tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-62628286198835747542024-03-27T10:54:05.566-07:00𝗠𝗲𝘁𝗮𝗹 𝗠𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗮𝗴𝗲 ᴳᴸᴼᴮᴬᴸ • 𝓔𝓼𝓽. 2001 • PR • Promotion • Artist Management • Marketing𝗣𝗥 𝗔𝗴𝗲𝗻𝗰𝘆 that works professional and reliable with countless partners of the world’s music media.
Many years of experience in various musical fields provides at 𝗠𝗲𝘁𝗮𝗹 𝗠𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗮𝗴𝗲 ᴳᴸᴼᴮᴬᴸ the basis for individual and efficient service.
Main task area besides communications for global Public Relations are integrated promotion campaigns across print, online and broadcasting, as well as marketing, artist management, consulting and mentoring.
This is where passion meets profession!METAL MESSAGE ᴳᴸᴼᴮᴬᴸ • Est. 2001http://www.blogger.com/profile/00981847063724180231noreply@blogger.comBlogger225125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6262828619883574754.post-24663178885109464512024-01-05T04:40:00.000-08:002024-01-05T04:40:46.649-08:00<p> </p><header class="entry-header" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><h1 class="entry-title" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #283d4b; font-family: "Open Sans", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px 0px 0.67em;">Furious determination</h1><br /></header><div class="entry-content" style="box-sizing: border-box; counter-reset: footnotes 0; margin: 0px 0px 30px;"><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 1em 0px;"></p><figure class="wp-block-image" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/BREEDmetal/" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #9a2121; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;" target="_blank"><img alt="" src="https://www.metalmessage.de/artists/breed/logo.jpg" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: bottom;" /></a></figure><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 1em 0px;">[ Logo: Breed ]<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 1em 0px;"><br />Action: <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">BREED</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Title: <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">History Of Tomorrow</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Base: Osnabrück • Germany<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Style: <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Thrash Metal</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Genre: Classic Thrash Metal, Power Thrash Metal<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />FFO: Forbidden, Overkill, Exodus<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Type: Full-length<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Format: CD + Vinyl<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Label: <a href="https://www.docgatorrecords.net/" target="_blank">Doc Gator Records</a><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Release: Dec. 15, 2023<br /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">BREED</span> are available for <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">interviews</span> via phone, Skype, Zoom & email</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 1em 0px;"><br />Bulletpoints:<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />🔘 The debut album of the experienced Metallers<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />🔘 Explosive outbursts, confidently played<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />🔘 Efficiently coherent old/new school mix<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />PR:<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><a href="https://www.metalmessage.de/PR_BREED_en.php" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #9a2121; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;" target="_blank">https://www.metalmessage.de/PR_BREED_en.php</a><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />FB:<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><a href="https://www.facebook.com/BREEDmetal/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #9a2121; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;">https://www.facebook.com/BREEDmetal/</a><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><a href="https://youtu.be/S63mioWSeBI" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #9a2121; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;" target="_blank">https://youtu.be/S63mioWSeBI</a><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />[ In Your Face • Official Music Video ]</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 1em 0px;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/BREEDmetal/" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #9a2121; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;" target="_blank">BREED</a> says about the song:<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />„‚In Your Face‘ is a good reflection of the upcoming album ‚History Of Tomorrow‘, which will be released on December 15, 2023. It’s a tribute to the golden days of the 90s, when Thrash Metal was more than a genre. It was a way of life. Even today … at least for us. Socially critical, never conforming and rejecting the mainstream. Musically, ‚In Your Face‘ taps into the Bay Area genre, but still manages to show our independent style. ‚In Your Face‘ is about our own perception of the present day – egocentric actions, monetarily influenced and always prioritising one’s own advantage. ‚The tongue is my fist!‘: this lyric exactly describes our basic attitude towards these excesses of today. They are named and criticised without lapsing into blind actionism.“</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">THRASH METAL</span> has been one of the most stable and multifaceted pillars of Metal since the early 1980s. Overseas representatives such as Forbidden, Exodus, Testament, Vio-lence, Exhorder, Death Angel, Toxik and Heathen therefore enjoy a particularly high and collectively respected status among fans – after all, they unwaveringly stand for honest and intelligent music, like to express social criticism in their lyrics and enjoy well-deserved cult status to this day. </p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 1em 0px;">The two guitarists Sascha Rink and Maik Ramroth as well as drummer Sascha Meinert’s pronounced passion for typical American Thrash Metal was also a decisive factor in their decision to launch a new joint project at the end of 2018.<br /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></p><figure class="wp-block-image size-large" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px;"><a href="https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2024/01/image.png" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #9a2121; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;"><img alt="" class="wp-image-913" data-attachment-id="913" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-caption="" data-image-description="" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}" data-image-title="image" data-large-file="https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2024/01/image.png?w=700" data-medium-file="https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2024/01/image.png?w=300" data-orig-file="https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2024/01/image.png" data-orig-size="800,536" data-permalink="https://metalmessage.wordpress.com/2024/01/05/breed-furious-determination/image-13/#main" height="536" sizes="(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px" src="https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2024/01/image.png?w=800" srcset="https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2024/01/image.png 800w, https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2024/01/image.png?w=150 150w, https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2024/01/image.png?w=300 300w, https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2024/01/image.png?w=768 768w" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: bottom;" width="800" /></a></figure><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 1em 0px;">[ Pic: Breed ]</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">LINE-UP:</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Vincent Alberti • Vocals<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Maik Ramroth • Guitar<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Sascha Rink • Guitar<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />John Scholten • Bass<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Oliver Ross • Drums<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />The three musicians had previously played together for 25 (!) years in the Osnabrück Death Metal institution Sudden Death. After their dissolution in 2015, three years later they were ready to go back to their roots and let the seeds of American Thrash Metal sprout fruitfully in their new band – <a href="https://www.facebook.com/BREEDmetal/" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #9a2121; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;" target="_blank">BREED</a> were born!</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 1em 0px;">With singer Vincent Alberti and bassist John Scholten, the two missing pieces of the puzzle were quickly put together, and in 2020 they were even able to play their first gigs together. Covid and the subsequent lockdown brought <a href="https://www.facebook.com/BREEDmetal/" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #9a2121; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;" target="_blank">BREED</a> to a standstill for the time being. Sascha Meinert left the formation, but after the difficult months for art and culture, a perfectly complementary new man was recruited for the cauldrons in Oliver Ross at the end of 2022.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 1em 0px;">For the 2022 Heathen/Toxik tour, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/BREEDmetal/" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #9a2121; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;" target="_blank">BREED</a> were able to secure a support slot in Rheine, Germany and open the show for their revered icons, which further encouraged those involved to take the logical next step.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 1em 0px;">From mid-2023, the eight songs of the current debut album <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">„History Of Tomorrow“</span> were ambitiously recorded and with Doc Gator Records, a label partner with many years of experience could be won over, who was completely enthusiastic about the musical result right from the start and even supported <a href="https://www.facebook.com/BREEDmetal/" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #9a2121; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;" target="_blank">BREED</a> in its completion.<br /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></p><figure class="wp-block-image size-large" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px;"><a href="https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2024/01/image-1.png" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #9a2121; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;"><img alt="" class="wp-image-915" data-attachment-id="915" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-caption="" data-image-description="" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}" data-image-title="image-1" data-large-file="https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2024/01/image-1.png?w=700" data-medium-file="https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2024/01/image-1.png?w=300" data-orig-file="https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2024/01/image-1.png" data-orig-size="800,800" data-permalink="https://metalmessage.wordpress.com/2024/01/05/breed-furious-determination/image-1-11/#main" height="800" sizes="(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px" src="https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2024/01/image-1.png?w=800" srcset="https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2024/01/image-1.png 800w, https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2024/01/image-1.png?w=150 150w, https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2024/01/image-1.png?w=300 300w, https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2024/01/image-1.png?w=768 768w" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: bottom;" width="800" /></a></figure><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 1em 0px;">[ Artwork: Sascha Rink ]</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">TRACKS:</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />01. In Your Face 04:40<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />02. Of Hope And Despair 05:20<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />03. Refuse To Reality 05:02<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />04. Dimension Downside 05:09<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />05. Pro Evolution Sucker 04:42<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />06. Out Of Control 04:27<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />07. Better Hater 05:08<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />08. History Of Tomorrow 04:18</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 1em 0px;">total 38:46</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 1em 0px;"><br /></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 1em 0px;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />The recordings were placed in the capable hands of Luka Matković (Quasarborn), who competently mixed and mastered <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">„History Of Tomorrow“</span> at his Citadela Studio in Belgrade.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 1em 0px;">The first single release „In Your Face“ makes the song title a damn heavy program! The playful lead guitar literally ensnares you and the vocals have an almost hypnotizing effect, while the wonderfully hard-scrubbed riffing tightens the noose until there’s no escape!</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 1em 0px;">With <a href="https://www.facebook.com/BREEDmetal/" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #9a2121; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;" target="_blank">BREED</a>, the fatal brutal brood of Sudden Death has now become an independently growing plant, the seeds of which are now being unstoppably spread with <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">„History Of Tomorrow“</span>. <a href="https://www.facebook.com/BREEDmetal/" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #9a2121; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;" target="_blank">BREED</a> are here to stay!<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">MEDIA FEEDBACK:</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">9 / 10</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />➤ „… Thrash Metal classic … keyword: Bay Area … relentless riffs, lush grooves and melodic lead guitars … impressively flexible voice … easily ranks alongside the works of great role models such as EXODUS, HEATHEN or DEATH ANGEL and easily puts many a late work by the old heroes in its pocket …“<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />(Powermetal DE)</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">4 / 5</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />➤ „… fast, aggressive riffs … brute drum beats … but BREED go one step further: they experiment with different musical elements, as Risk once did, with slight hints of Death Metal and skillfully combine them with their own, unmistakable style … own soundscape … hard as well as melodic … gives the German Thrash Metal scene a new coat of paint …“<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />(MetalUnderground AT)</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">8 / 10</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />➤ „… fat riff power … always a pinch of German Thrash Attack of the blessed community Destruction, Sodom or Tankard … extremely high-quality rough grenades … can almost play in the top class … historical sounds are further defined … if you listen to such a fresh band like BREED, you don’t have to worry about tomorrow … should know everyone who likes a fine mixture of US and German Thrash … warmly recommended …“<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />(Rock Castle Franken)</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">8 / 10</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />➤ „… ‚In Your Face‘ is the name of the album’s opener and the effect of the sound could hardly be better summed up …“<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />(Obliveon)</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">11 / 15</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />➤ „… pure Bay-Area-Thrash á la Forbidden in the blessed ‚Twisted Into Form‘-times … hits you right in the face … this is how modern Thrash should sound in 2023 without denying its roots …“<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />(Legacy)</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">7 / 10</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />➤ „… strong debut that carries the essence of Thrash Metal into the present … explosive outbursts, confidently played by experienced musicians … the efficiently coherent mix of old and new Thrash elements makes ‚History Of Tomorrow‘ a pleasure to listen to … hypnotizing vocals …“<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />(AM:plified)</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 1em 0px;">➤ „… what a debut! Strong! With clear inspiration from bands like Forbidden, Exodus, Testamen and Heathen – and you can only say it was a good idea … direct and hard … so if you’re ready for German thrash that sounds more like American thrash than the usual Teutonic inspiration we know from German bands, then you should definitely give this album a spin – you won’t be disappointed!“<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />(Rancor Metalzine)</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 1em 0px;">➤ „A must-have for every Thrash Metal fan … ‚History Of Tomorrow‘ should not be missed … this album is more than just music – it’s a way of life, a statement and proof that real Thrash Metal is still alive …“<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />(Metaller DE)</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 1em 0px;">➤ „… enriches the record collection of any fan who already appreciates bands like Forbidden, Overkill or Exodus … BREED execute thrash metal in their own powerful way, creating a perspective that is both intense and personal … an album they can rightly be proud of …“<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />(BlattTurbo)</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 1em 0px;">➤ „I feel lots of Overkill and Metal Church here. Overkill’s punch and Metal Church’s finesse … amazing record … that’s the spirit, guys! I have a recollection of a time when Metal was all about the music, BREED do as well.“<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />(Metal Addicts)<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />etc.</p><div><br /></div><div id="atatags-370373-6597f6f921c05" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px;"></div><div class="wpcnt" id="wordads-preview-parent" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; line-height: 0; text-align: center;"><div class="wpa" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block !important; max-width: 100%; position: relative; text-align: left; transform: translate3d(0px, 0px, 0px);"></div></div></div>METAL MESSAGE ᴳᴸᴼᴮᴬᴸ • Est. 2001http://www.blogger.com/profile/00981847063724180231noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6262828619883574754.post-6588661173679639962023-11-01T03:24:00.008-07:002023-11-01T03:24:30.003-07:00<h1 class="entry-title" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #283d4b; font-family: "Open Sans", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px 0px 0.67em;">Fireworks of precision</h1><header class="entry-header" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px;"><h1 class="entry-title" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #283d4b; font-family: "Open Sans", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px 0px 0.67em;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/quasarborn101/" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #9a2121; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;" target="_blank"><img alt="" src="https://www.metalmessage.de/artists/quasarborn/logo.jpg" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: bottom;" /></a></h1></header><div class="entry-content" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; counter-reset: footnotes 0; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 30px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;">[ Logo: Quasarborn ]<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;"><br />Action: <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">QUASARBORN</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Title: <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Novo Oružje Protiv Bola</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Base: Belgrade • Serbia<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Style: <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Progressive Technical Thrash Metal</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Genre: Progressive Metal, Thrash Metal, Technical Thrash Metal, Power Thrash Metal<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />FFO: Forbidden, Vektor, Nevermore<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Type: Full-length<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Format: CD + Vinyl<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Label: <a href="https://www.docgatorrecords.net/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #9a2121; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;">Doc Gator Records</a><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Release: Sept. 15, 2023<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">QUASARBORN</span>:<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><a href="https://open.spotify.com/artist/5iBnVI79KWWubuYszQwiUR?si=Q7KdzzbMQ1q5XUeiiEt9dw" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #9a2121; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;">https://open.spotify.com/artist/5iBnVI79KWWubuYszQwiUR?si=Q7KdzzbMQ1q5XUeiiEt9dw</a><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><a href="https://www.facebook.com/quasarborn101/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #9a2121; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;">https://www.facebook.com/quasarborn101/</a><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;"><br />🌐 𝙋𝙧𝙤𝙢𝙤 & 𝙋𝙍 Action:<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />𝗠𝗘𝗧𝗔𝗟 𝗠𝗘𝗦𝗦𝗔𝗚𝗘 ᴳᴸᴼᴮᴬᴸ • 𝐸𝓈𝓉. 2001<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><a href="https://www.metalmessage.de/PR_QUASARBORN_en.php" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #9a2121; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;">https://www.metalmessage.de/PR_QUASARBORN_en.php</a></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Bulletpoints:</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />🔘 The important 3ʳᵈ album of the Serbian all-rounders<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />🔘 Impressively complex, technical and catchy<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />🔘 Sophisticated musicality on the highest level<br /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;">After the all-around quick-witted Serbian Tech-Thrashers have rammed two really massive <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">THRASH METAL</span> pillars into the ground of the profession in 2018 with their self-released debut „The Odyssey To Room 101“ and the follow-up „A Pill Hard To Swallow“ 2020, things could only continue positively for this whole special band. </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;">On May 10, 2013 the – not only stylistically – enormously independent formation has released the current album <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">„Novo Oružje Protiv Bola“</span> first digitally; but this time the more than ever ambitious originators had in mind a much wider distribution of their music.<br /><br /></p><figure class="wp-block-image size-large" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px;"><a href="https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2023/11/image.png" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #9a2121; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;"><img alt="" class="wp-image-902" data-attachment-id="902" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-caption="" data-image-description="" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}" data-image-title="image" data-large-file="https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2023/11/image.png?w=700" data-medium-file="https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2023/11/image.png?w=300" data-orig-file="https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2023/11/image.png" data-orig-size="800,422" data-permalink="https://metalmessage.wordpress.com/2023/11/01/quasarborn-fireworks-of-precision/image-12/#main" height="422" sizes="(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px" src="https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2023/11/image.png?w=800" srcset="https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2023/11/image.png 800w, https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2023/11/image.png?w=150 150w, https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2023/11/image.png?w=300 300w, https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2023/11/image.png?w=768 768w" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: bottom;" width="800" /></a></figure><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;">[ Pic: Jovana Uzelac ]<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;"><br />LINE-UP:</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Luka Matković • Vocals, Guitars<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Dimitrije Čuturilo • Guitars<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Miloš Tomasović • Bass<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Marko ‚Tihi‘ Danilović • Drums<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;"><br />For the physical release of <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">„Novo Oružje Protiv Bola“</span>, the skilled guys around bandleader Luka Matkovic have therefore for the first time put their trust in a label with Doc Gator Records and <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">„Novo Oružje Protiv Bola“</span> will be released by the music publisher, who is highly esteemed in the scene, on September 15, 2023 as a jewelcase CD and in various colored limited vinyl editions.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;">After <a href="https://www.facebook.com/quasarborn101/" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #9a2121; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;" target="_blank">QUASARBORN</a>’s first two albums were released with English lyrics, the band experimented with lyrics in their native language on the two pre-released songs „Ne mozes imati sve“ and „Novo oruzje protiv bola“. And this was quickly so well received both in their homeland and by the international audience that <a href="https://www.facebook.com/quasarborn101/" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #9a2121; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;" target="_blank">QUASARBORN</a> decided to record the entire album in Serbian.<br /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></p><figure class="wp-block-image size-large" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px;"><a href="https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2023/11/image-1.png" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #9a2121; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;"><img alt="" class="wp-image-903" data-attachment-id="903" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-caption="" data-image-description="" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}" data-image-title="image-1" data-large-file="https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2023/11/image-1.png?w=700" data-medium-file="https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2023/11/image-1.png?w=300" data-orig-file="https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2023/11/image-1.png" data-orig-size="800,800" data-permalink="https://metalmessage.wordpress.com/2023/11/01/quasarborn-fireworks-of-precision/image-1-10/#main" height="800" sizes="(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px" src="https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2023/11/image-1.png?w=800" srcset="https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2023/11/image-1.png 800w, https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2023/11/image-1.png?w=150 150w, https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2023/11/image-1.png?w=300 300w, https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2023/11/image-1.png?w=768 768w" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: bottom;" width="800" /></a></figure><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;">[ Artwork: Marko ‚Tihi‘ Danilović ]<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">TRACKS:</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />01. Novo oružje protiv bola 03:41<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />02. Urobor 05:17<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />03. Ne možeš imati sve 04:04<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />04. Voz 03:58<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />05. U plamenu 04:02<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />06. Od kolevke do rova 03:15<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />07. Ogledalo 03:13<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />08. Menja se 06:37<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />09. Prostor-vreme 05:28</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;">total 39:35</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;"></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;"><br /><br />This remarkably courageous approach makes the lyrics of the songs even more authentic, which address the overcoming of personal obstacles, the difficulties in interpersonal relationships, the never-ending search for one’s own identity as well as the struggle of each individual within a rotten system.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;">But <a href="https://www.facebook.com/quasarborn101/" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #9a2121; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;" target="_blank">QUASARBORN</a> have also evolved musically:</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;">„It’s not just technical Progressive Thrash Metal anymore, there are influences here that range from pop music to brutal Death Metal, and it’s all wrapped up in a recognizable <a href="https://www.facebook.com/quasarborn101/" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #9a2121; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;" target="_blank">QUASARBORN</a> style. Everyone contributed to the songs, many guitar riffs were written by Tihi and Dimitrije, and Tomas contributed some nice bass passages and solos – unlike our first album, where I still wrote most of the material“, says mastermind Luka about the making of <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">„Novo Oružje Protiv Bola“</span>.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">„Novo Oružje Protiv Bola“</span> was recorded as well as mixed, produced and mastered by Luka Matkovié at Citadela Studio in Belgrade between December 2021 and April 2023. The cover artwork, as original as the songs themselves, was designed by drummer Marko Danilovic Tihi. </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;">On the song „Od kolevke do rova“ Danilo Trbojevié from Serbian Crossover Thrashers Nadimac can be heard as a guest vocalist and actor Lazar Dukié is responsible for the recitations on this song and in „Menja se“.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">„Novo Oružje Protiv Bola“</span> as an album truly ventures far beyond the plate – a welcome, cultivated treat, and not only for Thrash gourmets, who are hereby served a feast as opulent as it is rich in variety.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><a href="https://youtu.be/uqmaqXiZN5Y" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #9a2121; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;">https://youtu.be/uqmaqXiZN5Y</a><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />[ Official video by Jovana Uzelac & Marko ‚Tihi‘ Danilović ]<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Singer and guitarist Luka Matković provides insight into the making of the video:<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />„Since 2019 we have been producing our own videos, with the help of our great friend Jovana Uzelac. For ‚Urobor‘ we had a really tight schedule, and there was no way to fit all five of us in the same place at the same time on such short notice. So the idea was to have each member play the song in a specific setting and location and create contrasts – outdoors/daylight, indoors/darkness. I wanted to do an outdoor shot in nature, so Jovana and I traveled to Zagajička brda in northeastern Serbia and did the farthest shots we’ve ever had in a video. Bassist Miloš Tomasović wanted to be filmed on the roof of a building in New Belgrade. Marko ‚Tihi‘ Danilović’s drums are the most difficult to transport, so we shot it in the studio, in the dark. Guitarist Dimitrije Čuturilo was filmed in several corners of Tihi’s basement. I edited the footage, and Jovana and Tihi did the colors. It went very fast, and we are very happy with the result!“<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">DISCOGRAPHY:</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />2018 • Blood Honey • Single<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />2018 • The Odyssey to Room 101 • Full-length<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />2020 • A Pill Hard To Swallow • Full-length<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />2022 • Ne možeš imati sve • Single<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />2023 • Novo oružje protiv bola • Single<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />2023 • Novo oružje protiv bola • Full-length<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;"><br />MEDIA FEEDBACK:</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">96 / 100</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />➤ „… has exceeded expectations … an outstanding album in every respect …“<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />(Serbian Metal)</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">9,5 / 10</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />➤ „… highly talented combo … irrepressible energy … this band and this album are very special … especially the guitar work is absolutely breathtaking …“<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />(Obliveon)</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">9,5 / 10</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />➤ „… technical and enormously multifaceted Thrash … brings plenty of freshness … wonderfully multi-layered … modern, elegant and terrific pressure … the refined guitar solos work excellently … never before have you heard Thrash and Alternative to Progressive in this combination … insanely good …“<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />(Zephyr’s Odem)</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">14 / 15</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />➤ „… a strong band … the last album ‚A Pill Hard To Swallow‘ caused quite a stir in the underground … with ‚Novo Oružje Protiv Bola‘ the Belgraders go one better …“<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />(Legacy Magazin)</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">9 / 10</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />➤ „… not only recall the highlights of classic Techno-Thrash from Toxic to Coroner and Realm to Megadeth, but also have tasteful melodies in the style of Coheed And Cambria, Rush or Billy Talent …“<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />(Rock Hard)</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">9 / 10</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />➤ „Hectic Thrash that bursts upon the listener with the first bar like a swarm of hornets on the warpath … elegant, squiggly bar changes, enough hooks not to lose the song thread and a vocal that is able to set wonderfully melodic points of contrast … absolute banger …“<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />(Powermetal DE)</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">9 / 10</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />➤ „… this time a level of quality is reached, which is not sufficiently illustrated by any exclamation mark … kidnap both fans and not-yet-fans into really new spheres of Thrash Metal … to bring so much creativity under one hat requires an immense amount of discipline … from time to time more little things penetrate the ear, which raise the pleasure to an ever new level …“<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />(Bleeding4Metal)</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">9 / 10</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />➤ „… a well-balanced affair when it comes to melodies, heaviness and pure technical bad-assery. These guys really are serious when they say they play progressive Thrash Metal. Intertwined structures, chances of pace and heaviness as well as an understanding for dramatic structures and tension building are only a few tools these people use so well to forge their songs.“<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />(Reflections Of Darkness)</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">9 / 10</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />➤ „… works very well after a short familiarisation phase …“<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />(Darkscene AT)</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">4 / 5</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />➤ „… just riffs massively, each track bringing memorable moments to the table … infectious vocal lines … powerful rhythm section … an excellent example of the balance QUASARBORN are able to strike between almost poppy melancholic catchiness …“<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />(Sputnik Music)</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">87 / 100</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />➤ „… this album just riffs massively, each track bringing memorable moments to the table … QUASARBORN are able to strike between almost poppy melancholic catchiness – the clean intro, the multivocal harmonies in the chorus – and crushing distortion …“<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />(The Metal Archives)</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">8,5 / 10</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />➤ „… partly remind of old Forbidden, who joined forces with Vektor in a parallel world … goes quite to the point … the songwriting is so varied that one does not shy away from catchy choruses …“<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />(Deaf Forever)</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">8,5 / 10</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />➤ „Two months after its release, I still can’t stop listening to this album at least once every other day, and it’s become one of my go-tos in the gym. Even if you’re not into Thrash, I would recommend ‚Novo Oružje Protiv Bola‘, as it combines enough influences to keep the pickiest of listeners satisfied.“<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />(MetalBite)</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">8,4 / 10</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />➤ „… a perfectionist precise performance, sometimes breakneck, sometimes slower, dictated by drummer Marko Danilović Tihi … poignant and articulate vocal attacks, in the already known impressive range … unobtrusive riffs that skillfully maneuver between progger Thrash outrageousness … already puts QUASARBORN on the list of candidates for the regional Metal album of the year …“<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />(Balkanrock)</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">8 / 10</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />➤ „… technical Power/Thrash Metal with melodic and powerful vocals, for the first time in the local language … straight and progressive, melodic and aggressive, traditional and contemporary at the same time … tons of riffs … great, catchy melodies … the interplay is scary tight and the production fat and powerful without being overloaded. The band has done everything right!“<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />(Crossfire)</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">8 / 10</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />➤ „… very interesting album with really awesome riffs … technically and melodically very multifaceted … a versatile Tech Thrash disc … worth listening to …“<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />(AMMO Supports The Underground)</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">3,8 / 5</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />➤ „… usually like technical Thrash, this time they have opened up more to other influences, which is definitely a strength of the record. The almost poppy flair of ‚Voz‘, which can definitely be called a hit, fits just as well as the Death Metal influence in ‚U plamenu‘ or the passionate-melancholic flair of ‚Manja se‘ … edgy, precise riffs … interesting songs … insider tip for Thrash fans who like to let their eyes wander away from the big metropolises …“<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />(Handwritten Mag)</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">7,5 / 10</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />➤ „… most of the time you can expect Thrash Metal with a difference, possibly also incorporating influences from Anacrusis, but playing the melodic card in the chorus … sometimes it just needs a drum storm or just inspiring guitars … once they even push forward into extremely European customs in Speed Metal …“<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />(Saitenkult)</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">7,5 / 10</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />➤ „… definitely good and particularly pleasing to the listener’s ear where the lyrics are often expressed with a clean and very melodic approach, especially in the beautiful refrains that characterise the songs … very high technical and executive stature, but they never end up in sloppy note-bending or cerebral patterns of dubious efficacy and sense, allowing the listener to enjoy a test of great class and taste … splendid solos … a small pearl of originality … brings fresh air …“<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />(Heavy Metal Webzine IT)</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">7 / 10</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />➤ „… a solid Thrash album that hits high peaks with its dichotomy of catchiness and ferocity … there’s nothing lacking … maintains a pretty break-neck pace overall, however, and I recommend it to anyone who wants to check out what’s thrashin’ over on the Balkan peninsula … Thrash Metal with a distinctly European flair!“<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />(The Progressive Subway)</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;">➤ „… the band is able to surpass themselves and exceed all expectations … fresh impulses … will make your heads bang and your brain cells work … versatility meets technical sophistication … have refined their craft once again … complex, technically demanding and at the same time catchy, a rather rare combination … total work of art …“<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />(Metaller DE)</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;">➤ „… with nine rousing songs, you are literally drawn into the world of QUASARBORN … invigorates the senses and can inspire … more than just good Thrash Metal … an impressive work that takes the band to a new level … the versatility of the musical elements, coupled with profound lyrics, make ‚Novo Oruzje Protiv Bola‘ outstanding … appeals to both Thrash fans and lovers of more sophisticated music …“<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />(BlattTurbo)</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;">➤ „… a really cool album … something that can best be described as Progressive Thrash or Technical Thrash – but bottom line, the genre doesn’t matter, because it sounds good … the band knows what buttons to push to make it all work in the best possible way … hopefully more people will discover QUASARBORN …“<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />(Rancor Metalzine)</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;">➤ „… bring a breath of fresh air to a Metal subgenre that I consider a little worn out … for breathless headbanging … an album to change your mind about Thrash Metal with …“<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />(Metal Addicts)</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;">➤ „… a Thrash Metal band that incorporate both Alternative and Progressive Metal details into their specific form and delivery … for those who find such a blend of elements to come across as generally interesting this is an album that should be quite the interesting one to become more familiar with …“<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />(Progressor)</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;">➤ „… masterpiece … not only mandatory programme for Thrash fans, but also for friends of sophisticated Metal … fabulously good …“<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />(Metalglory)</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;">➤ „This caught me off guard, fierce technical Thrash with a really strong energy and loads of hooks. Heaps of fun!“<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />(The Heavy Communion)</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;">➤ „… a small masterpiece of contemporary, extreme Prog Metal … far more than just a cool Techno Thrash record … with their style and in this quality QUASARBORN should actually open doors with rather old school listeners as well as with followers of more modern Prog Metal sounds. If not, there is something very wrong here. Another candidate for the best list 2023!“<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />(Vampster)</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;">➤ „… an album I would definitely recommend anyone with a penchant for Thrash to check out …“<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />(Metaltone DK)</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;">➤ „This caught me off guard, fierce technical Thrash with a really strong energy and loads of hooks. Heaps of fun!“<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />(The Heavy Communion)<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />etc.</p></div>METAL MESSAGE ᴳᴸᴼᴮᴬᴸ • Est. 2001http://www.blogger.com/profile/00981847063724180231noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6262828619883574754.post-63794232977703004852023-10-19T05:47:00.001-07:002023-10-19T05:47:03.766-07:00<p> </p><header class="entry-header" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px;"><h1 class="entry-title" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #283d4b; font-family: "Open Sans", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px 0px 0.67em;">IGNITION<br />Glorious bursts of power</h1><div class="entry-meta" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px 0px 30px;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/Ignitionmetalmusic" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #9a2121; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;" target="_blank"><img alt="" src="https://www.metalmessage.de/artists/ignition/logo.jpg" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: bottom;" /></a></div></header><div class="entry-content" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; counter-reset: footnotes 0; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 30px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;">[ Logo: Ignition ]<br /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;">Action: <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">IGNITION</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Title: <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Vengeance</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Base: Duisburg • Germany<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Style: <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Power Metal</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Genre: Heavy Metal, Power Metal, Thrash Metal, Melodic Death Metal<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />FFO: Blind Guardian, Iced Earth, Primal Fear<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Type: Full-length<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Format: CD + Vinyl<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Label: <a href="https://www.docgatorrecords.net/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #9a2121; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;">Doc Gator Records</a><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Release: Sept. 15, 2023<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">PR:</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><a href="https://www.metalmessage.de/PR_IGNITION_en.php" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #9a2121; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;" target="_blank">https://www.metalmessage.de/PR_IGNITION_en.php</a><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Spotify:</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><a href="https://open.spotify.com/artist/4oBGUsjD2nxZtftePbh78W?si=NgigQM70RMmicu1NNV6J5w" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #9a2121; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;" target="_blank">https://open.spotify.com/artist/4oBGUsjD2nxZtftePbh78W?si=NgigQM70RMmicu1NNV6J5w</a><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">FB:</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><a href="https://www.facebook.com/Ignitionmetalmusic" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #9a2121; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;" target="_blank">https://www.facebook.com/Ignitionmetalmusic</a><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">IGNITION</span> are available for <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">interviews</span> via phone, Skype, Zoom & ema</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;"><br />Bulletpoints:<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />🔘 Third album of the knowledgeable steel professionals<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />🔘 Immensely dynamic and fluid US Power Metal<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />🔘 Even more powerful, gritty and altogether more compact<br /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><a href="https://youtu.be/33ceFw9qw2E" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #9a2121; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;" target="_blank">https://youtu.be/33ceFw9qw2E</a><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />[ Official Video ]<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />The band state:<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />„This track is an anthem for all those who are not afraid to unleash their inner warrior.“<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><a href="https://www.facebook.com/Ignitionmetalmusic" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #9a2121; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;" target="_blank">IGNITION</a>, that is classic fuel in the proven US <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">POWER METAL</span> style from the heart of the German Ruhr area, the origin of famous acts like Sodom, Kreator etc.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;">The quintet around singer Dennis Marschallik, the two guitarists Sebastian Ernst and Christian Bruckschen as well as bassist Andreas Leyer and the new drummer Lukas Leuuw convinces since 2014 with a rough and straight sound, forged from the finest steel, which is skillfully refined with influences from traditional and modern Metal.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></p><figure class="wp-block-image size-large is-resized" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px;"><a href="https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2023/10/image-10.png" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #9a2121; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;"><img alt="" class="wp-image-891" data-attachment-id="891" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-caption="" data-image-description="" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}" data-image-title="image-10" data-large-file="https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2023/10/image-10.png?w=700" data-medium-file="https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2023/10/image-10.png?w=300" data-orig-file="https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2023/10/image-10.png" data-orig-size="800,533" data-permalink="https://metalmessage.wordpress.com/2023/10/19/ignition-glorious-bursts-of-power/image-10-2/#main" height="533" sizes="(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px" src="https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2023/10/image-10.png?w=800" srcset="https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2023/10/image-10.png 800w, https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2023/10/image-10.png?w=150 150w, https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2023/10/image-10.png?w=300 300w, https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2023/10/image-10.png?w=768 768w" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: bottom; width: 800px;" width="800" /></a></figure><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;">[ Pic: Stephan Trapp ]<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />LINE-UP:<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Dennis Marschallik • Lead Vocals<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Christian Bruckschen • Guitars<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Sebastian Ernst • Guitars<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Andreas Leyer • Bass<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Lukas Leeuw • Drums</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;"><br /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />The honest music of the band is often described as a mix of the old Blind Guardian and Trivium. So far, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/Ignitionmetalmusic" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #9a2121; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;" target="_blank">IGNITION</a> released the EP „We Are The Force“ in 2016, which stirred the cauldron mightily and thus attracted the attention of the Metal scene.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;">No wonder that the following records „Guided By The Waves“ (2017) and „Call Of The Sirens“ (2020) became hotly anticipated and successful albums, duly celebrated by the trade press at the time – and by fans even today.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;">Together with the label Doc Gator Records, the playful five-piece will release the new long player <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">„Vengeance“</span> on September 15, 2023, which will relegate some heavyweights who have become limp to their places and let their longships sink to the bottom of the stormy sea of the genre with twelve sound-strong thunderclaps.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;">Gone are the days of comparisons, gone are the days in the shadow of Blind Guardian or Trivium. Singer Dennis ‚Schally‘ Marschallik says about <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">„Vengeance“</span>:<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />„We have deliberately ventured with the album into new realms, which you do not know from us so and will still love,“ and bassist Andreas Leyer adds equally motivated:</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;">„‚Vengeance‘ combines for me everything that makes <a href="https://www.facebook.com/Ignitionmetalmusic" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #9a2121; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;" target="_blank">IGNITION</a>. We show ourselves more varied on this record and make a statement to the fact that for us Metal has many facets and that pigeonholing and a reduction to a defined genre ultimately means standstill!