ABYSSIC - Premiere new track "Mirror of Sorrow!

ABYSSIC
COUNTRY: NORWAY
GENRE: DOOM DEATH METAL



ABYSSIC - PREMIERE NEW TRACK "MIRROR OF SORROW"!
[2022.09.27]

Extreme Doom Metallers ABYSSIC premiere the new track "Mirror of Sorrow" at heavily trafficked web-portal NoCleanSinging.com. The track is the first to be revealed from the band's highly anticipated third album, "Brought Forth in Iniquity", set for international release on October 28th via Osmose Productions on CD format; the vinyl LP version will follow later this year.

Hear ABYSSIC's "Mirror of Sorrow" in its entirety exclusively at:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4r5SMp0hm4
Or over NoCleanSinging.Com .: HERE :.



Finally, ABYSSIC's third opus is here, and the long wait is over... The music is much more violent, faster, and the lyrics are even more haunting than on the last two albums. The orchestration is beyond everything they have done so far and is even more beautiful than ever. So, in other words, "Brought Forth in Iniquity" is faster and more brutal and more beautiful than ever. All we can say is: Expect the unexpected.

In the meantime, hear the brand-new track "Mirror of Sorrow" exclusively HERE, courtesy of NoCleanSinging.com.


[ Cover artwork, courtesy of Mitchell Nolte:]

PRE-ORDER:
Preorder info can be found at this link: https://osmoseproductions-label.com/abyssic-brought-forth-in-iniquity/

Tracklisting for ABYSSIC's "Brought Forth in Iniquity"
1. Cold as Winter Storm [9:43]
2. Chronicle of the Dead [8:49]
3. Mirror of Sorrow [6:33]
4. Djevelens Lys [7:06]
5. Brought Forth in Iniquity [18:33]



ABYSSIC are:
Memnock – lead vocal, contrabass
Makhashanah – bass, vocal
Tjodalv – drums
Elvorn – guitar
André Aaslie – keys


MORE INFORMATION ON ABYSSIC AT:
OFFICIAL SITE: http://www.abyssic.com/
FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/abyssicofficial
YOUTUBE CHANNEL: [ LINK ]

BOOKING/CONTACT: abyssicofficial@gmail.com

GAEREA - Release new music video for "Laude"!

GAEREA
COUNTRY: PORTUGAL
GENRE: BLACK METAL



GAEREA - RELEASE NEW MUSIC VIDEO FOR "LAUDE"!
[2022.09.27]

Cathartic black metal outfit GAEREA are now releasing a brand new video for the track "Laude", which is taken from the band's freshly released album "Mirage" out via Season of Mist. The new offering celebrates GAEREA's upcoming tour dates with label mates GAAHLS WYRD and SAOR which will kick off later this week. A full list of confirmed dates can be found below.

GAEREA comment on the video: "Today we shine light upon LAUDE, the last single of the Mirage Record. An ode to this core’s unity and a whisper in the High Lands for what is about to unfold in the Vortex Society. A song about Sacrifice, Despair and Agony. A song about us: GAEREA. And as we once wrote: “(…) if the shores were not ravaged by human greed and ignorance, Resilience would draw a wall of adventures ingrained in our cells”

Watch "Laude" music video at the link below:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=flZP1Qk4pcE



ORDER "MIRAGE" AT:
https://shop.season-of-mist.com/list/gaerea-mirage



GAEREA  previously announced new European tourdates, together with label mater GAAHLS WYRD and SAOR. A full list of confirmed shows can be found below:

