UPDATE: ITS ALREADY ON iTUNES

From Two Steps From Hell:

"Two Steps From Hell are proud to present our new public album "Archangel". Thanks to the wonderful response from our fans, our last album "Invincible" became a best seller on iTunes, persisting on the iTunes classical top 10 charts worldwide for over a year. The new album "Archangel" features 26 tracks, including classics as well as new pieces of music. The release date is set to September 22nd, and will be available on CDbaby, iTunes and Amazon.com.

Album cover design by Steven R. Gilmore

Best regards, Thomas & Nick (TSFH)"

Two Steps also indicated that physical CDs should be available three weeks later. The announcement was made on their Facebook page. Archangel is their second public album, following the success of their first public release, Invincible.

Burn Rome! No, just kidding. Check out the cover art. I am not kidding, see below. Exactly, Nero is 

soon to be released, its release is set to 1th October. 

NERO Coming in October! Two years in the making, a lifetime of inspiration.

Two Steps From Hell redefine the word "Epic" with the new release "NERO". 40 new compositions from Two Steps From Hell composers Thomas Bergersen & Nick Phoenix.

As promised, because TSFH's FB page reached 20 000 likes, Invincible has been released in physical form! You can buy it at CDbaby. I do remember the speech of people like "Oh, i dont buy it digital, i would buy it if it was physical". Dear fans, the time has come. Its only 17.98 $ :) .

Thomas Bergersen recently shared two preview tracks that he has composed for the upcoming album Nero, which will be released by Two Steps From Hell. One of the tracks is "Starfall", the other one is "Strength of a Thousand Men".  Both are excellent! You can find these tracks in the BandPage section of Thomas Bergersen's Facebook page. 

For the curious ones, here are the lyrics of "Femme Fatale" (from the Illusions album): 

"Femme Fatale" translated lyrics (from Illusions)
* vocal performance by Vladislava Vasileva

"Nedo,Nedo beautiful Nedo
Hey Golden Girl
Golden coins and Golden adornments
All those Nedo, are for you
For you Gold and Gilt

Go Nedo beautiful Nedo
In a wide plain field
To meet your dearest 
To show him the gifts
Your Gifts, Gold and Gilt"

Two Steps From Hell has also released a sound design album, called Faction. 

Regarding to TSFH's FB:

The next major release from 2 Steps will be a cd called Nero (retitled from Eclipse). It is epic and sweeping music from Nick Phoenix and Thomas Bergersen. It will not be a public release, but tracks from this cd will be on our second public release, available this fall.

That means an other public release this year!! Dont you think this will be too much for a year? Lets summarize: Illusions, Sun, Break from this world (new Globus), Trailerhead 3, possibly a Future World Music and a City of the Fallen album, and now this. For the sake of God, STOP IT! :D. (kidding)

Because some people think this album and "Sun" are the same, i asked Thomas to confirm they are different. Here it is his answer:

Illusions and Sun are both unaffiliated with TSFH. They are my personal albums.
Nero used to be called Eclipse before another company took the title. (viz. Fringe Element )
Two steps from heaven will be released end of the year or early 2012.
Other than that there's nothing new except Balls to the wall.
There will be a sequel to Invincible. Currently untitled.

Hopefully its clear now there will be 2 public albums by TJB and 1 public album by TSFH.

• Two Steps From Hell will have 20,000 fans on Facebook soon... Which means that Invincible, their first public album (already available in mp3), is going to be released physically! The CDs are currently being prepared:  "TSFH is creating the booklet for the physical CD release of "Invincible", like we promised!"

• The next Trailerhead album was announced by Immediate: "Working on the next Trailerhead CD.....Xmas 2011 Release!".  Can't wait!

Two Steps From Hell has discreetly released a new album, but don't get overexcited... it's not Two Steps From Heaven or Eclipse. Balls to the Wall, the new album, features 40 drums and percussion tracks. The style of the album is described as "action/drama/epic".  You can listen to it on Extreme Music.

