08.05.2012 For all nostagic: Summoning - Oathbound was published as a 100-copies limited edition under the polish label "Werwolf Promotion". You can find the photos of the layout here.
The Cover of the last "Kreuzweg Ost" CD "Gott mit Uns" can be found here. Anyone who is interessted can vist the facebook-page.
Napalm Records is working on a LP release of "Stronghold" and "Let Mortal Heroes Sing Your Fame". More infos about that in a short time.
19.02.2012 After a longer winter-sleep summoning is back again and ow works constantly for a new release. We promise that in the near future we will regularly update the homepage again, so it will we worth the costs to check the page in regular intervals.
The present situation of Summoning:
In the past years we have worked on new material just very rarely because of different reasons (partly personal, partly being not motivated enough) but since the last months ,we intensified the work for new material and realised, that the old spirit is back again and we are very motivated for a cool new release and we are very committed in every terms of composing.
Meanwhile there are two songs which are fix starters for the album. 4 or 5 songs are in a more advance state and we composed riffs for at least 10 or 15 songs in a very early state. Btw. we still have one finished song from the last oath bound session which also will be in one or another way. so probably this time we are in the luck situation that we have more songs left, so maybe there will be some special limited fan releases beside the normal release, but this is of course just a wish right now.
We hope that until the end of this year most of the material for the new album can be finished. In the moment we have no concrete conception about the lyrical concept. All we can say right now is, that Summoning is still alive and middle earth will awake again.
19.02.2012 The new Kreuzweg Ost release “Gott mit Uns” is finally out now on cold spring records. Those of you who are interested in this release please check out the official cold spring homepage:
12.01.2010 Not new but still fresh:
What we forgot to mention during the last months is first of all the LP release of "Oath Bound" which was released on "Temple Of Darkness" last year. Its a double picture vinyl with a gate fold cover; just for those who are interested in vinyl releases.
The second thing we forgot to mention is the Summoning tribute compilation that was released under "Echoes of Koliba Productions".
28.07.2009 The new "Amestigon" CD with the title "Sun of all Suns" where Silenius did session vocals for one song again surprisingly will be released on the Austrian label "Hau Ruck" in the end of the summer. The "Hau Ruck" label is known for more experimental music in the fields of industrial, so this will be the first black metal release on this label.
28.07.2009 For the very first time there is a vinyl edition of the last "Summoning" album "Oath Bound" on "Temple Of Darkness" records, which also did the "Summoning" vinyl boxset and the "Lugburz" LPs. The LP comes as a double vinyl with a gatefold cover with 2 picture vinyls, all the lyrics on the inner sleeve and a poster. Fotos of it can be seen in the next days.
19.10.2008 Silenius has done session vocals for one song of the forthcomming Amestigon CD. He also is in the finishing process of the new Kreuzweg Ost CD which hopefully will be released in the middle of next year.
To avoid some commun confusions concerning the present situation of summoning; here the actual state. Protector has already made 7 song fragmentents for summoning. For a while there were plans to make a mini CD with 4 songs done only by Protector with no contribution of Silenius, because of his work on “Kreuzweg Ost”, but meanwhile Protector decided to wait for Silenius and concentrate on his other projects and use the fragements for the next complete album.
23.07.2007 The new homepage of protectors industrial darkwave project Iceages is finished.
02.07.2007 A few months ago the label "Temple Of Darkness Records" contacted us about a summoning 5-LP box. Finally this box set is released under the name "Sounds of Middle - Earth" Temple Of Darkness Records.
To answer a questions i read about that release: This LP box was not released under "Napalm Records" because they don't deal with vinyl releases generally, and already collaborated with that label before.
To avoid confusions, this LP box has got nothing to do with the CD box set we talked about before. The idea of a CD box set was given up some time ago.
09.05.2007 Tabs of Summoning songs are now online on www.metaltabs.com.
28.04.2007 This info is for all the people who asked me for guitar tabs of summoning songs.
Today i realized that all of the midi tracks for the guitars of the songs from "oath bound" don't exist anymore, so i can not transform them to guitar tabs. After i played and recorded the guitars i deleted all the midi files of it. but the chance is quite high that guitar tabs will appear on MetalTabs soon. I post any news concerning this topic.
25.04.2007 Yesterday i (Protector) wrote an email to youtube in order to tell them to remove certain videos showing nazi-propaganda and using Summoning music for it. This finally brought me to the decision to recapitulate all the statements i know that show clearly that the music of summoning as well as any kind rock or metal music are in contradiction to such ideologies.
So for now and for the future. any person can use Summoning music for videos as long as they are not used for political propaganda and specially not for nazi-propaganda.
Here are the reasons why i never will accept such ideologies in connection to summoning.
Political Statements
13.11.2006 New audio files are uploaded: The Summoning song done for the napalm records compilation "With Us Or Against Us" to the "Summoning" demo folder, 2 Summoning demo songs for the Lugburz release, and a "Grabesmond" song.
11.11.2006 Tommorrow (Sunday 12th) an audio interview with Protector will be broadcasted on Metal Cast. Begin 18:00 GMT
11.11.2006 New mp3s are uploaded to the MP3/Summoning Demos/Minas Morgul folder.
04.09.2006 The mixing and mastering of the new "Die Verbannten Kinder Evas" CD called "Dusk And Void Became Alive" is finally finished after such a long time of deep trouble. It will be released on tze 03.11.2006 under "Napalm Records".
You can already check the short version of one new song from the forthcomming CD.
Mistrust
More detailed comments about the new release can be found in the Summoning Forum
Generally new songs are far more polyphonic than the songs on the previous CD "In Darkness Let Me Dwell" and with much higher female vocals (done by the new singer "Christina") than before, but as dark as the previous ones.
03.08.2006 Yesterday i (protector) remixed the new summoning song, that did not have space on "Oath Bound" and which is planned for the next mini CD. Finally i switched completely to a software-sampling solution (without using my old hardware synthesisers anymore) so that for all future summonings songs we have much more freedome in sound than ever before. Also a self sampled choir sound (done by silenius, a female voice and me) is used for this song.
Still there is no name for this song existing.
24.07.2006 The Napalm Records DVD "The Realm Of Napalm Records" with videos and songs of Napalm Record bands was released today.
One of our songs "Mirdautas Vras" was used as background music in the menue, and on the bonus audio CD the short version of our song "Land Of The Dead" can be heard.
21.05.2006 The last missing infos have been added.
Forum and Mp3 menu icons added. In the mp3 folder you can find rare demo mp3s that we never released.
04.05.2006 The content of the page is completed. Together with Silenius, we tried the best to gather all necessary information and pictures for each release. If some information is wrong or missing, please contact me.
The page works now with Firefox and Internet Explorer; I know that it does not work with Opera yet but don't have enought time to fix it very soon. Anyway this is how the page should look:
Summoning Homepage
28.04.2006 The page is finally online again.
Still some pictures are missing, no interviews yet and the biography needs to be completed.
This will be fixed in the next days.
For now the page is just optimized for Firefox, there are some problems with Internet Explorer
Menu icons done by Arkan Von Greifenstein (check the Greifenstein link in the releated bands section)
16.04.2006 After problems with the database we decided to start to reprogramm the Summoning homepage again