GAEREA
+Gaahls Wyrd + Saor + Winterfylleth
30 Sep 22 Haarlem (NL) Patronaat
01 Oct 22 Arlon (BE) Lentrepot
02 Oct 22 Cologne (DE) Club Volta
03 Oct 22 Berlin (DE) Holle 44
05 Oct 22 Poznan (PL) U Bazyla
06 Oct 22 Krakow (PL) Hol
07 Oct 22 Prague (CZ) Futurum
08 Oct 22 Vienna (AT) Vienna Metal Meeting
09 Oct 22 Budapest (HU) Instant
11 Oct 22 Milan (IT) Slaughter Club
12 Oct 22 Martigny (CH) Les Caves Du Manoir
13 Oct 22 Lyon (FR) CCO Villeurbanne
14 Oct 22 Barcelona (ES) Boveda
15 Oct 22 Madrid (ES) Story Live
16 Oct 22 Toulouse (FR) Le Rex
17 Oct 22 Paris (FR) Petit Bain
19 Oct 22 London (UK) The Garage
20 Oct 22 Antwerp (BE) Zappa
22 Oct 22 Essen (DE) Turock
24 Oct 22 Munich (DE) Backstage Halle
25 Oct 22 Frankfurt (DE) Das Bett
26 Oct 22 Leipzig (DE) Hellraiser
27 Oct 22 Hamburg (DE) Logo
28 Oct 22 Copenhagen (DK) Vega
29 Oct 22 Gothenburg (SE) Pustervik
30 Oct 22 Stockholm (SE) Slaktkyrkan

GAEREA 2023
31 Jan 23 Riga (LV) Vagonu Hall
01 Feb 23 Tallin (EE) Sveta Baar
02 Feb 23 Helsinki (FI) On the Rocks
07 Apr 23 Oslo (NO) Inferno Festival 2023


[ Cover artwork for "Mirage" created by the SAROS Collective ]

Track-list
1. Memoir (8:17)
2. Salve (5:26) [WATCH]
3. Deluge (6:31)
4. Arson (8:54)
5. Ebb (5:32)
6. Mirage (6:38) [WATCH]
7. Mantle (5:17) [WATCH]
8. Laude (6:26) [WATCH]
9. Dormant (Bonus track) (7:46)
Total: 1:00:47

ORDER:
https://www.gaerea.com/ or
https://redirect.season-of-mist.com/GaereaMirage

Formats:
CD Digipak
CD Digibook
2x 12" Gatefold (Black)
2x 12" Gatefold (White / limited to 500)
2x 12" Gatefold (Gold / limited to 700)

Recording Studio: Demigod Recordings
Producer/Sound engineer: Miguel Tereso
Mix/Master: Miguel Tereso (Demigod Recordings)


Style: Cathartic Black Metal

Behind black shrouds of obscurity and desolation, the men of GAEREA deliver their odes in cascading maelstroms of aggression and beauty. Emerging from the age of pandemic to whatever awaits humanity next, the Portuguese horde remains on the frontlines of the next generation of extreme metal. With an EP and two albums to their name, GAEREA has rapidly distinguished themselves from the thousands of bands toiling away in the underground. Brewing their cauldron of sound from a recipe of pounding black-metal blast mixed with a touch of harrowed, reflective longing, many devotees of the darkened arts have flocked to their banner. With the emergence of third full-length album Mirage, those numbers are sure to grow.

Underground metal itself is a strange and cyclical beast. Trends come and trends go. But at no point in the genre’s history have we borne witness to what happened to the world in 2020. GAEREA met this challenge by releasing their second album, the aptly titled "Limbo", to excellent world reception. In the meantime, they found the total suspension of interactive life as it was previously known to be the perfect breeding ground for further creation and making. As the troupe’s main songwriter elaborates, "I lost two precious years of my life, years that I would rather have spent touring and growing as an artist. But they were crucial for us, these years, because not too many bands stayed relevant and productive. The pandemic gave us the time to make the best release we could. All the promo-shoots, interviews, videos, we all had time to prepare for everything. Mirage was the product of a sudden inspiration. The basic parts were written over about two weeks."

Such a stunning admission goes to show that art is fickle, and the artist is merely a vessel through which the sweet sorcery we call music may flow. It can mute itself to frustrating silence – or it can explode into being regardless of all consideration. For this band on the rise, it is most certainly the latter. Sizzling with ambition from day one, GAEREA may present one unique face to their audience, masked and enshrouded, but the truth is they have not remained changeless. "We are not the same band who recorded Limbo," he insists. "We are more eager to take on the world. If the pandemic taught us anything it is that nothing is certain."

