New Album "Death Is Just A Feeling" To Be Issued By Amadeus Awad

Lebanese guitarist/composer Amadeus Awad announced the forthcoming new release "Death is Just a Feeling." The album was mixed and mastered by Brett Caldas-Lima at Tower Studios.

Once again, the release features an all-star lineup including: Anneke Van Giersbergen (The Gathering, Ayreon, The Gentle Storm), Arjen Lucassen (Ayreon, Guilt Machine, Stream of Passion), Elia Monsef (Ostura, Amadeus Awad's Eon), Marco Minnemann (Joe Satriani, Steven Wilson, The Aristocrats) and Jimmy Keegan (Spocks Beard, John Waite, Santana).

"Death is Just a Feeling" will be released worldwide on August 20th via Melodic Revolution Records. As with previous releases from Awad, "Death Is Just A Feeling" is a conceptual album containing six tracks and clocking in at just about 47 minutes.

Awad commented: "This album is the result of my personal experience with death, both the tragic loss of loved ones (Father, Brother and a Best Friend), as well as my own attempt of committing suicide, which I contemplated more than once at a certain stage in my life."

For his newest opus, Awad chose some of the best names in the business for a collaboration, which he stated: "each one of the characters in the story represents a certain side of me, and I wanted myself to be represented by the greatest personalities in the progressive rock/metal world; being able to work with my idols is a great honor.”

Amadeus Awad has been stretching the boundaries of his music and lyrics, and "Death is Just a Feeling" is no different. He opens up to reveal his inner most, and darkest, secrets withcoming to terms with death.

The cast for the album is:

Amadeus Awad: Acoustic, Electric & Bass Guitars, Keyboards and Orchestration.
Anneke Van Giersbergen: Vocals.
Arjen Lucassen: Vocals.
Elia Monsef: Vocals.
Marco Minnemann: Drums on Tracks 2, 3, 5 & 6.
James Keegan : Drums on Track 4.
Nareg Nashanikian: Cello.
Rafi Nashanikian: Clarinet.
Dan Harper: Narration