We are glad to announce that our first Open Air gig for 2008 will take place on May,17th in Gabrovo,Bulgaria with the legendary DEEP PURPLE's keyboardist Don Airey and his band.
LUNASENSE NEWS:
It's been a long wait for the announcement
of releasedates and info regarding the third
Pantommind album entitled "Lunasense".
The band’s plan was to release the album
during Spring /Summer 2008 but, as you already
know sometimes those plans took a different
direction so, now we can reveal that Lunasense
will be released during Autumn/Fall 2008.
Until then you can watch the fantastic album
cover made by great Bulgarian Photographer
Radoslav Penchev with co-operation with
our webmaster Ivan Maslev and hear the full
song “Days Of Old”
at our official MySpace,so,
please share your comments if you feel like
it.
Cheers!
May
2007
Recording news:
Well,we are at the half-way point with
our 3-rd album. We've just finished tracking
everything (excepting some guitars/keys
for one song), and we are moving into
mixing this month.
The "Lunasense" album is sounding
great so far, and we are sure this will
be our strongest and most progressive
album to date. The rough mixes we have
heard during the recording sessions already
have us very impatient to get this album
out there.Cheers!
December
2006
Due to personal and professional reasons
occurred over the past two months we have
decided to part ways with keyboardist
Scaldor.
We would like to thanks him for the time
he was a part of the band, and for his
great performance on our first album.
We wish him the best of luck for the future.
August
2006
It is with sad heart and mind that we have to announce the cancellation of Pantommind on this year's ProgPower Europe Festival.
The reason for the cancellation is that Pantommind have lost not 1, but 2 members of the band within just one month(after the Sunny X's leaving, Peter Vichew, our second guitarist just decided to continue his career by his own), and due to those circumstances it is simply impossible to do a performance that would be representative of the band and the perfectionism we stand for.
We are truly sorry and hope that the fans that had anticipated Pantommind's performance will have a chance to see the band live in a not too distant future.Thanks for your support!
Pantommind/Intromental
Well...enough bad news!
The shining piece of news is that Scaldor
took the job for the sound, mix and mastering
for the Lunasense
album, and the results are more than optimistic!
We will make you confident about this
in a very short time.
The remaining part of the band is still alive and kickin' and strongly keeping the spirit of Pantommind, so the upcoming new album will make the next big step for the band.
June 2006
We
are more than pleased to announce you
that while roaming across the deepest
and the darkest forests of the Old Mountain
in a desperate search for a new keyboard
player for Pantommind,
we've found Scaldor
- "synthmeister-in-the-woods" - the best
kept secret in the mountains, in his hidden
hut, trying a new groundbreaking, thermonuclear
sound synthesis algorhythms with his coffeemachine(thank
goodness we didn't found him an hour later!)
The guy behind the classic demosongs of
the finest music program of Finland -
Jeskola Buzz who now joined forces with
us even closer! From now on, the guru
who's keeping the ancient knowledge of
the analogue synth mystics will rise our
spirits even higher. Cheers!Keep that
axe farther, dude!:-)
May 2006
Because
of some serious engagements out of the
band, our beloved keyboard player Sunny
X has left Pantommind.
We all wish him a huge success in his
new artistic plans! Off you go, mate!
We love you!
March
2006
! CANCELLED ! We're
proud to announce,that we will play at
PROGPOWER EUROPE 2006!!!
Although it is going to take more than
6 months until the 8th edition of ProgPower
Europe Festival will take place, DVS Records
have already confirmed PANTOMMIND. The
festival will be held again in JC Sjiwa,
Baarlo (L), The Netherlands, the same
venue as in previous years. The bands
that will definitely play this year are:
Friday 29 September (free
pre-party)
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ZERO GRAVITY (Belgium)
Saturday 30 September
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MERCENARY (Denmark)
CHAOSWAVE (Italy)
ANOTHER MESSIAH (The Netherlands)
Sunday 1 October
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RIVERSIDE (Poland)
COMMUNIC (Norway)
DARK SUNS (Germany) PANTOMMIND
(Bulgaria)
You can keep up to date with what's happening
at the ProgPower website.See ya!
January
2006
December
2005
Merry
Christmas and Happy New Year 2006!
We are exceptionally glad to announce that our first
live gig for 2006 will take place on 29th of January
in Sofia with the legendary Helloween. The first
recording session of "LUNASENSE" album
is finished, drums, keyboards, bass and guitars
are recorded for most of the songs.We will continue
recording voices and screams in early February :-)
Pantommind wishes to all its fans successful and
peaceful 2006. Cheers!
November 2005
The
band is currently recording its new album
called “LUNASENSE",
comprising 10 tracks and 2 instrumentals.
Drago and SunnyX are recording the drum
and keyboard sessions of several tracks;
the demo vocals of 4 other tracks are
complete.
"LUNASENSE"
tracklist:
1.Transmission(part one) 2.Erasable Tears
3.To The Days Of Old
4.My Home(Into Infinity) 5.Letter To No
One 6.Sand Glass
7.All Is Full Of Love 8.Wolf 9.Free World
10.Transmission(part two)
11.Blank 12.Never Be The Same
The CD
artwork will be impressive - again, we’ve
entrusted it to the incredible
artist and friend of us Kosta "Jovi"Atanasov.
