HOUSE OF SHAKIRA
III + LIVE AT SWEDEN ROCK

Hot on the heels of last years "Retoxed" (Lion Music) comes the long awaited reissue of Swedish melodic rockers House Of Shakira long out of print and highly sought after third album "III". Regarded at the time of release (2000) as an essential slice of melodic rock scoring a massive 98% at melodicrock.com its reputation has only increased over subsequent years. "III" saw the early House Of Shakira sound as displayed on the bands classic debut "Lint" and follow up "On The Verge" pumped up a little more with even more infectious songs delivered with world class precision, passion and energy that have since gone on to be the bands trademark. Many of the tracks heard on "III" have gone on to become HOS live favourites and now thanks to demand from fans worldwide the album is available once again with the added bonus of a "limited edition" 11 track multi camera live DVD "Live At Sweden Rock Festival 2006" featuring a "best of" song selection from the bands catalogue of work. The reissue of "III" is released on July 18th 2008 via Lion Music. On the album bassist Per Schelander comments, "III has always been a favourite by everybody in the band. We had a lot of time in the studio and we were well prepared and knew exactly what we should do. This is also our only record where Mikael Eriksson (the bands long-term backing vocalist) didn’t do background vocals cause he was busy with his own career. Listening to it today I think it contents the ultimate mix between very radio friendly songs and more odd ones". When quizzed on his memory of the Sweden Rock Festival gig documented on the DVD Per reminisces,