Details Of Debut Album "The Tale Of Man" Revealed By Royal Quest

Greek symphonic power/progressive act Royal Quest will self-release the debut album "The Tale of Man" worldwide on May 22, 2015.

Royal Quest was formed in 1998 in Athens when Yannis Androulakakis (guitars/vocals) and Dennis Bekatoros (bass) started putting their musical and lyrical ideas together. After releasing the demo in 1999, the duo decided to work on a concept album with an original story inspired by the "Eternal Champion." In the meantime, the line-up was shored up to participate in several underground festivals in Athens.

Throughout the years, Dennis and Yannis focused on completing the album with the addition of a new member, Odysseas (drums). Compositions, story editing, recording attempts and sound experimentation, but also disappointments and long breakups resulted in the end of the co-operation of the two founders with Dennis' initiative. In January 2010, Yannis decided to produce the album on his own. The recording and engineering plans started from scratch and in 2014 the album was mixed by Yannis himself and mastered by Mika Jussila at Finnvox studios.

"The Tale of Man" is typically a "metal opera," a term that tends to be established in a similar way that the term "rock opera" had in the past. There are four characters in the play: Man, Cassandra, Lord of Law and Lord of Chaos. However, the dramatic structure is different (the play is smaller as well) than the libretto of a major musical or rock opera. That purposely leaves room for the "RPG campaign" oriented storyline that focuses on the main character (Man) and the storyteller (Cassandra). It also leaves room for the music, because the point was to create a metal album that can also be auditioned independently.

"The Tale of Man" consists of eleven parts, some of them divided into sub-parts, intros and main parts. The full track list is:

1. Intro
2. Rising Empire
3. Days of War (Intro)
4. Days of War
5. The Reign of Law
6. In the Name of Man
7. Dark Ages
8. Dark Lord’s Words
9. The Cave of the Dead
10. Moonstone
11. The Realm of Chaos, Part I: The Encounter
12. The Realm of Chaos, Part II: The Prayer
13. The Realm of Chaos, Part III: Umbralith
14. The Last Scenes