New Horizon The Answer

• 1 New Horizon 03:48
• 2 Leave With Nothin' 03:52
• 3 Spectacular 03:53
• 4 Speak Now 03:39
• 5 Somebody Else 03:46
• 6 Concrete 03:44
• 7 Call Yourself a Friend 04:55
• 8 Baby Kill Me 03:04
• 9 Burn You Down 03:30
• 10 Scream a Louder Love 03:32
• 11 Road Less Travelled (Bonus Track) 04:43
• 12 Feel the Fear (Bonus Track) 03:30
• 13 Real as It Gets (Bonus Track) 03:26
• Total Runtime 49:22

Info for New Horizon

Keeping the beacon of Irish rock music well and truly alight, The Answer have consistently delivered commercial, and critically acclaimed albums. The band have also spent the last eight years touring the world spending almost two years as main support to AC/DC and playing to over 2 million people, performing festivals across the globe and also supporting the likes of The Rolling Stones, Whitesnake and Wolfmother as well as countless headline tours. Since releasing their third studio album in late 2011, the band instigated a major shake up in their circumstances and with new management, live booking agents and record label on board, late 2012 saw them enter the studio with ex Little Angels vocalist Toby Jepson at the production helm.

The new record, New Horizon will be their fourth studio album and with mixes from rock icon Mike Fraser (AC/DC, Metallica), the band were also honoured and privileged that the late Storm Thorgerson saw fit to design the artwork for the new album and Storm was working on final ideas for the album cover just before his sad passing. Cormac Neeson (vocals): We re back and we re back in a big way. Our love for rock n roll is still as fresh as a skinny dip in the Lagan (that s the big river that runs through Belfast!) and we really believe that this is by far and away our best album to date. We can t wait to get out and play it live!

Cormac Neeson, vocals
Paul Mahon, guitar
Michael Waters, bass
James Heatley, drums

The Answer
Blues-influenced hard rock band the Answer first came together in 2000 when guitarist Paul Mahon, then 18 years old and living in Northern Ireland, decided to put together a group with the help of a friend, bassist Micky Waters. Waters was already a veteran of the Belfast club circuit, having played in several cover bands, and Mahon had been given a crash course in the nuts and bolts of the music business by his father, who played trumpet in a long-running Irish show band. Mahon recruited James Heatley to play drums, Cormac Neeson signed on as lead singer, and the Answer were born.

After several months of rehearsing and writing material, the Answer started playing live gigs in 2001, and in 2002 they landed a prestigious gig as the opening act at Ireland's Witness Festival. In 2005, the Answer signed a record deal with the U.K. branch of Albert Productions, and in June 2006 their first album, Rise, arrived in shops. Rise earned enthusiastic reviews in Kerrang! and Classic Rock and chalked up respectable sales in the U.K. while becoming a legitimate hit in Japan. After sharing bills with everyone from Deep Purple and Paul Rodgers to the Rolling Stones and the Who, the Answer reissued Rise in 2007 with a bonus disc including a handful of tracks the group had issued as download-only singles.

In 2008 they continued their busy schedule with shows at the Isle of Wight Festival and opening for influential Australian rock outfit AC/DC on the European leg of their Black Ice world tour. Between the two they managed to retreat to L.A. and work on sessions for their sophomore release, Everyday Demons, which came out in 2009. They ended the year with a headlining tour in the U.K., before they began work on their third album in early 2010. The following year the four-piece released a DVD of their live performances on tour with AC/DC titled 412 Days of Rock 'n' Roll, and swiftly followed it up with the studio album Revival. Their fourth record, New Horizon, was released in September 2013, and just 18 months later, the band had recorded and issued their fifth, Raise a Little Hell, in March 2015. Following a U.S. tour in support of the album, the band's singer/lyricist returned to welcome a new son who was born three months premature. Neeson and his wife were able to bring their son home only after four harrowing months in hospital, an experience that informed the band's next album, Solas, released in autumn of 2016.

This album contains no booklet.