Osukaru – Transition / House Of Mirrors / Starbound 2024 [ bonus tracks reimagined mix Redux ]

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Merry Christmas!
Pride & Joy Musix Classixx will re-release three classic albums “Transition”, “House Of Mirrors” & “Starbound” by Swedish Melodic Rock group OSUKARU on October 18th, 2024!

These three albums are Vol. 12, 13 & 14 of the German label’s own Classixx series which are exclusively available via shop.prideandjoy.de

All three albums come with an expanded 20 page booklet, liner notes and bonus tracks, and are limited on 300 copies only each!

Band: Osukaru
Releases: Transition, House Of Mirrors, Starbound
Release date: October 18th, 2024
Label: Pride & Joy Music Classix
Format: 3 releases in 1 jewel case each; ltd. to 300 copies only each

Swedish melodic glam metal band OSUKARU 14 years ago first was just an idea in the mind of guitarist Oz Hawe Petersson (formerly known as Oz Osukaru) and it would take two more years and just as many EPs before they released their debut album “Salvation” in the spring of 2012. Back then OSUKARU was merely a band formed around Oz as he saw his vision come alive. A few years and line-up changes later, the 3rd full length release suitably titled “Transition” (2015) came out. That was, according to Oz himself, when OSUKARU truly started to become a band.

With roots in classic stadium rock, the first few releases had a more clear and pure AOR flavour to them. With “Transition” however, you could hear hints of a heavier spark deep within the tracks. Going forward, OSUKARU really started to gain a unique, harder yet melodic sound and with their last album “House of Mirrors” (2018) they landed a rock & roll homerun on which they have built upon to create the comet ride titled “Starbound” (2021).
A new, yet untilted album by OSUKARU will be released in the first half of the year 2025 via Pride & Joy Music.

On October 18th, 2024 Pride & Joy Music Classix will re-issue the sought after OSUKARU albums ”Transition”, ”House Of Mirrors” and ”Starbound” with several bonus tracks each as Vol. 12, 13 & 14 of their series. All 3 titles are limited to 300 copies only and available via shop.prideandjoy.de

“Transition’ and ‘House of Mirrors’ have both been out of print for a long time” Oz says, “and when we released ‘Starbound’ a few years back, we got a lot of requests from people all over to put them back on the market. What a wonderful thing! I never would have anticipated that.”

Oz continues “For our next album, we got in contact with the amazing label Pride & Joy Music to continue our catalogue moving forward and when I brought up the fact that there’s been a few requests as of late to reissue some of our older material, they happily took it upon themselves to help us make them something special, also adding our now sold out album ‘Starbound’ to the mix as well.”

“Transition”, “House of Mirrors” and “Starbound” have all been graced with a 20 page booklet each including rare and never before published photos alongside brand new liner notes digging deeper into the mindset from when creating each album.

“We are so bad at keeping the bread crumbles we drop while making a record” Oz laughs. “So when they asked me for bonus tracks, I had a few issues finding anything interesting as we never really make demos. What I did instead was to put both our original bonus tracks from ‘Transition’ (we had one for each format) onto the disc, as well as two instrumental demo mixes from the ‘House of Mirrors’ sessions onto that album. Here you can really hear what’s going on behind the lead vocals. For ‘Starbound’ we collaborated with Erik Modin (drummer of Wildness and Houston) and his side hustle Taekwondo for an instrumental synthwave rendition of ‘Tainted Heart’. We sent Erik some of our recorded material and had him go nuts. He ended up making an absolute brilliant piece out of it.”

TRANSITION

Oz Hawe Petersson – guitar, keyboards, backing vocals
Fredrik Werner – lead & backing vocals, guitar
Cecilia Camuii – lead & backing vocals
Vidar Mårtensson – drums & percussion

01. Arrows
02. Strangled Emotions
03. Edge of a Broken Heart
03. Play
04. Blinded Eyes
06. FM Rocks 98.5 [Redux]
07. Tell Me You’ll Stay (2015)
08. Out of Touch (2015)
09. Mafia Rules (2015) – feat. Jules Millis and Erik Heikne
10. Promised Land (2015)
11. Change of Heart [reimagined] – bonus track
12. City Lights [reimagined] – bonus track

HOUSE OF MIRRORS

Oz Hawe Petersson – guitar, keyboards, backing vocals
Fredrik Werner – lead & backing vocals, guitar
Olof Gadd – bass, backing vocals
Vidar Mårtensson – drums & percussion

01. Past the Present
02. You’ve Been Waiting
03. Ritual
04. Ain’t Too Late (For Love)
05. X Marks the Spot
06. Until Forever Ends
07. All Guns Blazing – feat. Magnus Mild
08. MacGyver It
09. Red Heat
10. Inception – feat. Anna Savage
11. Felicity Drive
12. Ritual (instrumental demo mix) – bonus track
13. MacGyver It (instrumental demo mix) – bonus track

STARBOUND

Oz Hawe Petersson – guitar, keyboards, backing vocals
Fredrik Werner – lead vocals, guitar
Olof Gadd – bass, backing vocals
C.D – drums & percussion

01. Starbound
02. Rise of the Underdog
03. Tainted Heart
04. Somewhere Sometime Somehow – feat. Mark Holden
05. Joker (In the House of Cards)
06. Go For the Legends
07. Shut It Out
08. On the Streets Again
09. Within the Depths of Love
10. All Up
11. Tainted Heart (instrumental synthwave mix) – feat. Taekwondo

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