Music Candy has recently released an epic album, The Big Screen, which has been composed by Rich Lewis and features 10 truly epic tracks, with orchestra and choir. I particularly enjoyed "Victory". Listen to the album on Music Candy's site.

Omni Music has also released an interesting album. Guess its name... It's called Epic (that wasn't hard to guess, was it?) It is made of 14 tracks of different styles (orchestral, female vocal, comedy...), composed by various artists: "Sweeping orchestra, pounding drums, and emotional themes that can only be described by one word: Epic. Fourteen tracks with broadcast edits for a truly cinematic experience." Visit Omni Music's site to discover Epic.

On May 20, 2011, Walt Disney Pictures will release the 4th installment to the Pirates of the Caribbean series, "Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides".  

In this 4th installment, Captain Jack Sparrow (Johnny Depp), leads an expedition to the Fountain of Youth. On the way he encounters Mermaids, Zombies and the most  feared Pirate, Blackbeard, as well as his Daughter, Angelica.  

The music will be composed once again, by film composer Hans Zimmer. The Soundtrack for the film will be released 3 days prior, on May 17, 2011. 

Like on the previous 3 films, there are Additional Composers contributing music to this film. They are: Matthew Margeson, Geoff Zanelli, Guillaume Roussel, Magic Box Music' John Sponsler and Tom Gire, and Two Steps From Hell' Nick Phoenix and Thomas Bergersen. This is Nick Phoenix and Thomas Bergersen' first time working on the music for the Pirates films. John Sponsler and Tom Gire previously collaborated with Hans Zimmer and the other Additional Composers on both Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest and Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End. Also joining the cast of composers for this film is the Internationally acclaimed Mexican guitar duo, Rodrigo & Gabriela. This is their first time collaborating with Academy Award Winning Composer Hans Zimmer and their first time working on the music for the Pirates of the Caribbean films.  

You can hear samples of the music Magic Box Music did for Pirates 2 and 3 on their official website: www.magicboxmusic.com

I recently e-mailed: Thomas Bergersen, Nick Phoenix, Tom Gire and John Sponsler, asking them these 5 questions: 

1. What is/are your role(s) on this film?
2. How did you get on board this project?
3. What style of music will you be bringing to the film?
4. Hw much music have you been asked to write?
5. What is it like to write music for such a big film like this and what is it like working alongside hans zimmer?  
    

Thomas Bergersen could not go into detail, but here is what he had to say, "i'm not doing much on this movie, Hans Zimmer has done all the new melodies etc. There won't be any surprises musically it's the good old HZ sound that we all love. I'm doing about 10 minutes of music on it." 

Tom Gire and John Sponsler were unable to say anything, due to signing non-disclosure agreements. 

Nick Phoenix could not be reached for comment. 

I would like to thank all the composers I e-mailed for their responses and input. 

Thomas Bergersen has cleared up the situation with Teddy Bear Music in his blog:

The “Sinners” thing seems to have confused some people out there It’s not very complicated, though. Alex is a dear friend of mine and I wanted to help him gain some more recognition for his work so we repackaged his Sinners album for distribution through Extreme Music.

Best,
Thomas

Also, Illusions coming early 2011.

Here is a bunch of news i collected lately for you, guys:

• Whoa! A NEW ALBUM FROM TSFH!! No, chill... It is not exactly.

If you want to see the things clearly, visit Teddy Bear Music. Now you see TBM  no longer exists as is. Instead, TBM's former album is now belongs to TSFH (wtf?) . However, it is not yet stated at TSFH's site, but it is at Extreme Music, since Sinners is a part of TSFH's library. 

• New album by Corner Stone Cues, Casa Verdugo

Still not exactly what we all adore, however some nice melodies, from genres of pop, r&b, family and romance. Buyable via iTunes.

• New music label by Paul Dinletir, Hipalicious music

Since " Hipalicious Music is a fusion of diverse cultures that awakens the mind to new enlightenment" , it strongly reminds me of City of the Fallen with its ethnic sounding of music. Listen to it here.