“<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></p><figure class="wp-block-image size-large" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px;"><a href="https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2023/10/image-11.png" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #9a2121; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;"><img alt="" class="wp-image-893" data-attachment-id="893" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-caption="" data-image-description="" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}" data-image-title="image-11" data-large-file="https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2023/10/image-11.png?w=700" data-medium-file="https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2023/10/image-11.png?w=300" data-orig-file="https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2023/10/image-11.png" data-orig-size="800,800" data-permalink="https://metalmessage.wordpress.com/2023/10/19/ignition-glorious-bursts-of-power/image-11-2/#main" height="800" sizes="(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px" src="https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2023/10/image-11.png?w=800" srcset="https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2023/10/image-11.png 800w, https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2023/10/image-11.png?w=150 150w, https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2023/10/image-11.png?w=300 300w, https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2023/10/image-11.png?w=768 768w" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: bottom;" width="800" /></a></figure><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;">[ Artwork: Andrej Bartulović ]<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;">TRACKS:</p><ol start="1" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 40px;"><li style="box-sizing: border-box;">Ignite The Fire 03:31</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;">The Wounds That Cause The Pain 04:45</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;">Adrenaline 04:33</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;">Beastmode 05:03</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;">Kingdom of Lies 03:46</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;">A New Dawn 05:30</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;">The Rise 03:45</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;">A Dark Fate 01:22</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;">Betrayal 05:31</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;">We Were The Shieldwall 04:05</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;">The Funeral 04:35</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;">The Final Hour 03:39</li></ol><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;">total 50:05<br /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;">„From the gut and with a proper ‚fuck it!‘ attitude, we have taken off the blinders to other (sub)genres without denying our typical <a href="https://www.facebook.com/Ignitionmetalmusic" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #9a2121; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;" target="_blank">IGNITION</a> trademarks,“ guitarist Christian Bruckschen lets slip – and his (guitar) colleague Sebastian Ernst adds:<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />„‚Vengeance‘ is honest and versatile Metal from our area, forged from pure Metal in the fire where tradition and modernity meet.“</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;">All participants are firmly convinced that <a href="https://www.facebook.com/Ignitionmetalmusic" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #9a2121; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;" target="_blank">IGNITION</a> will make every shield wall burst with their fourth album attack, because on <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">„Vengeance“</span> the warhammer circles properly and the new battle songs will inevitably inspire every berserker and every shield maiden.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">„Vengeance“</span> comes with a total of twelve songs that are included in physical format completely only on the CD version. However, the song „The Funeral“, which no longer fit on the vinyl format, is also included in the digital version. So vinyl fans don’t have to miss out on „The Funeral“ either, because each vinyl contains a code that entitles you to download the track.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;">So everyone gets the twelve powerful anthems from the boiling steel forge of the enormously steadfasts. Those who know the previous albums of <a href="https://www.facebook.com/Ignitionmetalmusic" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #9a2121; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;" target="_blank">IGNITION</a> also know about „The Viking Saga Pt. I“ and „The Viking Saga Pt. II“. This content-rich saga continues the quintet on <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">„Vengeance“</span>. So „The Viking Saga Pt. III“ starts with the track „The Rise“.<br /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">DISCOGRAPHY:</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />2016 • We Are The Force • EP<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />2017 • Guided By The Waves • Full-length<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />2019 • Memory • Single<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />2020 • Call Of The Sirens • Full-length<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />2023 • Vengeance • Full-length<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">MEDIA FEEDBACK:</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">5 / 5</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />➤ „IGNITION take the Power in their Metal very seriously! Most of the songs on the album are bursting with bombast and ‚fist into face‘ energy, you can clearly notice these Germans‘ joy of playing throughout … a love letter to the joys of the mosh pit, an energy drink infusion … awesome thing, more of it!“<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />(Stormbringer AT)</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">9,8 / 10</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />➤ „… interestingly designed Power Metal, which is by no means designed according to usual genre templates … plenty of freshness … mix classic, melodic Teutonic steel of the brand early Rage to Blind Guardian, enriched with Iced Earth and Iron Maiden side blows … melodic … enormous potential … a bear strong album … breathtakingly coherent … puts many bands from the mishmash in the shade …“<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />(Zephyr’s Odem)</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">9,5 / 10</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />➤ „… IGNITION clearly show all genre limitations where the hammer hangs and manage to not only stay true to their very own style but also to improve it … harmonious, classic, partly epic-hymnal melodies that have made the leap into modernity with fresh elements and enough harshness to connect old and young … clearly a pleasure for all senses …“<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />(Obliveon)</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">4,5 / 5</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />➤ „… refreshing ideas are once again the basic concept … strikingly multifaceted … all compositions are perfectly matched to the plot of the lyric content and enhance the listening experience enormously … each song has its own atmosphere that transports the listener into another world … brilliant Power Metal album that takes the band to a new level … IGNITION have the potential to play their way to the top of the Power Metal scene … brings tears of joy to every Power Metal freak’s face …“<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />(Metal Underground AT)</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">9 / 10</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />➤ „… erinnert nicht selten an alte Blind Guardian … ein geiles Album, dass frisch und modern klingt und richtig Power hat, ohne dabei auf Melodie und Soli zu verzichten.“<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />(Powermetal DE)</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">9 / 10</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />➤ „… cool cocktail of traditional Power Metal, Thrash and modern tones … very playful and maturely executed … fat riffing and an equally great production … simply great, captivating songs … sounds so fresh and puts you in a good mood … high level is maintained throughout the entire playing time … not predictable and remains exciting … absolutely great and I definitely recommend it to every friend of this direction … a highlight from start to finish!“<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />(Neckbreaker)</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">4 / 5</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />➤ „Between Mystic Prophecy and Brainstorm … show IGNITIONS‘ heavier and more direct side, perhaps the most effective … convincing … flows along compactly and pleasantly … proof of how alive and well the underground scene is still, as well as rich in quality … recommended for lovers of Heavy Metal of substance, powerful and melodic without ever being too accessible or happy!“<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />(Loud And Proud IT)</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">13 / 15</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />➤ „… compositionally we are clearly dealing with the strongest IGNITION here … impressive how all band members put themselves one hundred percent in the service of the whole, without driving any ego tours … partly spectacular guitar work and steam hammer drumming … usual charismatic vocals …“<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />(Legacy Magazin)</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">3,75 / 5</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />➤ „… riffs are heavy, with that definite US crunch and that edge of complexity in the compositions without being flashy … solid … interesting … singer Dennis Marschallik has a good raw-edged wail … plenty of power and range … IGNITION have the right idea …“<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />(The Metal Crypt)</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">8,5 / 10</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />➤ „… excellent musical mixture … 12 crunchy banging US Power Metal bangers … with the pinch of Thrash incorporated and the melodic choruses they will surely please especially fans of early Iced Earth. Maybe I’m alone in this, but for me ‚Vengeance‘ is even the true successor to ‚Burnt Offerings‘, which was never created for me by the originals … this thing is plenty of fun …“<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />(Saitenkult)</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">8,5 / 10</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />➤ „Blinkers have been taken off here, influences opened … probably the most versatile album in the band’s history, without neglecting the typical trademarks … straightforward … very playful … full on the twelve …“<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />(Rock Garage)</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">8,5 / 10</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />➤ „…a diverse Power Metal album that should put the fear of God into many an old stager … ‚Vengeance‘ forges modernity and tradition into an alloy that ignites across the board …“<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />(Rock Magazine)</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">8,5 / 10</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />➤ „… easy to listen to … the no-frills version of everything I consider German Power Metal, with the modern overtones of Mystic Prophecy and Primal Fear as well as the more brute approach that is considered Grave Diggers‘ domain …“<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />(Metal Observer)</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">8,3 / 10</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />➤ „With complete old-school Heavy/Power Metal roots, the band has managed to incorporate elements of modern Thrash Metal with great success … melodies and vocal styles lead directly to the classic Heavy/Power albums from the early 90s, but some of the rhythmic work and guitar riffs are completely influenced by the American Thrash and Groove Metal bands from the 2010s … a combination that works very well, as it gives a very unique and fresh energy to almost all the songs on the album … very solid and powerful … makes you shake your head from beginning to end …“<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />(Metalrock Club)</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">3,8 / 5</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />➤ „… Power Metal American style á la Iced Earth … turned to the melodic side … anthemic choruses … that makes you think of Blind Guardian in the distance – but without the incredible bombast … there is audibly a lot of work in it … the songs are sophisticated and yet very catchy … round thing!“<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />(Handwritten Mag)</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">8 / 10</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />➤ „… solid … very good work by the instrumentalists … very inventive and technically demanding … accessible to a wider range of fans of melodic Power Metal …“<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />(Metal Melodic Sound)</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">8 / 10</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />➤ „… a powerful Thrash Power Metal album with strong guitar melodies and rhythm, dynamic and powerful drums … a combination of several bands with strong characters and from two different continents, and this is a smart combination. I recommend this album to fans of bands like Blind Guardian, Iced Earth, Orden Ogan, Savage Circus, Persuader, Trivium or Sinbreed …“<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />(Metal Opera)</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">8 / 10</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />➤ „The riffs are really heavy … the vocals are melodic and aggressive at the same time. I find it cool that they are always heavy and never drift into dull kitsch, as it is the case with many genre colleagues … in the style of (straightforward) Blind Guardian, Brainstorm, Symphorce and in places also Iced Earth or Persuader … so here there is a proper one on it …“<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />(Crossfire Webzine)</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">8 / 10</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />➤ „… hot candidate for continuous rotation … accelerator pedal is properly depressed, but without neglecting earworm-like melody lines … after repeated enjoyment, two things can be noted: First, that IGNITION have delivered a strong Power Metal album here, which does not need to shy away from the comparison with the competition; and secondly, that I must urgently get the first two discs!“<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />(Hellfire)</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">8 / 10</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />➤ „Powerful drumming, supportive background shouts, gripping rhythm tempo changes, shimmering twin guitar eruptions, fine melodies, intense moments of tension, as well as Dennis Marshallik’s striking vocals, which alternate between throaty and heroic clear voices, leave no doubt as to who has supremacy at sea: IGNITION! Blind Guardian, Orden Ogan, Lonewolf, Rebellion, Stormwarrior can of course still be mentioned as comparison values, nevertheless the song material also has its own recognisable recognition value … good album …“<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />(FFM Rock)</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">8 / 10</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />➤ „… very refreshing, here a pinch of Iron Maiden, there a bit of Trivium, and Dennis Marschallik’s voice reminds of the singers of Blind Guardian or Persuader. Powerful Power Metal is the guys‘ motto – and rightly so … a strong album that makes you want more!“<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />(Bleeding4Metal)</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">7 / 10</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />➤ „A metallic thunderclap from the heart of the Ruhr area … a must for all Metal fans looking for a sincere and powerful musical experience … a true masterpiece …“<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />(AM:plified Mag)</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">7 / 10</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />➤ „… solid … may well appeal to fans of Rage or early Blind Guardian …“<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />(Deaf Forever)</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;">➤ „… clearly deserves the predicate rich in variety … the typical recognition value of the band remains … this is not least due to the successful vocal lines of Dennis Marschallik … have further developed … even better, even fatter, even more mature … the production is polished … the bass bangs well, the guitars are more differentiated than ever and virtuoso … the drums relentlessly drive all protagonists before them … fresh and full of ideas … 12 strong songs, partly arrow-fast or groovy …“<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />(Metalheads DE)</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;">➤ „… nichts weniger als eindrucksvoll … kraftvolle Hymnen … emotionale Melodien … ein Werk, das die Grenzen ihres bisherigen Schaffens sprengt …“<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />(Metaller DE)</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;">➤ „… one of the best Power Metal bands I’ve heard in a long time, managing to combine the inspiration of the classic bands with the more modern Metal sound …“<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />(Rancor Metalzine)</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;">➤ „‚Vengeance‘ has become such a good album … I think from what I’ve heard here, the days of being the lost link between Blind Guardian and Trivium are long gone …“<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />(Metal Addicts)</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;">➤ „… fuckin‘ brilliant … I fuckin‘ love it!“<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />(Iridium Heavy Rock And Metal Music Reviews)</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;">➤ „… has become really good and should appeal to both traditional metalheads and younger audiences. You have to manage this balancing act first, without it sounding too forced and embarrassing. With ‚Vengeance‘ IGNITION have delivered a really strong album with a lot of catchy tunes. Should be heard!“<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />(Vampster)</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;">➤ „… very well achieved, with well worked-out guitars and great solos, mixing melodic moments with Speed and Power …“<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />(Riff Of Metal)</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;">➤ „Energetic, powerful and melodic … full of heavy riffs, good vocals and good choruses that may remind you of bands like Angel Witch or Iced Earth …“<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />(Trueno Metálico)</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;">➤ „… melodic Metal meets riffing with a strong US influence … borrowings from Iced Earth … strong and haunting vocals from Dennis Marschallik, who might even be the biggest discovery for some listeners … in his style aggression meets melodic lead and depth, showing a talent that should not be underestimated … every friend of Power, Melodic or even US Metal should definitely strain their listening ears here … it’s worth it.“<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />(Metalglory)</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;">➤ „Excellent … Teutonic Heavy/Power Metal! Powerful and dynamic!“<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />(Unique High Fidelity)</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;">➤ „… one of the best Power Metal bands I’ve heard in a long time, managing to combine the inspiration of the classic bands with the more modern Metal sound …“<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />(Metaltone DK)<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />etc.</p></div>METAL MESSAGE ᴳᴸᴼᴮᴬᴸ • Est. 2001http://www.blogger.com/profile/00981847063724180231noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6262828619883574754.post-45455112913251763112023-10-17T05:53:00.005-07:002023-10-17T05:53:27.375-07:00<p> </p><header class="entry-header" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px;"><h1 class="entry-title" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #283d4b; font-family: "Open Sans", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px 0px 0.67em;">OLD RUINS<br />Fascinating tragedy</h1><br /></header><div class="entry-content" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; counter-reset: footnotes 0; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 30px;"><figure class="wp-block-image" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/OldRuinsGE" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #9a2121; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;" target="_blank"><img alt="" src="https://www.metalmessage.de/artists/oldruins/logo.jpg" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: bottom;" /></a></figure><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;">[ Logo: Old Ruins ]<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;"><br />Action: <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">OLD RUINS</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Title: <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Always Heading East</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Base: Gelsenkirchen • Germany<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Style: <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Black Metal</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Genre: Melodic Death Metal, Black Metal, Post Black Metal, Atmospheric Black Metal<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />FFO: Early In Flames, Children Of Bodom, Arch Enemy, Tribulation<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Type: <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Full-length</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Format: <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">CD + Vinyl</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Label: <a href="https://www.docgatorrecords.net/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #9a2121; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;">Doc Gator Records</a><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Release: Sept. 15, 2023<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />𝗢𝗟𝗗 𝗥𝗨𝗜𝗡𝗦 ⚠️ 🎧 𝗦𝗣𝗢𝗧𝗜𝗙𝗬 Alert🤘 • Feel free to share:<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><a href="https://open.spotify.com/intl-de/artist/16B7r7ccFBc2CGIdwzxSWA?si=40mlzhJsSlKidNDuGm5iEQ&nd=1" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #9a2121; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;" target="_blank">https://open.spotify.com/intl-de/artist/16B7r7ccFBc2CGIdwzxSWA?si=40mlzhJsSlKidNDuGm5iEQ&nd=1</a><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><a href="https://youtu.be/8tXT_4ny51o" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #9a2121; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;" target="_blank">https://youtu.be/8tXT_4ny51o</a><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />[ Official Video ]<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Bulletpoints:</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />🔘 The top debut album of the capable Germans<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />🔘 Individual, also vocally highly distinctive style<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />🔘 Melodic-catchy, gripping Black Metal<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><a href="https://www.facebook.com/OldRuinsGE" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #9a2121; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;" target="_blank">OLD RUINS</a> can be rightly classified as <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">BLACK METAL</span>, whereby the resourceful German formation has created its own, very individual style with many influences from the areas of Heavy, Doom and Melodic Metal and is thus a very appreciated term to a large part of the underground scene already since their first demos on YouTube.<br /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></p><figure class="wp-block-image size-large" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px;"><a href="https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2023/10/image-8.png" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #9a2121; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;"><img alt="" class="wp-image-879" data-attachment-id="879" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-caption="" data-image-description="" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}" data-image-title="image-8" data-large-file="https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2023/10/image-8.png?w=700" data-medium-file="https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2023/10/image-8.png?w=300" data-orig-file="https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2023/10/image-8.png" data-orig-size="800,533" data-permalink="https://metalmessage.wordpress.com/2023/10/17/old-ruins-fascinating-tragedy/image-8-2/#main" height="533" sizes="(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px" src="https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2023/10/image-8.png?w=800" srcset="https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2023/10/image-8.png 800w, https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2023/10/image-8.png?w=150 150w, https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2023/10/image-8.png?w=300 300w, https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2023/10/image-8.png?w=768 768w" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: bottom;" width="800" /></a></figure><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;">[ Pic: Anna-Lena Hickmann ]<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">LINE-UP:</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Christian Krajewski • Lead Guitars, Vocals<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Ersin Kara • Guitars<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Oliver Krajewski • Bass<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Alexander Czernik • Drums<br /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/OldRuinsGE" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #9a2121; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;" target="_blank">OLD RUINS</a> also made first plans for their stage debut, but the Lord Of Destruction had other plans and brought the world a pandemic. However, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/OldRuinsGE" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #9a2121; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;" target="_blank">OLD RUINS</a> were not discouraged by this and began in August 2020 with the recordings of the completely convincing 6-track debut EP „Old Ruins“, which physically and digitally passed the gates of hell on November 06, 2020 and brought darkness from the heart of the Ruhr area over Tristram. </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;">On September 15, 2023, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/OldRuinsGE" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #9a2121; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;" target="_blank">OLD RUINS</a> will release their first long-player entitled <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">„Always Heading East“</span> on Doc Gator, with which the record company proves exquisite taste. </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/OldRuinsGE" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #9a2121; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;" target="_blank">OLD RUINS</a> was founded in 2019 and was initially supposed to be a pure studio project of drummer Alexander Czernik and singer/lead guitarist Christian Krajewski. But the thus only really hungry players quickly developed a damn dark, very atmospheric sound, which is still not easy to categorize and which remains not least because of this permanently as fascinating as exciting and wear-free.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></p><figure class="wp-block-image size-large" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px;"><a href="https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2023/10/image-9.png" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #9a2121; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;"><img alt="" class="wp-image-882" data-attachment-id="882" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-caption="" data-image-description="" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}" data-image-title="image-9" data-large-file="https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2023/10/image-9.png?w=700" data-medium-file="https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2023/10/image-9.png?w=300" data-orig-file="https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2023/10/image-9.png" data-orig-size="800,800" data-permalink="https://metalmessage.wordpress.com/2023/10/17/old-ruins-fascinating-tragedy/image-9-2/#main" height="800" sizes="(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px" src="https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2023/10/image-9.png?w=800" srcset="https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2023/10/image-9.png 800w, https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2023/10/image-9.png?w=150 150w, https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2023/10/image-9.png?w=300 300w, https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2023/10/image-9.png?w=768 768w" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: bottom;" width="800" /></a></figure><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;">[ Artwork: Timon Kokott ]<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">TRACKS:</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />01. The Dark Wanderer 06:56<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />02. Tristram 04:56<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />03. The Desert Sands 04:55<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />04. Risen From The Grave 07:03<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />05. The Fallen Temple 06:50<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />06. Mephisto 05:41<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />07. Lord Of Hell 04:07<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />08. Sescheron 04:59</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;">total 45:27</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Inspired by their ingenious concept, they completed the line-up with Oliver Krajewski on bass and Ersin Kara on guitar. About their debut album <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">„Always Heading East“</span> the conspiratorial gloomy souls say:</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;"> “The lyrics lyrically refer to the video game classic ‚Diablo‘ from Blizzard. The dark atmosphere of the game has always fascinated us immensely. Whether the tragic story without any happy ending, or the neglected (sound)worlds on ‚Always Heading East‘ were the main inspiration is hard to say today“, but „when you close your eyes and put the record on, you really dive into the mystical story of the dark wanderer“, Christian Krajewski raves fervently, adding: „If you’re not versed in the history of the video game, you can still immerse yourself in the dark musical world of the album and enjoy the soothingly atmospheric Black Metal sound. „</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;">Where Iron Maiden have to deal with only one beast, the brave warriors of <a href="https://www.facebook.com/OldRuinsGE" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #9a2121; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;" target="_blank">OLD RUINS</a> are exposed to numerous spawns of hell. Face to face they bravely take on MEPHISTO the Lord Of Hate, LILITH – Daughter Of Mephisto and Queen Of The Succubi, TATHAMET The Seven-headed Dragon and BAAL The Lord Of Destruction.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;">Follow these exceptionally talented German top artists on their new adventures in <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">„Always Heading East“</span> and dive into a dark, atmospheric sound experience of a very special kind – inspired by the legendary world of Diablo!<br /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">DISCOGRAPHY:</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />2020 • Old Ruins • EP<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />2023 • Always Heading East • Full-length<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;"><br />OLD RUINS</span> are available for <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">interviews</span> via phone, Skype, Zoom & email<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />oldruins.official@googlemail.com<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;">🌐 𝙋𝙧𝙤𝙢𝙤 & 𝙋𝙍:<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />𝗠𝗘𝗧𝗔𝗟 𝗠𝗘𝗦𝗦𝗔𝗚𝗘 ᴳᴸᴼᴮᴬᴸ • 𝐸𝓈𝓉. 2001<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><a href="https://www.metalmessage.de/PR_OLD_RUINS_en.php" rel="nofollow" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #9a2121; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;">https://www.metalmessage.de/PR_OLD_RUINS_en.php</a><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;"><br />MEDIA FEEDBACK:</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">10 / 10</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />➤ „… explosive mixture … epic … melancholic … great melodies … predominantly midtempo … the vocals put the crown on the whole thing …“<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />(Bleeding4Metal)</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">9,5 / 10</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />➤ „OLD RUINS deliver a tour de force on their full-length debut, combining the raw frenzy of Black Metal with exquisite melodies and riffs from Heavy and Epic Metal. This album is by no means just a homage to a cult game, but skillfully forged black stainless steel!“<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />(Soundmagnet)</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">9 / 10</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />➤ „… a dark, atmospheric album, coupled with influences from Death Metal and doom, as well as from classic Heavy Metal … anyone who likes dark and atmospheric Black Metal should definitely risk an ear here …“<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />(Moshpit Passion)</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">8,7 / 10</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />➤ „… an album rich in detail, full of subtleties … multi-layered in its orientation, but still at home in melodic Black Metal. A promising newcomer, of whom you certainly haven’t heard the last … my insider tip for this month. Strong.“<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />(Zephyr’s Odem)</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">8,5 / 10</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />➤ „… a heavyweight … jewel …“<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />(Saitenkult)</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">8,5 / 10</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />➤ „… Krajewski’s harsh vocals are typical for the genre, but his fine guitar leads and harmonies are worthy of any Epic Metal combo and have nothing to do with some blind bludgeoning from the Black Metal mud corner. By the way, this also applies to the production …“<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />(Obliveon)</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">8,5 / 10</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />➤ „This is how Melodic Black Metal must be. Here, a black dripping atmosphere is conjured out of the hat … falling for the melancholy of the black vocals … strong riffing, which could almost be classified as heavy metal … this Black’n’Heavy mixture is a great mood, doesn’t let boredom arise and immediately runs into the auditory canals to burn itself there …“<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />(Hellfire)</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">8 / 10</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />➤ „… very great sounding atmospheric and melodic mixture of Black, Death, Doom and Heavy Metal …“<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />(A Different Shade Of Black Metal)</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">8 / 10</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />➤ „Rounded off by an oldschool but nevertheless tidy and powerful production that should satisfy purists as well as friends of modern Metal productions. Let’s hope that the Ruhr area formation will follow this promising starting signal with many more releases, because here we could have a very exciting new entry in the black metal lexicon. And in such a hopelessly overrun genre, this fact alone is a small accolade!“<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />(Powermetal DE)</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">8 / 10</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />➤ „… epic sound that lies somewhere between late-80s Bathory, mid-range Immortal, early In Flames and Dissection … while not missing out on great melodies and clear references to classic Heavy Metal … melancholy and epicness are the two cornerstones …“<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />(Metal DE)</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">8 / 10</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />➤ „… works excellently over the entire playing time … varied, full of strong melodic arcs … with numerous, successful epic moments … the so-called Gothenburg sound as well as Doom and Death Metal are also cleverly integrated … appealing level … the production is quite powerful and relatively modern, more like a Power Metal record … all kinds of subtleties make this album a feast for the ears …“<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />(Neckbreaker)</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">12 / 15</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />➤ „… should convince not only the quality-conscious Black- but also the inclined Epic-Metaller …“<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />(Legacy Magazin)</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">7,5 / 10</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />➤ „… score with a proper Heavy Metal attitude … spirit meets melancholy and finds a nice balance … the songs are varied, but always have their own style and sound homogeneous … everything sounds like from one cast … interesting and detailed, without overwhelming … comparisons to Alcest, but also newer Tribulation spontaneously come to mind …“<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />(Crossfire Webzine)</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">3,7 / 5</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />➤ „… sounds like dark big battles … besides genre-typical jangling and tremolo riffs there is also a good portion of Power, Thrash and Death Metal … partly almost traditional metal underpinnings. That makes mood. The sound is also not cold and clanking, but quite dense and fat … a plus of atmosphere even reminds something of the Irish Primordial … quite surprising …“<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />(Handwritten Mag)</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">7 / 10</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />➤ „It almost feels like there is a hidden meaning underneath the surface of Christian Krajewski’s vocals with a fresh emotive quality rising to the surface from the black depths, something which works very well … despite being shrouded in a cloak of darker atmospheres there is a real sense of epic majesty …“<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />(Metal Noise)</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">7 / 10</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />➤ „… a heavy reliance on melody … not afraid to measure themselves with less explosive but still rocky dynamics … great passion of the musicians involved …“<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />(Heavy Metal Webzine IT)</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;">➤ „OLD RUINS do a lot of things right on their debut ‚Always Heading East‘, above all they know how to create an atmosphere that sweeps the listener along and where it doesn’t matter if you know the source of inspiration or set off ignorantly down the dark paths to Tristram. Black/heavy/doom metal that isn’t hard to digest and is fun to listen to.“<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />(Breakout)</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;">➤ „… they master a broader spectrum of Metal music … sounds sharp and does not have the atmosphere that the representatives of the genre usually aim for … compositionally it is also quite edgy, but this is due to the organisational talent that seems to generally characterise these creators … the melodic moments are pronounced … carry something distinctive …“<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />(Flight Of Pegasus)</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;">➤ „In many ways, the album hits those emotions that grab you, consume you and at the same time are delivered so (almost) elegantly that you just want more all the time … there are elements of several branches of Metal, but imagine some of the early In Flames, a little Children Of Bodom, a little Arch Enemy and then add a little Tribulation and mix it well together, and you have the sound of OLD RUINS – presented here on a really good album that will surely appeal to many.“<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />(Rancor Metalzine)</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;">➤ „A crushing Heavy/Post Black Metal album. It’s heavy. It hits hard. At the same time, it’s also beautiful and soaring high with its elegant moments that can touch your very soul. A moving record while being brutal with a high-dynamic sound.“<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />(Noisewriter)</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;">➤ „Dissection/(early) In Flames/Dark Tranquillity meets Epic Heavy Metal in all its powerful, enthralling, captivating glory. High Heavens, Burning Hells!“<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />(KMäNriffs)</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;">➤ „… much to love about this … heavy, but often not blistering, with headbanging beats and hypnotic riffs … the subtle Black Metal influence is there, without OLD RUINS having to rely on it much, creating a unique sound … great …“<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />(Wanna Hear a Great Song Today?)</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;">➤ „… clear recommendation … melodic guitar harmonies … OLD RUINS are clever songwriters and change tempo and mood in pretty much all tracks again and again, so that no boredom arises … really strong album, somewhere between Black and Heavy Metal, whereby the latter clearly predominates … is really fun … I had not expected otherwise after the great EP …“<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />(Vampster)</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;">➤ „… very atmospheric … influences from Melodic Metal clearly recognisable … slight doom influences that give the songs more depth and balance, making them even more accessible than they already are … perfectly staged and also produced … professionals at work …“<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />(Metalglory)</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;">➤ „… imagine some early In Flames, some Children Of Bodom, some Arch Enemy and then add a little Tribulation and mix it all together well, presented on a really good album that I’m sure many will enjoy.“<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />(Metaltone DK)<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />etc.</p></div>METAL MESSAGE ᴳᴸᴼᴮᴬᴸ • Est. 2001http://www.blogger.com/profile/00981847063724180231noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6262828619883574754.post-23414095135112591632023-10-13T04:01:00.001-07:002023-10-13T04:01:15.562-07:00<p> </p><header class="entry-header" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><h1 class="entry-title" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #283d4b; font-family: "Open Sans", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px 0px 0.67em;">HERETOIR<br />Dancing with nature spirits … </h1><br /></header><div class="entry-content" style="box-sizing: border-box; counter-reset: footnotes 0; margin: 0px 0px 30px;"><figure class="wp-block-image" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px;"><a href="http://www.facebook.com/heretoir/" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #9a2121; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;" target="_blank"><img alt="" src="https://www.metalmessage.de/artists/heretoir/logo.jpg" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: bottom;" /></a></figure><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 1em 0px;">[ Logo: Heretoir ]<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Action: <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">HERETOIR</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Title: <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Nightsphere</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Base: Augsburg • Germany<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Style: <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Atmospheric Post Black Metal</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Genre: Atmospheric Black Metal, Post Metal, Post Rock, Shoegaze<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />FFO: Alcest, Lantlôs, Amesoeurs<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Type: Full-length<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Format: CD + Vinyl<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Label: Northern Silence<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Release: <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Oct. 06, 2023</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><a href="https://www.facebook.com/heretoir/" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #9a2121; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;" target="_blank">https://www.facebook.com/heretoir/</a><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />PR:<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><a href="https://www.metalmessage.de/PR_HERETOIR_en.php" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #9a2121; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;" target="_blank">https://www.metalmessage.de/PR_HERETOIR_en.php</a></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 1em 0px;">Bulletpoints:<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />🔘 Third album of the poetic German tragedians<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />🔘 Enchanting songs, full of depth and beauty<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />🔘 Definitely one of the best acts of the genre<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><a href="https://youtu.be/4mHhCYCksZI" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #9a2121; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;" target="_blank">https://youtu.be/4mHhCYCksZI</a><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />[ Glacierheart – Nightsphere Part II • Official Lyric Video ]<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />The band states:<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />„‚Glacierheart – Nightsphere Part II‘ – a song with a very diverse songstructure that leaves room for aggressive blast beat passages summoning dark Black Metal atmospheres, as well as fragile Post Rock parts with emotional clean vocals. The lyrics tell an epic tale of war between the natural world and the manmade realm of machines. The grand finale of ‚Glacierheart‘ is dominated by fierce screams and rhythmic doublebass passages illustrating the clash of the spirits of the wild and industrialized mankind.“<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><a href="https://youtu.be/A3jnmSpolX0" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #9a2121; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;" target="_blank">https://youtu.be/A3jnmSpolX0</a><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />[ Twilight Of The Machines • Official Music Video ]</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 1em 0px;">The band states:<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />„In a world in which the conflict between industrialized mankind and untouched nature is producing increasingly noticeable consequences, we wanted to process the theme in a piece of music. Inspired by the civilization-critical writings of John Zerzan and Stanley Diamond, we created a song that addresses the clash between the world of machines and the wilderness in a melancholic but also powerful way. The music video illustrates this confrontation in an impressive and stirring way, as the protagonist tries to escape his dreary working world and also to find refuge in the spirits of the woods.“<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 1em 0px;">Only 5 months after their 2023 mini-album „Wastelands“, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/heretoir/" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #9a2121; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;" target="_blank">HERETOIR</a> releasing their new intense full-length <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">„Nightsphere“</span>!</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 1em 0px;"><br />The new record is a concept album dealing with the struggle between the forces of nature and a world of machines. Humanity is in the midst of this confrontation, and the dichotomy between living as an animal among animals and existing as a cog in the wheel of progress determines the course of the story the five songs tell.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">„Nightsphere“</span> is a dark album that weaves atmospheric Black Metal parts with melodic clean passages, swirling blast beats with calm Post Rock and ambient sounds, and the intensity of desperate screams with the poignant emotionality of melancholic clean vocals into a musical journey through an archaic world.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></p><figure class="wp-block-image size-large" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px;"><a href="https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2023/10/image-6.png" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #9a2121; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;"><img alt="" class="wp-image-868" data-attachment-id="868" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-caption="" data-image-description="" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}" data-image-title="image-6" data-large-file="https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2023/10/image-6.png?w=700" data-medium-file="https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2023/10/image-6.png?w=300" data-orig-file="https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2023/10/image-6.png" data-orig-size="800,800" data-permalink="https://metalmessage.wordpress.com/2023/10/13/heretoir-dancing-with-nature-spirits/image-6-4/#main" height="800" sizes="(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px" src="https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2023/10/image-6.png?w=800" srcset="https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2023/10/image-6.png 800w, https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2023/10/image-6.png?w=150 150w, https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2023/10/image-6.png?w=300 300w, https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2023/10/image-6.png?w=768 768w" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: bottom;" width="800" /></a></figure><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 1em 0px;">[ Artwork: Painting by Karl Wilhelm Diefenbach ]<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">TRACKS</span>:</p><ol start="1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 40px;"><li style="box-sizing: border-box;">Sanctum – Nightsphere Part I 10:45</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;">Twilight Of The Machines 08:34</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;">Pneuma 06:57</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;">Glacierheart – Nightsphere Part II 11:57</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;">The Death Of Man 04:07<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />total: 42:21</li></ol><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 1em 0px;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />It is also the first album that was entirely written by the full band, featuring contributions of every single member. <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">„Nightsphere“</span> features ambient sounds of the long-time befriended project Hidehidehide as well as guest-appearances of two giants of the (Post) Black Metal genre – Tim Yatras of Austere who fuels the song „Twilight Of The Machines“ with his anguish and Nikita Kamprad of Der Weg einer Freiheit who delivers intense and powerful vocals on „Glacierheart – Nightsphere Part II“.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">„Nightsphere“</span>’s natural and organic but powerful sound was crafted by David Deutsch and Justin Felder at 1408 Productions in Hannover, who were responsible for the mix of the record. Furthermore Nikita Kamprad of Der Weg einer Freiheit took care of the mastering of the album.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 1em 0px;">Prepare to dive into a highly atmospheric night-realm and emotional maelstrom with <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">„Nightsphere“</span>. All while new songs for a future release are already written and recorded. <a href="https://www.facebook.com/heretoir/" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #9a2121; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;" target="_blank">HERETOIR</a> are more determined than ever to enter the stages of the world with full force!</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 1em 0px;">The band says about <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">„Nightsphere“</span>:<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />„This album is very special to us as this is our first album that was entirely written as a full band, featuring contributions of every single member of the band. The songs are dedicated to the spirits of the wilderness. ‚Nightsphere‘ is an atmospheric maelstrom that will engulf you.“<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></p><figure class="wp-block-image size-large" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px;"><a href="https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2023/10/image-7.png" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #9a2121; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;"><img alt="" class="wp-image-870" data-attachment-id="870" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-caption="" data-image-description="" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}" data-image-title="image-7" data-large-file="https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2023/10/image-7.png?w=700" data-medium-file="https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2023/10/image-7.png?w=300" data-orig-file="https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2023/10/image-7.png" data-orig-size="800,533" data-permalink="https://metalmessage.wordpress.com/2023/10/13/heretoir-dancing-with-nature-spirits/image-7-3/#main" height="533" sizes="(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px" src="https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2023/10/image-7.png?w=800" srcset="https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2023/10/image-7.png 800w, https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2023/10/image-7.png?w=150 150w, https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2023/10/image-7.png?w=300 300w, https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2023/10/image-7.png?w=768 768w" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: bottom;" width="800" /></a></figure><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 1em 0px;">[ Pic: Toni B. Gunner Photography ]<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 1em 0px;">LINE-UP<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />David ‚Eklatanz‘ Conrad • Vocals, Guitar<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Maximilian Forst • Guitar<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Kevin Storm • Guitar, Backing Vocals<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Matthias ‚Nathanael‘ Settele • Bass, Backing Vocals<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Nils Groth • Drums, Backing Vocals</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 1em 0px;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">FLASHBACK</span>:<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Combining the emotional and atmospheric elements of Black Metal with progressive rhythm-laden modern Metal structures and the beauty of Post Rock and Shoegaze, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/heretoir/" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #9a2121; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;" target="_blank">HERETOIR</a> is a nostalgic, melancholic and soothing soundtrack in a mad world. Founded (in Augsburg/Germany) by David C. in 2006, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/heretoir/" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #9a2121; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;" target="_blank">HERETOIR</a> conceptually and lyrically deals with existence, self-reflection, fears and dreams – life in all its facets.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 1em 0px;">It is a musical universe set for the discovery of one’s deepest thoughts and the soul that rests in each of us. After a first demo and EP („Existenz“ (2008) & „.Existenz.“ (2009)), multiple compilation contributions and a split release with the band Thränenkind („Wiedersehen – unsere Hoffnung“, 2010) <a href="https://www.facebook.com/heretoir/" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #9a2121; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;" target="_blank">HERETOIR</a> released their eponymous debut album „Heretoir“ on February 25th, 2011 through Northern Silence Productions.