Album Manfred is out now - everywhere!

The band started writing songs at the end of 2005 after a short break from their successful festival appearances in Europe. After Christmas the songs were completed and rehearsed when the band then got together with producer Peter Los at WonderLost Studios
in Czech Republic to start work on recording the backing tracks.
Peter Los has now co-produced two of the bands studio albums alongside Black Pharaoh. From this the working relationship between Peter and the band seems to get stronger and stronger.

Says Peter, 'The Old Ones are back! I feel from the outset we all clicked on this one. We spent two months in the studio, from Go to Whoa to final mixes and sequenced master! That's a tiny gestation period for an album. Producing The Old Ones is like sitting in the head and driving one of those mammoth automatons from Star Wars or Saturday morning cartoons! And there's nothing that can stop it!'

'I feel incredibly privileged to have been around to see this album born and breathe life. There have been only a couple of occasions in my career when the ENTIRE process of recording felt so complete - and it is on display here.'

Says Black Pharaoh,' I think in many ways this has been the easiest album in terms of recording that we've ever done. The whole process of writing through to recording was very natural. I think in terms of the material we've also pushed our boundaries yet again and I think it will please our fans but also really surprise a lot of people as well. The sound we've managed to get is very powerful for a The Old Ones record and all of us have pushed ourselves in our own ways to create something that we're all immensely proud of and I think working as quickly as we did with Peter really was part of that process. We simply can't wait to take this out on the road. We've played some great shows and had a lot fun recently introducing some of our older songs to a new generation of fans. However for us personally we're incredibly excited about getting out and performing these new tracks.'

Says James Johanson,'This album has to be our best since working with Peter. There is such a wide scope of musicianship on this album and in parts this album is truly epic. I thought with the likes of To Pan from the last studio album that we could only hope to surpass that but having now heard the album back as well as sitting with a few select people and hearing their reactions as well I truly believe we have managed it. Every one of us has put everything into this record and it's really paid off. However we've had such fun making it that it's almost difficult to believe what we've managed to achieve in the time it took.'

The full track listing is as below.

MANFRED

01. In The Galery (Black Pharaoh/Lord Byron)
02. Rise! (Black Pharaoh/Lord Byron)
03. Spirits (Black Pharaoh/Lord Byron)
04. Alone In The Mountains (Black Pharaoh/Lord Byron)
05. Hall Of The Astral King (Black Pharaoh/Lord Byron)
06. I Remember (Black Pharaoh/Lord Byron)
07. Until We Meet Again (Black Pharaoh/Lord Byron)