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Okay, so The Betrayed has officially leaked, and has already been released in some countries such as Japan (them lucky bastards even get a special edition!), Holland and Ireland. As a true Lostprophets fan you, of course, are looking for an actual store to buy the album from instead of just download it, so I just thought I’d point you in the right direction:
iTunes (Holland)
CD-Wow
HMV.co.uk
Recordstore.co.uk
HMV.co.jp (Japanese Edition)
Please BUY this album and support the boys, they’ve worked so hard for it. It’s worth the money, I can guarantee you won’t regret it!
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Invite-only gig at Hawthorn Secondary
Lostprophets have announced that they are set to return to the secondary school the band members used to attend. The invite-only gig at Pontypridd’s Hawthorn Secondary has been organised as part of the Valleys Homecoming campaign – which aims to highlight contributions to music, arts and comedy culture in the Welsh Valleys. [ source + more info ]
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Tonight from 8:15 (GMT) lostprophets are live on Red Dragon. If there are any new songs played we will get a clip of it! Click the link on top of this message to listen live online.
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Prophets announce Australian tour
Lostprophets have had a phenomenal track record. They have amassed a massive fanbase, sold millions of albums, packed out arenas globally, released a No.1 Album and have topped it off by winning ‘Best British Band’ ‘Best Single’ and ‘Best Album’ trophies at the Kerrang! Awards. By doing this, the band have crafted space for themselves, and created a sound that is essentially their own.
It was their second album ‘Start Something’ that saw Lostprophets seething and grinning with that “toldja so” confidence. With vocalist Ian Watkins tearing the place apart with passion “The result is an upbeat, defiant and utterly brilliant pop record” – Drowned In Sound
The brand new album ‘The Betrayed’ is released on January 29 and it sees the Lostprophets at their most ambitious “sweating hunger and ambition with big riffs and earworm choruses that reach over the moshpit to the stands beyond.” – BBC
For the first time in over 6 years Australian fans will get to witness the powerful live show that the Lostprophets create. Change The Record sums them up perfectly… “Not a single person in this room leaves with an experience any less than exhilarating.”
TICKETS ON SALE THURSDAY 21 JANUARY, 9AM.
Saturday 27 March Sydney, UNSW Roundhouse – Licensed All Ages
Sunday 28 March Melbourne, Billboard The Venue – 18
Tuesday 30 March Brisbane, The Tivoli – All Ages
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Lostprophets live on French radio
I am extremely late posting this – so sorry! A French radio show is playing some of the new songs RIGHT NOW. Clickery-click! Only just found out about this, managed to get a rip of A Better Nothing which will be uploaded tomorrow.
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“Just a bunch of idiots singing about standing on a rooftop”
As Lostprophets make their long-awaited comeback, the band tell Gavin Allen that their critics just don’t “get” their Welsh sense of humour…. “
“I think we are the most misunderstood band in the world.” Ahead of the release of their fourth album, The Betrayed, the Pontypridd rockers are sitting in a rehearsal room in Cardiff discussing a track-by-track review that appeared in Metal Hammer magazine. The reviewer’s conclusion, very reluctantly, was that the album was good, but his disdain for the band was also clear. “Metal Hammer is not the type of magazine we are looking to for good reviews,” says guitarist Mike Lewis. What magazines would they like to be in? The boys chip in cheeky answers one by one; “Attitude”, “Club”, “Razzle”. The Betrayed, out on January 18, has been three problem-hit years in the making. With its predecessor Liberation Transmission proving such a big hit, the band had hoped to produce a quick follow-up. [ read more ]
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A CDR copy of Lostprophets’ fourth album, The Betrayed, landed on the BBC Wales Music desk this morning. Now that they’re self-produced and after three years of adversity, how do they sound?
We leave actual criticism of records to our colleagues at BBC Music so this is a guide simply to the sound of each song.
If It Wasn’t For Hate We’d Be Dead By Now
Is the much-mooted dark sound in evidence? Well, there’s a gritty, grimy sound to the lead track and an almost goth keyboard sound running through. Ian’s vocal is backed by an insistent, nagging bleeping at the edge of hearing. It certainly maintains the big sound we’ve come to expect from Lostprophets, but there’s certainly a more caustic edge in evidence.
Dstryr And Dstryr
Leads on seamlessly from the first track and maintains the energy level and sound. There’s a big hook to the chorus and some proper ‘Prophets call-and-response shouty bits. It ends like Sleep Now In The Fire by Rage Against The Machine, and Lee Gaze goes mental on his guitar.
It’s Not The End Of The World But I Can See It From Here
The first single from the album, released back in November, it’s got a Godzilla-sized chorus and enough whoa-whoahs to make Jon Bon Jovi weep. Again there’s some serious fret abuse going on, and it stands up with the likes of Burn Burn as one of their more abrasive hit singles.
Where We Belong
Straight into another single to be taken from the album and this is a softer affair in the mould of Goodbye Tonight or 4am Forever. The lyrics return to the Braveheart school of rallying pre-battle speeches. Not that there’s anything wrong with that of course. It’s a glittering, shiny pop song with a mournful edge.
