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OSUKARU - re-release "Transition", "House Of Mirrors" & "Starbound" on Pride & Joy Music Classixx on October 18th, 2024!

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!

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."