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 1em 0px;">Melodizing the topic of loss, „Heretoir“ was very well received by fans and press around the world, not least because of the powerful and atmospheric cover artwork of exceptional French artists Fursy Teyssier (Les Discrets) and Metastazis (artworks for Alcest, Anathema, Enthroned, As I Lay Dying, Gorgoroth and many more).</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 1em 0px;">With the release of the debut album Matthias S. (bass), Max F. (guitar) and Emanuel D. (drums) joined the line-up and <a href="https://www.facebook.com/heretoir/" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #9a2121; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;" target="_blank">HERETOIR</a> evolved into a full band. It didn’t take long for the group to share stages with acts like Agalloch, Alcest, Eluveitie, Graveworm, Sólstafir or Secrets Of The Moon.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 1em 0px;">In parallel with the progression of the live shows, the EP re-recording/compilation „Substanz“ was released on August 24th, 2012. After several European tours with Agrypnie, Der Weg einer Freiheit and Dornenreich and one tour through England with Dawn Ray’d, as well as performances at the Summerbreeze Open Air, the Ragnarök Festival, and support shows for renowned post-rockers God Is An Astronaut and melancholic masters Katatonia, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/heretoir/" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #9a2121; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;" target="_blank">HERETOIR</a> was able to build up a reputation in the atmospheric Metal scene. In 2016 Emanuel D. left the band and Nils G. became the new drummer. The current line-up was completed by Kevin Storm, who joined the band in 2020.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 1em 0px;">Following more than 5 years of intense touring, the much-anticipated second album „The Circle“ was released in March 2017. „The Circle“ deals with the cycle of life, death and rebirth. Weaving crushing heaviness and atmospheric melodies, the album portrays an emotional journey – a life dedicated to self reflection and freedom.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 1em 0px;">Besides another very special cover art by Fursy Teyssier the album furthermore features guest vocals by Alcest mastermind Stéphane ‚Neige‘ Paut and mastering by the renowned sound engineer Lasse Lammert. „The Circle“ received incredible worldwide feedback by press and fans alike.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 1em 0px;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/heretoir/" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #9a2121; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;" target="_blank">HERETOIR</a> embarked on an extensive European tour in Spring 2017 together with the US Black Metal band Ghost Bath, visiting more than 15 countries in 5 weeks. More festival appearances and a tour with Finnish Melodic Death Metal masters Kalmah followed and in 2018 the band toured China for two weeks.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 1em 0px;">During the last years/pandemic the band worked hard and focussed on writing new material. 2023 marks an important year for <a href="https://www.facebook.com/heretoir/" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #9a2121; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;" target="_blank">HERETOIR</a>: On 10 th February 2023 the remastered version of the debut album „Heretoir“ with bonus tracks was released. Only 3 months later the band released their new mini-album „Wastelands“ on May 19th, 2023 – their first new material in 6 years – with great worldwide reception.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 1em 0px;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">HERETOIR</span> are available for <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">interviews</span> via <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">phone, Skype, Zoom & email</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">DISCOGRAPHY</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />2009 • .Existenz. • EP<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />2011 • Heretoir • Full-length<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />2014 • Just For A Moment • Single<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />2017 • The Circle • Full-length<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />2019 • Golden Dust (Acoustic Version) • Single<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />2023 • Wastelands • EP<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />2023 • Nightsphere • Full-length<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">MEDIA FEEDBACK:</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">10 / 10</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />➤ „… an emotional masterpiece of Black Metal art, which is much more than just music … interplay between hopeful on the one hand and the realization and despair on the other … high pleasure … production and mastering ensure a perfect sound of the whole, which comes across neither too rough nor too smooth, but earthy and natural … this is exactly how atmospheric Post Black Metal Anno ’23 must sound.“<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />(Metal Only)</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">10 / 10</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />➤ „… shatter traditional classifications, and regardless of genre will make you think ‚this is just a great band‘. Every now and then, there’ll be a band who come along and remind you how and why you fell in love with music … for Post Metal fans or those looking for something a little different; add this album to your regular shuffle and playlists upon release day. You won’t regret it.“<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />(Ever Metal)</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">97 / 100</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />➤ „… one of the best Post Black Metal releases of 2023 … five masterful tracks … filled with dreamy and bleak soundscapes … will please any fan of the genre and the band … mid-tempo brilliance they are known for … blistering onslaughts mixed in between atmospheric passages … the weeping lead guitars are to die for … immerse the listener from start to finish … a seamless experience filled with different moods and engaging soundscapes …“<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />(Infernal Masquerade)</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">95 / 100</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />➤ „HERETOIR reminded me how fascinated I was by their previous album. ‚Nightsphere‘, with its similar, contradictory and opposed elements, offers a certainly different, but just as striking and contemplative approach.“<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />(Acta Infernalis)</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">95 / 100</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />➤ „… with bravura … 42-minute emotional journey … you land in your own refuge … musical craftsmanship! One could also simply call ‚Nightsphere‘ the Post Black Metal record par excellence … the Germans of HERETOIR are at the top of this relevant subgenre. Must-buy, year-end list material!“<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />(Zware Metalen)</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">4,5 / 5</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />➤ „… an emotional up and down between fantastic post-rock melody arcs, black metal outbursts, cathartic clear vocals and thoughtful acoustic passages … thoroughly great album … offers almost everything you expect from HERETOIR or Post Black Metal in general in just three quarters of an hour … radiates a captivating atmosphere at all times …“<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />(Stormbringer)</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">14 / 15</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />➤ „… all the components of the sound are woven together into a homogeneous overall picture through a sombre underlying mood … another flawless masterpiece …“<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />(Legacy Magazin)</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">4 / 5</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />➤ „… entirely touching and involving … spiritual but gloomy ascension … the sonic horizon of Nightsphere is constantly raised and remains strong … this is the echo of human’s cry who stares at darkness, nostalgia and ruinations.“<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />(Heavy Music HQ)</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">90 / 100</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />➤ „… full of angry feelings and melancholic atmospheres.“<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />(X-Reviews)</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">8 / 10</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />➤ „… revel between beautiful melodies, carried drama and wild Black Metal frenzy … convinces musically all along the line … clear buy recommendation for all HERETOIR fans!“<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />(Powermetal DE)</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">8 / 10</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />➤ „… a good mixture of slow, mid paced and fast parts … great … if you are a fan of atmospheric Post Black Metal, you should check out this album!“<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />(Occult Black Metal Zine)</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">8 / 10</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />➤ „… the songs can captivate despite an average length of just under ten minutes and are entertaining … HERETOIR sound more self-confident and firm in their own sound and break away somewhat from their Post Metal role models … stylistically ‚Nightsphere‘ is somewhat less experimental compared to its predecessors …“<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />(Metal DE)</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">8 / 10</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />➤ „… an impressive work by HERETOIR that meets and even exceeds expectations … an album that musically captures the conflict between nature and technology in an impressive and stirring way and at the same time touches the soul of the listener …“<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />(AM:plified Mag)</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">8 / 10</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />➤ „… compositional cleverness … an exciting journey through the desperate sound realm of Black Metal … with almost mesmerizing repetition Heretoir draws the listener under its spell … ‚Nightsphere‘ can be seen as a Gesamtkunstwerk, which convinces with a richness of ideas and musical variety … pleases already at the first listen and has enough details which guarantee a lasting listening experience …“<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />(Markus‘ Heavy Music Blog)</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">77 / 100</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />➤ „‚Nightsphere‘ is inclusive of all past aspects and traits … varietal, focused and particularly active for post-black metal today …“<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />(Grizzly Butts)</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">7,5 / 10</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />➤ „… great cinema. A gripping, complex, atmospherically dense sound with various moods and high recognition value. Really great and also just as well implemented.“<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />(Dark Festivals)</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">7,5 / 10</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />➤ „… melancholic and dreamy … take the listener on an astral journey and enchant with countless melodies, acoustic pads and piano sounds … very well done … what I like best is the diverse guitar work, which comes into its own very well, especially over headphones …“<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />(Crossfire Metal)</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">3,5 / 5</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />➤ „… isn’t common among Post Black albums … broody and melancholic, obviously by choice … it’s excellent atmosphere music … an album that is absolutely worth a listen.“<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />(Metal Epidemic)</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">7,3 / 10</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />➤ „… a well-made Blackgaze/Atmo-Black album with a moving and consistent core tone in addition to well-written songs …“<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />(Metal Storm)</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 1em 0px;">➤ „The star here is David ‚Eklatanz‘ Conrad’s vocals and the explosion of many levels of despair and anguish … shows all the skills to convey emotion … to be compared to a broken jaw and an eye opener …“<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />(Metal Addicts)</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 1em 0px;">➤ „… a gloomy album that combines the atmospheric Black Metal parts with clean melodic passages, lots of blast beats and quieter, almost Rock sounds … full of intensity through the desperate screams and more melancholic with clean vocals to emphasize the emotions … strongly composed … has its own unique sound …“<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />(Rancor Metalzine)</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 1em 0px;">➤ „… all grandiose, as already with ‚Wastelands‘ … all tracks work and literally stick in the auditory canal … HERETOIR manage to captivate the listener from beginning to end … you hardly know how to deal with the oppressive mood that the album makes you feel …“<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />(Vampster)</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 1em 0px;">➤ „… majestic and cavernous … there is something insidious about it … something between a funerary dirge and an ambient, dream-like backing … reflective … a solid, fantastic album whose concept is brought to life by the music HERETOIR has created … come for the music, stay for the story – I promise that it will devastate you.“<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />(Nine Circles)</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 1em 0px;">➤ „… a masterpiece not to be missed under any circumstances … meticulous in every detail … carefully crafted … magnificent … truly immeasurable … moves to tears … offers everything it needs in the Post-Black realm …“<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />(Noisewriter)<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />etc.</p><div><br /></div><div id="atatags-370373-65292343e95db" style="background-color: white; 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color: #283d4b; font-family: "Open Sans", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px 0px 0.67em;">OLYMP<br /><br />Time travel straight into the early 1980s </h1><br /></header><div class="entry-content" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; counter-reset: footnotes 0; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 30px;"><figure class="wp-block-image" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/OlympMetal/" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #9a2121; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;" target="_blank"><img alt="" src="https://www.metalmessage.de/artists/olymp/logo.jpg" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: bottom;" /></a></figure><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;">[ Logo: Olymp ]<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;">Action: <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">OLYMP</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Title: <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Olymp</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Base: Augsburg • Germany<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Style: <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Classic Heavy/Speed Metal</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Genre: Heavy Metal, Speed Metal, NWOBHM<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />FFO: Atlain, Stormwitch, Running Wild<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Type: Full-length<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Format: CD + Vinyl<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Label: Independent<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Release: <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Oct. 13, 2023<br /></span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">OLYMP</span> are available for <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">interviews</span> via <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">phone, Zoom, Skype & email</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br />PR:<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><a href="https://www.metalmessage.de/PR_OLYMP_en.php" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #9a2121; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;" target="_blank">https://www.metalmessage.de/PR_OLYMP_en.php</a></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Bulletpoints:<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />🔘 The <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">debut album</span> of the Bavarian Heavy Metallers<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />🔘 A lively and affectionate homage to the 80s<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />🔘 Powerful songs full of joy, dynamics and dedication<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/embed/lTecD7OaE3U" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #9a2121; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/embed/lTecD7OaE3U</a><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />[ Official album trailer ]<br /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/OlympMetal/" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #9a2121; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;" target="_blank">OLYMP</a> is not just a myth, but rather true teutonic <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">CLASSIC HEAVY/SPEED METAL</span>.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Driving riffs in traditional 80´s style, will make your heads bang wild.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;">The whole is literally old school to the bone. The roaring bass and striking twin-leads will raise even the last sceptic to the peak of Olympus.<br /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></p><figure class="wp-block-image size-large" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px;"><a href="https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2023/10/image-4.png" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #9a2121; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;"><img alt="" class="wp-image-859" data-attachment-id="859" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-caption="" data-image-description="" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}" data-image-title="image-4" data-large-file="https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2023/10/image-4.png?w=600" data-medium-file="https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2023/10/image-4.png?w=188" data-orig-file="https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2023/10/image-4.png" data-orig-size="600,960" data-permalink="https://metalmessage.wordpress.com/2023/10/09/olymp-time-travel-straight-into-the-early-1980s-2/image-4-6/#main" height="960" sizes="(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px" src="https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2023/10/image-4.png?w=600" srcset="https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2023/10/image-4.png 600w, https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2023/10/image-4.png?w=94 94w, https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2023/10/image-4.png?w=188 188w" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: bottom;" width="600" /></a></figure><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;">[ Pic: Christian Wieser ]<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;">LINE-UP:<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Butschi • Guitar, Vocals<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Armin • Guitar<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />André • Bass<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Dommi • Drums<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;"><br />Since the beginning of 2018, Butschi (guitars, vocals), André (bass), Armin (guitars) and Dommi (drums) have been working on original songs in their rehearsal room.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/OlympMetal/" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #9a2121; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;" target="_blank">OLYMP</a> emphasize their ambitions to reach the Olympus of the Metal gods by their longtime stage experience and the upcoming release of <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">„Olymp“</span>, their 2023 debut album.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></p><figure class="wp-block-image size-large" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px;"><a href="https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2023/10/image-5.png" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #9a2121; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;"><img alt="" class="wp-image-860" data-attachment-id="860" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-caption="" data-image-description="" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}" data-image-title="image-5" data-large-file="https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2023/10/image-5.png?w=700" data-medium-file="https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2023/10/image-5.png?w=300" data-orig-file="https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2023/10/image-5.png" data-orig-size="800,800" data-permalink="https://metalmessage.wordpress.com/2023/10/09/olymp-time-travel-straight-into-the-early-1980s-2/image-5-6/#main" height="800" sizes="(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px" src="https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2023/10/image-5.png?w=800" srcset="https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2023/10/image-5.png 800w, https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2023/10/image-5.png?w=150 150w, https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2023/10/image-5.png?w=300 300w, https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2023/10/image-5.png?w=768 768w" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: bottom;" width="800" /></a></figure><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;">[ Artwork: Giulia Schmidt-Kaiser ]<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">TRACKS:</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />01. Hades 04:26<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />02. Death And Glory 04:40<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />03. Icarus 06:03<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />04. Hero 04:48<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />05. City Of Gods 05:02<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />06. Pandora 03:54<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />07. Fire And Fury 06:53<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />08. Metal Priest 03:02</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;">total: 38:48 min.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><a href="https://www.facebook.com/OlympMetal/" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #9a2121; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;" target="_blank">https://www.facebook.com/OlympMetal/</a><br /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">MEDIA FEEDBACK:</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">8 / 10</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />➤ „… absolute pearl … key appeal: I just couldn’t resist the charm of the cover artwork … refreshingly different … somewhere between Angel Witch and Agent Steel the debut album of the Germans entertains non-stop … they actually always find their way into my ear … remarkably creative riffs and solos …“<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />(Hellfire)</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">7,5 / 10</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />➤ „… OLYMP do their thing really well … know how to turn the Heavy/Speed Metal wheel, how to keep it turning … you can hear the passion of the guys in every minute, as well as the years of work that went into ‚Olymp‘ … powerful riffs, crisp drums and a shouter who performs vocally dirty and raw, as it was just cool and hip in the 80s … I have my fun with the sound and fans of the genre certainly also … extra praise for the very cult cover artwork!“<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />(Obliveon)</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;">➤ „In the spirit of the 80s, this German Metal sensation creates a sonic universe that combines nostalgia and freshness in a stunning potpourri … epic! … masterpiece … impressive time travel … the driving riffs, the booming bass and the characteristic twin leads are all there … truly ‚old school to the bone‘ … a compact but powerful experience that will surely make hearts beat faster …“<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />(Metaller DE)</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;">➤ „… this thing makes fun (and thirsty) from front to back with its hearty eighties mix of Omen, Maiden, Running Wild and Grave Digger …“<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />(Rock Hard DE)</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;">➤ „… sounds so original and old school that it’s hard to believe they haven’t been around since the 80s … with such drive and lots of love and not least dedication and ability … almost a time machine straight back to the 80s …“<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />(Rancor Metalzine)</p></div>METAL MESSAGE ᴳᴸᴼᴮᴬᴸ • Est. 2001http://www.blogger.com/profile/00981847063724180231noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6262828619883574754.post-20068064015443316242023-10-09T03:34:00.008-07:002023-10-09T03:34:53.955-07:00<p> </p><header class="entry-header" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><h1 class="entry-title" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #283d4b; font-family: "Open Sans", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px 0px 0.67em;">FRONT ROW WARRIORS<br /><br />Blissful celebration of catchiness </h1><br /></header><div class="entry-content" style="box-sizing: border-box; counter-reset: footnotes 0; margin: 0px 0px 30px;"><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 1em 0px;"></p><figure class="wp-block-image" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/FRW.official" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #9a2121; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;" target="_blank"><img alt="" src="https://www.metalmessage.de/artists/front_row_warriors/logo.jpg" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: bottom;" /></a></figure><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 1em 0px;">[ Logo: Front Row Warriors ]<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 1em 0px;">Action: <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">FRONT ROW WARRIORS</span> • <a href="https://frontrowwarriors.com/" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #9a2121; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;" target="_blank">https://frontrowwarriors.com/</a><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Title: <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Wheel Of Fortune</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Base: Stuttgart • Germany<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Style: <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Melodic Metal</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Genre: Heavy Metal, Melodic Metal, Melodic Hard Rock, AOR<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />FFO: Heart, Warlock, Pretty Maids, Zed Yago<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Type: Full-length<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Format: CD + Vinyl<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Label: <a href="https://roar.gr/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #9a2121; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;">ROAR • Rock Of Angels Records</a><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Release: <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">June 09, 2023</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">FRONT ROW WARRIORS</span> are available for <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">interviews</span> via phone, Skype, Zoom & email</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 1em 0px;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Bulletpoints:<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />🔘 <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Debut album</span> of the highly gifted Germans<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />🔘 Fantastic songwriting, top playing culture<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />🔘 Highly catchy material, a true feast for many ears<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><a href="https://www.metalmessage.de/PR_FRONT_ROW_WARRIORS_en.php" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #9a2121; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;" target="_blank">https://www.metalmessage.de/PR_FRONT_ROW_WARRIORS_en.php</a><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;"><br />FRONT ROW WARRIORS</span>, the South German top artists, launched their third single „<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Chasing Shadows</span>“ with a lyric video worth seeing on September 15, 2023 – top-notch AOR/Melodic Metal, as you can enjoy it rather rarely from today’s acts in this fine form.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />The catchy uptempo number, which is played in an equally brisk and rousing fluidity, is another excellent song from the enormously substantial debut album „<b>Wheel Of Fortune</b>“, which was released on June 09, 2023 as blue vinyl and CD digipak via <b>ROAR Records</b> – a work that is fantastic in many respects and which continues to receive excellent to completely enthusiastic reviews in the music press!</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 1em 0px;">„<b>Chasing Shadows</b>“ tells the tragic love story of two young people who desperately try to escape their ecclesiastical conventions, but ultimately fall apart because of lies and slander, and ultimately both tragically lose their lives. The moving story is based on the Greek mythology „Hero and Leander“ by the poet Ovid. Jim Evgenidis of Iconfilmworx skillfully directed „<b>Chasing Shadows</b>“.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/embed/gjGHqZQ58G0?si=m_LoV3Tl3gf_Poz9" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #9a2121; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/embed/gjGHqZQ58G0?si=m_LoV3Tl3gf_Poz9</a><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />[ Official Video „Chasing Shadows“ ]<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 1em 0px;">Formed in 2019 in Stuttgart by Jay-G, drums (Shining, Sharon), Elkie Gee, vocals (Ampyre, Antares) and Sorin Badin, a well-known Romanian guitarist (Cardinal, Samsara, Crystal Maze) under the name <a href="https://www.facebook.com/FRW.official" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #9a2121; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;" target="_blank">FRONT ROW WARRIORS</a>, they completed the formation in 2020 with Richie Seibel, keyboards, (Lanfear, Ivanhoe, Them) and Timo Michels, bass, (5th Season, Pump). In the summer of 2022, guitarist Stef Binnig-Gollub (Septagon) joined the multiple capable <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">MELODIC METAL</span> band.<br /><br /></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 1em 0px;"></p><figure class="wp-block-image size-large" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px;"><a href="https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2023/10/image-2.png" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #9a2121; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;"><img alt="" class="wp-image-848" data-attachment-id="848" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-caption="" data-image-description="" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}" data-image-title="image-2" data-large-file="https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2023/10/image-2.png?w=700" data-medium-file="https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2023/10/image-2.png?w=300" data-orig-file="https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2023/10/image-2.png" data-orig-size="800,517" data-permalink="https://metalmessage.wordpress.com/2023/10/09/front-row-warriors-blissful-celebration-of-catchiness/image-2-8/#main" height="517" sizes="(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px" src="https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2023/10/image-2.png?w=800" srcset="https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2023/10/image-2.png 800w, https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2023/10/image-2.png?w=150 150w, https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2023/10/image-2.png?w=300 300w, https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2023/10/image-2.png?w=768 768w" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: bottom;" width="800" /></a></figure><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 1em 0px;">[ Pic: Front Row Warriors ]<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 1em 0px;">LINE-UP:<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Elkie Gee • Vocals<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Sorin Badin • Lead Guitar<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Stef Binnig-Gollub • Guitar<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Timo Michels • Bass<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Richie Seibel • Keyboard<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Jay-G • Drums</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 1em 0px;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />The band’s goal is to take the audience on a musical journey through the era of Hard Rock and Metal of the past 30 years, creating catchy hooks that immediately inspire you to sing along. The whole thing impresses with outstanding guitar and keyboard work as well as deeply exceptional, uplifting lead vocals. Each band member represents one of the many styles and influences that make up the music of <a href="https://www.facebook.com/FRW.official" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #9a2121; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;" target="_blank"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">FRONT ROW WARRIORS</span></a>.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 1em 0px;">The results were impressive, and the band was voted Germany’s best Hard Rock band in 2021 by the German Rock and Pop Musicians Association.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 1em 0px;"><br />The successful mixture of AOR and Hard Rock inspired by the 80s and 90s, up-tempo numbers – partly very close to classic Melodic Metal – and epic ballads can now be found on the highly anticipated debut album under the title <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">„Wheel Of Fortune“</span>, which was produced by Michael Bormann, co-produced and mixed by Achim Köhler. <br />The mastering was done by Patrick W. Engel. The renowned book and cover illustrator Uwe Jarling crowned this absolutely fantastic release with an awesome cover artwork. All well known names, which did each a great job for a great formation!<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></p><figure class="wp-block-image size-large" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px;"><a href="https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2023/10/image-3.png" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #9a2121; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;"><img alt="" class="wp-image-850" data-attachment-id="850" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-caption="" data-image-description="" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}" data-image-title="image-3" data-large-file="https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2023/10/image-3.png?w=700" data-medium-file="https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2023/10/image-3.png?w=300" data-orig-file="https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2023/10/image-3.png" data-orig-size="800,721" data-permalink="https://metalmessage.wordpress.com/2023/10/09/front-row-warriors-blissful-celebration-of-catchiness/image-3-7/#main" height="721" sizes="(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px" src="https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2023/10/image-3.png?w=800" srcset="https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2023/10/image-3.png 800w, https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2023/10/image-3.png?w=150 150w, https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2023/10/image-3.png?w=300 300w, https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2023/10/image-3.png?w=768 768w" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: bottom;" width="800" /></a></figure><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 1em 0px;">[ Artwork: <a href="https://www.metalmessage.de/Special_Uwe_Jarling_en.php" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #9a2121; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;" target="_blank">Uwe Jarling</a> ]<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 1em 0px;">TRACKS:</p><ol start="1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 40px;"><li style="box-sizing: border-box;">Intro 01:01</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;">Chasing Shadows 03:24</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;">Fantastic 04:13</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;">Love Is Not A Game 05:15</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;">Deadly Sins 03:54</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;">Damnation 00:47</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;">Hell Invaders 04:28</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;">Wheel Of Fortune 05:03</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;">Hell Awaits 04:15</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;">Dystopian Time (feat. Todd Michael Hall) 05:27</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;">The Hunter 03:49</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;">Wasted Life 06:37</li></ol><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 1em 0px;">total 48:13</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 1em 0px;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />As a special guest, US singer Todd Michael Hall (Jack Starr ́s Burning Starr, Riot V) shines in a duet. <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Vocalist Elkie was voted best Hard Rock singer 2022 by the German Rock and Pop Musicians Association with the song „Dystopian Time“.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 1em 0px;">The band was signed by <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">ROAR Records</span>, the debut has been released in June 2023 as CD-Digipak and vinyl, also in download format.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><a href="https://open.spotify.com/artist/0xsgg8Jtk3oJqOKzuGIG2d?si=QQWKCmxKTaei2Oz3r3sbMg" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #9a2121; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;" target="_blank">https://open.spotify.com/artist/0xsgg8Jtk3oJqOKzuGIG2d?si=QQWKCmxKTaei2Oz3r3sbMg</a><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;"><br />MEDIA FEEDBACK:</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">10 / 10</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />➤ „Take six good musicians and awesome tunes … the result is FRONT ROW WARRIORS. For a debut album really strong. You have to be grateful when there is still good, horny music on the plate … the Swabians give everything. You shouldn’t just see them as newcomers … they will fight their way into the front row very soon.“<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />(Hellfire)</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">10 / 10</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />➤ „… Heavy Metal as it can not sound more classic … I feel I’m transported back to the glory days of Warlock, because with Elkie we also have here a singer with a Rock throat, but for me because of her style still sounds much more interesting than the ‚Queen of Metal‘.“<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />(MetalZone – Support The Underground)</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">10 / 10</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />➤ „… Heavy Metal as it can not sound more classic … I feel I’m transported back to the glory days of Warlock, because with Elkie we also have here a singer with a Rock throat, but for me because of her style still sounds much more interesting than the ‚Queen of Metal‘.“<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />(Metalheads DE)</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">10 / 10</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />➤ „… dedicated to melodic, but harder Hard Rock, which occasionally flirts a bit with AOR, but above all rather seeks the proximity to Heavy Rock. The voice of Elkie Gee also not infrequently reminds of the singers of the great U.S. female (fronted) bands like Heart, Vixen, Phantom Blue and inspires with its power. And also the English pronunciation is impeccable. But also the musical realization belongs for me to some of the best I have heard from the German Hard Rock scene in the last years … the songwriting is first class.“<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />(Ivy Wolfisberg Blog)</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">95 / 100</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />➤ „… Elkie elevates each track to a really high level … an impressive debut … twelve brilliant songs … power and melody conspire and every single one of them knows to convince … Front Row Warriors definitely knows how to play their way into the front ranks of the Hard Rock / Heavy Metal landscape already with this debut …“<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />(Musika BE)</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">9,5 / 10</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />➤ „… function like a unit that has grown over many years … I failed to detect even one off-key note after repeated listens … one song features Riot vocalist Todd Michael Hall as backup …“<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />(Bleeding4Metal)</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">9,1 / 10</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />➤ „Much of the power of this band lies in Elkie’s voice, one of the best female voices out there, and even the simplest song is made to shine … there really is no weak point on this album. They couldn’t have had a better debut … the quality of the songs here closes mouths … and opens others …“<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />(Metallerium)</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">9 / 10</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />➤ „… a singer who, á la Heart, is effortlessly at home in all registers … hammer-strong debut … amazing hit density …“<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />(Hardline)</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">9 / 10</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />➤ „… reveal an incredible amount of inspiration, creativity and great talent on their album debut … all of this, coupled with their years of experience and the savvy of the entire production team, makes ‚Wheel Of Fortune‘ one of the strongest debuts in recent years and a great hope for the future … phenomenal …“<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />(Undercover Rock And Metal)</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">9 / 10</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />➤ „… the band really puts their foot down, the musicians play on a technically high level, the interplay works perfectly … kick-ass music … Elkie’s voice has an enormous power, determines the sound of the band significantly …“<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />(Rocknews CH)</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">8,5 / 10</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />➤ „From the guitars you can hear different bands like the Scorpions, Jaded Heart and a few more … the keys are more restrained than Axel Rudi Pell, the drums remind me of Mike Terrana or Bobby Rondenelli in the way they were played with a lot of power … very catchy and harmoniously produced … convinced me completely.“<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />(Rock Garage DE)</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">8,5 / 10</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />➤ „… high-class album in the intersection of catchy Hard/Heavy Rock … masterpiece of a German band that skillfully recommends itself with fat hooklines, slamming guitars, catchy melodies and magical vocals all along the line …“<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />(Saitenkult)</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">8 / 10</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />➤ „… a great album, and all Metal fans should give this appealing work a listen …“<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />(Metal Factory)</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">8 / 10</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />➤ „… powerful, crisp and at times traditional Hard Rock with a proper 80s broadside … with a wealth of great songs …“<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />(Rock It!)</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">8 / 10</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />➤ „… crisp, partly atmospheric Melodic Heavy Metal, which can be pigeonholed quite well with bands like later Pretty Maids, Bonfire, Eclipse, Crystal Ball or Jaded Heart … singer Elkie Gee does her thing really well! Fans of classic, rocking Melodic Metal should definitely get this one!“<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />(Crossfire Webzine)</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">7 / 10</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />➤ „… front woman with a strong voice … twelve tracks with a lot of feeling … successful debut …“<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />(Rock Hard DE)</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 1em 0px;">➤ „… without exception experienced musicians, that succeeded in this excellently … powerfully produced and also exemplary mixed, the 10 songs and 2 intros bang out of the speakers and keep the promise. Because even if most of the songs start quite metallic, they almost always get the curve to Hard Rock and yet remain independent and modern enough to scare off neither the one nor the other faction. A great balancing act …“<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />(Metalglory)</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 1em 0px;">➤ „… simply a great record, which convinces with music without a lot of fuss and should bring FRONT ROW WARRIORS into the focus of many Melodic Metal fans …“<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />(Metal Inside)</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 1em 0px;">➤ „… sounds super professional for a debut album and thrills from front to back on the first listen. It’s been a while since a debut album blew me away right away … above all, the fantastic vocals with through the bank catchy hooks and strong choruses … a really skillful balancing act between catchy Hard Rock and sophisticated as well as Melodic Heavy Metal … there are almost too many highlights to list them all … inspires more and more from run to run …“<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />(Tracks Magazin)</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 1em 0px;">➤ „… FRONT ROW WARRIORS have delivered a very strong album that can strike fear into other female-fronted bands, because singer Elkie puts the crown on the songs with her charismatic voice. But also the other musicians deliver a performance on the highest level. Listen to the songs and you will be as excited as I am!“<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />(Nightshade)</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 1em 0px;">➤ „Characteristic of the band’s sound are the distinctive, raspy voice of Elkie Gee, whose clean vocals are somewhat reminiscent of the legendary Doro Pesh, and the keyboards, which feature a tasteful selection of synths that are deliberately typical of these years … an honest and genuine album …“<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />(Metalshock IT)</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 1em 0px;">➤ „… interesting one … took me by surprise … you get a lot of diversity … quiet impressive … really, really great voice … solid songwriting … melodic, catchy tunes … great riffs … memorable album … I enjoyed it very much … there’s a lot to love here …“<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />(Power Metal Ranger)</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 1em 0px;">➤ „In many ways I found it hard to believe at first that this is a debut album, because it seems very accomplished – good old melodic Heavy Metal – with a lot of life, nerve and not least melody … they have their own sound – not least because of the vocals of Elkie Gee – here the band has hit the nail on the head … 12 strong tracks – tracks that each deserve to be highlighted …“<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />(Rancor Metalzine)</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 1em 0px;">➤ „… gripping choruses … good melody arcs … power ballads … fast riffs … epic … comes fat out of the boxes … knows how to inspire … who likes melodic metal, can access here without hesitation …“<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />(Breakout)</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 1em 0px;">➤ „Excellent studio debut effort by the female-fronted Stuttgart sextet!“<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />(Unique High Fidelity)</p><div><br /></div><div id="atatags-370373-6523d54112bcd" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px;"></div><div class="wpcnt" id="wordads-preview-parent" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; line-height: 0; text-align: center;"><div class="wpa" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block !important; max-width: 100%; position: relative; text-align: left; transform: translate3d(0px, 0px, 0px);"></div></div></div>METAL MESSAGE ᴳᴸᴼᴮᴬᴸ • Est. 2001http://www.blogger.com/profile/00981847063724180231noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6262828619883574754.post-55085623243487554582023-10-05T05:47:00.006-07:002023-10-05T05:47:38.408-07:00<p> </p><header class="entry-header" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px;"><h1 class="entry-title" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #283d4b; font-family: "Open Sans", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px 0px 0.67em;">BLOOD PYTHON<br />Profoundly spirited incantations</h1><br /></header><div class="entry-content" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; counter-reset: footnotes 0; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 30px;"><h1 class="wp-block-heading" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #283d4b; font-family: "Open Sans", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0.67em 0px;"></h1><figure class="wp-block-image" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/OlympMetal/" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #9a2121; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;" target="_blank"><img alt="" src="https://www.metalmessage.de/artists/blood_python/logo.jpg" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: bottom;" /></a></figure><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;">[ Logo: Blood Python ]<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />𖤐 With a hypnotic doomy edge, abyssic sworn to real Steel!<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;"><br />Band: <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">BLOOD PYTHON</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Title: <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Thunder City</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Base: Oslo • Norway<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Style: <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Occult Heavy Metal</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Genre: Occult Rock, Traditional Heavy Metal, NWOBHM<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />FFO: Angel Witch, Heavy Load, Mercyful Fate<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Type: Full-length<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Format: Digital<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Label: Independent<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Release: <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Sept. 15, 2023</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Bulletpoints:</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />🔘 Second album from the fascinating Scandinavian phenomenon<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />🔘 Occult & traditional Heavy Metal with a clear 80’s vibe<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />🔘 Catchy, with depth, soulful atmosphere & occasional experimentation<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />BLOOD PYTHON @ <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">SPOTIFY:</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><a href="https://open.spotify.com/intl-de/artist/2ZwyjxGoF6AH2PML6CIjf2?si=7wWdf9ZpR5q7npMRKNpwgg&nd=1" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #9a2121; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;" target="_blank">https://open.spotify.com/intl-de/artist/2ZwyjxGoF6AH2PML6CIjf2?si=7wWdf9ZpR5q7npMRKNpwgg&nd=1</a><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;"><br />OCCULT HEAVY METAL</span> from the eerie forests of Eastern Norway – <a href="https://bloodpython.bandcamp.com/" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #9a2121; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;" target="_blank">BLOOD PYTHON</a> rise from the graves of witchcraft, 80’s cassettes and shattered dreams.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Placed upon the sacrificial altar is the tough but brooding new album <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">„Thunder City“</span>, that is testament to <a href="https://bloodpython.bandcamp.com/" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #9a2121; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;" target="_blank">BLOOD PYTHON</a>’s struggle through world-spanning plague and the challenges of semi-lo-fi basement music production.<br /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><a href="https://www.metalmessage.de/artists/blood_python/cover.jpg" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #9a2121; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;" target="_blank"></a></p><figure class="wp-block-image size-large" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px;"><a href="https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2023/10/image-1.png" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #9a2121; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;"><img alt="" class="wp-image-838" data-attachment-id="838" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-caption="" data-image-description="" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}" data-image-title="image-1" data-large-file="https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2023/10/image-1.png?w=700" data-medium-file="https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2023/10/image-1.png?w=300" data-orig-file="https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2023/10/image-1.png" data-orig-size="800,800" data-permalink="https://metalmessage.wordpress.com/2023/10/05/blood-python-profoundly-spirited-incantations/image-1-9/#main" height="800" sizes="(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px" src="https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2023/10/image-1.png?w=800" srcset="https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2023/10/image-1.png 800w, https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2023/10/image-1.png?w=150 150w, https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2023/10/image-1.png?w=300 300w, https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2023/10/image-1.png?w=768 768w" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: bottom;" width="800" /></a></figure><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;">[ Artwork: Erik Alm ]<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">TRACKS:</span></p><ol start="1" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 40px;"><li style="box-sizing: border-box;">Witch’s Brew 04:41</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;">Omens 04:12</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;">The Wolves Ain’t Far Behind 04:36</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;">Conqueror 04:19</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;">Empire 04:37</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;">Swamp Sacrifice 07:14</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;">Lord Of Night 03:51</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;">The Gods That Fell To Earth 10:02</li></ol><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;">total 42:12</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;">Listen on Bandcamp:<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><a href="https://bloodpython.bandcamp.com/" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #9a2121; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;" target="_blank">https://bloodpython.bandcamp.com/</a><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />With the first album „Acheron“ laying the foundation and catching the attention of underground Metal bums of Oslo, the hard-hitting, catchy and charismatic music of <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">„Thunder City“</span>, the new album of <a href="https://bloodpython.bandcamp.com/" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #9a2121; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;" target="_blank">BLOOD PYTHON</a> seeks to reach the next level.