• After The Seraphic Clockwork, what can we expect about this
new album?
A: The music of “Chronicles of the Immortals – Netherworld”
is pure VANDEN PLAS. The song material is based on the last
rock opera we wrote (Bloodnight) but the songs on the album
are noticeably harder than those in the stage version. Changes
in some arrangements can be heard, and some scenes have
been completely rewritten. It’s the details that make this album
different from other VANDEN PLAS recordings.
• What is the concept of “Netherworld: Chronicles of the Immortals”?
A: The concept is based on Wolfgang Hohlbein’s book
“Chronicles of the Immortals” He’s Germany’s best-selling
author (43.000.000.000 books) the story is about the question
“What is immortality?” the protagonist Andrej Delany is an
immortal. Those who meet him, sense that he is somehow
different from them. They are afraid and call him a vampire or
a demon. His immortality is what makes him then to a person
of interest for the dark side with satanic trickery, a dark shape
shifter tries to convince him to storm the Pantheon of the
old gods and wrest the throne from them. On the other side
restless chimeras warn him against this unholy alliance. They
tell him about lost love, the souls of forgotten children, and
point him to a “forbidden way” to Marius – the son he believed
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