This lack of certainty plays heavily into newest creation Mirage. As its name suggests, the inability to trust what our senses are telling us could be construed as one of the album’s central themes. Rather than constrict their art to mythological references or anti-religious tropes, GAEREA instead plumb the depths of the human experiences of isolation and suffering. "The concept, the subject, of each song is everyone, you, me . . . if people were alone together in Limbo, in Mirage they are truly alone. Nobody is truly real until they are alone."

If existential dread could be turned into sound, GAEREA have carved their own philosophical path through its stygian tunnels. It isn’t Satan, demons, death, or even suicide that is waiting for us there. "What if people finally reached their goal," he posits, "to end their suffering, and instead of dying they find themselves in a new reality, lost in a big city they were once a part of – they don’t know if anyone else is still alive. They are alone inside their own world." This theme of being alone in a world full of familiar scenes, unable to end things and unable to reach anyone else, might well terrify the listener more effectively than any glimpse into the imagined hellscapes of our nightmares. Being isolated in your own world is the real nightmare, and GAEREA strum the chords of this horror with nuance and a miserable grace.

Boasting a superior production that threads the needle between clarity and causticness, GAEREA unwaveringly admit their loyalty to countryman and producer Miguel Tereso of Demigod Recordings. "Miguel is fantastic," enthuses the band’s primary composer. "He comes from a brutal death metal background. I thought if this guy can pull off a punchy, modern, but still authentic production with a slam / death metal band, I wonder what he can do with a band like Demigod Recordings. He has a vision for a sound, and that is what I really like. He is not a black metal fan, but it’s this very external set of ears and eyes from a guy who really knows his craft, and he brings all of that to our sound." The fruits of this union are quite evident, as the turbulent moods of the title track are so wonderfully tossed between tension-building moments, and the explosive payoffs which set GAEREA apart from so many who try but come up short.

Tormented leads and building riffs sit atop some seriously explosive drumming, waxing and waning, on "Arson," a tempest of moods and one of the album’s centrepieces. Emotion, at times sounding triumphant in brilliantly wrought guitar leads, is skewered by vocals that bustle with shattering despair. The dichotomy is magnificent to behold. GAEREA’s composer makes no mistake. "I want to hear the throat on the album, and if we are a vocals-driven band, I don’t want to over-process them during the recording. Striking that balance is one of the beauties for me in this record."

In a world that increasingly elevates the shallow and the narcissistic, GAEREA pursues an artistic struggle of inward isolation, honest self-examination, and a dogged refusal to bow to the void that awaits. Thus, the persistence of their shadowed visages, draped in the masks which codify their anonymity while also creating a reliable extreme metal brand that fans can appreciate, especially in the live setting. "GAEREA are truly ourselves when we put these masks on, and we transcend into something different, and primitive," he asserts. "It still makes total sense, and this band would not be a band anymore if we ever dropped the masks."

As GAEREA prepares the release of Mirage, the world has resumed functioning, and as it lurches onward into its bleak future, one could stipulate that the pressure may be on to continue its rise amid the clamor of this renewal of activity. Does this challenge intimidate GAEREA? "We want to do better, but I don’t feel any pressure because we are in very good hands with the people we work with. We are building a strong team that really cares for us, stage-wise, promotional-wise, website and sales-wise. We are building a very structured confident teams that aims for the same goals we do. What I truly care about is continuing our ever-growing concept of the band GAEREA, and not becoming sterile, and I would not want people to be unaffected by our music. In the end we’re trying to express something within ourselves, and I don’t want it to be too complicated."

The beauty of GAEREA lies in the directness and simplicity found within their florid tapestry of extremity and aggression. Whether it is in the less-polished aural dynamite of their self-titled EP, or in the lustrous textures of Mirage, GAEREA is building a mighty edifice of underground metal. With talons dipped in the inky blood of black metal and scraped across the flesh of human suffering, GAEREA is leading a charge into the future of darkness, and all those who find beauty and power in the dark side of existence would do well to take heed.