The booklet design will be done by the
band’s great webmaster Ivan Maslev
And
the very special guest performers:
Colleen Gray (PERSEPHONE'S DREAM) and
ex-PANTOMMIND guitar player "Floyd"
Rossen.
In the meantime,the band did a long interview
for the Christmas edition of BG "HUSTLER"
October 2005
Имаме
изключителното удоволствие да съобщим на
българските си фенове,
че макар и със няколкомесечно закъснение
албумът "Shade Of Fate" е вече в музикалните магазини в
България.
Издател и разпространител
е RivaSound.
В момента групата работи усилено върху записите
на нов албум
с работно заглавие "Lunasense".
July 2005
We
are proud to announce that we have signed with INTROMENTAL
MANAGEMENT.
We are extremely happy to be able to collaborate
with one of the best management companies in Europe.
Both parties hope to have a long and creative relationship.Cheerz
everybody!!!
10
June 2005 Tony's
HBD(Happy Beer Day)! Long Live Progressive!
- total running time: 49m 56s
- catalogue: LU20032-2
- format: CD / full-length-album
17
February 2005
February
2005
We
are realy pleased and grateful for the honour to open
for such a band like Fates Warning!!! It's like a dream
that comes true.
We strongly hope that this is just the beginning and we'll
have the opportunity to share the stage with more and
more big international progressive legends, though we
can honestly say that FW are one of the biggest bands
of all time!
February
2005
Two new samples from the upcoming album "Shade Of Fate" and two wallpapers are available!!! Check them out!!!
Merry
Christmas and Happy New Year 2005!
May this holiday season be filled with peace and prosperity
for all!!!
December
2004
The release date for the "Shade Of Fate"
album is finaly confirmed. It
will come out on 28.02.2005 SORRY we kept
you waiting for such a long long time. Now we are
back in the studio with some new exciting material,
heavier and toughter!We have almost finished six demo
tracks and we are ready to start working on the next
album. Expect some quality and kick-ass progmetal:)
At this point there are 11 new songs planned.
November
2004
The prestigious label SENSORY
RECORDS will be the official distributor for "Shade
of Fate" in USA and Canada.
October
2004
The band got headline participation in the
EXTREME FORCE 2004 metal fest in Bulgaria.
The live performance included:
Mindtrip, Shade of Fate, Follow Me, Closer to You,
Why and Knocking on My Door.
June
2004
In
May 2004 we’ve finished our new project “Shade of
Fate”, which includes 11 tracks.
With the kind help from the danish company INTROMENTAL MANAGEMENT
we went to a contract relationship with the italian based
label LUCRETIA RECORDS INTERNATIONAL .
...
Who would have thought that Bulgaria actually had
anything whatsoever to offer in the world of progressive
metal?
Not me, for one - but with the impressive album "Shade
Of Fate", Bulgarian band Pantommind definitely proves
me wrong.
Recorded at home in Bulgaria in the spring of 2004, "Shade
Of Fate" is an impressive affair, from first note to
the very end of this 50 minute long trip through all shades
of what progressive metal should all be about.
There are those who believe that a progressive metal band
is one of those Dream Theater / Queensrÿche clones
that the music scene is so full off - well, that might be
right to some, but to others like me, it's also about creating
something unique, or at least blending things together in
a new fashion that hasn't really been done (or at least
not overused) before. With "Shade Of Fate" Pantommind
succeeds on all aspects!
...
From the melodic prog-metal world, (as exemplified by opener
"Shade Of Fate", with its slight inspirations
coming from bands such as Vanden Plas, Fates Warning or
Poverty's No Crime), to the more technical side of things
(just listen to the instrumental "Spectastral",
and even a quite dramatic - almost cinematic approach),
Pantommind for sure delivers the goods. To top it all -
or should I say, in order to be the unique entity I described
the band as - Pantommind infuses their metal with an Eastern
European atmosphere, that never becomes too folk'ish or
too ethnic as such, but simply embraces the music like a
warm layer of emotion. ...
Besides the incredible song writing of Pantommind, vocalist
Tony Ivan has got to be the shining point of the entire
ensemble. His voice is soft, sweet and emotional, but also
dramatic in approach, and is a focal point of "Shade
Of Fate" if any. But with that said, I would definitely
not like to discredit the other musicians either, as they
all deliver amazing performances. Guitarist Pete Christ
has a very nice tone and a lot of feeling is put into his
guitar playing, and when he goes for the more acoustic sounding
passages, the sweet sound of the guitar strings are just
breathtaking. Drummer Drago is an important part of the
band, with his dry, precise sound, and very tight playing
- he never over-does things, but works very well with the
feel of the songs. The same goes for bassist Dido that delivers
a strong performance and backs up the band with his good
bass playing. Sunny X is one of those keyboardists that
doesn’t really interfere much with the sound of the
band, until you suddenly hear his calm piano pieces or his
explosive neo-classical solos coming through and reminding
us why keyboards are such an integral part of this genre,
and why it's one of those musical elements that just lifts
everything to the nth level. Awesome! ...
Pantommind is a band for the future - a band not necessarily
sounding like anyone else, but also a band that fits really
well within the style they've chosen to play. Bulgarian
progressive metal shouldn't be disregarded anymore, as "Shade
Of Fate" easily deserves to find its place among the
best releases of the genre. For sure, one of the top releases
of 2004 in the whole progressive metal scenario.
Claus Jensen, Intromental Management http://www.intromental.com
