in Primal Fear, he is the brain behind such great projects as Allen/Lande, The Codex, Kiske/Sommerville, Starbreaker and many more. It was time for his own project; “MAGNUS KARLSSON’s FREEFALL“, which self-titled record debuted via...

MAGNUS KARLSSON’S FREE FALL will release a new album, “We Are The Night“, new week via Frontiers Music, and tomorrow in Japan with a bonus track.
There’s a stellar cast of vocalist for this new effort, namely Dino Jelusick (Animal Drive), Ronnie Romero of Rainbow, Frontiers’ newest vocal sensation Renan Zonta of Electric Mob, Noora Louhimo of Battle Beast, Mike Andersson of Cloudscape, and former Black Sabbath great singer Tony Martin.

Two yeas ago guitarist/songwriter Magnus Karlsson (Primal Fear, Kiske-Somerville, Starbreaker, Allen-Lande) released his debut solo album titled Free Fall, which featured guest vocals from several A-list singers who had collaborated with him in the past. Fortunately, that was not just a one-off project. Karlsson is back (rebranded as Magnus Karlsson’s Free Fall) with a new offering, titled “Kingdom Of Rock“....