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Chity back in Lanka after the Japan tour
Ex Friends fame Chitral Sompala has just arrived back home from his Japan Tour with German band “Firewind”. The gigs on the other side of the world, his love to the genre metal, globalisation processes in music business and the future of heavy metal were the subjects of his brief chat with the TV Times
Chitral “Chity” Sompala is a vocal coach and music teacher at Modern Music School in Trier/Germany and has proved his vocalistic multitalent in various hard rock projects Faro, Avalon and the Swedish Symphonic Metal outfit Moonlight Agony’s “Echoes of Nightmare” which will be released this year.

In January the singer went on tour through Japan with the Melodic-Power-Metal-Bank “Firewind” including the ambiguous young Greek guitar hero Gus G. (“Dream Evil/yestic Prophecy/Nightrage). The Real “Firewind” Singer Stephen Fredrick couldn’t participate because of personal circumstances. At concerts in Osaka and in Tokyo “Firewind” was stormed by their fans.

Their set included songs from the CD “Between Heaven and Hell”, which received very good critics among the metal-scene, as well as songs of the album “Burning Earth” which has been developed with genious detail-work as a studio project in 2003 and is supported by a new percussion group in the band.

Bass player Petros Christo and drummer Stian Christofferson and Keyboardist Bob Kastionis being on top of their condition. “Firewind” cross the borders of Power-Metal in their ambiguous new album and they produced a metal-classic which will be liked not only by metal fans worldwide. Songs like “I am the Anger” and “Immortal Lives Young” which includes a wonderful solo-part should be first choice of everyone .

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