Hey Newgrounders,

I released a new album on my Bandcamp titled Bards & Battles.

It is set in the fictional medieval fantasy world of Bardanheim, Bards & Battles is a fantasy themed album inspired by concept albums from popular power metal bands. It features a collection of both instrumental compositions and songs with an acoustic folk rock flavour to them. Bards & Battles is unlike any previously released album by Flamadour, as it’s the first to utilise vocals and with songs set in the same world as each other while still retaining the same Spanish guitar flair of the previous albums.

This album utilises storytelling as a focal point through the use of lyrics and accompanying instrumentation. Step foot into the wonderous world of Bardanheim! And be mesmerized by tales of Bards and Battles!...

You will find 9 tracks on this album. The first track off the album is Great Dragon's Bane which was the song I made for this year's NGUAC knock out round. I updated the song on Newgrounds to match the new final version of the song from the album. I did the same with the instrumental version which is also included on the album. As well as every other track of mine that appears on any of my albums on Bandcamp as I remastered all my previous albums since I recently purchased Bx_Masterdesk PRO by Brainworx as it was on sale for only $29.99 (which is great value at that price and a must have plugin.)

In other news I'm currently hosting a Pub Song Collab on the NGAP Collab Center discord server, it's currently still in the Mature collab start-up channel as there weren't enough people interested in it. But it will go ahead whether it gets a lot of participants or not. The due date for that Collab is October 6th (the last day of Oktoberfest this year.) So if you are interested in making a pub themed song for the collab then consider joining the discord server otherwise I can PM you the PDF document with all the rules and details for the collab.

Peace,

-Nathan