WE ARE GAEREA.


MORE INFORMATION ON GAEREA AT:
OFFICIAL PAGE: HTTP://WWW.GAEREA.COM
Facebook Page: HTTPS://WWW.FACEBOOK.COM/GAEREA
INSTAGRAM: HTTP: https://www.instagram.com/gaerea_
Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/GAEREAOFFICIAL
BANDCAMP Site: HTTP://WWW.GAEREA.BANDCAMP.COM

Contact: AGENT.GAEREA@GMAIL.COM
BOOKING: DOOMSTAR BOOKINGS [Europe & Russia]: alexander@doomstarbookings.com
PORTUGAL: carlos.marreiros@primeartists.eu

Band of the NeKroWEEK - GAEREA - Portugal - Black Metal

GAEREA
COUNTRY: PORTUGAL
GENRE: BLACK METAL



NeKronos Promotion is Proud to present the band of the NeKroWeek, they are GAEREA (Portugal) an authentic cathartic black metal experience. This is an impressive and one of the most promising recent bands that unleashes some of the most twisted dark and sinister black metal we have heard in years! A mind-blowing band that crafts mysterious and rebellious black metal art!
Show your support and share this info to all your metal brotherhood if you like what you have heard!

Check out "Mirage" | the full new album stream:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rbv3DNRm_VY




[ Cover artwork for "Mirage" created by the SAROS Collective ]

Track-list
1. Memoir (8:17)
2. Salve (5:26) [WATCH]
3. Deluge (6:31)
4. Arson (8:54)
5. Ebb (5:32)
6. Mirage (6:38) [WATCH]
7. Mantle (5:17) [WATCH]
8. Laude (6:26)
9. Dormant (Bonus track) (7:46)
Total: 1:00:47

ORDER NOW:
https://www.gaerea.com/ or
https://shop.season-of-mist.com/list/gaerea-mirage

Formats:
CD Digipak
CD Digibook
2x 12" Gatefold (Black)
2x 12" Gatefold (White / limited to 500)
2x 12" Gatefold (Gold / limited to 700)

GAEREA BIOGRAPHY:
Style: Cathartic Black Metal

Something rises in the bleak and blackened skies of society as we know it. Vortex community GAEREA are about to bestow their Undying Sigil to the masses, with their brand-new full length ‘Limbo’!

GAEREA is a black metal quintet from Portugal. Emerging in the beginning of 2016, the band released their first (self-titled) EP on November 11, 2016 through Everlasting Spew Records. The EP received many praises from the worldwide press, and it was not long before the first full length "Unsettling Whispers" (2018) was presented.

With that, GAEREA had the pleasure to perform and tour festivals in Europe and China, including performances with Jupiterian in April 2019 and a headlining Chinese tour in May 2019. The band already performed at festivals like SWR Barroselas Metalfest (PT), De Mortem et Diabolum (DE), Throne Fest (BE), Frantic Fest (IT), Eresia Metal Fest (IT), Amplifest (PT) and many more. During the fall of 2019, the band did an extensive tour with label mates NUMENOREAN under the Doomstar Bookings wing throughout Europe.

Are you finally ready for the tale of the Fallen Society and the journey to the vast Void, the only good in Life? Let us begin then. In the first hopeless circle, on too great and Undeniable Nothingness. WE ARE GAEREA.

- - -

"MIRAGE":


Style: Cathartic Black Metal

Behind black shrouds of obscurity and desolation, the men of GAEREA deliver their odes in cascading maelstroms of aggression and beauty. Emerging from the age of pandemic to whatever awaits humanity next, the Portuguese horde remains on the frontlines of the next generation of extreme metal. With an EP and two albums to their name, GAEREA has rapidly distinguished themselves from the thousands of bands toiling away in the underground. Brewing their cauldron of sound from a recipe of pounding black-metal blast mixed with a touch of harrowed, reflective longing, many devotees of the darkened arts have flocked to their banner. With the emergence of third full-length album Mirage, those numbers are sure to grow.

