Frontiers has Fallen for Zak Stevens’ Archon Angel

Frontiers Music Srl has signed Archon Angel to the their rapidly expanding metal roster, with the debut album, “Fallen”, to be released in early 2020.

The band features producer/guitar player Aldo Lonobile (Secret Sphere) and vocalist Zak Stevens (ex-Savatage, Circle II Circle) who in 2018 met during the making of the “Return To Eden” album by Timo Tolkki’s Avalon. Aldo submitted some song ideas to Zak, which were reminiscent of the classic Savatage sound of records such as “Edge Of Thorns” and “Gutter Ballet”.

The album itself deals with a central character, the “Archon”, who is a modern day angel figure. The idea goes back to the religious system of Gnosticism. The only difference is that we are immersing the Archon’s story into modern-day times. The Archon is a medium who brings messages to God (Demiurge) from the people of Earth. The only real concept to the albums is that they simply follow the story and life and times of the modern day “Archon” and his life as he is called upon to protect the people of earth through frightening, turbulent times.

Archon Angel will make their exclusive live premiere on the 2020 edition of the popular 70000tons of Metal Cruise in January.

Zak Stevens says Aldo Lonobile “contacted me by email and together we chose the two songs I would be singing on. Right away, it was super easy working with Aldo and we thought very much alike as far as music and production are concerned. And now, here we are today as bandmates in Archon Angel”

“For Archon Angel, we pretty much started all the songs from scratch,” continues Zak. “Aldo had quite a few songs demoed to get things started with and we just went from there. He’s an amazing guitarist and I was more than impressed with everything he did. From there, everyone got involved. The band guys in Italy (Aldo – Guitars, Marco Lazzarini – Drums, and Antonio Agate – Keys) and in France (my old friend Yves Campion from the band Nightmare on bass) helped Aldo with the instrumentation. I worked on vocal melodies with Aldo, along with my wife Katherine Stevens, who is a is very creative writer in her own right. She helped Aldo and I with some amazing lyrical contributions and with the overall concept stuff for the album.”

“Zak had a huge impact on my musical background: he has a unique vocal tone and the milestone albums he recorded with Savatage are among my all time favourite albums,” adds Aldo Lonobile. “When Frontiers gave me the chance to work with him during the production of the latest Timo Tolkki’s Avalon Metal Opera “Return To Eden” I was very excited and everything has been super easy. I am very proud of the music we wrote together and we are a great team, stay tuned for more news!”

Aldo was also helped in the songwriting department by some of the most outstanding writers and musicians from the Italian Rock scene including Simone Mularoni (of DGM and Sweet Oblivion) and Alessandro Del Vecchio (Aldo’s bandmate in Edge of Forever and of course Jorn, Hardline, etc.).

Lineup:
Vocals : Zak Stevens
Guitars : Aldo Lonobile
Bass: Yves Campion
Drums: Marco Lazzarini
Keyboards & Piano (Studio): Antonio Agate

Archon Angel are currently working on booking some live shows to present the band in the live environment, but their exclusive live premiere will happen at the 2020 edition of the 70000 Tons Of Metal Cruise. After recent additions such as Devin Townsend and Sortilège to the line-up that already features names like Emperor, Epica and Wintersun, 70000 TONS OF METAL, The Original, The World’s Biggest Heavy Metal Cruise, is excited to announce another world premiere event on board, namely the very first live show by Zak Stevens’ new project Archon Angel. Whoever has been following 70000 TONS OF METAL, The Original, The World’s Biggest Heavy Metal Cruise, over the past 9 years, does not only know that it is much more than just another festival at sea. They will also know that one of the things that make it such a unique once in a lifetime event is that even now, only 2 months before the Independence Of The Seas will take 3000 metalheads and 60 world class heavy metal bands from Fort Lauderdale, Florida, to Cozumel, Mexico, from January 7th to 11th, for Round 10, the Skipper and his crew always manage to surprise fans with specials – including one time performances, album and band anniversaries, unexpected jam band constellations, and other premieres exclusively happening on board.