GOTTHARD, the legendary hard rockers from Switzerland, released the second single, ‚Thunder & Lightning‘, from their twelve-song new studio album „Stereo Crush.“ While many parts of the world are still covered in snow, the new track with its refreshing leads and its emotional love story already exudes its first spring feelings.
‚Thunder & Lightning‘ manages with ease to take the hearts of its loyal fans by storm and to increase the anticipation of the upcoming GOTTHARD work rapidly or Dufour-high.
In addition to new sounds, GOTTHARD recently unveiled the artwork for their new album. The cover of the record, which will be available from March 21, 2025 via RPM, was once again designed by Thomas Ewerhard, who has already been involved in the band’s previous projects, and skillfully summarizes all the elements that can be found on „Stereo Crush“: Honesty, rawness and a broad spectrum of emotions!
„Freddy [Scherer; guitar] came to my house with the musical idea for this song. We started there and came up with the structure and vocal melodies together and also recorded the demo there. I then spent quite a bit of time coming up with lyrics. To me, the sound of the riff in the chorus sounded kind of electric and I thought of words like „lightning“, „thunder“ etc. – and then I thought of the concept that lightning never strikes twice, but in this case it does, and used that as a metaphor for love. Even in French, which I speak fluently, you can say that „love at first sight“ is comparable to being struck by lightning,“ says singer Nic Maeder, shedding light on the creation of the track.
You can watch the ‚Thunder & Lightning‘ music video here:
and stream/download it here:
https://gotthard.rpm.link/thunderPR
You can listen to the first single „Boom Boom“ here:
Photo: Manuel Schütz