Underground metal itself is a strange and cyclical beast. Trends come and trends go. But at no point in the genre’s history have we borne witness to what happened to the world in 2020. GAEREA met this challenge by releasing their second album, the aptly titled "Limbo", to excellent world reception. In the meantime, they found the total suspension of interactive life as it was previously known to be the perfect breeding ground for further creation and making. As the troupe’s main songwriter elaborates, "I lost two precious years of my life, years that I would rather have spent touring and growing as an artist. But they were crucial for us, these years, because not too many bands stayed relevant and productive. The pandemic gave us the time to make the best release we could. All the promo-shoots, interviews, videos, we all had time to prepare for everything. Mirage was the product of a sudden inspiration. The basic parts were written over about two weeks."

Such a stunning admission goes to show that art is fickle, and the artist is merely a vessel through which the sweet sorcery we call music may flow. It can mute itself to frustrating silence – or it can explode into being regardless of all consideration. For this band on the rise, it is most certainly the latter. Sizzling with ambition from day one, GAEREA may present one unique face to their audience, masked and enshrouded, but the truth is they have not remained changeless. "We are not the same band who recorded Limbo," he insists. "We are more eager to take on the world. If the pandemic taught us anything it is that nothing is certain."

This lack of certainty plays heavily into newest creation Mirage. As its name suggests, the inability to trust what our senses are telling us could be construed as one of the album’s central themes. Rather than constrict their art to mythological references or anti-religious tropes, GAEREA instead plumb the depths of the human experiences of isolation and suffering. "The concept, the subject, of each song is everyone, you, me . . . if people were alone together in Limbo, in Mirage they are truly alone. Nobody is truly real until they are alone."

If existential dread could be turned into sound, GAEREA have carved their own philosophical path through its stygian tunnels. It isn’t Satan, demons, death, or even suicide that is waiting for us there. "What if people finally reached their goal," he posits, "to end their suffering, and instead of dying they find themselves in a new reality, lost in a big city they were once a part of – they don’t know if anyone else is still alive. They are alone inside their own world." This theme of being alone in a world full of familiar scenes, unable to end things and unable to reach anyone else, might well terrify the listener more effectively than any glimpse into the imagined hellscapes of our nightmares. Being isolated in your own world is the real nightmare, and GAEREA strum the chords of this horror with nuance and a miserable grace.

Boasting a superior production that threads the needle between clarity and causticness, GAEREA unwaveringly admit their loyalty to countryman and producer Miguel Tereso of Demigod Recordings. "Miguel is fantastic," enthuses the band’s primary composer. "He comes from a brutal death metal background. I thought if this guy can pull off a punchy, modern, but still authentic production with a slam / death metal band, I wonder what he can do with a band like Demigod Recordings. He has a vision for a sound, and that is what I really like. He is not a black metal fan, but it’s this very external set of ears and eyes from a guy who really knows his craft, and he brings all of that to our sound." The fruits of this union are quite evident, as the turbulent moods of the title track are so wonderfully tossed between tension-building moments, and the explosive payoffs which set GAEREA apart from so many who try but come up short.

Tormented leads and building riffs sit atop some seriously explosive drumming, waxing and waning, on "Arson," a tempest of moods and one of the album’s centrepieces. Emotion, at times sounding triumphant in brilliantly wrought guitar leads, is skewered by vocals that bustle with shattering despair. The dichotomy is magnificent to behold. GAEREA’s composer makes no mistake. "I want to hear the throat on the album, and if we are a vocals-driven band, I don’t want to over-process them during the recording. Striking that balance is one of the beauties for me in this record."

In a world that increasingly elevates the shallow and the narcissistic, GAEREA pursues an artistic struggle of inward isolation, honest self-examination, and a dogged refusal to bow to the void that awaits. Thus, the persistence of their shadowed visages, draped in the masks which codify their anonymity while also creating a reliable extreme metal brand that fans can appreciate, especially in the live setting. "GAEREA are truly ourselves when we put these masks on, and we transcend into something different, and primitive," he asserts. "It still makes total sense, and this band would not be a band anymore if we ever dropped the masks."

