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Begining their science fiction space odyssey at Episode II, Coventhrall have shared opening single “Dreadnought” which introduces the villains of the story and their large battleship alongside a keyboard solo from guest Jari Pailamo (King Company, Daimonic, ex Twilight Guardians). The other episodes of the tale will be released later this year in album “Legacy Of Morfuirda” via Inverse Records.

The creator of the story and the vocalist Sami “Texas” Ilvonen describes the song as follows: “Dreadnought is a huge, bulky old mothership manned by space pirates and scavenging galactic riffraff. The pirates target defenceless victims in the galaxy’s more remote space lanes and solar systems outside the reach of the galactic Emperor and the law. In this second track of the album the scavengers arrive in the Morfuidran solar system piloting the Dreadnought. They aim to enslave peaceful people and strip mine their planet Morfuidra of all their resources and ancient technology.”

Jukka Hoffrén, also known from Adamantra and Amberian Dawn looks back on the creation of the song: “I composed the song with the acoustic guitar sometime in the middle of the nineties at my summer cabin. Both albums, Imaginations From The Other Side by Blind Guardian and Land Of The Free by Gamma Ray had just come out and I copied them from my friend to a c-cassette, which I blasted on my walkman. One can clearly hear the influence from those albums in the melodies of the song. Some Unanimated, Forbidden and At The Gates like-a-riffs can be heard as well. The song got rejected by a couple of my bands over the years until finally Mr. Bite and Mr. Texas were taken in by the song enough to definitely want it in the upcoming Coventhrall album”