Royal Hunt - Return of DC cooper 2011 - 2013 - 2015 - ??? Show Me Hot To live, A Life To Die For, Devil's Dozen

After quitting in 1997 a lot of fans never ceases to ask for the return of North American DC Cooper to the band
in 2011, after a first appearance live with the band, DC returned to the band to a new official album "Show me How to Live". Now we can hear, DC Cooper is more mature as the sound of the band, more than 10 years passed.

In 2013 another Album "A Life to Die For", here I leave you Signs of Yesterday my favourite track from this album, for me the album is a bit weaker than the 2011 one, but still pretty good:

In 2015, Royal Hunt started a Crowdfunding to get the funds to make a new album, Devil's Dozen, Here I leave you the song, Until the day, I think some of you might still enjoy the sound, but for me is not so pleasurable has other albums it lacks some originality, the major point to me is still DC Cooper's voice. The things is even the less good works of Royal Hunt are still so much better than several mainstream albums of most bands

Royal Hunt - 1st DC Cooper era: 1995-1997 Moving Target and Paradox

In 1995 album Moving Target, Royal Hunt not only embraces completely the progressive metal in its splendour as DC Cooper enters the band, the difference is immense, DC is for me one of the best metal vocalists, clean with good range voice. With DC Cooper enters the band also some need to embrace higher social worries.

DC Cooper

In Moving Target, the Single taken is called Last goodbye, Checking the part Down to the Needle Park on lyrics, is easy to understand the music is about a drug addicted.

In 1997, Royal Hunt Release my favourite album so far, Paradox, the one I felt the urge to Buy it as soon as i Found it, they touch strong thematics like religious scepticism, anguish, the markings of time and how a dependence of someone just to be able to live is too strong. The song I will leave you is Called Message to god, here the edited version of the official video

cross this Post and the last one and check the difference in the era with or without DC Cooper

Royal Hunt - pre-DC Cooper

Today I am going to start a 3 part post about one of my favourite bands of Progressive metal, Royal Hunt

I am going to divide the post in 3 and not 4 parts as it should for a reason I am about to explain
There are 4 phases in this Danish Band
1- Starting Phase where André Andersen does both Keyboards and Vocals
2 - DC Cooper from USA enters the band to make the vocals
3 - DC Cooper leaves Royal Hunt for some time, to do other projects
4 - DC Cooper returns to Royal Hunt After a lot of requests from fans to André Andersen

the thing is, for me the Royal Hunt in between DC Cooper is much weaker so I will leave not talk about it.

So let's start with the first phase with André Andersen in Keyboards and Vocals 
There are 2 albums to talk about in this part of Royal Hunt's life

Land of Broken Hearts 
In this album we see a clear influence of typical metal of early 90's as this album is from 1991. More of a harsh, raw sound
Here I leave you, Running Wild

Clown in the Mirror

Here starts to gain evidence the tendency to Progressive metal, but still a lot of influence from early 90's power metal. the melody mainly in song with same name as the album is notorious.
Here for you Clown in the mirror

Royal Hunt is a problem to put videos, easily they are removed from youtube, I can't understand this, mainly with albums impossible to find Nowadays