If you love your rock with a classic vibe and elements of prog, AOR and chock full of melodies, then I’m assuming you’re already all over The Night Flight Orchestra, right? If not, then this could very well be your new favourite band.

The guys have just dropped their most glorious and cinematic album yet. It’s titled Aeromantic and released 28th February 2020.

Check out my chat with frontman Bjorn Strid as we try and unlock why air, time & space has inspired so much amazing music over the years. We talk how he has evolved as a singer and songwriter since starting The Night Flight Orchestra over 10 years ago and I also can’t help but ask whether the track Divinyls is in fact a nod to the legendary Aussie rockers, The Divinyls.

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ʺYou can’t do that.”

That’s what everyone’s been telling THE NIGHT FLIGHT ORCHESTRA for all these years.

When Björn Strid and David Andersson deciced to start a classic rock band back in the late 00’s, everyone said ʺYou can’t do that.”

When they finally found the right band members, started releasing albums, and began to feel slightly optimistic about perhaps being able to take THE NIGHT FLIGHT ORCHESTRA to the next level and become a touring headline act and reach a wider audience, everyone said ʺYou can’t do that.”

When THE NIGHT FLIGHT ORCHESTRA got a record deal with Nuclear Blast and decided to release a feministic space opera in two parts, everyone said ʺYou can’t do that.”

When THE NIGHT FLIGHT ORCHESTRA decided to take their sound appearance even further and add the voluptous singing air stewardesses The Airline Annas to their line-up, everyone said ʺYou can’t do that.”

When THE NIGHT FLIGHT ORCHESTRA wanted to make the crowds at metal festivals all over Europe to do the conga train and unite in feverish disco dancing, everyone said ʺYou can’t do that.”

But you know what?

THEY DID!

And now they’re ready to take it even further with the release of their new album »Aeromantic« on 28th February 2020. This time, they’ve gone back to earth, or at least to somewhere 10,000 ft. above the earth, with an airborne soap opera about the inevitable heartbreak, the endless longing, the futile nostalgia and the occasional moments of euphoria you experience when you’re always leaving where you should have been going, traveling to where you should have been.

»Aeromantic« is a decadent, melancholic but life affirming assault on all of your senses. THE NIGHT FLIGHT ORCHESTRA has expanded their sound, and »Aeromantic« is an album that contains all your guilty pleasures, everything from mind-melting hard rock, sultry soul grooves, new age bleakness, shameless pop songs and death-defying power ballads.

THE NIGHT FLIGHT ORCHESTRA has already announced a European headline tour, »The Aeromantic Experience,« March-April 2020, and will also appear on numerous fetivals this summer.

THE NIGHT FLIGHT ORCHESTRA 2020:

Björn Strid – Lead Vocals David Andersson – Guitar Sharlee D’Angelo – Bass Sebastian Forslund – Guitar, Percussion and Special FX Jonas Källsbäck – Drums Anna-Mia Bonde – Backing Vocals Anna Brygård – Backing Vocals

…and for the recording of »Aeromantic« we also had help from some very special guests including Rachel Hall (violin) and John Lönnmyr (keyboards). »Aeromantic« was engineered and produced by THE NIGHT FLIGHT ORCHESTRA and Thomas ”Plec” Johansson, mixed by Sebastian Forslund and mastered by Thomas ”Plec” Johansson.