''Destination Set to Nowhere'' is a concept album by the

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Vision Divine Vision Divine is an Italian power/progressive metal band formed in 1998. History Originally a solo project from Olaf Thörsen (born Carlo Andrea Magnani). Soon, Fabio Lione rejoined him after the first Labyrinth period ("No Limits"), and the ...

. Released through earMUSIC on September 14, 2012, it is the band’s 7th studio album and the final album to feature vocalist Fabio Lione. Destination Set to Nowhere has a futuristic concept and its story takes place in outer space. It follows the journey of a group of like-minded people who because of political and economical injustices escape the planet earth and set out to search for a new planet to start a better life there.

Story

A man (later known as the commander) who is disgusted with the world he’s living in decides to escape the earth and leave it to the greedy and power hungry politicians who have caused him his despair. He builds a huge spaceship and names it Elpis after the ancient Goddess of hope and along with some like-minded men and women sets out into space on a quest to find a new planet where they can start a new life and build it the way the want. After years of roaming the space, they finally find a perfect planet which looks like heaven to them and land on it. But not even a year has passed since their arrival that they too start to get greedy and act like the same politicians they left on earth, trying to get more power over one another. All these upset the commander and he decides to leave again. He returns to his spaceship Elpis alone and starts it, but he doesn’t set any route, his destination is set to nowhere.

The Bonus CD

Olaf Thörsen stated: "Edel was so happy about the final result with the new master they had, that they called us back and asked us about the chance to release a sort of “limited edition” to be released with the new album, which could include some old songs taken from our previous albums. They would also have liked the songs to have the same production of the new album, so we should have re-recorded them. Of course we accepted, and we also decide to include “Gutter Ballet”, which is a song we all love and played in the past. We always released a cover, as that’s our last way to still feel like “fans”, and this time it was just the turn of Savatage".Interview with Olaf Thörsen
by Grande Rock

Tracks

All music written by Olaf Thörsen (Magnani), Fabio Lione (Tordiglione) and Alessio Lucatti. All lyrics written by Olaf Thörsen except where noted.Destination Set to Nowhere album booklet The limited edition of Destination Set to Nowhere includes a second CD entitled “Best Of” which contains the re-recorded songs from the band's previous albums.

Credits

* Fabio Lione - Vocals *

Olaf Thörsen Olaf Thörsen (born Carlo Andrea Magnani) is an Italian guitarist and founding member of progressive power metal bands Vision Divine and Labyrinth. Biography Despite being well-acquainted with music theory, Olaf Thörsen did not start playing th ...

- Guitars * Federico Puleri - Guitars * Andrea "Tower" Torricini - Bass * Alessio Lucatti - Keyboards, Piano * Alessandro Bissa - Drums

References

{{Authority control 2012 albums Concept albums Vision Divine albums