For Your Grammy® Consideration
Changeling - Changeling
The first ever metal album written & produced specifically for immersive audio.
Now officially submitted for consideration at the 68th Annual GRAMMY® Awards, in the following categories:
Best Immersive Audio Album
Best Metal Performance “Abyss”
Combining the darkness & intensity of extreme metal with contemporary classical composition, fusion & progressive rock.
Using immersive audio as a key storytelling element , Changeling places the listener right in the center of an ensemble of full band, symphonic orchestra, full choir, flamenco percussion and ritual vocals invoking ancient gods, all carefully placed on a mindblowing 3D soundstage and performed organically by a 50-piece ensemble cast of musicians from across all genres and borders.
Changeling is:
Tom Fountainhead – fretted & fretless electric & acoustic guitars, oud, keyboards & programming.
Mike Heller – drumset.
Arran McSporran – fretted & fretless basses.
Morean – lead, backing & ritual vocals, palmas.
with:
Alexander Kerski – backing & harmony vocals
Ava Bonam – choir vocals
Matthias Alexander Preisinger – piano, glockenspiel, violin & viola
Martin Matiasovic – horn & wagnerian tube
Yatziv Caspi – tabla, hangdrum, dabouka, riq & shaker
Brandt Attema – trombone & bass trombone
Andy LaRocque – guest guitar solo
Bill Hudson – guest guitar solo
Jason Gobel – guest guitar solo
Jan Ferdinand – vibraphone & marimba
Ally Storch – violins, viola & cello
Chris Rützel – flute & piccolo flute
Ivar Ludvig Nitzler – cello & additional fretless bass
Shiho Murano – tuba
Juliane Erding – wagnerian tube & horn
Eduard Cortez – wagnerian tube & horn
Tillmann Schulz – wagnerian tube & horn
Moran Magal – piano
Cydney McQuillan-Grace – choir vocals
Lauren Gill – choir vocals
Shannon Bedford – choir vocals
Sara Robalo – choir vocals
Ben Francis – choir vocals
John Schaffer – choir vocals
Alice Williams – choir vocals
James Schouten – choir vocals
Krassimir Jossifov – trumpet
James McClellan Dorton III – spoken words
Kristian Petkov – bassoon
Stefan Prost – church-organ
Seonghyeon Park – clarinette
Arnfried Falk – oboe
Rouven Haliti – upright bass
Dalai Cellai – cello
- All music written, arranged, produced, engineered & mixed for stereo by Tom Fountainhead.
- Mixed & Mastered for Dolby Atmos by Tom Fountainhead & Eric Horstmann @ https://www.immersive-lab.com
- All lyrics written by Morean.
- Co-produced by Matthias Alexander Preisinger.
Mastered for Stereo by Leon Schmidt.
Cover artwork by Aaron Pinto.
Supported by Initiative Musik.
Tom Fountainhead & Eric Horstmann mixing Changeling for Atmos