<br /><br /></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;"></p><figure class="wp-block-image size-large" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px;"><a href="https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2023/10/image.png" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #9a2121; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;"><img alt="" class="wp-image-837" data-attachment-id="837" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-caption="" data-image-description="" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}" data-image-title="image" data-large-file="https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2023/10/image.png?w=700" data-medium-file="https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2023/10/image.png?w=300" data-orig-file="https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2023/10/image.png" data-orig-size="800,800" data-permalink="https://metalmessage.wordpress.com/2023/10/05/blood-python-profoundly-spirited-incantations/image-11/#main" height="800" sizes="(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px" src="https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2023/10/image.png?w=800" srcset="https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2023/10/image.png 800w, https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2023/10/image.png?w=150 150w, https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2023/10/image.png?w=300 300w, https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2023/10/image.png?w=768 768w" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: bottom;" width="800" /></a></figure><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;">[ Pic: Johnny Normann Berg ]</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/embed/e0lGre-bsCc?si=eXYg1Nxb5q7x0CpG" rel="nofollow" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #9a2121; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;">https://www.youtube.com/embed/e0lGre-bsCc?si=eXYg1Nxb5q7x0CpG</a><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />[ Acheron • Album 2022 ]<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;"><br />DISCOGRAPHY:</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />2022 • Acheron • Full-length<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />2023 • Thunder City • Full-length<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br />🕷 Get prepared for strongest late 70s/early 80s vibes, wonderful obscure and sacral atmospheres & deepest artistic dedication! 🦇<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;">🛒<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><a href="https://bloodpython.bigcartel.com/" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #9a2121; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;" target="_blank">https://bloodpython.bigcartel.com/</a><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />🌐 𝙋𝙧𝙤𝙢𝙤 & 𝙋𝙍 Action:<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />𝗠𝗘𝗧𝗔𝗟 𝗠𝗘𝗦𝗦𝗔𝗚𝗘 ᴳᴸᴼᴮᴬᴸ • 𝓔𝓼𝓽. 2001<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><a href="https://www.metalmessage.de/PR_BLOOD_PYTHON_en.php" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #9a2121; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;" target="_blank">https://www.metalmessage.de/PR_BLOOD_PYTHON_en.php</a><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;">MEDIA FEEDBACK:<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />90 / 100<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />➤ „… the musicianship is endearingly raw, with almost whispered cleans that tend toward melodic overlays, gritty guitar work and occasional horror-score keyboards … in the emphasis on straightforward catchiness, one can even detect a hint of post-Ghost appeal style … the songwriting have a niche Metal charm that is hard to resist …“<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />(The Metal Archives)</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;">4 / 5<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />➤ „This one caught me by surprise … very raw and unadulterated ore of classic Heavy Metal … definitely has some DNA from protean stuff like Mercyful fate or even Venom … theatrical vibe, like something from Stormwitch or Cloven Hoof … rough, strained voice—like if Quorthon was a bit better … this is a band to check out …“<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />(The Metal Crypt)</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;">8 / 10<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />➤ „… a real talent who deserves your attention … peculiar and yet utterly compelling in its macabre wonder … pure, lethal and at times foreboding Heavy Metal summed up by the majestic ‘Swamp Sacrifice’, which boasts the fluidity and spectral nature of Ghost … a dimension of shadows and spectre worth visiting …“<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />(Metal Forces)</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;">8 / 10<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />➤ „BLOOD PYTHON’s second album will again divide listeners into delighted traditionalists and believers in modernity. ‚Thunder City‘ has charm and warmth because it doesn’t claim perfection, but creates metal from the gut and the heart.“<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />(Soundmagnet)</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;">7,5 / 10<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />➤ „… simple but effective riffs and catchy solos … especially atmospheric, discreet keyboards in the background, which provide a gloomy atmosphere … epic choirs and acoustic guitars … theatrical vocals, which are often performed in multiple voices, mostly in a medium pitch and often a bit rough … cool doom riffs and some New Wave Of British Heavy Metal-like twinleads … production sounds nice old analog, very appropriate to the gloomy mood … oddball old school Metal album … like it well!<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />(Crossfire Webzine)</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;">➤ „… this new album just takes things to the next level – both in terms of music and lyrics … so we are dealing with a very talented one-man band – and one of the kind I would definitely recommend …“<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />(Rancor Metalzine)</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;">➤ „The songs exude a charm that surrounds the dark aura … can satisfy many hearts … a very own, rich, powerful Heavy Metal sound … a really interesting Heavy Metal band for those who like traditional sounds … spicy to wholly savory to fullest deliciousness …“<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />(Noisewriter)</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;">➤ „This is a creator that knows his way around early 80’s traditional Heavy Metal for sure … the somewhat closed in mix that has been applied also gives the material the proper sound aesthetics of the time, comparable to the kind of albums released by cult labels such as Mausoleum Records and Black Dragon Records back in the day … to seek out by those who love and treasure early 80’s traditional Heavy Metal and who enjoy this specific style as well as the sound aesthetics you generally found among the underground metal bands some 40 years ago.“<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />(The Viking In The Wilderness)</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;">➤ „… excellent grasp of traditional-Metal form and function … has the potential to be a Norwegian classic … an album that scrapes close to the edge of excellence and should definitely make a name for itself among Norwegian fans of 80s narrative Metal …“<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />(Metallurgi)</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;">➤ „… an impressive work … the dark mysticism and 80s vibes make it a must for fans of Occult Rock and traditional Heavy Metal …“<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />(AM:plified Mag)</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;">➤ „… what BLOOD PYTHON really does is create atmosphere! The album is imbued with a darkness, an unpolished underground aura … carries the gloom/horror heritage well, tidy, no frills … should be given a chance …“<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />(Forgotten Scroll)</p></div>METAL MESSAGE ᴳᴸᴼᴮᴬᴸ • Est. 2001http://www.blogger.com/profile/00981847063724180231noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6262828619883574754.post-52683186510325629652023-05-17T03:21:00.004-07:002023-05-17T03:21:16.008-07:00<p> <span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; font-weight: 700;">✨ 𝐼𝓂𝓂𝑜𝓇𝓉𝒶𝓁, 𝓂𝑒𝓉𝒶𝓅𝒽𝓎𝓈𝒾𝒸𝒶𝓁 𝓂𝓎𝓈𝓉𝒾𝒸𝒾𝓈𝓂 𝓉𝒽𝒶𝓉 𝓀𝓃𝑜𝓌𝓈 𝓃𝑜 𝓉𝒾𝓂𝑒 …</span></p><figure class="wp-block-image" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px;"><a href="http://www.facebook.com/anoushbard/" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #9a2121; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;" target="_blank"><img alt="" src="https://www.metalmessage.de/artists/anoushbard/logo.jpg" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: bottom;" /></a></figure><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 1em 0px;">[ Logo: Anoushbard ]<br /><br /></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 1em 0px;">🌓 𝒜𝒩𝒪𝒰𝒮𝐻𝐵𝒜𝑅𝒟 • 🇮🇷 • Eastern 𝓔𝔁𝓽𝓻𝓮𝓶𝓮 𝓔𝓽𝓱𝓷𝓸 𝓟𝓻𝓸𝓰𝓻𝓮𝓼𝓼𝓲𝓿𝓮 𝓜𝓮𝓽𝓪𝓵 • Est. 2017 • #anoushbard<br /><br /></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 1em 0px;"><a href="http://www.facebook.com/anoushbard/" rel="nofollow" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #9a2121; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;">http://www.facebook.com/anoushbard/</a><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><a href="https://open.spotify.com/artist/4vn1sbM398VhKpkvXMO78d" rel="nofollow" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #9a2121; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;">https://open.spotify.com/artist/4vn1sbM398VhKpkvXMO78d</a><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><a href="https://www.metal-archives.com/bands/Anoushbard/3540462240" rel="nofollow" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #9a2121; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;">https://www.metal-archives.com/bands/Anoushbard/3540462240</a><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><a href="https://anoushbard.bandcamp.com/album/abandoned-treasure" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #9a2121; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;">https://anoushbard.bandcamp.com/album/abandoned-treasure</a><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Bulletpoints:</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />🔘 Second album of the soulful Iranian top artists<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />🔘 Sophisticated progressiveness, emphatically varied<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />🔘 Uniquely melodic, atmospheric, with strong identity</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 1em 0px;"></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 1em 0px;"><br />Action: <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">ANOUSHBARD</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Base: Tehran • Iran<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Genre: <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Extreme Ethno Progressive Metal</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Title: <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Abandoned Treasure</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />FFO: Orphaned Land, Melechesh, Opeth<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />📁 Genres: Progressive Metal, Death Metal, Atmospheric Metal, Folklore<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Format: Album<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Label: Independent<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Distro: /<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Release: April 01, 2023</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 1em 0px;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />🌐 𝙋𝙧𝙤𝙢𝙤 & 𝙋𝙍 Action:<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />𝗠𝗘𝗧𝗔𝗟 𝗠𝗘𝗦𝗦𝗔𝗚𝗘 ᴳᴸᴼᴮᴬᴸ • 𝐸𝓈𝓉. 2001<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><a href="https://www.metalmessage.de/PR_ANOUSHBARD_en.php" rel="nofollow" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #9a2121; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;">https://www.metalmessage.de/PR_ANOUSHBARD_en.php</a></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 1em 0px;"></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 1em 0px;"><br /><a href="https://youtu.be/wHA41wTOOnY" rel="nofollow" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #9a2121; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;">https://youtu.be/wHA41wTOOnY</a><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />[ The Righteous Ardaviraf (Preparation)<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Official lyric video ]</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 1em 0px;">The band says about „The Righteous Ardaviraf“:<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />„The song describes what our ancestors thought and believed about life after death. It happened many centuries ago: In the book ‚Arda Viraf‘ the story of the upright and meaning-seeking Wirāz is written down. Wirāz was a fervent, deeply devoted priest of the ancient Zoroastrian religion, who was chosen to go on an afterlife journey – to find out what really happens to a person and his soul after death. This was celebrated in a very special ritual intimately, with appropriate, solemn clothing. Thereby the holy book of the religious cult was read, the ‚Arda Viraf‘. The traveler was given three goblets of wine, which, by means of a special addition, caused him to fall into a death-like sleep for seven days. When he woke up, he could tell his experienced story. We strongly recommend our followers and fans to read more about this truly famous story, especially in its country of origin, Persia, which is set several centuries before Dante Alighieri’s kindred ‚Divine Comedy‘.“</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 1em 0px;"><br /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Deepest spirituality:</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />The – rebellious – appeal of the forbidden has always represented an additional attractive element for true passionate and fervent idealists to live out their inclinations. This is also the case with <a href="https://www.facebook.com/anoushbard/" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #9a2121; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;" target="_blank">ANOUSHBARD</a>. The band risks so much to be able to fully devote themselves to their music.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 1em 0px;">And the correspondingly profound and lovingly polished, consistently convincing to brilliant result is ultimately also the fascinating mirror of the artistic ideal of these absolute conviction offenders.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 1em 0px;">With their second album <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">„Abandoned Treasure“</span> these highly estimable thoroughbred musicians have completed a fabulous, completely timeless work, which reveals itself to be as hard-hitting as it is stylistically uncompromising – and which can intoxicate the senses with sophisticated high-quality sounds!</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 1em 0px;"><a href="https://www.metalmessage.de/artists/anoushbard/cover.jpg" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #9a2121; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;" target="_blank"></a><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></p><figure class="wp-block-image size-large" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px;"><a href="https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2023/05/image.png" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #9a2121; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;"><img alt="" class="wp-image-825" data-attachment-id="825" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-caption="" data-image-description="" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}" data-image-title="image" data-large-file="https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2023/05/image.png?w=700" data-medium-file="https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2023/05/image.png?w=300" data-orig-file="https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2023/05/image.png" data-orig-size="800,800" data-permalink="https://metalmessage.wordpress.com/2023/05/17/anoushbard-metaphysical-mysticism-that-knows-no-time/image-10/#main" sizes="(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px" src="https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2023/05/image.png?w=800" srcset="https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2023/05/image.png 800w, https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2023/05/image.png?w=150 150w, https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2023/05/image.png?w=300 300w, https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2023/05/image.png?w=768 768w" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: bottom;" /></a></figure><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 1em 0px;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />[ Artwork: Anoushbard ]</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 1em 0px;"><a href="https://www.metalmessage.de/artists/anoushbard/band.jpg" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #9a2121; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;" target="_blank"></a></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">TRACKS</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />01. The Righteous Ardaviraf (Preparation) 03:16<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />02. The Righteous Ardaviraf (Journey) 05:46<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />03. The Righteous Ardaviraf (Return) 02:25<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />04. Destructive Spirit (Agra Mainyu) 03:37<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />05. Tower Of Silence (Dakhma) 04:57<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />06. Abandoned Treasure 05:45<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />07. Blacksmith’s Apron 06:58<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />08. Mother 05:23</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 1em 0px;">total: 38:07</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 1em 0px;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 1em 0px;"><br /></p><figure class="wp-block-image size-large" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px;"><a href="https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2023/05/image-1.png" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #9a2121; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;"><img alt="" class="wp-image-826" data-attachment-id="826" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-caption="" data-image-description="" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}" data-image-title="image-1" data-large-file="https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2023/05/image-1.png?w=700" data-medium-file="https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2023/05/image-1.png?w=300" data-orig-file="https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2023/05/image-1.png" data-orig-size="800,534" data-permalink="https://metalmessage.wordpress.com/2023/05/17/anoushbard-metaphysical-mysticism-that-knows-no-time/image-1-8/#main" sizes="(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px" src="https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2023/05/image-1.png?w=800" srcset="https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2023/05/image-1.png 800w, https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2023/05/image-1.png?w=150 150w, https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2023/05/image-1.png?w=300 300w, https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2023/05/image-1.png?w=768 768w" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: bottom;" /></a></figure><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 1em 0px;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />[ Pic: Anoushbard ]</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 1em 0px;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">LINE-UP</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Sherwin Baradaran • Guitars, Vocals<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Siavash Motallebi • Guitars<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Arman Tirmahi • Bass</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 1em 0px;"></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 1em 0px;"><br /></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 1em 0px;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">FLASHBACK</span>:<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Founded in 2017 by Sherwin Baradaran and Siavash Motallebi, the first album „Mithra“ was released in 2020. The debut album consists of 6 tracks, all of highly unique identity. Already on it, the participants had found their very own, fascinating and completely distinctive style.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 1em 0px;">Most of the extremely varied and diversely dynamic compositions thematize Iranian culture and often mystical stories passed down from it. Subsequently, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/anoushbard/" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #9a2121; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;" target="_blank">ANOUSHBARD</a> worked on another album, titled <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">„Abandoned Treasure“</span> and featuring 8 tracks. As on the previous album, those involved mastered to focus on Persian literature and stories.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 1em 0px;">During all the years of existence, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/anoushbard/" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #9a2121; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;" target="_blank">ANOUSHBARD</a> had many difficulties in finding suitable co-musicians such as drummers or bassists. In 2021, Arman Tirmahi officially joined the formation as a bassist. He helped the group with the second album.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 1em 0px;">Nima Seylani, an accomplished Oud player, also joined the line-up. Many in the Western industrialized nations will find it hard to imagine: but the biggest obstacle in <a href="https://www.facebook.com/anoushbard/" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #9a2121; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;" target="_blank">ANOUSHBARD’s</a> path are the government regulations for Metal music there. Unfortunately, Metal is completely banned in Iran, so it’s not possible at all to perform in public or release an album.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 1em 0px;">Singer and guitarist Sherwin says:<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />„We named the band <a href="https://www.facebook.com/anoushbard/" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #9a2121; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;" target="_blank">ANOUSHBARD</a>, which was a political prison in the Sasanian Empire (224 – 651 AD) and which means a place where you forget your identity and disappear forever. As a band, we call ourselves that because we are very interested in the history of our country and in our Persian roots.“</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 1em 0px;"></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">DISCOGRAPHY</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />2020 • Mithra • Full-length<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />2021 • Blacksmith’s Apron • Single<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />2023 • Abandoned Treasure • Full-length</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 1em 0px;"></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 1em 0px;"></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 1em 0px;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />🌓 𝒜𝒩𝒪𝒰𝒮𝐻𝐵𝒜𝑅𝒟 • 🇮🇷 • Eastern 𝓔𝔁𝓽𝓻𝓮𝓶𝓮 𝓔𝓽𝓱𝓷𝓸 𝓟𝓻𝓸𝓰𝓻𝓮𝓼𝓼𝓲𝓿𝓮 𝓜𝓮𝓽𝓪𝓵 • Est. 2017 • #anoushbard</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 1em 0px;">💿 2nd album „Abandoned Treasure“<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />🗓️ Release: April 01, 2023</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 1em 0px;"></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 1em 0px;">💥 𝙌𝙪𝙖𝙡𝙞𝙩𝙮 𝙞𝙣𝙨𝙩𝙚𝙖𝙙 𝙤𝙛 𝙦𝙪𝙖𝙣𝙩𝙞𝙩𝙮, 𝙘𝙡𝙖𝙨𝙨 𝙞𝙣𝙨𝙩𝙚𝙖𝙙 𝙤𝙛 𝙢𝙖𝙨𝙨!</p>METAL MESSAGE ᴳᴸᴼᴮᴬᴸ • Est. 2001http://www.blogger.com/profile/00981847063724180231noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6262828619883574754.post-23421907956451363222023-04-24T01:53:00.003-07:002023-04-24T01:53:48.192-07:00<p> </p><header class="entry-header" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px;"><h3 style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #283d4b; font-family: "Open Sans", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px 0px 0.67em; text-align: left;">Radiant, enchanting & uplifting!</h3><div><br /></div></header><div class="entry-content" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 30px;"><figure class="wp-block-image" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/KateNordOfficial/" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #9a2121; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;" target="_blank"><img alt="" src="https://www.metalmessage.de/artists/kate_nord/logo.jpg" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: bottom;" /></a></figure><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;">[ Logo: Nicolas Spreutels ]</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;"></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;">Action: <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">KATE NORD</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Base: Casperia • Italy<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Genre: Symphonic Fantasy Metal<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Title: <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Compass To Your Heart’s Desire</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />FFO: Nightwish, Epica, Enya<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Format: Album<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Label: Independent<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Release: Dec. 16, 2022</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />🌐 𝙋𝙧𝙤𝙢𝙤 & 𝙋𝙍 Action:<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />𝗠𝗘𝗧𝗔𝗟 𝗠𝗘𝗦𝗦𝗔𝗚𝗘 ᴳᴸᴼᴮᴬᴸ • 𝐸𝓈𝓉. 2001<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><a href="https://www.metalmessage.de/PR_KATE_NORD_en.php" rel="nofollow" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #9a2121; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;">https://www.metalmessage.de/PR_KATE_NORD_en.php</a><br /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Bulletpoints:</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />• Deeply soulful, upliftingly visionary debut album<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />• Sensational clear, operetta-like female vocals<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />• Inspiring noble mix of Melodic, Power & Symphonic Metal<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/embed/9f1yYLIXZ78" rel="nofollow" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #9a2121; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;">https://www.youtube.com/embed/9f1yYLIXZ78</a><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />[ Embrace The Cold • Lyric Video ]</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;">Kate says about the song:<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />„This is a dark and epic story about facing difficult times and the struggle to keep going nonetheless. ‚Embracing the cold‘ is not about giving up or bending to your circumstances, but is rather a metaphor for radical acceptance of your situation and trying to make the most out of what you have. Embrace the cold, to find your way back to the sunlight!“<br /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Qeen4n2uWZ8" rel="nofollow" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #9a2121; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;">https://www.youtube.com/embed/Qeen4n2uWZ8</a><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />[ Compass To Your Heart’s Desire • Album Teaser ]<br /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/KateNordOfficial/" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #9a2121; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;" target="_blank">KATE NORD</a> is a classically trained Finnish singer/songwriter who creates high quality <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">SYMPHONIC FANTASY METAL</span> in central Italy.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;">With her versatile, impressively clear as well as amazingly soprano strong exceptional voice, this fabulous golden throat can easily compete with the best and most famous of the entire guild.<br /><br /></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;"><a href="https://www.metalmessage.de/artists/kate_nord/kate.jpg" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #9a2121; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;" target="_blank"></a></p><figure class="wp-block-image size-large" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px;"><a href="https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2023/04/image-3.png" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #9a2121; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;"><img alt="" class="wp-image-815" data-attachment-id="815" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-caption="" data-image-description="" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}" data-image-title="image-3" data-large-file="https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2023/04/image-3.png?w=600" data-medium-file="https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2023/04/image-3.png?w=200" data-orig-file="https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2023/04/image-3.png" data-orig-size="600,900" data-permalink="https://metalmessage.wordpress.com/2023/04/24/kate-nord-radiant-enchanting-uplifting/image-3-6/#main" sizes="(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px" src="https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2023/04/image-3.png?w=600" srcset="https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2023/04/image-3.png 600w, https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2023/04/image-3.png?w=100 100w, https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2023/04/image-3.png?w=200 200w" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: bottom;" /></a></figure><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />[ Pic: Marco Savi • SPF Produzioni ]<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">LINE-UP:</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Kate Nord • Vocals, Keys, Orchestration<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Francesco Mattei • Guitars<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Andrea Arcangeli • Bass<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Omar Campitelli • Drums<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">„Compass To Your Heart’s Desire“</span> is <a href="https://www.facebook.com/KateNordOfficial/" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #9a2121; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;" target="_blank">KATE NORD</a>’s debut album as a solo artist, with a special guest solo by <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Timo Tolkki</span>, popular by Finnish Power Metallers Stratovarius.<br /><br /></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;"></p><figure class="wp-block-image size-large" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px;"><a href="https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2023/04/image-4.png" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #9a2121; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;"><img alt="" class="wp-image-817" data-attachment-id="817" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-caption="" data-image-description="" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}" data-image-title="image-4" data-large-file="https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2023/04/image-4.png?w=700" data-medium-file="https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2023/04/image-4.png?w=300" data-orig-file="https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2023/04/image-4.png" data-orig-size="800,800" data-permalink="https://metalmessage.wordpress.com/2023/04/24/kate-nord-radiant-enchanting-uplifting/image-4-5/#main" sizes="(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px" src="https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2023/04/image-4.png?w=800" srcset="https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2023/04/image-4.png 800w, https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2023/04/image-4.png?w=150 150w, https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2023/04/image-4.png?w=300 300w, https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2023/04/image-4.png?w=768 768w" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: bottom;" /></a></figure><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />[ Artwork: Nicolas Spreutels ]<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">TRACKS:</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />01. Recitative To The Moon 01:47<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />02. All Alone 03:28<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />03. The North Wind And The Troll 03:50<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />04. Embrace The Cold 02:59<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />05. Wither And Rust (feat. Timo Tolkki) 05:04<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />06. Dream Of Daylight 05:37<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />0. Breathe In The Night 03:43<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />08. Dance Of The Fairies 02:58<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />09. Aeternam Vale 04:24</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">„Compass To Your Heart’s Desire“</span> is inspired by Scandinavian folk tales about trolls and fairies and the illustrations to these tales, such as the works of John Bauer, as well as fantasy novels as well as the works of the world famous fantasy grandmaster J. R. R. Tolkien.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">„Compass To Your Heart’s Desire“</span> is embedded in wonderfully powerful Heavy/Power Metal sounds with slamming drums and furious distortion guitars, often bursting with fully melodic, catchy outbursts.<br /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><a href="https://www.metalmessage.de/artists/kate_nord/kate2.jpg" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #9a2121; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;" target="_blank"></a></p><figure class="wp-block-image size-large" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px;"><a href="https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2023/04/image-5.png" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #9a2121; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;"><img alt="" class="wp-image-818" data-attachment-id="818" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-caption="" data-image-description="" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}" data-image-title="image-5" data-large-file="https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2023/04/image-5.png?w=700" data-medium-file="https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2023/04/image-5.png?w=300" data-orig-file="https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2023/04/image-5.png" data-orig-size="800,533" data-permalink="https://metalmessage.wordpress.com/2023/04/24/kate-nord-radiant-enchanting-uplifting/image-5-5/#main" sizes="(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px" src="https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2023/04/image-5.png?w=800" srcset="https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2023/04/image-5.png 800w, https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2023/04/image-5.png?w=150 150w, https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2023/04/image-5.png?w=300 300w, https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2023/04/image-5.png?w=768 768w" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: bottom;" /></a></figure><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />[ Pic: Marco Savi • SPF Produzioni ]<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;"><br />FLASHBACK:</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Her first release as a solo singer was a cover of Howard Blake’s „Walking In The Air“ in 2017.</p><figure class="wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-handler-einbetten wp-block-embed-handler-einbetten wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div class="wp-block-embed__wrapper" style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;"><div class="jetpack-video-wrapper" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1.6em;"><span class="embed-youtube" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="true" class="youtube-player" data-height="394" data-ratio="0.5628571428571428" data-width="700" sandbox="allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/hsWX5RBfkvE?version=3&rel=1&showsearch=0&showinfo=1&iv_load_policy=1&fs=1&hl=de&autohide=2&wmode=transparent" style="border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; height: 394px; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; width: 700px;"></iframe></span></div></div></figure><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;">Kate’s musical resume includes formal studies in classical singing in both Finland and Italy. She began her music studies in Porvoo, Finland with pianist Diana Bärlund, who also taught former Lordi keyboardist Awa (Leena Peisa).</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;">Kate already appeared as a lyricist of the Italian Progressive Power Metal ensemble Noveria since the band’s formation in 2013. She was also featured as a guest vocalist on Noveria’s album „Forsaken“, released 2016 via Scarlet Records.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">MEDIA FEEDBACK:</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">98 / 100</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />➤ „… a stunning album … a must for any fan of (female fronted) Symphonic Metal … fantastically beautifully composed and arranged … goosebumps … beauty and purity … phenomenal voice … incomparable … if you think Tarja Turunen is the best female singer, then Kate Nord comes right after!“<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />(Musika)</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">95 / 100</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />➤ „… very melodic, harmonic structures … a good album full of first-line classic elements … KATE NORD’s beautiful voice is unique with a clean, white and soft register! Excellent soprano!“<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />(Darkzen Dragon)</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">9 / 10</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />➤ „With a good sound … style influenced by Nightwish, Xandria, Amberian Dawn, including her soprano skills … intense songs … very emotional and melancholic … brilliant vocal performance … very outstanding … an exquisite album … recommended from start to finish …“<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />(Locos Por El Power Metal)</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">9 / 10</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />➤ „… an exhibition of classical vocals … outstanding … has a unique ability to transport emotions … very well produced … KATE NORD sets a very high bar in terms of individual performance … very promising … Symphonic Metal fans can be very excited about ‚Compass To Your Heart’s Desire‘ …“<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />(Metal Temple)</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">80 / 100</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />➤ „… reminds me of a good Nightwish, Epica, Within Temptation … so good for those who prefer something more melodic, clear and beautiful rather than something heavy and aggressive … Timo Tolkki is a guest musician … I can recommend it to those who like opera and classical music, and it is also suitable for those who listen to pop music, as a few songs are quite catchy …“<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />(MariMetal)</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">7,5 / 10</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />➤ „… will not fail to appeal to fans of formations such as Epica and Nightwish, but also to those who are not generally accustomed to sounds of this kind, resulting in an effective product that is worth giving a chance.“<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />(Heavy Metal Webzine)</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">7,5 / 10</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />➤ „… turned out quite pompous … immediately the intro shows their skills in all facets … the voice is clearly focused … very harmoniously kept … everything sounds like from one cast … who likes Nightwish, Within Temptation, Epica or the soundtrack to ‚The Lord Of The Rings‘ (keyword: Enya), should definitely listen in here!“<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />(Crossfire)</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">7 / 10</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />➤ „… brings back memories of glorious Nightwish times with Tarja as the front woman … musical treat …“<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />(Metal DE)</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">7 / 10</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />➤ „… varied vocals that give you goosebumps especially in the middle registers … fantastic melodies … KATE NORD’s songwriting talent is beyond question on this album … from brisk to gloomy, bombastic to dreamy and classical to Metal, the artist glides through the stylistic elements with her songs and skillfully combines them into a coherent, entertaining album … fans of female fronted Metal and Symphonic Metal may heartily enjoy!“<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />(Der Hörspiegel)</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;">➤ „… practices her soprano voice with bravura … opera-inspired … stunning classical content … imagine Nightwish mixed with Rhapsody Of Fire with female vocals taking classical singing to the extreme … this is it.“<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />(Metal Addicts)</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;">➤ „This album is awesome, Symphonic Metal with touches of Progressive and Power Metal, masterfully executed, with great arrangements and beautiful vocals … excellent work …“<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />(Metal Pedia)</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;">➤ „Tremendous listening experience … even if I don’t like to draw comparisons, in the case of KATE NORD some with Tarja are obvious, after all they both have the same home … so if you like to be enveloped by symphonic sounds and enchanted by a beautiful voice, this is the right address!“<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />(Metalmamas Neuigkeiten)</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;">➤ „… a promising debut and an artist to keep an eye on if female-fronted Symphonic Metal is your thing.“<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />(Sea Of Tranquility)</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;">➤ „… this is tightly packed … good production … soul piercing through every line and riff … KATE NORD’s singing voice is clear in every word, in every syllable, and she is the clearest of all … her high voice is no different from a graceful fairy goddess … great … her throat is the best … as for the symphonic part, it is both elegant and beautiful, changing depending on the song … everything can make happy … truly heavenly …“<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />(Noisewriter)</p></div>METAL MESSAGE ᴳᴸᴼᴮᴬᴸ • Est. 2001http://www.blogger.com/profile/00981847063724180231noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6262828619883574754.post-2747879776398309962023-04-12T05:31:00.003-07:002023-04-12T05:31:23.286-07:00<header class="entry-header" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><h2 style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #283d4b; font-family: "Open Sans", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px 0px 0.67em; text-align: left;">Under the spell of bewitching mysticism!</h2><br /></header><div class="entry-content" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 30px;"><figure class="wp-block-image" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/RavenlightNI/" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #9a2121; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;" target="_blank"><img alt="" src="https://www.metalmessage.de/artists/ravenlight/logo.jpg" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: bottom;" /></a></figure><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 1em 0px;">[ Logo: John Connor ]</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 1em 0px;"></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 1em 0px;">Action: <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">RAVENLIGHT</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Base: Belfast • Northern Ireland<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Genre: Symphonic Power Metal<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Title: <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Immemorial</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />FFO: Nightwish, Kamelot, Sonata Arctica<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Format: Album<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Label: Distortion Project Records<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Distro: Code7<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Release: Jan. 27, 2023<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Bulletpoints</span>:</p><ul style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 40px;"><li style="box-sizing: border-box;">2nd studio album of the Irish nature mystics</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;">Beauty, longing & power in a touching trinity</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;">Tasteful, emotional songs full of beauty & aesthetics</li></ul><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 1em 0px;"></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 1em 0px;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><a href="https://youtu.be/bt4-f6an7-U" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #9a2121; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;">https://youtu.be/bt4-f6an7-U</a><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />[ Official music video by TWKOM & John Connor ]</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 1em 0px;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/RavenlightNI/" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #9a2121; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;" target="_blank">RAVENLIGHT</a> comments on „Reflections“:<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />„We chose ‚Reflections‘ as the first single for ‚Immemorial‘ as it was one of the early songs that set the tone for the rest of the album, it showcases a mix of emotional vocals and lyrics alongside heavy riffing and strong hooks, the contrast of light vs dark, heaviness vs beauty and hope vs fear runs throughout the whole release, and so it seemed like the perfect song and video to welcome the audience into that theme.“</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 1em 0px;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><a href="https://youtu.be/NNaTeYLAoNU" rel="nofollow" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #9a2121; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;">https://youtu.be/NNaTeYLAoNU</a><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />[ Official music video by John Connor ]</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 1em 0px;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/RavenlightNI/" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #9a2121; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;" target="_blank">RAVENLIGHT</a> comments on „Spirit Of Life“:<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />„A unique track on the album – while most the songs represent darker themes, we decided to keep ‚Spirit Of Life‘ as the light in the darkness. The song was written to be infectiously fun and just a good time for the audience and listeners, so we made the video a little bit weirder than usual too!“<a href="https://www.metalmessage.de/artists/ravenlight/band.jpg" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #9a2121; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;" target="_blank"></a></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 1em 0px;"></p><figure class="wp-block-image size-large" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px;"><a href="https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2023/04/image-2.png" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #9a2121; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;"><img alt="" class="wp-image-807" data-attachment-id="807" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-caption="" data-image-description="" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}" data-image-title="image-2" data-large-file="https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2023/04/image-2.png?w=700" data-medium-file="https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2023/04/image-2.png?w=300" data-orig-file="https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2023/04/image-2.png" data-orig-size="800,533" data-permalink="https://metalmessage.wordpress.com/2023/04/12/ravenlight-under-the-spell-of-bewitching-mysticism/image-2-7/#main" sizes="(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px" src="https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2023/04/image-2.png?w=800" srcset="https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2023/04/image-2.png 800w, https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2023/04/image-2.png?w=150 150w, https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2023/04/image-2.png?w=300 300w, https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2023/04/image-2.png?w=768 768w" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: bottom;" /></a></figure><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 1em 0px;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />[ Pic: TWKOM Media ]<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">LINE-UP</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Rebecca Feeney • Vocals<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />John Connor • Guitars, Keyboards<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Dean Kane • Bass<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Michał Bugajski • Drums</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 1em 0px;"></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 1em 0px;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/RavenlightNI/" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #9a2121; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;" target="_blank">RAVENLIGHT</a> returns, stronger than ever with their long awaited second album, <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">„Immemorial“</span>!<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><a href="https://www.metalmessage.de/artists/ravenlight/cover.jpg" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #9a2121; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;" target="_blank"></a></p><figure class="wp-block-image size-large" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px;"><a href="https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2023/04/image.png" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #9a2121; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;"><img alt="" class="wp-image-803" data-attachment-id="803" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-caption="" data-image-description="" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}" data-image-title="image" data-large-file="https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2023/04/image.png?w=700" data-medium-file="https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2023/04/image.png?w=300" data-orig-file="https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2023/04/image.png" data-orig-size="800,800" data-permalink="https://metalmessage.wordpress.com/2023/04/12/ravenlight-under-the-spell-of-bewitching-mysticism/image-9/#main" sizes="(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px" src="https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2023/04/image.png?w=800" srcset="https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2023/04/image.png 800w, https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2023/04/image.png?w=150 150w, https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2023/04/image.png?w=300 300w, https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2023/04/image.png?w=768 768w" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: bottom;" /></a></figure><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 1em 0px;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />[ Artwork: John Connor ]<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">TRACKS</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />01. Masque Of Red Death (04:27)<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />02. Reflections (04:22)<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />03. The Painters Dream (04:33)<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />04. Spirit Of Life (03:58)<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />05. Paper Ships (03:37)<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />06. Rain (03:46)<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />07. Spiral (04:22)<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />08. Left Behind (05:57)<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />09. The Maze (04:13)<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />10. Springtime Lament (08:40)</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 1em 0px;">total: 47:58 min.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 1em 0px;">Channelling their live energy into this new release, <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">„Immemorial“</span> features 10 tracks of hard hitting Power Metal showcasing a range of styles and themes, from the reflective „Spiral“, to the grandiose „Springtime Lament“, this album highlights the band’s evolution and determination from the past few years.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">FLASHBACK</span>:<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Formed in 2018, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/RavenlightNI/" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #9a2121; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;" target="_blank">RAVENLIGHT</a> play an energetic brand of progressive tinged <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">SYMPHONIC POWER METAL</span> which have gained them a reputation as one of the most exciting and unique bands to emerge from the Irish Metal scene in recent years.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 1em 0px;">Starting with their 2018 EP release „End Of The World“, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/RavenlightNI/" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #9a2121; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;" target="_blank">RAVENLIGHT</a> quickly made their mark on the local scene and further afield with a number of shows across Ireland, including an invite to support Progressive Metal legends Evergrey in Dublin in March 2019.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 1em 0px;">At the start of 2020, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/RavenlightNI/" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #9a2121; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;" target="_blank">RAVENLIGHT</a> went back to the studio and recorded their debut album, „Project Genesis“, which was released in June 2020 across Europe and Japan via Novus Records, gaining positive reviews and press across the continent.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 1em 0px;">Unfortunately due to the pandemic, live shows to promote the album were postponed indefinitely, however instead of resting on their laurels, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/RavenlightNI/" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #9a2121; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;" target="_blank">RAVENLIGHT</a> returned once again to the studio to record their 2021 covers EP, „Intermission“ alongside a series of music videos shot over various lockdowns.