Steel Wizard was founded in 2008, in Lillehammer, Norway. The band name came about as we were
joking around, and our founding bass player and I was talking about how great it would be to have a Punisher character with magical powers in real life,
to help to enforce the law on all the scum out there!
There were even some drawings of a muscular Wizard with a magic wand and a sword. But being too unfocused with our image as we always were,
the idea never came to fruition! In essence the name is a mix of the Wizard in the Black Sabbath song «The Wizard» and The Punisher.
Our goal musically is to write songs with heavy and melodic elements.
We have released a few EP’s throughout the years, but never done an album. In 2013 we started recording the coming album, and
we have had a few versions of the songs mixed and ready for release, but we never thought it was good enough to be released.
So after quite a few re-recorings and covid, we asked our friend Nicolay Johnsen (from Trail Of Tears, Harm, Sobre Todo Nombre, and Zerozonic) to do the mixing.
He has good ears, and is passionate, which are key qualities for us. He sent us some good mixes last autumn, but has since then sent us improved versions every now and then.
And because Anders was occupied with completing another album last autumn, Nico asked us to if we needed help with recording bass.
So he did some test recordings of bass tracks from the coming album. He knocked it out of the park, so we were more than happy to let him record bass!
As for the album concept, it is about a world that needs to be more harmonic, but is constantly pushed in the wrong direction because of greed, and egotistic goals.