Next Stop Atro City
First part of a title-punning duo of songs, this kicks off like Refused or some other post-hardcore rabble with a distorted vocal, and then erupts into a high-tempo, hard-edged affair. That said, the chorus lifts it out of ‘punk’ rock by some margin. Driven by possibly their fastest-ever drum beat, it’s over almost as soon as it begins. This is definitely a moshpit song rather than a radio song.
For He’s A Jolly Good Felon
Having set a low bar with the preceding pun, this title ranks as one of my favourite of all time. As far as the song goes, it recalls a Billy Talent melody (can’t for the life of me remember which song, though) set to a pseudo-ska beat. It’s definitely got new wave leanings in the verse, and then suddenly the chorus take it into familiar territory.
A Better Nothing
A slow-burning start builds with synth and echoey guitar strains for almost a minute before Ian’s vocals come in in a first person monologue. Rhetorical questions abound as he wonders how he’ll feel “when I leave this town, broken and burning with the memories we once found”. Then comes one of their biggest choruses yet, all fist-pumping stadium rock. The underpinning guitars are a high-pitched squall, but the whole track sounds weightily produced with many layers of sound.
Streets Of Nowhere
Crikey. This is jaunty. A fast-paced rock’n'roll 4/4 beat underpins a wurlizter, a Britpop guitar sound and some quickfire vocals. Suddenly Ian’s la-la-la-ing and the chorus comes from an entirely different song, all 80s power pop. The middle eight again sounds completely different with soft (female?) whispered ooohs and then the la-la-las come back in again. The chorus is as catchy as anthrax even if the song sounds like five welded together.
Dirty Little Heart
Another new wave-esque keyboard intro and then into a verse that in a what-goes-round-comes-round sort of thing sounds like The Blackout. The chorus returns to the territory of the downtempo Start Something tracks. It could be another single, if they do a radio edit cutting down the fuzzed-up keyboard and gritty percussion outro.
Darkest Blue
One of the crunchiest intros to a song in their repertoire, Darkest Blue explodes out of the box and then falls away into a sparse verse with a guitar sound that recalls U2’s The Edge in style. The chorus returns to layer-upon-layer of pop thrills and widdling guitar and again could pave the way for a single release.
The Light That Burns Twice As Bright
In the tradition of rock album closers, The Light… is epic in feel from the off: hushed vocal whisperings atop portentous instrumentation and a slow-building crescendo of layers. Two thirds of the way in, it explodes into a distortion-heavy, wobbling, claustrophobic welter of bass thrums, keyboard repetition and Ian intoning “This is how it feels”. Stuart Richardon’s production techniques are at their most on display, open to the elements here as he breaks the song down into an arrhythmic, dissonant coda. [ SOURCE ]
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Where We Belong is officially out today, so make sure you get yourself and all your friends a copy! You can order a copy from the following websites, or just go to the store itself. Order from…:
HMV.co.uk
Amazon.co.uk
Normanrecords.com
Actionrecords.co.uk
Recordstore.co.uk (7 Inch)
Recordstore.co.uk (CD Single)
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Lostprophets star Ian Watkins has taken aim at Jared Leto for complaining about a legal spat that threatened his band 30 Seconds To Mars’ album release, insisting the actor-turned-rocker had it easy. 30 Seconds To Mars was sued by the parent company of their label Virgin Music for $30 million (£18.75 million) in 2008 over claims they failed to produce an agreed number of albums. Leto spoke openly about the difficulties the band faced while recording their third album This Is War during the ongoing dispute, telling MTV, “We spent two years of our lives working on that record, and it was us against the world. Everything that was going on was brutal… It was a case of survival, to tell the truth.” But the Lostprophets frontman maintains Leto should stop grumbling about the ordeal – because the Welsh band endured a worse struggle to make their upcoming disc, The Betrayed. Watkins tells Kerrang! magazine, “We were always determined to make it happen, but it has been tough. When I hear Jared Leto saying he went to hell and back writing the 30 Seconds To Mars album it makes me think, ‘I want to fucking kill you!’ Went to the swimming pool and back more like. This, our band, is all we have – there is no safety blanket for us. So we were always like, ‘Shit, we need to get this record out and it needs to be amazing because if it doesn’t come out we are fucked.’ “The making of The Betrayed was a transitional period for me, a period when a lot of things in my life were changing, with relationships and moving to L.A. And, of course, the other guys had their own issues too. For the past 10 years we’ve been living our dream and I guess all the insecurity and confusion around making this album gave us time to realise that we didn’t want to lose it all.” Lostprophets scrapped an album’s worth of material and rerecorded The Betrayed, pushing back its original release date by three years due to further problems with producers and their record company.
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30sec snippets of The Betrayed
Let’s start off the year with something good, shall we? This will make you forget about your hangover, I promise! We got our hands on 30 second snippets from the new album, The Betrayed, click on one of the links below to download! Enjoy!!
FYI: All files are hosted on megaupload, if any of the links are down please leave a comment so we can re-upload it for you.
01. If It Wasn’t For Hate We’d Be Dead By Now
02. Dstryr/ Dstryr
03. It’s Not The End Of The World But I Can See It From Here
04. Where We Belong
05. Next Stop Atro City
06. For He’s A Jolly Good Felon
07. A Better Nothing
08. Streets Of Nowhere
09. Dirty Little Heart
10. Darkest Blue
11. The Light That Burns Twice As Bright
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