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 1em 0px;">With restrictions easing, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/RavenlightNI/" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #9a2121; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;" target="_blank">RAVENLIGHT</a> made their long awaited return to the stage, with a delayed album launch show, a mere 21 months after the release of the album, an appearance at the Siege Of Limerick festival and shows supporting Firewind, Cruachan and Stormzone across Ireland.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 1em 0px;"></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 1em 0px;"></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">DISCOGRAPHY</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />2018 • End Of The World • EP<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />2020 • Project Genesis • Full-length<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />2021 • Intermission • EP<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />2023 • <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Immemorial</span> • Full-length<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">RAVENLIGHT</span> are available for <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">interviews</span> via <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">phone, Skype, Zoom & email !</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 1em 0px;">🌐 𝙋𝙧𝙤𝙢𝙤 & 𝙋𝙍 Action:<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />𝗠𝗘𝗧𝗔𝗟 𝗠𝗘𝗦𝗦𝗔𝗚𝗘 ᴳᴸᴼᴮᴬᴸ • 𝐸𝓈𝓉. 2001<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><a href="https://www.metalmessage.de/PR_RAVENLIGHT_en.php" rel="nofollow" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #9a2121; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;">https://www.metalmessage.de/PR_RAVENLIGHT_en.php</a><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />💥 𝙌𝙪𝙖𝙡𝙞𝙩𝙮 𝙞𝙣𝙨𝙩𝙚𝙖𝙙 𝙤𝙛 𝙦𝙪𝙖𝙣𝙩𝙞𝙩𝙮, 𝙘𝙡𝙖𝙨𝙨 𝙞𝙣𝙨𝙩𝙚𝙖𝙙 𝙤𝙛 𝙢𝙖𝙨𝙨!<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">MEDIA FEEDBACK:</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">9 / 10</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />➤ „… an impressive album and it delivers everything, modern Symphonic Metal can offer: powerful guitar riffing, well composed orchestral arrangements, catchiness, epic melodies, ballads as well as dynamic and fresh songs … excellent vocalist who keeps the sound perfectly together and stamps her vocal authority on every track … set the bar very high for all other releases in 2023 … a must have …“<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />(Metal Temple)</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">85 / 100</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />➤ „I was already thrilled with the first album. It’s no different now. Maybe just a little bit better … all in all very good …“<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />(Musika BE)</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">8,5 / 10</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />➤ „The band stays true to their style, where emotive, melancholic and to some extent dramatic melodies lead a parade of tunes that invite moments of tranquillity … a good album mainly for Symphonic Metal lovers.“<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />(Locos Por El Power Metal)</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">3,5 / 5</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />➤ „There are immeasurable reasons why this album impresses. Firstly, there is the lead singer who surely would’ve been a big name back in the day. Lastly, everything else. The album does not require extra immiscibility, it is already blended to perfection. The pounding drum, the beautifully played piano, and riffs; they strike a perfect balance between heavy and melodic. There is a sense of immenseness about the music, despite how straightforward it is. There is a great deal of passion behind it, and I believe that comes through immaculately.“<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />(Sputnik Music)</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">80 / 100</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />➤ „… beautifully done Symphonic Metal songs with fresh and hard-hitting Power Metal … variety of styles … at all times musically … reflexive, melodic … Rebecca’s beautiful voice stands out a lot, it gives a unique softness to each track …“<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />(Darkzen Dragon)</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">8 / 10</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />➤ „… has a very appealing orchestration … to enjoy, with eyes closed … beautiful vocals … RAVENLIGHT please keep it up, since today you have at least one more regular listener!“<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />(Obliveon)</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">8 / 10</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />➤ „… I’m very impressed! Symphonic Power Metal is not my thing generally, but what this band are doing is unique to the Irish scene and offers something completely different. It also helps that they’re extremely good at what they do!“<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />(Burning Metal Irl)</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">8 / 10</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />➤ „Symphonic class and not bombastic noise is what we expected, and they bring it with more than a little of their beautiful Irish charm layered in as well …“<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />(Powerplay)</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">7,5 / 10</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />➤ „… some potential … good balance between the metallic and orchestral side … catchy melodic arcs … I really like its oldschool interpretation of Symphonic Power Metal and provides a nice counterbalance to the many identical sounding bands that populate the genre these days …“<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />(Powermetal DE)</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">72 / 100</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />➤ „… arrangements are kept simple and, to some extent raw, providing an ideal backdrop for Rebecca Feeney’s mesmerizing performance. She excels both in technique and emotional expression, displaying impressive control and a remarkable low register that adds weight and gravitas to her singing. The transitions between operatic and powerful rock vocals are seamless and a major strength of the album.“<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />(Metal Archives)</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">70 / 100</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />➤ „Although ‚Immemorial‘ addresses itself primarily to the users of Symphonic Power and related subgenres, I believe it can easily have its say outside this narrow market as well thanks to a down-to-earth, immediate and catchy making, which shrugs off the all too cloying excesses of certain colleagues and distances itself from certain disposable music. Well done.“<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />(TrueMetal IT)</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">7 / 10</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />➤ „… somewhere in the intersection of Nightwish, Edenbridge, Crystal Gates and The Dark Element … Rebecca Feeney puts the stamp on the tracks with her expressive voice … should be a welcome addition to the collection of fans of this style of playing …“<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />(Hellfire Magazin)</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">7 / 10</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />➤ „… not simply looking back … the band also push forward by integrating interesting influences … a strong album that will appeal to a diverse range of listeners … fans of early Nightwish and traditional European Symphonic Power Metal will enjoy it, especially if they’re seeking something less pop-oriented … ‚Immemorial‘ is more than just retrogressive Symphonic Metal and may resonate with Metalheads who enjoy Occult Rock and even female-fronted Progressive Rock.“<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />(Metal Observer)</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">3,5 / 5</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />➤ „… vocal approach inspired by Nightwish’s Tarja … contains some interesting influences of traditional Irish music …“<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />(All Around Metal)</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">10 / 15</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />➤ „… with fine prog elements. Vocally, Mrs. Feeney moves in the higher, opera-like areas on … RAVENLIGHT know how to please in this genre, which is overflowing especially in recent years. Especially the now and then interspersed progressive elements, the piano passages and the wise decision not to inflate the songs too pompously, let you listen again and again …“<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />(My Revelations)</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 1em 0px;">➤ „This optimally functioning, catchy melodic mix can make ‚Immemorial‘ a small, fine treasure for all those who would like to experience it as dreamy and enchanting as possible.“<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />(Sonic Seducer)</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 1em 0px;">➤ „… true, signature Symphonic Metal style … like a good stew, it evolves on low heat … let its flavors meld and blend into each other … Rebecca’s vocals are once again superb and at times rise to the sublime, to a level that definitely and defiantly rivals some of the bigger and indeed biggest names working in the genre … excellent …“<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />(Über Röck)</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 1em 0px;">➤ „Balm for the ears! … RAVENLIGHT definitely can’t escape a comparison with Nightwish, but that’s not necessarily a bad attribute … RAVENLIGHT, however, don’t reach so strongly into the symphonic box and so ‚Immemorial‘ could please all those who like clear female voices and like to lose themselves in pleasant tones …“<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />(Metalmamas Neuigkeiten)</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 1em 0px;">➤ „… a remarkable Symphonic Metal work … with front lady Rebecca Feeney, the Northern Irish band has a singer with an excellent voice in its ranks, which should not only appeal to fans of classically trained voices, but also to fans of more Rock-oriented vocals …“<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />(Female Fronted Power)</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 1em 0px;">➤ „… durch ihren variablen Gesang erlebt man Emotionen, die für solche Songs sehr wichtig sind … eine talentierte Band, die ihre Instrumente perfekt beherrscht … musikalisch sind sie wirklich sehr gut …“<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />(Nightshade)</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 1em 0px;">➤ „… guitars play an important role in RAVENLIGHT’s music. They are strong, with great overtones, with flashy lines, and, most of all, prominent … RAVENLIGHT give Rebecca all the chances to bright very shiny and she does … great …“<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />(Metal Addicts)</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 1em 0px;">➤ „… full of freshness, but with a certain nostalgic touch … a good album, strongly reminiscent of Nightwish in their first phase, combining this concept with a more progressive development … from beginning to end we can enjoy different subgenres in it … enjoy them!“<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />(Nada Hay Bajo El Sol)</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 1em 0px;">➤ „… RAVENLIGHT have grown a lot … will definitely surprise you … it’s really different and a big step forward …“<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />(D Metal Galaxy)</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 1em 0px;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />etc.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></p><div id="atatags-370373-6436a407f2ce3" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px;"></div><div class="wpcnt" id="wordads-preview-parent" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; line-height: 0; text-align: center;"><div class="wpa" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block !important; max-width: 100%; position: relative; text-align: left; transform: translate3d(0px, 0px, 0px);"></div></div></div><p><br /></p>METAL MESSAGE ᴳᴸᴼᴮᴬᴸ • Est. 2001http://www.blogger.com/profile/00981847063724180231noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6262828619883574754.post-61115829452345882342022-12-30T03:06:00.002-08:002022-12-30T03:06:17.986-08:00<h1 class="entry-title" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #283d4b; font-family: "Open Sans", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px 0px 0.67em;">An epic return!</h1><header class="entry-header" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px;"><h1 class="entry-title" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #283d4b; font-family: "Open Sans", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px 0px 0.67em;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/dragonhammer.official/" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #9a2121; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;" target="_blank"><img alt="" src="https://www.metalmessage.de/artists/dragonhammer/logo.jpg" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: bottom;" /></a></h1></header><div class="entry-content" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 30px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;">[ Logo: Gaetano Amodio & Max Aguzzi ]<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;">Action: <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">DRAGONHAMMER</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><a href="https://www.metalmessage.de/PR_DRAGONHAMMER_en.php" rel="nofollow" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #9a2121; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;">https://www.metalmessage.de/PR_DRAGONHAMMER_en.php</a><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Base: Rome • Italy<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Genre: Melodic Power Metal<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Title: <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Second Life</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />FFO: Stratovarius, Freedom Call, Rhapsody Of Fire<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Format: Album<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Label: My Kingdom Music<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Distro: Plastichead<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Release: Nov. 04, 2022<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><img alt="⚡" class="emoji" draggable="false" role="img" src="https://s0.wp.com/wp-content/mu-plugins/wpcom-smileys/twemoji/2/svg/26a1.svg" style="background: none !important; border: none !important; box-shadow: none !important; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline !important; height: 1em !important; margin: 0px 0.07em !important; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px !important; vertical-align: -0.1em !important; width: 1em !important;" /><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">DRAGONHAMMER</span> are available for <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">interviews</span> via <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">phone, Skype, Zoom & email !</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">DRAGONHAMMER</span> • Online:<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />► Website: <a href="https://gate.sc/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.dragonhammer.com%2F&token=738c6e-1-1672397773268" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #9a2121; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;" target="_blank">www.dragonhammer.com/</a><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />► Facebook: <a href="https://gate.sc/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fdragonhammer.official%2F&token=d79622-1-1672397773268" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #9a2121; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;" target="_blank">www.facebook.com/dragonhammer.official/</a><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />► Instagram: <a href="https://gate.sc/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.instagram.com%2Fdragonhammerofficial%2F&token=528d3c-1-1672397773268" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #9a2121; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;" target="_blank">www.instagram.com/dragonhammerofficial/</a><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />► YouTube: <a href="https://gate.sc/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2F%2Fgaevil&token=da2e7e-1-1672397773268" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #9a2121; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;" target="_blank">www.youtube.com//gaevil</a><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />► Spotify: <a href="https://gate.sc/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fopen.spotify.com%2Falbum%2F5SR2YMJygmCg3Oo4NYmlaT&token=f1956e-1-1672397773268" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #9a2121; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;" target="_blank">open.spotify.com/album/5SR2YMJygmCg3Oo4NYmlaT</a></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Bulletpoints:</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />• Their long awaited return with the 5ᵗʰ studio album<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />• Epic, precisely & catchy Melodic Power Metal<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />• Powerful & determined – renewed songwriting & sound<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/embed/t8Y02bnb7zQ" rel="nofollow" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #9a2121; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;">https://www.youtube.com/embed/t8Y02bnb7zQ</a><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />[ Official Lyric Video by Stefano Mastronicola ]</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;"></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;"><br /><a href="https://www.facebook.com/dragonhammer.official/" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #9a2121; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;" target="_blank">DRAGONHAMMER</a> are one of the pillars of the Italian <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">MELODIC POWER METAL</span> scene, a band that marks the history of this music from 20 years.<br /><br /></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;"></p><figure class="wp-block-image size-large" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px;"><a href="https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2022/12/image-4.png" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #9a2121; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;"><img alt="" class="wp-image-792" data-attachment-id="792" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-caption="" data-image-description="" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}" data-image-title="image-4" data-large-file="https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2022/12/image-4.png?w=700" data-medium-file="https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2022/12/image-4.png?w=300" data-orig-file="https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2022/12/image-4.png" data-orig-size="800,802" data-permalink="https://metalmessage.wordpress.com/2022/12/30/dragonhammer-an-epic-return/image-4-4/#main" sizes="(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px" src="https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2022/12/image-4.png?w=800" srcset="https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2022/12/image-4.png 800w, https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2022/12/image-4.png?w=150 150w, https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2022/12/image-4.png?w=300 300w, https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2022/12/image-4.png?w=768 768w" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: bottom;" /></a></figure><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />[ Artwork: Luca Martinotti/SoloMacello ]<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">TRACKS</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />01. Prelude To Conquest 01:29<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />02. Kingdom Of The Ghosts 04:53<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />03. Diamond Of Peace 04:49<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />04. Into The Warrior’s Mind 06:55<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />05. Shattering Hope 05:40<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />06. Fallen Brother 04:39<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />07. Sickness Divine 04:43<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />08. The Rising 04:35<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />09. Silver Feathers 06:04<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />10. Second Life 06:35<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />11. Ending Legacy 05:10</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;">total: 55:32 min.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />With the new album <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">„Second Life“</span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/dragonhammer.official/" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #9a2121; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;" target="_blank">DRAGONHAMMER</a> open a new chapter giving a turn to their music, that is now more powerful, more epic and technically as sublime as it was in the past.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;">It is the evolution of the band’s way of creating music, renewed in sound and formation. Among the new characteristics of this work, the addition of new vocal elements, more symphonic keyboards and more powerful guitars stand out.<br /><br /></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;"><a href="https://www.metalmessage.de/artists/dragonhammer/band.jpg" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #9a2121; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;" target="_blank"></a></p><figure class="wp-block-image size-large" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px;"><a href="https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2022/12/image-5.png" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #9a2121; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;"><img alt="" class="wp-image-793" data-attachment-id="793" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-caption="" data-image-description="" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}" data-image-title="image-5" data-large-file="https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2022/12/image-5.png?w=700" data-medium-file="https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2022/12/image-5.png?w=300" data-orig-file="https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2022/12/image-5.png" data-orig-size="800,474" data-permalink="https://metalmessage.wordpress.com/2022/12/30/dragonhammer-an-epic-return/image-5-4/#main" sizes="(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px" src="https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2022/12/image-5.png?w=800" srcset="https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2022/12/image-5.png 800w, https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2022/12/image-5.png?w=150 150w, https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2022/12/image-5.png?w=300 300w, https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2022/12/image-5.png?w=768 768w" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: bottom;" /></a></figure><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />[ Pic: Giacomo Mearelli ]</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">LINE-UP</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Mattia Fagiolo • Vocals<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Flavio Cicconi • Guitars<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Alessandro Mancini • Guitars, Orchestrations<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Gae Amodio • Bass<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Giulio Cattivera • Keyboards, Backing Vocals, Orchestrations, Choir Vocals<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Marco Berrettoni • Drums</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;"></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">„Second Life“</span> stands for an album that opens up new visions for the future and wants to be the starting point of this new identity. So definitely you’ll get an explosive mix of Power and Epic Metal with great Symphonic parts!</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;"><br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/embed/f9m6J_y8USk" rel="nofollow" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #9a2121; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;">https://www.youtube.com/embed/f9m6J_y8USk</a><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />[ Official Lyric Video by Stefano Mastronicola ]</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;"><br />„Second Life“</span> sees the official studio debuts of Mattia Fagiolo on vocals, Marco Berrettoni on drums, and Alessandro Mancini on guitar.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">„Second Life“</span> is the first album without Max Aguzzi, one of the two historic founders of the band in 1999, who was also crucial for the artistic side of the band. Therefore, this album also represents a new way of making music for the band, which has found a way to regroup and continue on its path.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">„Second Life“</span> is an album that incorporates all the stylistic characteristics of <a href="https://www.facebook.com/dragonhammer.official/" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #9a2121; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;" target="_blank">DRAGONHAMMER</a> but evolves them with a fresher sound and a more advanced songwriting. It is a Power Metal album that, compared to the past, has a strong symphonic character and new vocal styles. The production was entrusted to the Kick Recording Studio in Rome (Italy).</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;">About the lyrics, <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">„Second Life“</span> tells a timeless story, where the thoughts and feelings of the men of yesterday flow to the present day. A story that, song by song, tells the evolution of a character from the past, delivering to the listener a set of experiences and considerations. <br /><br />The key message is the one of the band’s literally „Second Life“:<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />a moment in which they are granted a second chance and become aware of what is really important!<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">MEDIA FEEDBACK:</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">90 / 100</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />➤ „… fantastic backdrop of orchestral magic … a gargantuan album of Power Metal to its core … symphonic power is what really makes ‘Second Life’ come to life … have all the hallmarks of fellow Italians Rhapsody, but also Blind Guardian and Twilight Force with their rapid-fire guitars, rhythmically thumping drums driving forward like caterpillar treads on a tank and a superb vocal performance from Mattia Fagiolo making this release really something special … this is classic European Power Metal done to a professionally high standard and any fan of the genre should invest in a copy …“<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />(Metal Digest)</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">9 / 10</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />➤ „… DRAGONHAMMER decided to go big for this album … the orchestration is exquisite, the rhythms are excellent and the guitar work is incredible … vocally, they hit all the hallmarks of Power Metal … powerful leads, big backing vocals and huge choirs to give a massive backdrop for the soaring musical themes. This is an album you can picture in your mind, complete with soundtrack, score, and action scenes …“<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />(Metal Temple)</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">4 / 5</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />➤ „… returned a bit more to their fantasy inspired style … epic atmosphere … a classic kind of Euro Power Metal … a bit more orchestration and symphonic elements this time … we get to hear the sounds of strings, lutes and flutes adding a bit of a medieval flair … songs surge along with a nice sense of velocity, many of them double-kick driven … lots of great solos, the one on ‘Sickness Divine’ being a favourite for me … it would be a shame for fans of the style to overlook this band … ‘Second Life’, being a strong album maybe give them just that, the second chance they need to break through …“<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />(Metal-Rules COM)</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">8,9 / 10</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />➤ „… in the 1990s, this record would probably have won the favour of many … ‚Second Life‘ is not just a record for nostalgics, but a mature, well-constructed and equally well-played work that will surely provide moments of joy for lovers …“<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />(Heavy Metal Webzine IT)</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">17 / 20</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />➤ „… filled with fantastic epic atmospheres and an accomplished phantasmagoria ‚Second Life‘ will only meet the approval of the public … I just hope that this work meets a wider audience. In any case all the trumps have been shot to succeed in this enterprise …“<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />(Kaosguards)</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">8,5 / 10</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />➤ „… action-packed Power Metal … ‚Second Life‘ is just fun and didn’t bore me even on the umpteenth ‚repeat‘, you always discover new nuances … I really like Mattia Fagiolos‘ voice … drummer Marco Berrettoni totally inspires me … a round thing and in this compilation hopefully really a second life for the band …“<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />(Powermetal DE)</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">8,5 / 10</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />➤ „… especially worth mentioning is the powerful-precise drumming of drummer Marco Berrettoni … know their craft … combine dynamic hardness factor with opulent, suspenseful captivating mood level – exactly what it comes down to in Classic Melodic Power Metal … recommendable … for the followers of Majestica, Stratovarius, Freedom Call and Rhapsody Of Fire …“<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />(FFM-Rock)</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">81 / 100</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />➤ „… adorable …“<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />(Hatena Blog)</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">8 / 10</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />➤ „… great keyboards merge with vigorous riffs and excellent solos … 55 minutes of a good experience …“<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />(Riff Of Metal)</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">8 / 10</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />➤ „… another great work to their already lush discography … does not afford a single weak song and convinces with individual highlights, such as the incredibly great ‚Kingdom Of The Ghosts‘, which should bring tears of joy to the eyes of every genre fan.“<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />(Soundmagnet)</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">8 / 10</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />➤ „… nicely balanced, energetic and despite the rather classic Power Metal quite fresh … if you want to remember classic Power Metal, DRAGONHAMMER and its ‚Second Life‘ is a great way to go. People who adore the genre and don’t like novelty might also find it to their liking. The tempo and melody changes are a bonus of the album.“<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />(Hellmagazine)</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">16 / 20</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />➤ „… the new member Mattia Fagiolo delivers a performance that will please those who prefer singers who are not only in the high notes … guitar lovers will find many typically neo-classical solos … I was pleasantly surprised and believe that any Power Metal lover will be more than thrilled …“<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />(French Metal)</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">7,5 / 10</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />➤ „… a successful rebirth … melodies are by no means presented too briefly … quite racy in places … pull out all the stops …“<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />(Crossfire)</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">7,5 / 10</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />➤ „… finally again a work full of fast, European Power Metal and then also from one of the mother countries of this genre, Italy … naturally I like the speedy Power Metal stompers like `Kingdom Of The Ghosts‘ or `Into The Warrior’s Mind‘ best, but DRAGONHAMMER also know how to integrate now and then skillfully epic and symphonic elements into their sound … well-dosed synths, great vocals … choirs and a pinch of pathos … majestic-hymnal … best, coherent and entertaining Power Metal entertainment …“<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />(Obliveon)</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">7,5 / 10</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />➤ „… preference for high-speed anthems with plenty of double bass … lightning fingers … broad-based choruses … the whole thing does not seem as overloaded as with Rhapsody, because the synth debauchery is kept within limits and fits comfortably into the overall structure … epic … everything is performed very catchy and ear-pleasing, but without crossing the border to sugar shock … DRAGONHAMMER have found their own band style for themselves in certain ways …“<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />(Hellfire)</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">7,5 / 10</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />➤ „… Power Metal, arrangements full of ideas, orchestrations, pathos and a lot of passion … yes, perhaps the ’second life‘ of DRAGONHAMMER starts here and I must admit in the best way …“<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />(TuttoRock)</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">7 / 10</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />➤ „… approaches the sounds typical of Rhapsody – and in general of the great tradition of Symphonic Metal of the 90s – without, of course, forgetting the ballads … a journey, yes, into the clichés of the genre, but realised with all care and attention, also thanks to the excellent work of Marco ‚Cinghio‘ Mastrobuono in the studio, who has brought this ‚Second Life‘ straight to the point … true resurrection of a band … a good album … written with care and passion …“<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />(MetalItalia)</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">7 / 10</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />➤ „… da wird mächtig Dampf gemacht … die Jungs sind spielerisch sehr begabt … der Sänger ist in einigen Bereichen mit seiner Stimme unterwegs, die so manch anderem verwehrt bleiben. Auch dem Schlagzeuger muss man allerbeste Qualität attestieren. Von Anfang bis Ende zeigt er keine Müdigkeit, fällt durch ein beständig gutes Drumming positiv auf. Einmal beim Lob austeilen, möchte ich auch nicht die Leistung an den Gitarren vergessen … für Vinyl spricht das exzellente Cover-Artwork, das dann erst richtig zur Geltung kommen würde … für Power Metal-Freunde empfehlenswert.“<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />(Bleeding4Metal)</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">3,5 / 5 – great</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />➤ „… deserve to be more well known. They can write on the same level as big name bands – even better in some cases. Lots of bands peeter out and resort to Eurovision Metal, but such is not the case here. DRAGONHAMMER know exactly who they are and how to present themselves professionally within their cheesy, yet effective motifs … if you come across this album don’t skip it … it’s at the very least a great one-time listen, though it deserves another listen to let the songs sink in …“<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />(Sputnik Music)</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">3,5 / 5</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />➤ „… the catchiness has definitely improved, then there is the focus on melodies, thanks to clever guitar and keyboard solos and many epic choruses … the drums are very crisp … the new singer Mattia Fagiolo is much better suited to Power Metal than his predecessor … this ‚Second life‘ constitutes a sort of rebirth of DRAGONHAMMER; now all that remains is to continue on this road and improve even more, since the qualities and talent are not lacking!“<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />(All Around Metal)</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;">➤ „… more powerful, more epic and more symphonic than ever …“<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />(Metal Utopia)</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;">➤ „… Giulio Cattivera‘s keyboard orchestrations are always on point, and never cheesy, whilst the engine room – piston-legged drummer Marco Berrettoni and bass-playing pal Gae Amodio – play their part unobtrusively but with deathless precision … cinematic … if your’e a fan of this kind of music then there’s very little here that you won’t enjoy …“<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />(Sentinel Daily)</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;">➤ „… an album that opens new horizons for the future of the band and wants to be the basis of this new identity that the band wants to adopt. So you will definitely get to listen to an explosive mix of Power and Epic Metal with great symphonic parts …“<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />(LifeSteps GR)</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;">➤ „… there is no lack of energy here … fast and melodic riffs, clean and high vocals, catchy and epic themes, etc. … fans of the style will be well entertained …“<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />(HellHeaven)</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;">➤ „… more epic, more symphonic, and more… well, everything … delivers 11 bangers crammed to the rafters with all the speed, gallantry and majesty anyone would very much hope to get barraged with when faced with an album cover that features bearded dudes throwing down against an immense black dragon … pretty much a win from most every angle, but new vocalist Mattia Fagiolo is the definitely the not-so-secret weapon delivering the death blow that vaults things over the edge … if you like the idea of kicking your day into full gear with a more raw form of Rhapsody, you will definitely find a very willing and well-armed companion with this record …“<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />(Last Rites)</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;">➤ „… another brilliant and beautifully crafted dose of Power Metal as only boot-shaped land can achieve (well, maybe they don’t use the symphonic pageantry that since Skylark and Rhapsody gets used to it there, but they develop their art very well, let no one doubt it) … recommendable …“<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />(The Dark Melody)</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;">➤ „… a beautiful Power Prog Metal album, where all the human emotions were not lacking …“<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />(Tempi Duri)</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;">➤ „… an epic journey that will make you sing along from beginning to end … with a great melodic structure, brutal riffs, a dynamic and versatile base … impressive vocals …“<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />(Metal Pedia)</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;">➤ „… vocals are good … very tasteful … the orchestration and the arrangements on this album are absolutely killer and worth a listen alone … songwriting is really top-notch … the years of practice and maturity really shine through … quite long at 54 minutes, but it never feels like it drags or stumbles and the runtime goes by very quickly … DRAGONHAMMER have really put together a good album and if you’re someone who appreciates Power Metal, then I highly recommend you give this one a listen …“<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />(BloodFireJeff)</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;">➤ „… everything fans would expect from a Power Metal band … it’s strong, it’s emotional, it’s full of details … bottomline, it’s perfect …“<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />(Metal Addicts)</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">DISCOGRAPHY</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />2001 • The Blood Of The Dragon • Full-length<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />2004 • Time for Expiation • Full-length<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />2013 • The X Experiment • Full-length<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />2017 • Obscurity • Full-length<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />2022 • Second Life • Full-length<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><a href="https://www.facebook.com/dragonhammer.official/" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; 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color: #9a2121; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;" target="_blank">open.spotify.com/artist/5ggmASfbhMARaaLErie3CA</a></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;"></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;">𝐏𝐇𝐎𝐄𝐁𝐔𝐒 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐊𝐍𝐈𝐆𝐇𝐓 • 𝙊𝙛𝙛𝙞𝙘𝙞𝙖𝙡 <img alt="🌐" class="emoji" draggable="false" role="img" src="https://s0.wp.com/wp-content/mu-plugins/wpcom-smileys/twemoji/2/svg/1f310.svg" style="background: none !important; border: none !important; box-shadow: none !important; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline !important; height: 1em !important; margin: 0px 0.07em !important; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px !important; vertical-align: -0.1em !important; width: 1em !important;" /> 𝙋𝙧𝙤𝙢𝙤 & 𝙋𝙍 Action:<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><a href="https://gate.sc/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.metalmessage.de%2FPR_PHOEBUS_THE_KNIGHT_en.php&token=8c6f4-1-1671716064251" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #9a2121; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;" target="_blank">www.metalmessage.de/PR_PHOEBUS_THE_KNIGHT_en.php</a><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><img alt="⚡" class="emoji" draggable="false" role="img" src="https://s0.wp.com/wp-content/mu-plugins/wpcom-smileys/twemoji/2/svg/26a1.svg" style="background: none !important; border: none !important; box-shadow: none !important; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline !important; height: 1em !important; margin: 0px 0.07em !important; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px !important; vertical-align: -0.1em !important; width: 1em !important;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><img alt="📺" class="emoji" draggable="false" role="img" src="https://s0.wp.com/wp-content/mu-plugins/wpcom-smileys/twemoji/2/svg/1f4fa.svg" style="background: none !important; border: none !important; box-shadow: none !important; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline !important; height: 1em !important; margin: 0px 0.07em !important; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px !important; vertical-align: -0.1em !important; width: 1em !important;" /> Official music video for „The Scarlet Dance“:<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><a href="https://gate.sc/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fyoutu.be%2FZ4S7lukdDMI&token=145371-1-1671716064250" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #9a2121; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;" target="_blank">youtu.be/Z4S7lukdDMI</a></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><a href="https://www.facebook.com/phoebus.the.knight/" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #9a2121; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;" target="_blank">PHOEBUS THE KNIGHT</a> comments on „The Scarlet Dance“:<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />„The ‚Scarlet Dance‘ is the first epic battle of the album. Phoebus found Selene in the Darkest woods and they’re going to fight the Beast with a strategy they came with. For this song, we went with the typical Power Metal riffs and verses, made a long orchestral bridge with some folk surprises after it and a chorus inspired by operatic melodies to make it a long, rich and truly epic song!“<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><img alt="💀" class="emoji" draggable="false" role="img" src="https://s0.wp.com/wp-content/mu-plugins/wpcom-smileys/twemoji/2/svg/1f480.svg" style="background: none !important; border: none !important; box-shadow: none !important; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline !important; height: 1em !important; margin: 0px 0.07em !important; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px !important; vertical-align: -0.1em !important; width: 1em !important;" /> 𝗠𝗘𝗧𝗔𝗟 𝗠𝗘𝗦𝗦𝗔𝗚𝗘 ᴳᴸᴼᴮᴬᴸ • 𝐸𝓈𝓉. 2001 proudly presents:<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />When history meets fantasy, when Metal passion meets deepest love for great Classical music, the result is operatic <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">SYMPHONIC POWER METAL</span> at it’s best!</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;">Successfully funded with a Ulule Crowdfunding, <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">„Ferrum Fero Ferro Feror“</span> was made with the 11.400 Euros collected there, thanks to the fans! It is then signed and will be released on Renaissance Records US.<br /><br /></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;"><a href="https://www.metalmessage.de/artists/phoebus_the_knight/cover.jpg" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #9a2121; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;" target="_blank"></a></p><figure class="wp-block-image size-large" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px;"><a href="https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2022/12/image.png" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #9a2121; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;"><img alt="" class="wp-image-773" data-attachment-id="773" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-caption="" data-image-description="" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}" data-image-title="image" data-large-file="https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2022/12/image.png?w=700" data-medium-file="https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2022/12/image.png?w=300" data-orig-file="https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2022/12/image.png" data-orig-size="800,800" data-permalink="https://metalmessage.wordpress.com/2022/12/22/phoebus-the-knight-opulently-combative-rousingly-triumphed/image-8/#main" sizes="(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px" src="https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2022/12/image.png?w=800" srcset="https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2022/12/image.png 800w, https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2022/12/image.png?w=150 150w, https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2022/12/image.png?w=300 300w, https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2022/12/image.png?w=768 768w" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: bottom;" /></a></figure><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;">[ Artwork: Mohamed Aouamri ]</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">TRACKS</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />01. Ante Lux 02:19<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />02. The Beast Within 05:03<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />03. The Iron Queen 04:43<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />04. The Scarlet Dance 06:46<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />05. Semen Pessimorum 02:39<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />06. Darkness Will Prevail 03:56<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />07. Children Of The Night 03:52<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />08. The Queen Of The Black Sun 08:11<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />09. Para Bellum 03:22<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />10. Massacres De Septembre 05:43<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />11. Ferrum Fero Ferro Feror 04:46<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />12. The Sword Of Justice 05:56</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;">total: 57:30 min.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Each track of this truly fantastic debut album is a chapter of Phoebus’ story, the knight alchemist:<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />from the forgotten dimension of the „Darkest Woods“, going through the gates of Hell, to the crucible of Terror in Paris, you will follow Phoebus and his friends the Knights of Heliopolis, in an epic quest to defeat The Beast and his desire for eternal war.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;">To put all the events in a dramaturgic vision, this collection of songs is a blend of several musical moods, combining heavy ballads, Metal tracks with majestic orchestrations and instrumental parts.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Lyrics are for the most part in English and a bit of French, all performed with the beguiling lyrical bass voice of Axel, in clean and screamed vocals.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;">And what a solemn stroke of luck master Axel is for the music of the band:<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />All too seldom has such a noble sublime voice been carved out of such an inconceivably gigantic vocal talent with such immeasurable dedication and downright unearthly diligence!</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;">So you can enjoy classical Symphonic Metal, Melodic Death Metal, musical, medieval pieces and even passages in the style of great masters like Bach, Mozart or even Rachmaninov!</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;">Witness the legendary fight of Phoebus and his friends against the Beast and the vampire knights! To guide you in this quest, the master drawer Mohamed Aouamri (Sylve, Mortepierre) illustrated each chapters and gave life to this world of Fantasy and History.<br /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><a href="https://www.metalmessage.de/artists/phoebus_the_knight/band.jpg" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #9a2121; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;" target="_blank"></a></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;"></p><figure class="wp-block-image size-large" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px;"><a href="https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2022/12/band.jpg" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #9a2121; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;"><img alt="" class="wp-image-787" data-attachment-id="787" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-caption="" data-image-description="" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}" data-image-title="band" data-large-file="https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2022/12/band.jpg?w=700" data-medium-file="https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2022/12/band.jpg?w=300" data-orig-file="https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2022/12/band.jpg" data-orig-size="800,533" data-permalink="https://metalmessage.wordpress.com/2022/12/22/phoebus-the-knight-opulently-combative-rousingly-triumphed/band/#main" sizes="(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px" src="https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2022/12/band.jpg?w=800" srcset="https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2022/12/band.jpg 800w, https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2022/12/band.jpg?w=150 150w, https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2022/12/band.jpg?w=300 300w, https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2022/12/band.jpg?w=768 768w" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: bottom;" /></a></figure><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;">[ Pic: Faallaway ]</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">LINE-UP</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Phoebus • Vocals<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Oswald Croll • Guitars, Backing Vocals<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Hadrian • Guitars, Backing Vocals<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Arkeuid • Bass, Vocals<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Robin Of Locksley • Drums<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">„Ferrum Fero Ferro Feror“</span>, Phoebus‘ first adventure with his companions, the Knights of Heliopolis, is waiting for you!<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Go on an epic and original musical adventure, mixing Symphonic Metal, Heroic-Fantasy and History, written by Axel de Montalembert, composed by Adrien Djouadou and performed by the one and only <a href="https://www.facebook.com/phoebus.the.knight/" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #9a2121; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;" target="_blank">PHOEBUS THE KNIGHT</a>!</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">FLASHBACK</span>:<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><a href="https://www.facebook.com/phoebus.the.knight/" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #9a2121; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;" target="_blank">PHOEBUS THE KNIGHT</a> was born in the mind of Axel de Montalembert. Passionate of music, heroic-fantasy, esoterism and history, he created the story of Phoebus and his companions, the Knights Of Heliopolis, melting together heroic-fantasy and history.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;">To translate his great tale into music, he needed a composer that could write for a Metal band and a full orchestra to give to the story the epic breath it needed. That’s how he met Adrien Djouadou, a classically trained opera singer active on established stages and together, they created the whole concept of <a href="https://www.facebook.com/phoebus.the.knight/" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #9a2121; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;" target="_blank">PHOEBUS THE KNIGHT</a>.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;">Axel would write the lyrics and naturally, sing them and Adrien would compose the whole music, play the guitar and do the backing vocals. But <a href="https://www.facebook.com/phoebus.the.knight/" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #9a2121; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;" target="_blank">PHOEBUS THE KNIGHT</a> needed musicians, so they found a great team to play with them on this journey:<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Noémie Allet on the bass and vocals, Adrien Guingal on the guitar and Guillaume Remih on the drums. Each member of the band would represent a character in the story of Phoebus and his companions.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;">Naturally, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/phoebus.the.knight/" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #9a2121; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;" target="_blank">PHOEBUS THE KNIGHT</a> became a Symphonic Metal band with a whole conceptual and visual universe. They value quality in music, production and work invested by involved parties. <a href="https://www.facebook.com/phoebus.the.knight/" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #9a2121; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;" target="_blank">PHOEBUS THE KNIGHT</a> finds its roots in bands like Nightwish, Epica, Within Temptation, Powerwolf, Rhapsody Of Fire, Cradle Of Filth …<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">DISCOGRAPHY</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />2022 • The Last Guardian • EP<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />2023 • Ferrum Fero Ferro Feror • Full-length<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">PHOEBUS THE KNIGHT</span> are available for <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">interviews</span> via <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">phone, Skype, Zoom & email !</span> <img alt="📢" class="emoji" draggable="false" role="img" src="https://s0.wp.com/wp-content/mu-plugins/wpcom-smileys/twemoji/2/svg/1f4e2.svg" style="background: none !important; border: none !important; box-shadow: none !important; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline !important; height: 1em !important; margin: 0px 0.07em !important; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px !important; vertical-align: -0.1em !important; width: 1em !important;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><img alt="💥" class="emoji" draggable="false" role="img" src="https://s0.wp.com/wp-content/mu-plugins/wpcom-smileys/twemoji/2/svg/1f4a5.svg" style="background: none !important; border: none !important; box-shadow: none !important; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline !important; height: 1em !important; margin: 0px 0.07em !important; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px !important; vertical-align: -0.1em !important; width: 1em !important;" /> 𝙌𝙪𝙖𝙡𝙞𝙩𝙮 𝙞𝙣𝙨𝙩𝙚𝙖𝙙 𝙤𝙛 𝙦𝙪𝙖𝙣𝙩𝙞𝙩𝙮, 𝙘𝙡𝙖𝙨𝙨 𝙞𝙣𝙨𝙩𝙚𝙖𝙙 𝙤𝙛 𝙢𝙖𝙨𝙨!