The first single from the album "Learn, Love, Hate"
landed heavy rotation on rock radio worldwide and was top three for ten
weeks on national radio. The band toured massively in Europe and led
them all the way to Japan.
The guitar player & founder MR. Y changed the complete line up in 2007 and recorded their much awaited album "World Domination" that was released in 2008. The mixing duties was handled by the legendary Michael Wagener, famous for his work with Metallica, Ozzy Osbourne, Mötley Crüe, Skid Row just to name a few...
The
album did great thanks to fantastic reviews in press and media all over
the world, which led to massive exposure of the videos for the singles "S.O.B." and "Run For Your Life"
in USA and Europe. "World Domination" was listed top ten in the largest
magazines of the main target countries. It was also nominated for
awards such as "Album Of The Year" at the Swedish Metal Awards, Sweden´s largest rock magazine "Sweden Rock Magazine" listed it as "Album Of The Month" just before In Flames...
The band was invited to play festivals all over
Europe and toured with a bombastic live show filled with pyro effects,
smoke and fire!
Since the release of "World Domination" FATAL SMILEdid more than 350 shows worldwide, ...including tours withDio - W.A.S.P. - Queensryche - Lordi - Doro - Winger and played festivals like Sweden Rock Festival, Wacken, Hard Rock Hell, Long'I'Rock, Rockalies and Rock Weekend just to name a few.
These years 2008-2011 will be remembered as "the mayhem years" in the bands history. <p ">But between houses burning down, band
members in jail and in rehab for drug addiction (and in one case sex
addiction), TV´s thrown out from hotels, rape accusations, banned from
Radio, bar fights and alcohol related car crashes... <p ">The band
still managed writing and recording songs in tour buses, hotel rooms
and studios all over the world . And theyalways made it back in one
piece and with only one (1) cancellation throughout the years(Alx fell
off the stage in Copenhagen, shattering his knee. It now consists of
more surgical steel and titan than bone). <p ">From these recordings,eleven songs were singled out and re-recorded during 2011.
Ten top names tried out for the mixing job, all
mixing the song planned as the second single of the album. The band put
together a jury of fans & friends to pick out their favorite mix,
which turned out to be mix no. 5. Not knowing it was mixed by Philty and MR.Y...
This time they have done everything on their own to
make it the ultimate FATAL SMILE album, from recording and engineering
to producing and mixing the album and the result is massive, with "in
your face" songs and a "larger than life" sound!!!
The album is produced by MR. Y and engineered/recorded by Philty and mixed by the pair together.
The mastering was handled by Mats "Limpan" Lindfors at Cutting Room Studios.
The first single & video for "Welcome To The Freakshow" will be released in April and the album will see the light of day in Europe on May 7.
Forget what you think you know about hard rock.
Whatever you think you know is redundant. FATAL SMILE have made it so.
Influenced by the sounds they grew up with but not dictated to by them,
theirs is a sound thattakes rock in new directions whilst always having
one eye on home. Comforting yet exciting, dangerous yet strangely
familiar. Not afraid to bend the rules of the game should the need
arise, one day all bands will be made in this image.
RIP FATAL SMILE...On Friday, April 11, Fatal Smile have surprised all the fans by announcing they've split up – just a few weeks before their last album release...
Guitarist founder Mister Y. says: "I know it's really bad timing and
I'm really sorry for letting the fans down. But at a certain point in
life you'll have to decide if things are really worth doing.
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