As GAEREA prepares the release of Mirage, the world has resumed functioning, and as it lurches onward into its bleak future, one could stipulate that the pressure may be on to continue its rise amid the clamor of this renewal of activity. Does this challenge intimidate GAEREA? "We want to do better, but I don’t feel any pressure because we are in very good hands with the people we work with. We are building a strong team that really cares for us, stage-wise, promotional-wise, website and sales-wise. We are building a very structured confident teams that aims for the same goals we do. What I truly care about is continuing our ever-growing concept of the band GAEREA, and not becoming sterile, and I would not want people to be unaffected by our music. In the end we’re trying to express something within ourselves, and I don’t want it to be too complicated."

The beauty of GAEREA lies in the directness and simplicity found within their florid tapestry of extremity and aggression. Whether it is in the less-polished aural dynamite of their self-titled EP, or in the lustrous textures of Mirage, GAEREA is building a mighty edifice of underground metal. With talons dipped in the inky blood of black metal and scraped across the flesh of human suffering, GAEREA is leading a charge into the future of darkness, and all those who find beauty and power in the dark side of existence would do well to take heed.

WE ARE GAEREA.


DISCOGRAPHY:

2022: Mirage - Label: Season Of Mist
2020: Limbo - Label: Season Of Mist
2018: Unsettling Whispers - Label: Transcending Obscurity Records
2016: GAEREA [EP] - Label: Everlasting Spew Records


MORE INFORMATION ON GAEREA AT:
OFFICIAL SITE: HTTP://WWW.GAEREA.COM
Facebook Page: HTTPS://WWW.FACEBOOK.COM/GAEREA/
INSTAGRAM: HTTP: https://www.instagram.com/gaerea_/
Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/GAEREAOFFICIAL
BANDCAMP Site: HTTP://WWW.GAEREA.BANDCAMP.COM/

Contact: AGENT.GAEREA@GMAIL.COM
BOOKING: DOOMSTAR BOOKINGS [Europe & Russia]: alexander@doomstarbookings.com
PORTUGAL: carlos.marreiros@primeartists.eu

NOCTEM - Reveal lyric video for "I Am Alpha" from the new album!

NOCTEM
COUNTRY: SPAIN
GENRE: BLACK DEATH  METAL



NOCTEM - REVEAL LYRIC VIDEO VIDEO FOR "I AM ALPHA" FROM THE NEW ALBUM!
[2022.09.23]

Spain's black death metallers NOCTEM have revealed the new single and lyric video for "I Am Alpha" taken from the bands new a and sixth full-length album "Credo Certe Ne Cras" to be released via MNRK Heavy on 28th of October 2022.

The band comments: "We proudly present "I AM ALPHA" to our brothers, sisters, and friends across the world.
Taken from our upcoming album "CREDO CERTE NE CRAS", this song delves deep into the depths of anguish, and embodies domination and the existential phenomenology of the human being.
A transcendental journey, an awakening, and the realisation that we are the beginning of the end.
Play it LOUD, share it with your friends, and tell us what you think!"

The new single "I am Alpha" can be listened to at the following link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5MpyxifqoFY





PRE-ORDERS:
Pre-orders for "Credo Certe Ne Cras" as well as the first single titled "We Are Omega" and taken from this upcoming album release can be found at the link below:
https://ffm.to/noctem-ccnc

Tracklist:
1) I AM ALPHA
2) SOVEREIGN PROVIDENCE
3) SANCTUM OF ANGUISH
4) CREDO CERTE NE CRAS
5) HOMILY OF PUNISHMENT
6) THE PALE MOON RITE
7) THE TOLLING OF THE NINE BELLS
8) CHALICE OF TURPITUDE
9) CEREMONIAL MIASMA
10) WE ARE OMEGA



NOCTEM are:
Beleth - vocals
Varu - bass
Voor - drums
Moss - guitars
Tobal - guitars


More info about NOCTEM band at the following Links:
OFFICIAL SITE: HTTP://WWW.NOCTEMOFFICIAL.COM
OFFICIAL FACEBOOK: HTTP://WWW.FACEBOOK.COM/NOCTEMOFFICIAL 
OFFICIAL YOUTUBE: HTTP://WWW.YOUTUBE.COM/NOCTEMBAND 
OFFICIAL INSTAGRAM: HTTP://WWW.INSTAGRAM.COM/NOCTEMOFFICIAL
OFFICIAL TWITTER: HTTP://WWW.TWITTER.COM/NOCTEMOFFICIAL 

GENERAL CONTACT: NOCTEMBAND@GMAIL.COM

GAEREA - Release today the new album "Mirage"!