</p></div>METAL MESSAGE ᴳᴸᴼᴮᴬᴸ • Est. 2001http://www.blogger.com/profile/00981847063724180231noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6262828619883574754.post-75397305230685516292022-11-26T04:12:00.002-08:002022-11-26T04:12:18.862-08:00<p> </p><header class="entry-header" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px;"><h1 class="entry-title" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #283d4b; font-family: "Open Sans", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px 0px 0.67em;">Setting out for new shores!</h1></header><div class="entry-content" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 30px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;"></p><figure class="wp-block-image" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px;"><a href="https://facebook.com/imperialageofficial" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #9a2121; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;" target="_blank"><img alt="" scale="0" src="https://www.metalmessage.de/artists/imperial_age/logo.jpg" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: bottom;" /></a></figure><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;">[ Logo: Jan ‚Örkki‘ Yrlund • Darkgrove ]<br /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Action: <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">IMPERIAL AGE</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Album PR: <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">METAL MESSAGE ᴳᴸᴼᴮᴬᴸ • 𝓔𝓼𝓽. 2001</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><a href="https://www.metalmessage.de/PR_IMPERIAL_AGE_en.php" rel="nofollow" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #9a2121; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;">https://www.metalmessage.de/PR_IMPERIAL_AGE_en.php</a><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Genre: Symphonic Metal<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Title: <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">New World</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />FFO: Therion, Nightwish, Rhapsody Of Fire<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Format: Album + Live-Blu-ray/DVD<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Label: Atlantean Records ltd.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Release: August 27, 2022</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Bulletpoints</span>:</p><ul style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 40px;"><li style="box-sizing: border-box;">3rd album of the Symphonic Metal aesthetes</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;">One of the most courageous releases of the genre</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;">Overwhelming songs cast by fate in uplifting forms<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></li></ul><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">IMPERIAL AGE</span> are available for <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">interviews</span> via <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">phone, Skype, Zoom & email</span> – get in touch!<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><a href="https://facebook.com/imperialageofficial" rel="nofollow" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #9a2121; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;">https://facebook.com/imperialageofficial</a><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;"><br /><a href="https://facebook.com/imperialageofficial" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #9a2121; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;" target="_blank">IMPERIAL AGE</a> is one of the most successful international bands of Russian origin, which today has a multinational lineup and is based in Antalya, Turkey.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;">After turning down several record deals, they work independently and maintain a close relationship with their large worldwide fan base.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">„New World“</span> is the third album by <a href="https://facebook.com/imperialageofficial" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #9a2121; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;" target="_blank">IMPERIAL AGE</a> – following „The Legacy Of Atlantis“ (2018) and „Turn The Sun Off!“ (2012). The new album <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">„New World“</span> is released via their own London-based label Atlantean Records ltd.<br /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><a href="https://www.metalmessage.de/artists/imperial_age/band.jpg" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #9a2121; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;" target="_blank"></a></p><figure class="wp-block-image size-large" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px;"><a href="https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2022/11/image-2.png" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #9a2121; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;"><img alt="" class="wp-image-757" data-attachment-id="757" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-caption="" data-image-description="" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}" data-image-title="image-2" data-large-file="https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2022/11/image-2.png?w=700" data-medium-file="https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2022/11/image-2.png?w=300" data-orig-file="https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2022/11/image-2.png" data-orig-size="800,566" data-permalink="https://metalmessage.wordpress.com/2022/11/26/imperial-age-setting-out-for-new-shores/image-2-5/#main" sizes="(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px" src="https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2022/11/image-2.png?w=800" srcset="https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2022/11/image-2.png 800w, https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2022/11/image-2.png?w=150 150w, https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2022/11/image-2.png?w=300 300w, https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2022/11/image-2.png?w=768 768w" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: bottom;" /></a></figure><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;">[ Pic: Imperial Age ]</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">LINE-UP:</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Alexander ‚Aor‘ Osipov • Vocals<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Jane Odintsova • Vocals<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Anna ‚Kiara‘ Moiseeva • Vocals<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Kublai Kapsalis • Guitar<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Dmitry Belf • Bass<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Manuele Di Ascenzo • Drums<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><a href="https://facebook.com/imperialageofficial" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #9a2121; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;" target="_blank">IMPERIAL AGE</a>, one of the most successful Metal bands of Russian origin is back against all odds!</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;">Four years after the massive success of „Legacy Of Atlantis“, which sold thousands of copies, reached millions of streams and YouTube views and helped the formation to international fame, the multinational Symphonic/Power Metal sextet is back with its new opus magnum – <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">„New World“</span>.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><a href="https://www.metalmessage.de/artists/imperial_age/cover.jpg" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #9a2121; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;" target="_blank"></a></p><figure class="wp-block-image size-large" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px;"><a href="https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2022/11/image-3.png" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #9a2121; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;"><img alt="" class="wp-image-759" data-attachment-id="759" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-caption="" data-image-description="" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}" data-image-title="image-3" data-large-file="https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2022/11/image-3.png?w=700" data-medium-file="https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2022/11/image-3.png?w=300" data-orig-file="https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2022/11/image-3.png" data-orig-size="800,800" data-permalink="https://metalmessage.wordpress.com/2022/11/26/imperial-age-setting-out-for-new-shores/image-3-4/#main" sizes="(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px" src="https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2022/11/image-3.png?w=800" srcset="https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2022/11/image-3.png 800w, https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2022/11/image-3.png?w=150 150w, https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2022/11/image-3.png?w=300 300w, https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2022/11/image-3.png?w=768 768w" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: bottom;" /></a></figure><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;">[ Album 2022 • Artwork: Jan ‚Örkki‘ Yrlund • Darkgrove ]<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">TRACKS:</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />01. Windborn 03:40<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />02. Legend Of The Free 04:17<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />03. The Way Is the Aim 04:01<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />04. Shackles Of Gold 04:02<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />05. The Wheel 04:14<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />06. To the Edge Of The Known 03:40<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />07. Distant Shores 04:44<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />08. Call Of The Towers 18:12</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;">total: 46:50 min.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />This new album proved to be magical in every way:<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />During the crowdfunding campaign, which raised 188 % of the original amount needed, the musicians were hit by a tornado, unprecedented in the area, which chopped down a third of the forest where they were camping and writing songs, and completely destroyed their camp – though the musicians were hugely lucky that they themselves and all their equipment miraculously remained unscathed.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;">The choir’s preparations were so intense that the choir’s director and conductor, Taras Yasenkov, had to be taken by ambulance to a psychiatric hospital in the middle of the recording sessions, where he suffered a nervous breakdown – he has since fully recovered.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;">When the album was almost finished, the whole band laid down with Covid, and as if that wasn’t enough – a month later Russia attacked Ukraine and sent all plans to hell – forcing <a href="https://facebook.com/imperialageofficial" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #9a2121; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;" target="_blank">IMPERIAL AGE</a>’s masterminds <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Alexander ‚Aor‘ Osipov</span> and <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Jane Odintsova</span> to leave the country in a hurry after the band released an anti-war manifesto – interrupting the whole process of album production and release …<br /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><a href="https://www.metalmessage.de/artists/imperial_age/band2.jpg" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #9a2121; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;" target="_blank"></a></p><figure class="wp-block-image size-large" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px;"><a href="https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2022/11/image-4.png" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #9a2121; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;"><img alt="" class="wp-image-761" data-attachment-id="761" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-caption="" data-image-description="" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}" data-image-title="image-4" data-large-file="https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2022/11/image-4.png?w=600" data-medium-file="https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2022/11/image-4.png?w=212" data-orig-file="https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2022/11/image-4.png" data-orig-size="600,849" data-permalink="https://metalmessage.wordpress.com/2022/11/26/imperial-age-setting-out-for-new-shores/image-4-3/#main" sizes="(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px" src="https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2022/11/image-4.png?w=600" srcset="https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2022/11/image-4.png 600w, https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2022/11/image-4.png?w=106 106w, https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2022/11/image-4.png?w=212 212w" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: bottom;" /></a></figure><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;">[ Pic: Imperial Age ]<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;"><br />The lyrics of the third long player turned out to be frighteningly prophetic:<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />They deal with the quest for freedom and independence, the horrors of war, leaving home with no hope of return, and traveling through rough seas to distant shores – all the lyrics were written many months before all these topics became a grim everyday reality for the band.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;">As with most great things that involve a huge amount of super compressed energy, every step of the production of this album was achieved through a great effort by all involved:<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />composing the songs over many hours without food or sleep, long nights in the studio until sunrise, recording live orchestral instruments and choirs, countless rehearsals, hours and days of painting artwork, and many, many other things …<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />… but the musical end result sounds and ultimately feels the other way around:<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />upbeat, uplifting and powerful. It seemed as if <a href="https://facebook.com/imperialageofficial" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #9a2121; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;" target="_blank">IMPERIAL AGE</a> were at the end, especially when Max Talion (drums) and Paul Maryashin (guitar) left the band.<br /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></p><figure class="wp-block-image size-large" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px;"><a href="https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2022/11/image-5.png" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #9a2121; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;"><img alt="" class="wp-image-762" data-attachment-id="762" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-caption="" data-image-description="" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}" data-image-title="image-5" data-large-file="https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2022/11/image-5.png?w=700" data-medium-file="https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2022/11/image-5.png?w=271" data-orig-file="https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2022/11/image-5.png" data-orig-size="800,885" data-permalink="https://metalmessage.wordpress.com/2022/11/26/imperial-age-setting-out-for-new-shores/image-5-3/#main" sizes="(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px" src="https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2022/11/image-5.png?w=800" srcset="https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2022/11/image-5.png 800w, https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2022/11/image-5.png?w=136 136w, https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2022/11/image-5.png?w=271 271w, https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2022/11/image-5.png?w=768 768w" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: bottom;" /></a></figure><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;">[ Pic: Imperial Age ]<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;"><br />But against all odds, the band regrouped, resettled and survived – even reaching new heights:<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />not only did they record what was missing, hire new musicians (Manuele di Ascenzo from Italy on drums and Kublai Kapsalis from Turkey on guitar), move their entire web store to Italy, release three singles and two music videos, land a headlining European tour for September 2022 – but they also donated a portion of the proceeds to needy Ukrainian families, despite being immigrants themselves.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />All this – because of and with great support from their immense worldwide army of ultra-loyal fans, who continue to support <a href="https://facebook.com/imperialageofficial" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #9a2121; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;" target="_blank">IMPERIAL AGE</a> with thousands of album purchases, millions of streams and hundreds of donations.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;">The result – albeit 3 months late – bristles with <a href="https://facebook.com/imperialageofficial" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #9a2121; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;" target="_blank">IMPERIAL AGE</a>’s trademark powerful, uplifting, visionary Metal with orchestra, choir and 3 lead singers – and yet the band has recorded their happiest, heaviest and most adventurous album yet!<br /><br /></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;"><a href="https://www.metalmessage.de/artists/imperial_age/band4.jpg" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #9a2121; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;" target="_blank"></a></p><figure class="wp-block-image size-large" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px;"><a href="https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2022/11/image-6.png" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #9a2121; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;"><img alt="" class="wp-image-764" data-attachment-id="764" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-caption="" data-image-description="" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}" data-image-title="image-6" data-large-file="https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2022/11/image-6.png?w=700" data-medium-file="https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2022/11/image-6.png?w=300" data-orig-file="https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2022/11/image-6.png" data-orig-size="800,533" data-permalink="https://metalmessage.wordpress.com/2022/11/26/imperial-age-setting-out-for-new-shores/image-6-2/#main" sizes="(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px" src="https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2022/11/image-6.png?w=800" srcset="https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2022/11/image-6.png 800w, https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2022/11/image-6.png?w=150 150w, https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2022/11/image-6.png?w=300 300w, https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2022/11/image-6.png?w=768 768w" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: bottom;" /></a></figure><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;">[ Pic: Imperial Age ]</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Every single song on this album is a hit, and there are simply no ‚B-sides‘ or weak tracks. „Legend Of The Free“ is one of the fastest and most upbeat Power/Folk Metal hits in the group’s latest collection, with strong lyrics about the pursuit of freedom, while the philosophical „The Way Is The Aim“ is a dance song about finding your own way, with Jane Odintsova switching from operatic to rock vocals.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;">The murderous, lyrically somber anti-war anthem „The Wheel“ is a must for all future live sets with its fast beat, catchy chorus and Aor’s high-pitched vocals, while „Shackles Of Gold“ immediately conjures up the image of pirates of the Caribbean wreaking havoc on Tortuga in the name of freedom.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Now you might think that 8 tracks are not much – but not in this case. The crown jewel of this album is the epic, dark, immensely powerful and colossal Metal symphony „Call Of The Towers“, which despite its whopping 18+ minute playing time manages to hold the listener’s attention by constantly shifting from an explosive Hollywood-style wall of sound, that pushes every instrument and vocalist to their limits, to acoustic tavern ballads, Bachian organ solos, and even 3 minutes of pure Sympho Black Metal with atonal chords, and a deeply somber atmosphere where male, female, and choral vocals constantly alternate.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;">All songs are sung by the three lead singers Aor, Jane Odintsova and Anna Kiara – plus a full academic choir as well as live orchestral instruments. <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">„New World“</span> overwhelms the listener with polished and precise songwriting, highest musical level, enormous variety of vocals and instruments – all this paired with the heaviest Metal sound <a href="https://facebook.com/imperialageofficial" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #9a2121; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;" target="_blank">IMPERIAL AGE</a> have delivered so far – and the new work proves once again why <a href="https://facebook.com/imperialageofficial" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #9a2121; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;" target="_blank">IMPERIAL AGE</a> are so successful, although so many circumstances speak against them and they don’t even have a record company behind them!<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;">•</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">DISCOGRAPHY:</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />2012 • Turn The Sun Off! • Full-length<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />2014 • Warrior Race • EP<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />2018 • The Legacy Of Atlantis • Full-length<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />2022 • New World • Full-length<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />2022 • Live New World (Live) • Full-length<br /><br /><br /></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;"></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">MEDIA FEEDBACK:</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">10 / 10</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />➤ „… sound like no other band – their music encompassing Power, Symphonic, and Folk Metal elements – overall, a stunning and extremely pleasurable listening experience, IMPERIAL AGE have delivered a gorgeous symphony of superb Symphonic Metal.“<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />(Metal Gods TV)</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">5 / 5 – legendary</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />➤ „A Symphonic Metal album as if from one cast … impressive in every respect … overwhelms with sophisticated and precise songwriting, an enormous vocal variety and instrumental bombast … metal and classical music form an impressive symbiosis here … every song shows thoughtful arrangements and convinces with its individual melodicism.“<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />(Deep Ground)</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">4,5 / 5</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />➤ „… decidedly enjoyable thanks to the enviable combination of the three voices, two female and one male, which deftly range between parts set toward the lyrical and others sung normally … their Symphonic Metal is magniloquent, theatrical and epic, a sort of cross between the atmospheres of Therion and the brilliance of Rhapsody … very high level, in every respect … certainly stands as a candidate to be remembered as one of the best Symphonic Metal releases of the year …“<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />(All Around Metal)</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">4,5 / 5</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />➤ „… one anthem follows the other … with a nice dynamic and very neat choirs … a cinematic flight of fancy that could almost be called Hollywood Metal … Christofer Johnsson of Therion was not wrong, IMPERIAL AGE has a very great potential, and this third album proves it with flying colours … offering us Symphonic Metal at the highest level, which stands out strongly from the standards of the genre!“<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />(Rock Meeting)</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">90 / 100</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />➤ „There is no other band out there quite like IMPERIAL AGE … an epic, massive yet also beautiful fusion of Heavy Metal and bombastic Wagnerian classical music with catchy melodies that just instantly stick in your head, chugging riffs that will send you into a headbanging frenzy and a combination of male, female, Rock, operatic, choral and folky vocals will leave you breathless and in awe of the talent on display in this insanely excellent musical landscape of colossal proportions.“<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />(Darkzen Dragon)</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">9 / 10</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />➤ „… a pressing, powerful, intense, theatrical album: there is the power of the most exhilarating Power Metal, there is the deepest and most creative Therion, there is the most polished and exhilarating power synth Metal, there is an unparalleled theatricality…. something that very few bands, maybe none, dare to offer nowadays … indistinguishable overwhelming musical energy!“<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />(Metalhead IT)</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">8,9 / 10</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />➤ „… heavily influenced by Therion ’s tremendous symphonic pomposity … I’m sure the good ‚Rock ’n‘ Rolf‘ Kasparek would be proud of these guys … a victory … proof that every effort is rewarded …“<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />(The Dark Melody)</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">16 / 20</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />➤ „… the symphonic side is used here in a much more theatrical way than as a simple accompaniment … it’s easy to understand why IMPERIAL AGE caught the attention of Christofer Johnsson as there are so many similarities between them and Therion, both in the vocal performances, typical of opera, and in the tragic and dramatic side of the music … I was pleasantly surprised … could allow the band to rise to the first rank of Symphonic Metal bands …“<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />(French Metal)</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">8 / 10</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />➤ „… melodic-bombastic Symphonic Metal … accurately performed … especially the three voices of the band are convincing: Alexander Osipov (tenor) as well as Jane ‚Corn‘ Odintsova (mezzo-soprano) and Anna ‚KiaRa‘ Moiseeva (soprano). The interplay of the vocal section is quite impressive.“<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />(Metal DE)</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">8 / 10</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />➤ „… offers everything the Symphonic Metal heart desires and in addition extremely strong compositions and arrangements … varied … intense atmosphere … lots of dynamics … bombastic orchestrations … without failures …“<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />(Obliveon)</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">8 / 10</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />➤ „… much better than the two previous albums in terms of musical composition and production output. For those of you who like Power/Heavy Metal symphony music, IMPERIAL AGE offers all of that. By adding an orchestra, a majestic and elegant choir, with three tenors, mezzo-soprano and soprano, the band has a richer variety of music but still has a strong character and taste …“<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />(Metal Opera)</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">8 / 10</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />➤ „… stylistically more close to Therion, where symphonic embellishments, operatic vocal parts and a solemn atmosphere count … this is a big plus … IMPERIAL AGE have their own style and idea, and this is very much appreciated … played with flair and epic atmosphere … there is no lack of hits and interesting melodies … in the Symphonic Metal category this is one of the most important albums of 2022 …“<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />(Power Metal Warrior)</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">8 / 10</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />➤ „… a convincing and enjoyable album in a genre that is less and less represented in Power Metal …“<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />(Power Metal France)</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">78 / 100</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />➤ „… listens nicely and shows a more mature band … the fans will no doubt be pleased with this new record … the fast-paced tracks provide an energetic experience …“<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />(Metalfan NL)</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">7,5 / 10</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />➤ „… the new album is definitely worth listening to … the band has clearly found its place in the genre … those who like this kind of music will definitely find what they are looking for here … strong performance from a great band …“<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />(Rock Garage)</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Recommendation!</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />➤ „… quite a bit offered for fans of Symphonic Metal … varied … a few surprises … a lot of heart and soul … really big with orchestra … a lot of Metal … especially the fat choirs give the music something epic … partly reminiscent of typical Female Gothic/Symphonic Metal bands like Nightwish, Delain, etc., but also of early Therion works …“<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />(Amboss)</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;">➤ „… heavy (Metal) operatic sound … a standout force … operatic Wagnerian bombast … theatrical accolades … with an ear for cinematic drama … intelligent vocal melodies … over the top choruses … powerful … a solid portion of thrive and strut … intense appealing melodies … impressive vibe of uniqueness and extravagance … those taking time, will embrace this extraordinary band … IMPERIAL AGE indeed has no equal!“<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />(Headbangers Lifestyle)</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;">➤ „… great job … sounds really good … crisp … epic … phenomenal … very melodic … certainly stand out with this signature sound … really great … each song has his own identity … awesome symphonic brave sounding Metal … grand … bombastic …“<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />(Power Metal Ranger)</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;">➤ „… like a Metal opera … if you’re a Symphonic Metal fan, you’ll definitely, definitely going to love this album …“<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />(Metal Shop Steve)</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;">➤ „… holy shit … leaves me with an awe … I need more … I need all of it … absolutely amazing …“<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />(Play again?)</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;">➤ „… offers everything you expected and hoped for from Imperial Age … epic, bombastic, polyphonic, super harmonizing parts … solo parts, which put the individual voices in a classy way and really cool duets …“<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />(Dark-Art)</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;">➤ „… for Symphonic Metal fans this album is a real recommendation, because here you can find everything that makes this genre … catchy music, melodious vocals and a lot of epic background create a comfortable feeling while listening …“<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />(Metalmamas Neuigkeiten)</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;">➤ „… bright and clear … truly gives an high intensity … so many great scales … music and vocals from singer Alexander ‚Aor‘ Osipov is huge … like the sound of an adventure in a place never seen before … all sectors shoot through the roof … if you are already intrigued by the imaginative journey of Symphonic Metal, add IMPERIAL AGE and I am sure you will fall in love …“<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />(Noisewriter)</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;">➤ „Celtic and folk are definitely two of the directions IMPERIAL AGE explore, with ‚The Way Is The Aim‘ highlighting both – the vocals big enough to fill an opera house, with the audience stunned by their immense power … the band have so much presence, their style echoing a Metal symphony with an all encompassing sound that hooks you at every twist and turn.“<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />(Frenzy Fire)</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;">➤ „… their melodies stand out more than those of the demanding Therion … the symphonic arrangement is still strong and feels even more luxurious than on the previous work …“<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />(Piro Piro Metal)</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;">➤ „… IMPERIAL AGE detracts in no way from their predecessors Nightwish or Epica … great display (they must be impressive in concert), several and varied voices, metallers, epic, lyrical, assists, choirs …. and an orchestration typical of a great band … instrumentally they sound very good, well constructed songs and melodies in many cases that make you sing and enjoy with them … none of the vocals will leave you indifferent … fast, dynamic sounds full of emotion … it’s your turn to enjoy them!“<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />(Nada Hay Bajo El Sol)</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;">➤ „… very melodic but never dull … in structure reminded me of Therion: a solid metal base on top of which layers of orchestrations, vocal lines and choruses are laid down … depending on the moments they go from epic to dramatic, often achieving a soundtrack mood … the melodies stick with you from the first listen … just where ‚Leviathan‘ had failed: it is an album with a definite direction, with convincing and energetic pieces, without dips from beginning to end …“<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />(The Murder Inn)</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;">➤ „… epic … reaches the level of mastery we expect from Imperial Age … we have to acknowledge the hard work they had to do to release this album and how well they did it … the band has proven once again why they are one of the best of their style … a highly recommended work for any lover of the genre, and that, after everything they have been through in the last few years, is a triumph …“<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />(Track To Hell)</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;">etc.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><a href="https://facebook.com/imperialageofficial" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #9a2121; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;" target="_blank"></a><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></p><figure class="wp-block-image size-large" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px;"><a href="https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2022/11/image-7.png" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #9a2121; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;"><img alt="" class="wp-image-766" data-attachment-id="766" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-caption="" data-image-description="" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}" data-image-title="image-7" data-large-file="https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2022/11/image-7.png?w=200" data-medium-file="https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2022/11/image-7.png?w=200" data-orig-file="https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2022/11/image-7.png" data-orig-size="200,200" data-permalink="https://metalmessage.wordpress.com/2022/11/26/imperial-age-setting-out-for-new-shores/image-7-2/#main" sizes="(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px" src="https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2022/11/image-7.png?w=200" srcset="https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2022/11/image-7.png 200w, https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2022/11/image-7.png?w=150 150w" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: bottom;" /></a></figure><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;">[ Seal: Imperial Age ]</p></div>METAL MESSAGE ᴳᴸᴼᴮᴬᴸ • Est. 2001http://www.blogger.com/profile/00981847063724180231noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6262828619883574754.post-92006498259342092822022-11-26T02:55:00.000-08:002022-11-26T02:55:00.345-08:00<p> </p><header class="entry-header" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><h1 class="entry-title" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #283d4b; font-family: "Open Sans", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px 0px 0.67em; text-align: center;">Heavy Metal, straight from the pot! </h1></header><div class="entry-content" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 30px;"><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 1em 0px;"></p><figure class="wp-block-image" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/biwoband/" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #9a2121; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;" target="_blank"><img alt="" scale="0" src="https://www.metalmessage.de/artists/biwo/logo.jpg" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: bottom;" /></a></figure><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;"></p><div style="color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; text-align: center;">[ Logo: Sven Biwo ]<br /><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px;"><br /></span></div><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px;">Action: </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; font-weight: 700;">BIWO</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><a href="https://www.metalmessage.de/PR_BIWO_en.php" rel="nofollow" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #9a2121; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;">https://www.metalmessage.de/PR_BIWO_en.php</a><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><a href="https://www.facebook.com/biwoband/" rel="nofollow" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #9a2121; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;">https://www.facebook.com/biwoband/</a><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px;">Base: Castrop-Rauxel • Germany</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px;">Genre: </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; font-weight: 700;">Melodic Heavy Metal</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px;">Title: </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; font-weight: 700;">Life And Death</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px;">FFO: Wizard, Rebellion, early Majesty</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px;">Format: Album</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px;">Label: Independent</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px;">Release: Nov. 11, 2022<br /><br /></span><p></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 1em 0px;">Bulletpoints:</p><ul style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 40px;"><li style="box-sizing: border-box;">Refreshing debut album of a true idealist</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;">Straightforward, 100 % honest & all around spirited</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;">Timeless-classic Heavy Metal of the old school<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">BIWO</span> is available for <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">interviews</span> via <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">phone, Skype, Zoom & email</span> !<br /><br /><br /></li></ul><figure class="wp-block-image size-large" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px;"><a href="https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2022/11/image.png" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #9a2121; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;"><img alt="" class="wp-image-746" data-attachment-id="746" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-caption="" data-image-description="" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}" data-image-title="image" data-large-file="https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2022/11/image.png?w=700" data-medium-file="https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2022/11/image.png?w=300" data-orig-file="https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2022/11/image.png" data-orig-size="800,588" data-permalink="https://metalmessage.wordpress.com/2022/11/26/biwo-heavy-metal-straight-from-the-pot/image-7/#main" sizes="(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px" src="https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2022/11/image.png?w=800" srcset="https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2022/11/image.png 800w, https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2022/11/image.png?w=150 150w, https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2022/11/image.png?w=300 300w, https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2022/11/image.png?w=768 768w" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: bottom;" /></a></figure><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 1em 0px;">[ Pic: Pedyfotografie Fotoschmiede ]<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">LINE-UP:</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Sven Biwo</span> • Vocals & Guitar<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Finley • Guitar<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Justus • Bass<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Hanno • Drums<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />It is clear to hear that here is a musically thoroughly inspired genre fan ambitious at the start, who makes his real music for just such real fans – uncomplicated Heavy Metal brotherhood is there so very heavy!<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />The enormously varied and sustainably catchy songs breathe the unique, unused 80s spirit with delicious fervor and in such depth that you simply cannot escape the charm of <a href="https://www.facebook.com/biwoband/" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #9a2121; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;" target="_blank">BIWO</a> if you feel sincerely connected to the early Heavy Metal from that time.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Yes, we mean the very special time when the blessed and equally obscure GAMA Records released unforgettable records by top artists like Stormwitch, Veto and Tyran‘ Pace – and the scene cult around it grows with every year.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 1em 0px;">Self-promoting and giga-virtuoso orgies of perfection are therefore not at all what <a href="https://www.facebook.com/biwoband/" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #9a2121; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;" target="_blank">BIWO</a> is about, rather the eternally attractive underground is indulged in.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Single „Live Now“:<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><a href="https://youtu.be/uz3uCLY5DzQ" rel="nofollow" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #9a2121; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;">https://youtu.be/uz3uCLY5DzQ</a><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Mastermind <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Sven Biwo</span> explains „Live Now“:<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />„There are enough assholes in the world – people who want to pull you down. We invite you to forget all that shit for a moment. Live now – and do what you feel like doing! Because tomorrow might be too late. Don’t waste your time with negative stuff – grab a beer, raise your fist and shout it out loud!“</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 1em 0px;">And although bandleader Sven sees himself more as a soloing mainman with guest musicians, the result sounds damn organic, homogeneous and completely free of wear and tear. All songs on <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">„Life And Death“</span> were composed and recorded by Sven Biwo single-handedly. The mix and mastering were also done by master Biwo at Cubi Studios Bochum. The pleasantly idiosyncratic artwork is deliberately not an obligatory Photoshop bombardment – it comes from the brushes of Gudrun Müller.<br /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><a href="https://www.metalmessage.de/artists/biwo/cover.jpg" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #9a2121; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;" target="_blank"></a></p><figure class="wp-block-image size-large" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px;"><a href="https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2022/11/image-1.png" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #9a2121; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;"><img alt="" class="wp-image-749" data-attachment-id="749" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-caption="" data-image-description="" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}" data-image-title="image-1" data-large-file="https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2022/11/image-1.png?w=700" data-medium-file="https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2022/11/image-1.png?w=300" data-orig-file="https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2022/11/image-1.png" data-orig-size="800,800" data-permalink="https://metalmessage.wordpress.com/2022/11/26/biwo-heavy-metal-straight-from-the-pot/image-1-5/#main" sizes="(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px" src="https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2022/11/image-1.png?w=800" srcset="https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2022/11/image-1.png 800w, https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2022/11/image-1.png?w=150 150w, https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2022/11/image-1.png?w=300 300w, https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2022/11/image-1.png?w=768 768w" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: bottom;" /></a></figure><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 1em 0px;">[ Artwork: Gudrun Müller ]<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">TRACKS:</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />01. Live Now 04:20<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />02. Fountain Of Youth 04:04<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />03. Win This Fight 03:22<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />04. Mother Earth 08:36<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />05. Poor Boy 04:43<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />06. I 04:54<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />07. Alone In The Dark 04:11<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />08. Judgment Of The Gods 06:45</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 1em 0px;">total: 40:44 min.<br /><br /></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 1em 0px;"></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 1em 0px;">The idea for the band was born in January 2020 when Sven (guitar and vocals) and Justus (bass) met at a benefit concert. With Hanno (drums), whom Justus knew from his school days, a man for the kettles was then also found.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 1em 0px;">Shortly before the first rehearsal the pandemic came and with it the break for the formation. However, Sven took advantage of the creative break and began to transform the ideas into songs and to realize a finished album. The final touches were put on <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">„Life And Death“</span> in the summer of 2022, when the first real rehearsals began and the tracks were given a new shine in the rehearsal room. (Markus Eck)</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 1em 0px;"><br /></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Gentium Basic, Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif;"><span style="font-size: 20px;"><b>MEDIA FEEDBACK:</b></span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Gentium Basic, Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif;"><span style="font-size: 20px;">9 / 10<br /></span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px;">➤ "... has it mighty in itself ... melodic, classic heavy metal, down-to-earth and full of playing joy ... the straightforwardness stands out positively ... this kind of heavy metal is simply - simply ingenious ... additional or even superfluous gimmicks do not exist here ... a solid, melodious three-quarters of an hour of music at its best ... covers pretty much everything that makes the heart of every metal fan beat faster ..."</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px;">(Bleeding4Metal)</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Gentium Basic, Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif;"><span style="font-size: 20px;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Gentium Basic, Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif;"><span style="font-size: 20px;">8 / 10<br /></span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px;">➤ "The production is charmingly earthy and conveys a certain live feeling, because it doesn't come out of the speakers perfect and flawless, but has rough edges ... inevitably parallels to the early works of Stormwitch, Iron Maiden, Running Wild and Grave Digger come up, although Sven Biwo sings much more melodically than Rolf Kasparek or Chris Boltendahl .... an extremely likeable Heavy Metal debut, which will be played more often thanks to great melodies, a knack for cool compositions and a certain glow of nostalgia."</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px;">(Powermetal DE)</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Gentium Basic, Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif;"><span style="font-size: 20px;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Gentium Basic, Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif;"><span style="font-size: 20px;">7 / 10<br /></span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px;">➤ "... the vocals are pretty heavily layered, allowing for a faster lyrical delivery and some harmonized vocals in some areas ... the lead guitar work is pretty nice ... unpolished feel ... a good album ... the overall effect works ... there's a lot of promise for the future if they decide to keep this as a main project ..."</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px;">(Metal Temple)</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Gentium Basic, Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif;"><span style="font-size: 20px;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Gentium Basic, Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif;"><span style="font-size: 20px;">➤ "… an album with great musical ideas … when I listen to a track as 'Mother Earth' my mind flies away back to the 1980’s to the first Metal albums that I have listened to … the way the guitars are played address too much there. It’s possible to feel that feeling and heart are far beyond technique … guitar phrases are simple, but very effective and melodic … what I liked the most about 'Life And Death' is the nostalgia it brings and how it connects to the fresh sonancy BIWO deliver … I caught myself flying away with 'I' just remembering old songs I used to hear in my teens … has this incredible power of making us fly away with great joy …"<br /></span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px;">(Metal Addicts)</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Gentium Basic, Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif;"><span style="font-size: 20px;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Gentium Basic, Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif;"><span style="font-size: 20px;">➤ "… an instant melodic Heavy Metal classic! … sets the tone perfectly … the song is about not letting people hold you down, and doing what you feel like doing today … fans of old school Metal are gonna love this … and how about that hook in the chorus? … fantastic solo, too … positive message … great …"<br /></span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px;">(Wanna Hear A Great Song Today?)</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 1em 0px;">etc.</p></div>METAL MESSAGE ᴳᴸᴼᴮᴬᴸ • Est. 2001http://www.blogger.com/profile/00981847063724180231noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6262828619883574754.post-70768807559953183582022-09-06T05:32:00.000-07:002022-09-06T05:32:31.125-07:00<p> </p><header class="entry-header" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px;"><h1 class="entry-title" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #283d4b; font-family: "Open Sans", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px 0px 0.67em;"><a href="https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2022/09/image.png" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #9a2121; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;"><img alt="" class="wp-image-731" data-attachment-id="731" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-caption="" data-image-description="" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}" data-image-title="image" data-large-file="https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2022/09/image.png?w=300" data-medium-file="https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2022/09/image.png?w=300" data-orig-file="https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2022/09/image.png" data-orig-size="300,164" data-permalink="https://metalmessage.wordpress.com/2022/09/06/premortal-breath-from-the-depth-of-existence/image-6/#main" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" src="https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2022/09/image.png?w=300" srcset="https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2022/09/image.png 300w, https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2022/09/image.png?w=150 150w" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: bottom;" /></a></h1></header><div class="entry-content" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 30px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;">[ Logo: Very Metal Art ]</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;"><br /></span></p><h1 class="entry-title" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #283d4b; font-family: "Open Sans", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px 0px 0.67em;">From the depth of existence!</h1><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;"><br />MEDIA FEEDBACK:</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">8,5 / 10</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />➤ „The troupe from the Rhine-Neckar delta has almost surpassed itself in this respect.