This album can identify heavy guitar riffing, diverse keyboard arrangements and sounds, very complex and individual instrumentation, acoustic guitars, sitar-sounds, brass arrangements and saxophone solos. įrom the middle of March through the middle of May 1998 Superior recorded, mixed and mastered their second album, Younique, which was released in August 1998. They performed several shows in Germany, while already working on the material for their new album. In the middle of 1997, when their keyboardist had recovered, Superior began touring again, starting with a short tour through France, where they also played some unplugged sessions. After the tour Superior was forced to take a break, waiting on their keyboardist to recover. Angra's frontman Andre Matos offered them to rehearse some of the keyboard parts and Superior was able to continue touring.
After the fourth show, keyboardist Jan-Marco Becker hurt his hand severely and had to be operated on during the tour. Shortly after signing with Noise Records, Superior toured Germany with Virgin Steele and Angra. In the fall of 1996 Superior signed a contract with Modern Music/ Noise Records.
When the album was completed the band signed a contract with Hamburg label L.M.P., which got in touch with various record companies. Behind can be described as a progressive metal album, with very heavy and aggressive sounds, including driving guitars, complex piano and string arrangements. The album was recorded in 1995 in the Roko Soundstudios.
It took them a year to work on the compositions, arrangement and the concept of their debut album, Behind. Until the middle of 1994 the band toured mainly in southwestern Germany, until they began recording their first CD. This demo contained an early version of the song "Tomorrow's Eve", which was to be included on their first album Behind. Lineup Įight months after Superior was founded, they released their demo Timeshift.
Their style was described as something very similar to Dream Theater, but there were also many big differences between them. Superior was a German progressive metal band, founded in 1992, and disbanded in 2007.
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