“<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />(Saitenkult)<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;">Action: <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">PREMORTAL BREATH</span> • https://www.facebook.com/PremortalBreath/<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Base: Baden-Wuerttemberg • Germany<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Genre: <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Heavy Metal</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Title: <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Of Angels And Wolves</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />FFO: Iced Earth, Disturbed, Avenged Sevenfold<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Format: EP<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Label: Independent<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Release: <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Sept. 10, 2022</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;"><img alt="🌐" class="emoji" draggable="false" role="img" src="https://s0.wp.com/wp-content/mu-plugins/wpcom-smileys/twemoji/2/svg/1f310.svg" style="background: none !important; border: none !important; box-shadow: none !important; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline !important; height: 1em !important; margin: 0px 0.07em !important; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px !important; vertical-align: -0.1em !important; width: 1em !important;" /> 𝙋𝙧𝙤𝙢𝙤 & 𝙋𝙍 Action:<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />𝗠𝗘𝗧𝗔𝗟 𝗠𝗘𝗦𝗦𝗔𝗚𝗘 ᴳᴸᴼᴮᴬᴸ • 𝐸𝓈𝓉. 2001<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><a href="https://www.metalmessage.de/PR_PREMORTAL_BREATH_en.php" rel="nofollow" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #9a2121; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;">https://www.metalmessage.de/PR_PREMORTAL_BREATH_en.php</a><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">PREMORTAL BREATH</span> are available for <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">interviews</span> via <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Phone, Skype, Zoom & email</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Bulletpoints:</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />• New, crisp EP from the guys from Baden-Wuerttemberg<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />• Massive material, powerful & fully emotional<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />• Beefy banging production, kettles mighty through<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/embed/KWo0EWqHfIA" rel="nofollow" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #9a2121; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;">https://www.youtube.com/embed/KWo0EWqHfIA</a><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />[ Official lyric video • Production: Very Metal Art ]</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/PremortalBreath/" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #9a2121; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;" target="_blank">PREMORTAL BREATH</a> comments on the track „Of Angels And Wolves“:<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />„Having had a quite challenging, yet wonderful childhood, our singer Tommy packed these lyrics with quite emotional memories. He wanted to achieve both. Appreciate everything his mom and his brother did for him during these difficult times as well as he just wanted to tell his father to go to hell. The band supported this project with purest dedication as the result speaks for itself.“</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/embed/zDVhjOBB1lI" rel="nofollow" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #9a2121; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;">https://www.youtube.com/embed/zDVhjOBB1lI</a><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />[ Official music video • Production: Very Metal Art ]</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;">The band comments on „But I’m Not Afraid“:<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />„The lyrics are purely fictional, but point directly to something you may know. So let’s take our minds on a journey and imagine that there are evil forces that have taken away precious people in your life – your wife and your children. You would promise, wouldn’t you? You would pursue these villains to death, even if it meant that you too would face your end. However, there will be no end until you get your revenge. In another time, another universe, or another life. Much like the movie ‚The Crow‘ that we mentioned and you may be familiar with.“<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/PremortalBreath/" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #9a2121; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;" target="_blank">PREMORTAL BREATH</a> is modern <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">HEAVY METAL</span> with a variety of influences combined into a melodic but hard whole.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;">Captivating guitar melodies, rousing choruses, spot-on drumming, grooving basslines and much, much more. All of these are just puzzle pieces in the bigger picture that is <a href="https://www.facebook.com/PremortalBreath/" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #9a2121; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;" target="_blank">PREMORTAL BREATH</a>. The multi-layered lyrics deal with topics like terrorism, psychological problems and the abysses of our society.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><a href="https://www.metalmessage.de/artists/premortal_breath/band.jpg" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #9a2121; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;" target="_blank"></a></p><figure class="wp-block-image size-large" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><a href="https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2022/09/image-1.png" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #9a2121; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;"><img alt="" class="wp-image-735" data-attachment-id="735" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-caption="" data-image-description="" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}" data-image-title="image-1" data-large-file="https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2022/09/image-1.png?w=700" data-medium-file="https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2022/09/image-1.png?w=300" data-orig-file="https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2022/09/image-1.png" data-orig-size="800,600" data-permalink="https://metalmessage.wordpress.com/2022/09/06/premortal-breath-from-the-depth-of-existence/image-1-4/#main" sizes="(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px" src="https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2022/09/image-1.png?w=800" srcset="https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2022/09/image-1.png 800w, https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2022/09/image-1.png?w=150 150w, https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2022/09/image-1.png?w=300 300w, https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2022/09/image-1.png?w=768 768w" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: bottom;" /></a></figure><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;">[ Pic: Premortal Breath ]</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">LINE-UP:</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Thomas ‚Tommy‘ Greulich • Vocals<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Sebastian ‚Seb‘ Herbold • Guitars<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Tobias ‚Tobbe‘ Eymer • Guitars<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Mathias ‚Matze‘ Ruppold • Bass<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Andreas ‚Andy‘ Reichard • Drums<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><a href="https://www.facebook.com/PremortalBreath/" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #9a2121; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;" target="_blank">PREMORTAL BREATH</a> was founded in 2010 by Thomas ‚Tommy‘ Greulich (vocals) and Thomas ‚Potti‘ Pettrich (drums). A first line-up was completed by Armin Rosen (guitar) and Tobias ‚Tobbe‘ Eymer (bass). Shortly after, two first songs were recorded at Beat House Studio.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;">After some changes in the line-up, the next stable line-up was completed by Dominik ‚Domme‘ Eymer (bass) and Sebastian ‚Seb‘ Herbold (guitar). In the meantime Tobias had switched to guitar, while singer and drummer remained the same. In 2014 the band recorded the first album „They“ in this line-up.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;">The line-up remained constant until 2016 when founding member and drummer Potti announced his departure to have more time for his family. Some time passed until Andreas ‚Andy‘ Reichard joined as a permanent member after having acted as a live drummer in the meantime.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;"><a href="https://www.metalmessage.de/artists/premortal_breath/cover.jpg" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #9a2121; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;" target="_blank"></a></p><figure class="wp-block-image size-large" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><a href="https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2022/09/image-2.png" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #9a2121; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;"><img alt="" class="wp-image-736" data-attachment-id="736" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-caption="" data-image-description="" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}" data-image-title="image-2" data-large-file="https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2022/09/image-2.png?w=700" data-medium-file="https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2022/09/image-2.png?w=300" data-orig-file="https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2022/09/image-2.png" data-orig-size="800,800" data-permalink="https://metalmessage.wordpress.com/2022/09/06/premortal-breath-from-the-depth-of-existence/image-2-4/#main" sizes="(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px" src="https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2022/09/image-2.png?w=800" srcset="https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2022/09/image-2.png 800w, https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2022/09/image-2.png?w=150 150w, https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2022/09/image-2.png?w=300 300w, https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2022/09/image-2.png?w=768 768w" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: bottom;" /></a></figure><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;">[ Artwork: Very Metal Art ]</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">TRACKS:</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />01. Circle 04:18<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />02. Of Angels And Wolves 04:44<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />03. But I’m Not Afraid (feat. Stu Block) 03:37<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />04. Wordless 04:27<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />05. Hourglass 04:23<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />06. Fuck My Brain 05:23<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />07. Spartan (Bonus Track) 03:24</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;">total: 30:25 min.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Full of energy and creativity, the formation recorded the second work „Monsters“ in spring 2018. 2021 brought with it the departure of longtime bassist Domme as well as the arrival of Matthias ‚Matze‘ Ruppel, who is now responsible for the low frequencies.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;">The pandemic had caused many plans to be put on hold, so <a href="https://www.facebook.com/PremortalBreath/" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #9a2121; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;" target="_blank">PREMORTAL BREATH</a> were euphoric to revisit Empire Studios in 2022 to record the new release <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">„Of Angels And Wolves“</span>.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">DISCOGRAPHY:</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />2014 • They • Full-length<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />2018 • Monsters • EP<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />2022 • Of Angels And Wolves • EP</p></div>METAL MESSAGE ᴳᴸᴼᴮᴬᴸ • Est. 2001http://www.blogger.com/profile/00981847063724180231noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6262828619883574754.post-8484143738389998952022-06-28T03:59:00.005-07:002022-06-28T03:59:45.057-07:00<p> </p><header class="entry-header" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px;"><h1 class="entry-title" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #283d4b; font-family: "Open Sans", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px 0px 0.67em;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/eufobia/" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="border-radius: inherit; box-sizing: border-box; color: #9a2121; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;" target="_blank"><img alt="" src="https://www.metalmessage.de/artists/eufobia/logo.jpg" style="border-radius: inherit; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: bottom;" /></a></h1></header><div class="entry-content" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 30px;"><p class="has-text-align-left" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; margin: 1em 0px;">[ Logo: Costin Chioreaun ]<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;"><br />MEDIA FEEDBACK:</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; margin: 1em 0px;">►► Madness • Album • 2022 ◄◄</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">8 / 10</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />➤ „… very well produced, with a balanced sound, containing 10 nervous Melodic Death Metal tracks … with constant vocal battles, a rhythm section that works clockwise, and heavy guitar solos … without a doubt the best album that EUFOBIA has released thus far …“<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />(Bloody News)</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">8 / 10</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />➤ „… are fit on their instruments … technically skilled … I hope that EUFOBIA will get a bit more recognition beyond their national borders, because they can easily keep up with today’s big bands! The potential is definitely there.“<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />(Crossfire)</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; margin: 1em 0px;">➤ „… the ten songs sound varied and skillfully manage to combine harmony and chaos, rhythmic and well composed … I was overwhelmed on first listen by this mix of styles and influences woven in from all over … EUFOBIA does not leave us on the surface of uniformity and familiarity …“<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />(Metal Hangar 18)</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; margin: 1em 0px;">➤ „… a really damn good band … frigging good album … mixes flawlessly both great influences that formed the root of Melodic Death Metal … breathtaking with its Thrashesque guitar riffing and bass lines … to listen loud, but very loud …“<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />(Metal Addicts)<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />etc.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-weight: 700;">Bulletpoints:</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span style="font-family: Gentium Basic, Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif;">• New & third album of the Bulgarian Death Metallers</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span style="font-family: Gentium Basic, Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif;">• Content exciting nuclear war end time concept</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span style="font-family: Gentium Basic, Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif;">• Also visually lavishly staged</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="color: #283d4b; font-size: 40px;"><b><span style="font-family: times;">Towards the madness of the world!</span></b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; margin: 1em 0px;">Mighty and threatening thunders from the Bulgarian capital Sofia … fatal cause:<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><a href="https://www.facebook.com/Eufobia/" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #9a2121; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;" target="_blank">EUFOBIA</a> hail with their important third studio album brute and martial in the ears! This extremely determined disc is clearly created with gallons of the most rebellious heart and with immense compositional joy. And you can clearly hear the massive further development of the <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">THRASH DEATH METAL</span> troupe.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; margin: 1em 0px;"></p><figure class="wp-block-image size-large" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; margin: 0px;"><a href="https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2022/06/image-4.png" style="border-radius: inherit; box-sizing: border-box; color: #9a2121; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;"><img alt="" class="wp-image-725" data-attachment-id="725" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-caption="" data-image-description="" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}" data-image-title="image-4" data-large-file="https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2022/06/image-4.png?w=700" data-medium-file="https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2022/06/image-4.png?w=300" data-orig-file="https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2022/06/image-4.png" data-orig-size="800,717" data-permalink="https://metalmessage.wordpress.com/2022/06/28/eufobia-towards-the-madness-of-the-world/image-4-2/#main" sizes="(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px" src="https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2022/06/image-4.png?w=800" srcset="https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2022/06/image-4.png 800w, https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2022/06/image-4.png?w=150 150w, https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2022/06/image-4.png?w=300 300w, https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2022/06/image-4.png?w=768 768w" style="border-radius: inherit; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: bottom;" /></a></figure><p class="has-text-align-center" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; margin: 1em 0px; text-align: center;">[ Artwork: Val Volegna • 12 DROPS Design ]<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></p><p class="has-text-align-center" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; margin: 1em 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">TRACKS:</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />01. Madness 03.54<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />02. Facing The Firing Squad 03.26<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />03. Wolf Among The Sheep 03.38<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />04. Messiah 03.49<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />05. Those Who Believe 03.12<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />06. Burning Streets 02.46<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />07. Use Your Head 03.12<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />08. Liberation 03.07<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />09. The Establishment 04.59<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />10. Animal Farm 04.01</p><p class="has-text-align-center" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; margin: 1em 0px; text-align: center;">total: 36.08 min.</p><p class="has-text-align-left" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; margin: 1em 0px;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Fact is: absolute artistic openness prevails here in all conceivable musical matters. Contemporary baptized with the programmatic and socially apt album title <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">„Madness“</span>, these indomitable hell souls reveal the successful striving for artistic identity. Fortunately successful: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/Eufobia/" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #9a2121; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;" target="_blank">EUFOBIA</a> show on their ’new‘ a very own face!</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; margin: 1em 0px;">Outstanding specialty of the much-cursing death horde in all their new creations: brutally aggressive, technically adept and really fat guitar assaults! Heaps of razor-sharp riff canonades are to be experienced, which not infrequently ignite as quickly as a giant tank filled to the brim with fresh kerosene.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; margin: 1em 0px;">And also with their capably handled lead axe, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/Eufobia/" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #9a2121; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;" target="_blank">EUFOBIA</a> conjure wonderfully massive earworm moments out of the boxes again and again. Remarkably fit in instrumental interplay, noticeably skilled in the passes and with gigantic enthusiasm at the start, the flaming world critic quartet stands out from many competitors with its new furious output.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><a href="https://www.metalmessage.de/artists/eufobia/band4.jpg" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #9a2121; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;" target="_blank"></a></p><figure class="wp-block-image size-large" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; margin: 0px;"><a href="https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2022/06/image-3.png" style="border-radius: inherit; box-sizing: border-box; color: #9a2121; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;"><img alt="" class="wp-image-723" data-attachment-id="723" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-caption="" data-image-description="" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}" data-image-title="image-3" data-large-file="https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2022/06/image-3.png?w=700" data-medium-file="https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2022/06/image-3.png?w=300" data-orig-file="https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2022/06/image-3.png" data-orig-size="800,772" data-permalink="https://metalmessage.wordpress.com/2022/06/28/eufobia-towards-the-madness-of-the-world/image-3-3/#main" sizes="(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px" src="https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2022/06/image-3.png?w=800" srcset="https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2022/06/image-3.png 800w, https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2022/06/image-3.png?w=150 150w, https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2022/06/image-3.png?w=300 300w, https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2022/06/image-3.png?w=768 768w" style="border-radius: inherit; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: bottom;" /></a></figure><p class="has-text-align-center" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; margin: 1em 0px; text-align: center;">[ EUFOBIA 2022 • Pic: Mariyan Tomov ]<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">LINE-UP:</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Niki • Guitar, Vocals<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Ivan • Guitar<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Steff • Bass, Vocals<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Blago • Drums & Vocals<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; margin: 1em 0px;">Performing with martial and at all times confidently hewn rhythmic earthquakes, the truly bone-crunching and edgy drum work on this superbly crafted release is by no means left behind either:<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />for the drumsticks of the fierce rhythm kettle-keeper Blago hammer on his cauldrons as fast and nimbly as gigantic, ultra-heavy demolition hammers.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; margin: 1em 0px;">In addition, the sinister Balkan flails fire razor-sharp words in the most authentic and truthful way on their new output with welcome provocations:<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />biting lyrics straight from the dirty and dusty street. Singer and guitar monster Niki doesn’t give a damn about compromises in content and fights on <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">„Madness“</span> with incredibly effective and uncompromising throat attacks.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; margin: 1em 0px;">With <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">„Madness“</span> <a href="https://www.facebook.com/Eufobia/" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #9a2121; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;" target="_blank">EUFOBIA</a> show the worldwide rest of the scene that even nowadays it is still efficiently possible to hammer acutely into the epicenter of the Death Metal profession with a lot of self-confidence and burning fervor. (Markus Eck)<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><a href="https://www.facebook.com/Eufobia/" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #9a2121; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;" target="_blank">EUFOBIA</a> has produced a new music video for the title song <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">„Madness“</span>, which is the first single of their third album. The video was created by Val Volegna of 12 Drops Design. The lead role is played by the Bulgarian model Maria Georgieva. The story of the video is about a group of survivors in a world, which has been destroyed by a nuclear war, who try to save a girl trapped in a radioactively contaminated area:<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/embed/6zOHQUoeuT0" rel="nofollow" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #9a2121; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;">https://www.youtube.com/embed/6zOHQUoeuT0</a><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />[ Madness • Music Video ]<br /><br /></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; margin: 1em 0px;"><a href="https://www.metalmessage.de/artists/eufobia/band3.jpg" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #9a2121; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;" target="_blank"></a></p><figure class="wp-block-image size-large" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; margin: 0px;"><a href="https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2022/06/image-5.png" style="border-radius: inherit; box-sizing: border-box; color: #9a2121; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;"><img alt="" class="wp-image-726" data-attachment-id="726" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-caption="" data-image-description="" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}" data-image-title="image-5" data-large-file="https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2022/06/image-5.png?w=700" data-medium-file="https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2022/06/image-5.png?w=300" data-orig-file="https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2022/06/image-5.png" data-orig-size="800,801" data-permalink="https://metalmessage.wordpress.com/2022/06/28/eufobia-towards-the-madness-of-the-world/image-5-2/#main" sizes="(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px" src="https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2022/06/image-5.png?w=800" srcset="https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2022/06/image-5.png 800w, https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2022/06/image-5.png?w=150 150w, https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2022/06/image-5.png?w=300 300w, https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2022/06/image-5.png?w=768 768w" style="border-radius: inherit; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: bottom;" /></a></figure><p class="has-text-align-center" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; margin: 1em 0px; text-align: center;">[ EUFOBIA 2022 • Pic: Mariyan Tomov ]</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; margin: 1em 0px;"></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;"><br /><br />DISCOGRAPHY:</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />2010 • Insemination • EP<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />2011 • Cup Of Mud • Full-length<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />2016 • Liquid Of Creation • Single<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />2016 • Eufobia • Full-length<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />2022 • Madness • Full-length<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />PR: 𝗠𝗘𝗧𝗔𝗟 𝗠𝗘𝗦𝗦𝗔𝗚𝗘 ᴳᴸᴼᴮᴬᴸ<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><a href="https://www.metalmessage.de/PR_EUFOBIA_en.php" rel="nofollow" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #9a2121; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;">https://www.metalmessage.de/PR_EUFOBIA_en.php</a><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">EUFOBIA</span> are available for <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">interviews</span> via phone, Skype, Zoom & email</p></div>METAL MESSAGE ᴳᴸᴼᴮᴬᴸ • Est. 2001http://www.blogger.com/profile/00981847063724180231noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6262828619883574754.post-3226294444265870482022-05-23T05:05:00.003-07:002022-05-23T05:05:15.120-07:00<p> </p><header class="entry-header" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px;"><h1 class="entry-title" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #283d4b; font-family: "Open Sans", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px 0px 0.67em;">80’s, 80’s and again 80’s!</h1></header><div class="entry-content" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 30px;"><figure class="wp-block-image" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/officialimpactband/" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="border-radius: inherit; box-sizing: border-box; color: #9a2121; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;" target="_blank"><img alt="" src="https://www.metalmessage.de/artists/impact/logo.jpg" style="border-radius: inherit; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: bottom;" /></a></figure><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;">[ Logo: Ian Hendrik ]<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Bulletpoints:</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />• New top single of the superb Heavy Rockers<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />• Outstanding musicianship with all-round class<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />• A song that inevitably goes immediately into the ear</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/embed/k3QMF4TGV8Q" rel="nofollow" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #9a2121; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;">https://www.youtube.com/embed/k3QMF4TGV8Q</a><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />[ Music Video • Hometown • Production: Dan Ringer ]<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><a href="https://www.facebook.com/officialimpactband/" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #9a2121; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;" target="_blank">IMPACT</a> announce on <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">„Hometown“</span>:<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />„‚Hometown‘ is the epitome of a blues-inspired, future Hard Rock classic. A killer riff leads into the song, which tells a story about a love affair and a hate relationship. The protagonist longs to leave his dreary and boring hometown to travel the world and its seven seas, but is still deeply rooted in his birthplace. Big 80’s Rock drums, a Mutt Lange vocal production and hard-hitting guitars are the ingredients for an anthem for travellers, assuring them that there will always be a place called ‚home.'“<br /><br /></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;"></p><figure class="wp-block-image" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><a href="https://www.metalmessage.de/artists/impact/cover.jpg" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="border-radius: inherit; box-sizing: border-box; color: #9a2121; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;" target="_blank"><img alt="" src="https://www.metalmessage.de/artists/impact/cover_th.jpg" style="border-radius: inherit; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: bottom;" /></a></figure><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;">[ Artwork: Ian Hendrik ]</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;"><br />With the new single <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">„Hometown“</span> these hungry top artists deliver crisp and fatally catchy <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">HEAVY ROCK</span> at its best!<br /><br /></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;"><a href="https://www.metalmessage.de/artists/impact/band.jpg" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #9a2121; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;" target="_blank"></a><a href="https://www.metalmessage.de/artists/impact/band.jpg" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #9a2121; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;" target="_blank"></a></p><figure class="wp-block-image" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><a href="https://www.metalmessage.de/artists/impact/band.jpg" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="border-radius: inherit; box-sizing: border-box; color: #9a2121; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;" target="_blank"><img alt="" src="https://www.metalmessage.de/artists/impact/band_th.jpg" style="border-radius: inherit; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: bottom;" /></a></figure><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />[ Pic: Impact ]</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;"><br />LINE-UP:</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Ian Hendrik • Drums, Backing Vocals, Keyboards<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Morris Ramon • Lead Guitar<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Joe Hanson • Lead Vocals<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Danny F. • Rhythm Guitar<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Dan Ringer • Bass</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;"></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;"><br />DISCOGRAPHY:</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />We Want Out • Single • 2020<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Faster’N’Higher • Single • 2021<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Initial Impact • Full-length • 2021<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />All In • Single • 2021<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Hometown • Single • 20<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></p><figure class="wp-block-image" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">IMPACT</span> are available for <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">interviews</span> via <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">phone, Skype, Zoom & email</span></figure><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;">FB: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/officialimpactband/" rel="nofollow" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #9a2121; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;">https://www.facebook.com/officialimpactband/</a><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />PR:<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><a href="https://www.metalmessage.de/PR_IMPACT_en.php" rel="nofollow" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #9a2121; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;">https://www.metalmessage.de/PR_IMPACT_en.php</a></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">FLASHBACK</span>:<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><a href="https://www.facebook.com/officialimpactband/" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #9a2121; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;" target="_blank">IMPACT</a> is a traditional Heavy Metal line-up formed in early 2020 by drummer Ian Hendrik, Morris Ramon and Danny F. on guitars and bassist Dan Ringer. With thundering drums, in- your-face guitars and screaming vocals they reignite the sound of 80s Heavy Metal. In their own songs influenced by bands from the Monsters Of Rock time like Metallica and Judas Priest they critically review the society, scream for freedom and talk about the cliché trio: Sex, Drugs and Rock’n’Roll.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;">After their founding in February 2020 the band put out their first single called „We Want Out“ in August of 2020. The song was written by guitarist Danny and Drummer Ian Hendrik who also took in the place of lead singer for that particular release as the band was still looking for a lead singer back then. The according music video gained international success and critically reviews the decisions made by the government regarding the Covid-19 pandemic.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;">Due to the Covid-19 restrictions the band only managed to play one live show in summer of 2020. Fronting the band at this very show was guest singer Joe Hanson who had been in the local rock scene for quite some years. As the concert with Joe Hanson was just a one-off at this point the band started to actively look for a lead singer.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/officialimpactband/" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #9a2121; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;" target="_blank">IMPACT</a> sorted that position with Markus Winkler in September 2020 and started writing songs for their first album. The head role in the process of writing was taken by guitarist Morris Ramon and Drummer and producer Ian Hendrik who knew each other from a previous band project. They equally contributed to writing the music, however Ian Hendrik took the main part in writing lyrics. Danny and Dan Ringer also put their own unique style to the songs which makes up the instrumental section of Impact. Over time it became clear that Markus had a great voice but wasn’t the sort of Heavy Metal Singer the band was looking for.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;">Although the band was now without a singer they started to record the first studio album in January of 2021 at Savage Sound in Bavaria, Germany. About six weeks into the recording process and most of the basic tracks done the band figured why not ask their good friend Joe Hanson to exclusively sing on the album. As it has always been a dream for Joe Hanson to sometime record an album featuring himself on vocals he quickly decided to take the job.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;">After all the drums were hammered in, Dan Ringer finished to shake the ground with his thundering bass, Danny nailed all the rhythm guitar parts, Morris Ramon made poetry out of every note in his solos and Joe Hanson had his last scream the album was mixed by Ian Hendrik who happens to be a Music Production student in London. After all the recordings sounded the way the band imagined them, they had a very last listen before sending them off to mastering. In that very listening session Joe Hanson asked the band if the offer to join the band as a full member still existed. From that point on the band had finally sorted their full lineup. The tracks were then sent off to Metropolis Studios in London where they had been mastered by none other than legendary mastering engineer Andy ‚Hippy‘ Baldwin who already put his magic touch on bands like The Who, Oasis and Faith No More.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;">When the band got back the final masters they were all simply blown away by the sheer power. They started promoting the album which was going to be released on the 9th of July 2021 and was going to be called INITIAL IMPACT. On June 25th, in advance to the album, the band released the single „Faster’n’Higher“ which gave the world of Rock and Metal the first glimpse of what can now be heard on INITIAL IMPACT. The song was immediately featured in a British newcomer radio show by Martin Jones the week after. The according music video quickly gained over 2.000 views in just under three weeks. With the backup of that ongoing success the band finally released their first full studio album on Friday the 9th of July 2021 at 6pm CET. A release party was held at the bands local pub called „Kings Road Pub“ and they were all simply blown away by the amount of people that turned up. <a href="https://www.facebook.com/officialimpactband/" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #9a2121; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;" target="_blank">IMPACT</a> managed to pay off all the CDs they ordered in one single day. Since the album was released the band kept promoting their debut long player and managed to get over 5.000 streams in just over 10 days, from 1.500 listeners in over 50 countries on Spotify alone.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;">One week later on Friday, July the 16th the band released their second music video supporting the album for the song „Voices Of The Night“. The song features UK rock veteran Dale Radcliffe from the power formation COP UK (Crimes Of Passion) on lead vocals. He immediately joined the project after Ian Hendrik asked him back in May 2021 as he had met him in a beer garden in Germany a few years back where he mistakenly thought Dale was also a fan attending the concert in town.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;">However, the band managed to play their headline stage debut on September the 25th, 2021 in front of their hometown crowd and their beloved pub. The concert was planned very spontaneously, so the band was worried about playing in front of cockroaches only, but the concert became to be a full success. Around 550 people showed up for their first show. With the massive support from fans all around the world the band went straight back to writing new material and released their follow-up single „All In“ on December the 17th, 2021.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;">As due to the government regulations to control the outspread of Covid-19, it was still impossible to play gigs, so once again the band got back to writing. The first result of that work is the song <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">„Hometown“</span> predominately written by drummer Ian Hendrik, in which he expresses his love- hate relationship with his hometown Dillingen. The song has been released as a single with a music video on Friday the 13th, 2022 at 6pm CET and offers the first chance to taste the power of the upcoming album, which the band is currently working on.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;">With the regulations easing of as well, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/officialimpactband/" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #9a2121; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;" target="_blank">IMPACT</a> is back to playing live on a regular basis and played their first show in 2022 at the Phoenix in Schwäbisch Gmünd, Germany. Parallel to playing gigs every weekend the writing process for the new album is almost completed and recordings are planned to start in May 2022. A name for the album or a release date hasn’t been found yet.</p></div>METAL MESSAGE ᴳᴸᴼᴮᴬᴸ • Est. 2001http://www.blogger.com/profile/00981847063724180231noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6262828619883574754.post-70189712986535760952022-04-01T04:51:00.002-07:002022-04-01T04:51:29.711-07:00<p><br /></p><header class="entry-header" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px;"><h1 class="entry-title" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #283d4b; font-family: "Open Sans", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px 0px 0.67em; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Traditional Heavy Metal <br />thunderstorm!</h1><br /></header><div class="entry-content" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 30px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"></p><figure class="wp-block-image size-large is-resized" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><a href="https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2022/04/image.png" style="border-radius: inherit; box-sizing: border-box; color: #9a2121; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;"><img alt="" class="wp-image-701" data-attachment-id="701" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-caption="" data-image-description="" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}" data-image-title="image" data-large-file="https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2022/04/image.png?w=300" data-medium-file="https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2022/04/image.png?w=300" data-orig-file="https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2022/04/image.png" data-orig-size="300,150" data-permalink="https://metalmessage.wordpress.com/image-4/" height="245" loading="lazy" sizes="(max-width: 490px) 100vw, 490px" src="https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2022/04/image.png?w=300" srcset="https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2022/04/image.png 300w, https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2022/04/image.png?w=150 150w" style="border-radius: inherit; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: bottom;" width="490" /></a><figcaption style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 0.5em;">Logo: Stefanie Mader</figcaption></figure><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Band: <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">BÖLLVERK</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Base: Aschaffenburg • Deutschland<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Genre: <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Heavy Metal</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Title: Heading For The Crown<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />FFO: Warlock, Running Wild, Accept<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Format: Album<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Label: Independent<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Release: <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">April 22, 2022</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Bulletpoints:</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />• Debut album of the talented old school Heavy Metallers<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />• Pithy, refreshing, powerful-teutonic material<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />• Top songs, absolute whiz-bang potential<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Lyric video • <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">„Heading For The Crown“</span>:<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><a href="https://youtu.be/oqKxWlIGK-k" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #9a2121; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;">https://youtu.be/oqKxWlIGK-k</a><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;"><br /></span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/Boellverk/" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #9a2121; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;" target="_blank">BÖLLVERK</a> explain the thematic background to the album title track „Heading For The Crown“:<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />„It’s about our beloved regular pub, which is called ‚The Crown‘. So album and song title have a double meaning – we want to go straight to the regular pub! But also to the top of the genre! And finally to put on the crown, which colloquially also means to pour one’s own joie de vivre exuberantly with deliciously cool barley brew“.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">When the three friends Raphi (guitar), Zahn (vocals, guitar) and Markus (drums) formed the band <a href="https://www.facebook.com/Boellverk/" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #9a2121; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;" target="_blank">BÖLLVERK</a> in May 2018, this fortunate circumstance marked the initial spark for a quite enormous revitalization of the German Heavy Metal guild!<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />The three playful enthusiasts quickly wrote their first own songs, and the common favourite direction crystallised out very quickly: core-traditional and above all fundamentally honest <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">HEAVY METAL</span> with a damn iconic 80s touch!<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></p><figure class="wp-block-image size-large" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><a href="https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2022/04/image-2.png" style="border-radius: inherit; box-sizing: border-box; color: #9a2121; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;"><img alt="" class="wp-image-705" data-attachment-id="705" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-caption="" data-image-description="" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}" data-image-title="image-2" data-large-file="https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2022/04/image-2.png?w=700" data-medium-file="https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2022/04/image-2.png?w=271" data-orig-file="https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2022/04/image-2.png" data-orig-size="800,885" data-permalink="https://metalmessage.wordpress.com/image-2-2/" sizes="(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px" src="https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2022/04/image-2.png?w=800" srcset="https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2022/04/image-2.png 800w, https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2022/04/image-2.png?w=136 136w, https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2022/04/image-2.png?w=271 271w, https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2022/04/image-2.png?w=768 768w" style="border-radius: inherit; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: bottom;" /></a><figcaption style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 0.5em;">[ Pic: Franzi Zahn ]</figcaption></figure><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">LINE-UP:</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Svenja • Vocals<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Zahn • Guitar, Vocals<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Raphi • Guitar<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Tim • Bass<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Angelo • Drums<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br />From September 2018, bass player Sense completed the line-up. The very first live shows were played and received great feedback from the audience. With this momentum, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/Boellverk/" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #9a2121; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;" target="_blank">BÖLLVERK</a> entered the studio in autumn 2019 to record the first demo „Let’s Ride Till Dawn“. It was released on March 6, 2020 and received good reviews from the press and fans.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Unfortunately, due to the lockdown at the time, the CD could not be promoted on the stages. During the worldwide misery of the global pandemic, however, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/Boellverk/" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #9a2121; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;" target="_blank">BÖLLVERK</a> by no means stood still.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Personnel changes were also managed with determination, whereby the stylistic directness always remained completely the same. The <a href="https://www.facebook.com/Boellverk/" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #9a2121; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;" target="_blank">BÖLLVERK</a> rhythm section was re-staffed with Angelo (drums) and Tim on bass.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">And Svenja as a promising new singer raises the solid musical foundation to an even higher level with her enormously powerful and distinctive voice.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></p><figure class="wp-block-image size-large" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><a href="https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2022/04/image-3.png" style="border-radius: inherit; box-sizing: border-box; color: #9a2121; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;"><img alt="" class="wp-image-706" data-attachment-id="706" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-caption="" data-image-description="" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}" data-image-title="image-3" data-large-file="https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2022/04/image-3.png?w=700" data-medium-file="https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2022/04/image-3.png?w=300" data-orig-file="https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2022/04/image-3.png" data-orig-size="800,800" data-permalink="https://metalmessage.wordpress.com/image-3-2/" sizes="(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px" src="https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2022/04/image-3.png?w=800" srcset="https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2022/04/image-3.png 800w, https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2022/04/image-3.png?w=150 150w, https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2022/04/image-3.png?w=300 300w, https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2022/04/image-3.png?w=768 768w" style="border-radius: inherit; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: bottom;" /></a><figcaption style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 0.5em;">[ Artwork: Basti Kraus ]</figcaption></figure><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">TRACKS:</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />01. Ask The Angel, Listen To The Devil (06:05)<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />02. Let’s Ride Till Dawn (03:27)<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />03. Good Morning Rock’n’Roll (04:25)<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />04. Heading For The Crown (04:49)<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />05. The 7th No (IS A KO) (04:37)<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />06. Master Of Thunder (06:26)<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />07. Live Fast (04:20)<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />08. Next Level Of Service (03:56)<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />09. Someday We Will Die (05:50)</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">total: 44:07 min.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><br />With this new line-up, the fantastic debut album <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">„Heading For The Crown“</span> was recorded.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">The experienced Rolf Munkes is responsible for the crisp and deliciously kicking overall sound with his Empire Studio, who is also known in the scene as the axeman of Crematory.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">The old school-addicted battlevest banger fraction can expect refreshingly pure, wonderfully powerful and teutonically forged Heavy Metal material in the gloriously timeless style of early Accept, Warlock & Running Wild!<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">DISCOGRAPHY:</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />2020 • Let’s Ride Till Dawn • EP<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />2022 • Heading For The Crown • Full-length<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">MEDIA FEEDBACK:</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">►► Heading For The Crown • Album • 2022 ◄◄</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">8 / 10</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />➤ „… dynamically powerful Old School Heavy Metal … strongly staged … with the guitar work of Raphi and Zahn classic Judas Priest mood comes up, Svenja and Zahn in the duet go far out … also technically and by the wonderful production ‚Heading For The Crown‘ can be called a huge leap forward, so that every Old School Metalfan must get something out of this album. …“<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />(Rock Castle Franken)</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">7,5 / 10</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />➤ „… traditional old-school … with double-bass, lots of steam and anthemic choruses … the new front witch does her job really well … comparisons to Judas Priest and Running Wild (musically) as well as Zed Yago, Velvet Viper and Crystal Viper (vocally) open up … this is new Heavy Metal, which is not too retro and too cheap for me, but sounds fresh and unspent … very cool!“<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />(Crossfire)</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">➤ „… good old school 80s Heavy Metal, with kicking guitar solos …“<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />(The Bible Of Metal)<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />etc.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />PR:<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><a href="https://www.metalmessage.de/Promotion_BOLLVERK_en.php" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #9a2121; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;" target="_blank">https://www.metalmessage.de/Promotion_BOLLVERK_en.php</a><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">BÖLLVERK</span> is available for <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">interviews</span> via <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">phone, Skype, Zoom & email</span></p></div>METAL MESSAGE ᴳᴸᴼᴮᴬᴸ • Est. 2001http://www.blogger.com/profile/00981847063724180231noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6262828619883574754.post-58254756650939768842022-03-28T04:05:00.002-07:002022-03-28T04:07:17.121-07:00<p> </p><header class="entry-header" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><h1 class="entry-title" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #283d4b; font-family: "Open Sans", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px 0px 0.67em; overflow-wrap: break-word;">PRIOR THE END • Beständig im Wandel!</h1></header><div class="entry-content" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 30px;"><figure class="wp-block-image size-large" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><a href="https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2022/03/image.png" style="border-radius: inherit; box-sizing: border-box; color: #9a2121; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;"><img alt="" class="wp-image-688" data-attachment-id="688" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-caption="" data-image-description="" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}" data-image-title="image" data-large-file="https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2022/03/image.png?w=300" data-medium-file="https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2022/03/image.png?w=273" data-orig-file="https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2022/03/image.png" data-orig-size="300,330" data-permalink="https://metalmessage.wordpress.com/image/" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" src="https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2022/03/image.png?w=300" srcset="https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2022/03/image.png 300w, https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2022/03/image.png?w=136 136w, https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2022/03/image.png?w=273 273w" style="border-radius: inherit; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: bottom;" /></a></figure><p class="has-text-align-left" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 1em 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">[ Logo: Prior The End ]<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />PR Aktion: <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">PRIOR THE END</span> • <a href="https://www.facebook.com/priortheend" target="_blank">https://www.facebook.com/priortheend</a><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Basis: Rohrbach • Deutschland<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Genre: <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Alternative Metal</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Titel: Cutting My Roots<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />FFO: System Of A Down, Mastodon, Thrice<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Format: Album<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Label: <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Timezone Records</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Release: <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">13. Mai 2022</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 1em 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/embed/l0HmP6-WC9s" rel="nofollow" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #9a2121; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;">https://www.youtube.com/embed/l0HmP6-WC9s</a><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />[ Musikvideo • „Trespassing In Sanity“ ]</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 1em 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Die Band zum thematischen Inhalt von <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">„Trespassing In Sanity“</span>:<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />„Gefangen zwischen den Identitäten aus Vergangenheit und Zukunft. ‚Trespassing In Sanity‘ wird zum Soundtrack der Pandemie, welche die Welt der Kultur auf der Stelle treten lässt. Ein Befreiungsschlag mit Blick auf hellere Zeiten.“<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><a href="https://www.facebook.com/priortheend" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #9a2121; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;" target="_blank">PRIOR THE END</a> stehen seit ihrer Gründung 2013 für Energie, Emotion und beständigen Wandel.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 1em 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Verwurzelt in der harten Rock-Musik erhebt das Hallertauer Quintett hohe Ansprüche an stilistische Vielfalt und kompositorische Spannung.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 1em 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Nach ihrer Etablierung in der Lokalszene und gemeinsamen Konzerten u.a. mit Evergreen Terrace und Napoleon veröffentlichte die Band um Sänger Alexander Weiß im Sommer 2016 das Konzeptalbum „The Worst Is Yet To Come“ bei Timezone Records.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></p><figure class="wp-block-image size-large" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><a href="https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2022/03/image-2.png" style="border-radius: inherit; box-sizing: border-box; color: #9a2121; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;"><img alt="" class="wp-image-692" data-attachment-id="692" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-caption="" data-image-description="" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}" data-image-title="image-2" data-large-file="https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2022/03/image-2.png?w=700" data-medium-file="https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2022/03/image-2.png?w=300" data-orig-file="https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2022/03/image-2.png" data-orig-size="800,640" data-permalink="https://metalmessage.wordpress.com/image-2/" sizes="(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px" src="https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2022/03/image-2.png?w=800" srcset="https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2022/03/image-2.png 800w, https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2022/03/image-2.png?w=150 150w, https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2022/03/image-2.png?w=300 300w, https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2022/03/image-2.png?w=768 768w" style="border-radius: inherit; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: bottom;" /></a><figcaption style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 0.5em;">Band • 2022</figcaption></figure><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 1em 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><a href="https://www.metalmessage.de/artists/prior_the_end/band.jpg" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #9a2121; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;" target="_blank"></a></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 1em 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">[ Foto: David Buchner ]</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 1em 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">LINE-UP:<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Alexander Weiß • Vocals<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Raphael Gerl • Guitar<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Alexander Schmidl • Guitar<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Sebastian Roith • Bass<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Christian Schmidt • Drums<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br />Von den Medien gelobt für ihr geerdetes und erfrischendes Songwriting, legten <a href="https://www.facebook.com/priortheend" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #9a2121; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;" target="_blank">PRIOR THE END</a> 2017 die aggressive One-Off Single „Irukandji“ nach und erzielten damit neben diversen Sampler-Voting-Siegen auch einen Platz auf Tesseracts Daniel Tompkins‘ Spotify Playlist.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 1em 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><br />Nach einer ausgedehnten Jubiläumstour quer durch Bayern begannen <a href="https://www.facebook.com/priortheend" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #9a2121; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;" target="_blank">PRIOR THE END</a> mit den Arbeiten an ihrem zweiten Album:</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 1em 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><a href="https://www.metalmessage.de/artists/prior_the_end/cover.jpg" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #9a2121; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;" target="_blank"></a></p><figure class="wp-block-image size-large" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><a href="https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2022/03/image-3.png" style="border-radius: inherit; box-sizing: border-box; color: #9a2121; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;"><img alt="" class="wp-image-693" data-attachment-id="693" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-caption="" data-image-description="" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}" data-image-title="image-3" data-large-file="https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2022/03/image-3.png?w=700" data-medium-file="https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2022/03/image-3.png?w=300" data-orig-file="https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2022/03/image-3.png" data-orig-size="800,802" data-permalink="https://metalmessage.wordpress.com/image-3/" sizes="(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px" src="https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2022/03/image-3.png?w=800" srcset="https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2022/03/image-3.png 800w, https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2022/03/image-3.png?w=150 150w, https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2022/03/image-3.png?w=300 300w, https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2022/03/image-3.png?w=768 768w" style="border-radius: inherit; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: bottom;" /></a></figure><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 1em 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">[ Artwork: Chananya Fries ]</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 1em 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">TRACKS:</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />01 Rage & Static 05:41<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />02 Ask Them About Cancer 03:46<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />03 Time Forgot Itself 04:21<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />04 Lifeline 05:30<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />05 Pygmalion 05:59<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />06 Trespassing In Sanity 04:58<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />07 No Skin 04:18<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />08 Catalepcity 04:21<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />09 Gaijin 03:40<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />10 Mark It Zero 04:39<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />11 No King On Heaven’s Door 04:27<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />12 Cutting My Roots 06:22</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 1em 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">total: 58:03 min.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 1em 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Unterstützt durch eine erfolgreiche Crowdfunding Kampagne und einer akribischen Studiophase, stehen <a href="https://www.facebook.com/priortheend" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #9a2121; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;" target="_blank">PRIOR THE END</a> nach 2 Jahren der Pandemie-geschuldeten Bühnenabstinenz mit ihrem neuen Album <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">„Cutting My Roots“</span> in den Startlöchern, um ein markantes musikalisches Ausrufezeichen zu setzen.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 1em 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Das Hoffen auf das Morgen. Risiken abwägen. Voreilige Schlüsse vermeiden. Motivation durch weit entfernte Utopien erzwingen. Woody Allen hat mal gesagt: „Die Ewigkeit dauert lange, besonders gegen Ende.“<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Und dennoch stand halbgar für die Formation nicht zur Debatte. Dafür haben den Musikern zu viele Leute bei der Entstehung des Albums geholfen. Dafür ist es den Urhebern zu wichtig.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 1em 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">„Cutting My Roots“</span> war bereits vor der Pandemie inspiriert durch Veränderungen. Der Release handelt in drei Akten von Fortschritt, Ohnmacht und Zerfall. Die Wurzeln sind dieselben, doch die Triebe hatten viel Zeit … <br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">DISCOGRAPHY:</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />2016 • The Worst Is Yet To Come • Full-length<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />2017 • Irukandji • Single<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />2022 • Cutting My Roots • Full-length<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">PRIOR THE END</span> sind verfügbar für <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">interviews</span> via <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Phone, Skype, Zoom & E-Mail</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />PR:<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><a href="https://www.metalmessage.de/PR_PRIOR_THE_END.php" rel="nofollow" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #9a2121; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;" target="_blank">https://www.metalmessage.de/PR_PRIOR_THE_END.php</a></p><div><br /></div><div id="atatags-370373-624194d800bc1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px;"></div><div class="wpcnt" id="wordads-preview-parent" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; line-height: 0; text-align: center;"><div class="wpa" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; max-width: 100%; position: relative; text-align: left; transform: translate3d(0px, 0px, 0px);"></div></div></div>METAL MESSAGE ᴳᴸᴼᴮᴬᴸ • Est. 2001http://www.blogger.com/profile/00981847063724180231noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6262828619883574754.post-85235429851952881842021-11-28T03:53:00.000-08:002021-11-28T03:53:01.278-08:00<p> </p><header class="entry-header" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px;"><h1 class="entry-title" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #283d4b; font-family: "Open Sans", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px 0px 0.67em; overflow-wrap: break-word;">PSILOCYBE LARVAE • Fatal abysmal insights<br /></h1></header><div class="entry-content" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 30px;"><figure class="wp-block-image" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><img alt="" src="https://www.metalmessage.de/artists/psilocybe_larvae/logo.jpg" style="border-radius: inherit; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: bottom;" /><br /><br /></figure><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"></p><figure class="wp-block-table" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1em; overflow-x: auto;"><table style="border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 30px; width: 700px;"><tbody style="box-sizing: border-box;"><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(217, 221, 224); box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.4375em 0.3125em;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Action:</span></td><td style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(217, 221, 224); box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.4375em 0.3125em;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">PSILOCYBE LARVAE</span></td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(217, 221, 224); box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.4375em 0.3125em;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Base:</span></td><td style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(217, 221, 224); box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.4375em 0.3125em;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">St. Petersburg • Russia</span></td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(217, 221, 224); box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.4375em 0.3125em;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Genre:</span></td><td style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(217, 221, 224); box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.4375em 0.3125em;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Melodic Doom Death Metal</span></td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(217, 221, 224); box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.4375em 0.3125em;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Title:</span></td><td style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(217, 221, 224); box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.4375em 0.3125em;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Inner Darkness</span></td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(217, 221, 224); box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.4375em 0.3125em;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">FFO:</span></td><td style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(217, 221, 224); box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.4375em 0.3125em;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Early Opeth, Katatonia, Paradise Lost</span></td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(217, 221, 224); box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.4375em 0.3125em;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Format:</span></td><td style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(217, 221, 224); box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.4375em 0.3125em;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Music Video</span></td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(217, 221, 224); box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.4375em 0.3125em;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Label:</span></td><td style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(217, 221, 224); box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.4375em 0.3125em;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Red Rivet Records</span></td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(217, 221, 224); box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.4375em 0.3125em;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Release:</span></td><td style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(217, 221, 224); box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.4375em 0.3125em;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Music Video on November 19, 2021</span></td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(217, 221, 224); box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.4375em 0.3125em;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Release:</span></td><td style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(217, 221, 224); box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.4375em 0.3125em;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Album on Dec. 15, 2021</span></td></tr></tbody></table></figure><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Artist Page:<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><a href="https://www.metalmessage.de/Promotion_PSILOCYBE_LARVAE_en.php" rel="nofollow" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #9a2121; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;">https://www.metalmessage.de/Promotion_PSILOCYBE_LARVAE_en.php</a><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">PSILOCYBE LARVAE</span> is available for <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">interviews</span> via <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Phone, Skype, Zoom & email</span></p><figure class="wp-block-image" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><img alt="" src="https://www.metalmessage.de/artists/psilocybe_larvae/band_th.jpg" style="border-radius: inherit; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: bottom;" /></figure><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Bulletpoints:</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />• New album of the multiply capable & highly original Russian band<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />• Pressurized & progressive, catchy mix of Doom, Death, Dark & Gothic Metal<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />• Truly unforgettable songs full of captivating structures<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></p><figure class="wp-block-image" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><img alt="" src="https://www.metalmessage.de/artists/psilocybe_larvae/cover_th.jpg" style="border-radius: inherit; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: bottom;" /></figure><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">LINE-UP:</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Vitaly ‚Larv‘ Belobritsky • Vocals, Guitar<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Anton Veresov • Guitar<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Alexey ‚Liga‘ Legotin • Bass<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Alexander Yakovlev • Drums</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">•</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">TRACKS:</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />01. The Flame Of Dying Life 03:40<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />02. Run To Nowhere 04:12<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />03. Ghost In The Room 04:34<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />04. Inner Darkness 04:56<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />05. Dead Dreams 04:08<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />06. Sorvali Cemetery 04:49<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />07. Silent Sphinx 04:52<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />08. The Fall Of Icarus 04:27<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />09. Encounter With Nothingness 04:18<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />10. Where Silence Dwells 05:56</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">total: 45:56</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">•</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">DISCOGRAPHY:</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />2000 • Stigmata • Full-length<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />2003 • Agony • Full-length<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />2008 • Non-Existence • Full-length<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />2012 • The Labyrinth Of Penumbra • Full-length<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />2018 • The Fall of Icarus • Single<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />2021 • Where Silence Dwells • Full-length</p></div>METAL MESSAGE ᴳᴸᴼᴮᴬᴸ • Est. 2001http://www.blogger.com/profile/00981847063724180231noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6262828619883574754.post-7870197751312614962021-10-27T02:35:00.005-07:002021-10-27T02:35:57.153-07:00<p><a href="https://metalmessage.files.wordpress.com/2021/10/logo-1.jpg" style="background-color: white; 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border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle;" /></a></p><div class="entry-content" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 30px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><br /></p><h4 style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #283d4b; font-family: "Open Sans", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px 0px 0.67em; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: left;">Stirring soul striptease!</h4><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">FB</span>: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/InSoMusic" rel="nofollow" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #9a2121; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;">https://www.facebook.com/InSoMusic</a><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Bulletpoints:</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />• New album from one of the most independent Austrian acts<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />• Complex influences from groove & core metal to djent<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />• Dark atmospheric & moving songs with depth effect<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">FFO</span>: Omnium Gatherum, early In Flames, Agathodaimon<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Release</span>: November 11, 2021</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><a href="https://www.facebook.com/InSoMusic" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #9a2121; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;" target="_blank">IN SOMNIA</a> is a <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">PROGRESSIVE MODERN METAL</span> quartet from the picturesque Tyrolean mountains, blending influences from all modern Metal styles into a unique, dark sound.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><a href="https://www.metalmessage.de/artists/in_somnia/band.jpg" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #9a2121; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;" target="_blank"></a></p><figure class="wp-block-image" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><img alt="" src="https://www.metalmessage.de/artists/in_somnia/band.jpg" style="border-radius: inherit; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle;" /></figure><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />[ Pic: Philipp Weger • WegerPixel Photography ]<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">LINE-UP:</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Simon Andreas Brunner • Vocals, Guitars<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Andreas Wibmer • Guitar<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Florian Bacher • Bass<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Dominic Granegger • Drums<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">While the lyrics deal with traumas and philosophical thoughts, the instrumentation is catchy and complex at the same time.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />With the support of film music composer Christoph Manucredo, the ambitious visionaries have managed to combine brute force with a certain gloomy atmosphere, which flows into the diverse overall sound through the Groove and Core Metal influences of drummer Dominic Granegger and Djent influences of bassist Florian Bacher.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">On the third album <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">„Harlequin“</span>, the two virtuoso guitarists Andreas Wibmer and Simon Andreas Brunner alternate between heart-wrenching leads and pure rawness, while the vocals oscillate between whispers, screams, growls and clear vocals.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><a href="https://www.metalmessage.de/artists/in_somnia/cover.jpg" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #9a2121; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;" target="_blank"></a></p><figure class="wp-block-image" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><img alt="" src="https://www.metalmessage.de/artists/in_somnia/cover.jpg" style="border-radius: inherit; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle;" /></figure><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />[ Artwork: Mattias Girstmair • Echopolis Productions ]<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">TRACKS:</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />01. Rollercoaster 04:29<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />02. Guillotine 04:34<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />03. Crossing Styx 02:36<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />04. Something Ends Something Begins 05:11<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />05. Breathing Soil 03:12<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />06. The Void 04:08<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />07. Harlequin 05:10<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />08. Onomatopoesis 04:58<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />09. Ripping The Veil 04:59</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Total: 39:22<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />When you absorb the complex music of <a href="https://www.facebook.com/InSoMusic" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #9a2121; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;" target="_blank">IN SOMNIA</a>, you hear and feel an honest soul trip. A profound experience, therefore, that reveals the thirst for newness and change so courageously that it is able to create a critical mental state.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">After all, the participants are by no means beginners anymore, can show an average of 16 years of experience on their instruments. <a href="https://www.facebook.com/InSoMusic" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #9a2121; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;" target="_blank">IN SOMNIA</a> are the art, they roll with the Tauernwind!</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">The other side of the coin:<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />These thinking musicians have found a way of self-healing that is as individual as it is artistically special. A way in which they get rid of all negativity in life by simply letting it flow into their music.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Most of the songs on „Harlequin“ are based on true stories, true emotions and true pain.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/InSoMusic" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #9a2121; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;" target="_blank">IN SOMNIA</a> are artists who paint pictures of their unique world in the air and in the hearts.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">DISCOGRAPHY:</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />2014 • Withered-Frozen-Perished • Full-length<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />2017 • For the Harvest • Full-length<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />2021 • Harlequin • Full-length<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">PR:</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><a href="https://www.metalmessage.de/Promotion_IN_SOMNIA_en.php" rel="nofollow" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #9a2121; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;">https://www.metalmessage.de/Promotion_IN_SOMNIA_en.php</a><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />IN SOMNIA is available for Interviews via Phone, Skype & email</p></div>METAL MESSAGE ᴳᴸᴼᴮᴬᴸ • Est. 2001http://www.blogger.com/profile/00981847063724180231noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6262828619883574754.post-67347062868639388972021-09-20T02:50:00.003-07:002021-09-20T02:50:18.250-07:00<h2 style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #283d4b; font-family: "Open Sans", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px 0px 0.67em; text-align: left;">Healing spirituality</h2><header class="entry-header" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px;"><img alt="" height="142" src="https://www.metalmessage.de/artists/wazzara/logo.jpg" style="border-radius: inherit; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle;" width="265" /></header><div class="entry-content" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 30px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;">[ Logo: Barbara Brawand ]</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;"></p><figure class="wp-block-table" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1em; overflow-x: auto;"><table style="border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 30px; width: 700px;"><tbody style="box-sizing: border-box;"><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(217, 221, 224); box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.4375em 0.3125em;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Action:</span></td><td style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(217, 221, 224); box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.4375em 0.3125em;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">WAZZARA</span></td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(217, 221, 224); box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.4375em 0.3125em;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Base:</span></td><td style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(217, 221, 224); box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.4375em 0.3125em;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Zurich • Switzerland</span></td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(217, 221, 224); box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.4375em 0.3125em;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Genre:</span></td><td style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(217, 221, 224); box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.4375em 0.3125em;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Moongaze/Post Metal</span></td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(217, 221, 224); box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.4375em 0.3125em;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Title:</span></td><td style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(217, 221, 224); box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.4375em 0.3125em;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Cycles</span></td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(217, 221, 224); box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.4375em 0.3125em;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">FFO:</span></td><td style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(217, 221, 224); box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.4375em 0.3125em;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Alcest, Cellar Darling, In The Woods</span></td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(217, 221, 224); box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.4375em 0.3125em;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Format:</span></td><td style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(217, 221, 224); box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.4375em 0.3125em;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Album</span></td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(217, 221, 224); box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.4375em 0.3125em;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Label:</span></td><td style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(217, 221, 224); box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.4375em 0.3125em;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Independent</span></td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(217, 221, 224); box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.4375em 0.3125em;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Release:</span></td><td style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(217, 221, 224); box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.4375em 0.3125em;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Oct. 31, 2021</span></td></tr></tbody></table></figure><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Bulletpoints:</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />• Debut album of promising Swiss act<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />• Dreamy Post Metal with Doom & Blackgaze influences<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />• Completely unique style & aura</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/embed/A3RIAeeSPQw" rel="nofollow" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #9a2121; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;">https://www.youtube.com/embed/A3RIAeeSPQw</a><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />[ „Mænic“ • Official lyric video by Olga Kann]</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;">Uniting Post Metal, Doom and Psychedelic Rock, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/wazzaraofficial" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #9a2121; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;" target="_blank">WAZZARA</a> is the culmination of a themed solo project from the former lead singer of Folk Metal band, Caladmor.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;">Taking initial inspiration from the natural poetry of water in motion, enrapt listeners have found themselves moved by the otherworldly, ethereal and magical offerings of Swiss-based songwriter <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Barbara Brawand</span> since 2015.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><a href="https://www.metalmessage.de/artists/wazzara/band.jpg" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #9a2121; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;" target="_blank"></a></p><figure class="wp-block-image" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><img alt="" src="https://www.metalmessage.de/artists/wazzara/band_th.jpg" style="border-radius: inherit; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle;" /></figure><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />[ Pic: Manuel Vargas Lépiz ]</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">LINE-UP:</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Barbara Brawand • Vocals, Guitar<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Mäsi Stettler • Guitar<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />George Necola • Bass<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Julia Kapp • Drums</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">BACKFLASH:</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />In 2019, Barbara collaborated with Icelandic composer and musician, Árni Bergur Zoëga (Helrunar, Árstíđir Lífsins, Carpe Noctem), to give the world <a href="https://www.facebook.com/wazzaraofficial" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #9a2121; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;" target="_blank">WAZZARA’s</a> first EP, „Zessa“.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;">A show quickly followed in early 2020, alongside Grift and Wolcensmen; the first and last to grace the stage before a long and terrible silence descended over the concert industry.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;">Nevertheless, instead of allowing weeds to choke the banks of creativity, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/wazzaraofficial" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #9a2121; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;" target="_blank">WAZZARA</a> has continued to wind its course and met the year’s end having grown even stronger, composed an entirely new set list and become a full band:<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Barbara Brawand (vocals, guitar), Mäsi Stettler (guitar), George Necola (bass) and Julia Kapp (live session drums).</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;">The now initiated writing process for <a href="https://www.facebook.com/wazzaraofficial" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #9a2121; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;" target="_blank">WAZZARA’s</a> first full-length album led to exploration of wider musical horizons, incorporating spellbinding, doomy riffs into the EP’s legacy of melancholic, dreamy and celestial soundscapes.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><a href="https://www.metalmessage.de/artists/wazzara/cover.jpg" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #9a2121; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;" target="_blank"></a></p><figure class="wp-block-image" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><img alt="" src="https://www.metalmessage.de/artists/wazzara/cover_th.jpg" style="border-radius: inherit; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle;" /></figure><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />[ Artwork: Pierre Cheers ]</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;"></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">TRACKS:</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />01. Solanum 05:14<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />02. Mænic 05:30<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />03. Inwards 05:30<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />04. Obsidian Skies 05:12<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />05. Antares 04:52<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />06. Fissures 05:30<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />07. Wolf Moon (Tribute to Type O Negative) 06:02<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />08. Ancestral Bonds 05:28</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;">Total: 43:23</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;"></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;">The water-bound concept has been extended to uncover unaffected but fragile lyrics dealing with vulnerability and feeling out of place in a world where sensitivity is considered a weakness.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;">A moon motif nurturing untamed, sacred femininity has also been woven into spells for healing old wounds.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;">Inspired by nature’s infinite wandering phases, <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">„Cycles“</span> praises the end that is always a beginning.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></p><figure class="wp-block-image" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><img alt="" src="https://www.metalmessage.de/artists/wazzara/band2_th.jpg" style="border-radius: inherit; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle;" /></figure><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />[ Pic: Manuel Vargas Lépiz ]</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;"></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">DISCOGRAPHY:</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />2019 • Zessa • EP<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />2021 • Cycles • Full-length<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">MEDIA FEEDBACK:</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">8 / 10</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />„… a very great sounding mixture of blackgaze, Doom and Post Metal …“<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />(Blackened Death Metal Zine)<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Previous:<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />„… dreamy, fragile, enchanting …“<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />(Folkmetal AT)</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;">„… sometimes like a warm wide flowing river, sometimes like the deep unfathomable royal sea …“<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />(Monkeypress)</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px;">„… like an enchanting mist delicately strewn about a world long forgotten.“<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />(From Corners Unknown)<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />PR:<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><a href="https://www.metalmessage.de/Promotion_WAZZARA_en.php" rel="nofollow" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #9a2121; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;">https://www.metalmessage.de/Promotion_WAZZARA_en.php</a><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">WAZZARA</span> is available for <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">interviews</span> via <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">phone, Skype, Zoom & email</span></p></div>METAL MESSAGE ᴳᴸᴼᴮᴬᴸ • Est. 2001http://www.blogger.com/profile/00981847063724180231noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6262828619883574754.post-35003875038612191802021-08-23T03:59:00.005-07:002021-08-23T03:59:34.167-07:00<p> </p><!--wp:paragraph-->
<p></p><h1 style="text-align: center;"><b>INFECTED CHAOS<br /></b><b>Sledgehammer lesson!</b></h1><p></p>
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<p class="has-text-align-center"></p><div style="text-align: center;">[ Pic: Mathias Starzer ]</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><strong><div style="text-align: center;"><strong>LINE-UP:</strong></div></strong><div style="text-align: center;">Christian • Vocals</div><div style="text-align: center;">Matthias • Guitars</div><div style="text-align: center;">Martin • Guitars</div><div style="text-align: center;">Ronny • Bass</div><div style="text-align: center;">Matze • Drums</div><p></p>
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<p><br /><br /><br /><strong>Bulletpoints:</strong><br />• 3rd album of the capable Austrian Death metallers<br />• Uncompromising, yet also catchy song material<br />• Individual, sophisticated sound<br /></p>
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<p>https://www.youtube.com/embed/wueWO2Xop4c<br />[ Official Music Video • Album song "Gehenna" ]</p>
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<p><br /><br />The Austrian-South German Metal commando <a href="https://www.facebook.com/InfectedChaos" rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">INFECTED CHAOS</a> holds a giant mirror right in front of the rotten, perverted part of humanity. Yes, the truth, it is painful.</p>
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<p>Creatively, these hard steel enthusiasts are just as ruthless, and that hits like a forge hammer on an anvil!</p>
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<p>The delightfully rough riffed and at the same time really colossally rhythmic <strong>DEATH METAL</strong> of the perfectly coordinated shock troop shows itself on the new and third longplayer <strong>"Dead Aesthetics"</strong> from the most varied and most coherent side.<br /><br /><a href="https://www.metalmessage.de/artists/infected_chaos/band.jpg" rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank"></a><br /></p>
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<p class="has-text-align-center"><strong>TRACKS:</strong><br />01. When Yonder Calls My Name 05:39<br />02. Hollow Chars 03:19<br />03. Eager Breed The Gods Of Pestilence 03:56<br />04. Gehenna 04:23<br />05. Iron Nights 04:37<br />06. And Thus I Fell 04:53<br />07. Death Metal Shock Prayer 03:55<br />08. Pitch Black Fever 03:38<br />09. Away 05:19<br />10. Lethargia 05:01<br />11. Song Of Death And Birth 05:00</p>
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<p><br /><br /><br /><strong>A huge plus for these guys:</strong><br /><a href="https://www.facebook.com/InfectedChaos" rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">INFECTED CHAOS</a> combine the brute force of contemporary, complexly poured death lead with a touch of US-American New School and the rich, timeless musicality of icons like the genre's forefathers Death. Real killer solos included.<br />And exactly this circumstance makes the highly explosive mixture of the quintet a real feast for those gourmets who want it as raw and nasty as compositionally and technically skillful.</p>
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<p><strong>Backflash:</strong><br />The equally beefy as sharp-edged noisy, but melodically by no means untroubled formation rose in 2013 from the ashes of some local bands and hermetically barricaded directly to the songwriting.</p>
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<p>After the new material had been extensively tested live - among others as support for the godfathers Possessed - the band went to the renowned Iguana Studio and could already release their debut "The Wake Of Ares" in 2015.</p>
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<p>Only two years later the follow-up "Killing Creator" was let off the chain, which took <a href="https://www.facebook.com/InfectedChaos" rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">INFECTED CHAOS</a> through half of Europe, loudly haunting well-known names like 'MetalDays', 'Winterdays Of Metal' and 'Aaargh! Festival'.<br /><br /><br /></p>
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<p><strong>DISCOGRAPHY:</strong><br />2015 • The Wake Of Ares (Full-length)<br />2017 • Killing Creator (Full-length)<br />2021 • Dead Aesthetics (Full-length)</p>
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<p><strong>INFECTED CHAOS</strong> are available for <strong>interviews</strong> via phone, Skype, Zoom & email !!<br /><br /><br />FB:<br />https://www.facebook.com/InfectedChaos<br /><br /><br />PR:<br />https://www.metalmessage.de/Promotion_INFECTED_CHAOS_en.php<br /><br /><br /></p>
<!--/wp:paragraph-->METAL MESSAGE ᴳᴸᴼᴮᴬᴸ • Est. 2001http://www.blogger.com/profile/00981847063724180231noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6262828619883574754.post-9689673598422988162021-08-16T01:37:00.008-07:002021-08-16T01:37:45.510-07:00<p> </p><header class="entry-header" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><h2 style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #283d4b; margin: 0px 0px 0.67em; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;">A soulful journey into your own heart!</span></h2></header><div class="entry-content" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 30px;"><figure class="wp-block-image" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><br /><img alt="" src="https://www.metalmessage.de/artists/katre/logo.jpg" style="border-radius: inherit; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle;" /></figure><p class="has-text-align-left" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 1em 0px;">[ Logo: Katre ]<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Bulletpoints:</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />• 2. album of this uplifting emotional formation<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />• Sophisticated concept work with deeply touching songs<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />( Get to know the whole, profound concept <a href="http://www.katremusic.com/stories/behindtheresilience/" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #9a2121; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;" target="_blank">here</a> )<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />• Music art like literally out of the Post Rock picture book<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 1em 0px;">The second album <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">„Behind The Resilience“</span> is produced by Chris Edrich (The Ocean, Klone, Leprous) and will be available on digital platforms on <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Sept. 30ᵗʰ, 2021</span>:</p><figure class="wp-block-image" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><img alt="" src="https://www.metalmessage.de/artists/katre/cover_th.jpg" style="border-radius: inherit; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle;" /></figure><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 1em 0px;">[ Artwork: Katre ]<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">TRACKS:</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />1. So Was The Life 05:19<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />2. The Decision 04:34<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />3. The Route 05:25<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />4. The Mermaid 06:20<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />5. Now On The Continent 08:14<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />6. The Run 05:14<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />7. Looking For The Pearls 08:08<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />8. Behind The Resilience 07:19</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 1em 0px;">total 50:37</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 1em 0px;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Samples of <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">„Behind The Resilience“</span> on <a href="https://katre.hearnow.com/" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #9a2121; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;" target="_blank">herenow</a><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><a href="https://www.metalmessage.de/artists/katre/band.jpg" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #9a2121; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;" target="_blank"></a></p><figure class="wp-block-image" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><img alt="" src="https://www.metalmessage.de/artists/katre/band_th.jpg" style="border-radius: inherit; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle;" /></figure><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 1em 0px;">[ Pic: Katre ]</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 1em 0px;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">LINE-UP:</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Hasan Koç • Guitars, ebow, MIDI strings<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Özgür Şepşül • Bass guitar<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Şah Cihan İngin • Synthesizers<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Okaner Ertuğrul • Drums</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 1em 0px;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">KATRE</span> is available for <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">interviews</span> via <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">phone, Skype & email</span> !</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 1em 0px;">PR:<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><a href="https://www.metalmessage.de/Promotion_KATRE_en.php" rel="nofollow" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #9a2121; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;">https://www.metalmessage.de/Promotion_KATRE_en.php</a><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/embed/RrayjHbafbM" rel="nofollow" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #9a2121; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;">https://www.youtube.com/embed/RrayjHbafbM</a><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />[ Guitarist Hasan Koç talks about the story of<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">„Behind The Resilience“</span> ]</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 1em 0px;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Backflash:</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><a href="https://www.facebook.com/thekatre" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #9a2121; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;" target="_blank">KATRE</a> is a four-piece instrumental <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">POST ROCK</span> band formed in 2014 in Berlin. The band takes its name from the old Arabic word katre which means the ‚drop‘.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 1em 0px;">One distinguishing aspect of <a href="https://www.facebook.com/thekatre" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #9a2121; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;" target="_blank">KATRE</a> is that they tell stories with their songs and create concept albums.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 1em 0px;">Their debut album „Encounters“, released in 2017 via Fluttery Records, focuses on the concept of existence, i.e. conception and birth, growth and self-awareness. „Encounters“ received a very warm welcome in the Rock scene and has entered at #9 in iTunes Top 200 Releases Rock Chart in Turkey.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 1em 0px;">Due to civil wars, global warming, political persecution, and starvation, the number of people looking for security is increasing day by day. The latest reports indicate that refugees make nearly 1 % of the world population as of 2021. <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">„Behind The Resilience“</span>, the 2nd studio album of the band deals with this topic and tells a refugee story.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 1em 0px;">In particular, the songs focus on the different phases of refuging, such as the life of this family before the war, the start of the events, escaping, challenges on the way up to Europe, the feeling of being an unwanted person and trying to adapt to a new life. <br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">DISCOGRAPHY:</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />2017 • Encounters • Full-length<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />2021 • Behind The Resilience • Full-length<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">KATRE</span> • Online:<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><a href="http://www.katremusic.com/" rel="nofollow" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #9a2121; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;">http://www.katremusic.com/</a><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><a href="https://www.facebook.com/thekatre" rel="nofollow" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #9a2121; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;">https://www.facebook.com/thekatre</a><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><a href="https://www.instagram.com/katremusic/" rel="nofollow" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #9a2121; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;">https://www.instagram.com/katremusic/</a><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />etc.</p><div><br /></div><div class="wpcnt" id="wordads-preview-parent" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Basic", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; line-height: 0; text-align: center;"><div class="wpa" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block !important; max-width: 100%; position: relative; text-align: left; transform: translate3d(0px, 0px, 0px);"></div></div></div>METAL MESSAGE ᴳᴸᴼᴮᴬᴸ • Est. 2001http://www.blogger.com/profile/00981847063724180231noreply@blogger.com0