GAEREA
COUNTRY: PORTUGAL
GENRE: BLACK METAL



GAEREA - RELEASE TODAY THE NEW ALBUM "MIRAGE"!
[2022.09.23]

Cathartic black metal outfit GAEREA have released today their new album entitled "Mirage". The album has been released worldwide today via Season of Mist.

ORDER "MIRAGE" AT:
https://shop.season-of-mist.com/list/gaerea-mirage

GAEREA are now streaming their entire new album "Mirage" and it can already listened to in full HERE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rbv3DNRm_VY






GAEREA  previously announced new European tourdates, together with label mater GAAHLS WYRD and SAOR. A full list of confirmed shows can be found below:

GAEREA
+Gaahls Wyrd +Saor +Winterfylleth
30 Sep 22 Haarlem (NL) Patronaat
01 Oct 22 Arlon (BE) Léntrepot
02 Oct 22 Cologne (DE) Club Volta
03 Oct 22 Berlin (DE) Holle 44
05 Oct 22 Poznan (PL) U Bazyla
06 Oct 22 Krakow (PL) Hype Park
07 Oct 22 Prague (CZ) Futurum
08 Oct 22 Vienna (AT) Vienna Metal Meeting
09 Oct 22 Budapest (HU) Instant
11 Oct 22 Milan (IT) Slaughter Club
12 Oct 22 Martigny (CH) Les Caves Du Manoir
13 Oct 22 Lyon (FR) CCO Villeurbanne
14 Oct 22 Barcelona (ES) Boveda
15 Oct 22 Madrid (ES) Story Live
16 Oct 22 Toulouse (FR) Le Rex
17 Oct 22 Paris (FR) Petit Bain
19 Oct 22 London (UK) The Garage
20 Oct 22 Antwerp (BE) Zappa
21 Oct 22 Nijmegen (NL) Soulcrusher 2022
22 Oct 22 Essen (DE) Turock
24 Oct 22 Munich (DE) Backstage Halle
25 Oct 22 Frankfurt (DE) Das Bett
26 Oct 22 Leipzig (DE) Hellraiser
27 Oct 22 Hamburg (DE) Logo
28 Oct 22 Copenhagen (DK) Vega
29 Oct 22 Gothenburg (SE) Pustervik
30 Oct 22 Stockholm (SE) Slaktkyrkan

GAEREA 2023
31 Jan 23 Riga (LV) Vagonu Hall
01 Feb 23 Tallin (EE) Sveta Baar
02 Feb 23 Helsinki (FI) On the Rocks
07 Apr 23 Oslo (NO) Inferno Festival 2023


[ Cover artwork for "Mirage" created by the SAROS Collective ]

Track-list
1. Memoir (8:17)
2. Salve (5:26) [WATCH]
3. Deluge (6:31)
4. Arson (8:54)
5. Ebb (5:32)
6. Mirage (6:38) [WATCH]
7. Mantle (5:17) [WATCH]
8. Laude (6:26)
9. Dormant (Bonus track) (7:46)
Total: 1:00:47

Recording Studio: Demigod Recordings
Producer/Sound engineer: Miguel Tereso
Mix/Master: Miguel Tereso (Demigod Recordings)

VIDEOS:

"Mirage" : Videoclip :
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJC2CM4Z7Oo



"Mantle" : Videoclip :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXjTVTnc7zY



"Salve" : Videoclip :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kIAoJxmRFQc





Style: Cathartic Black Metal

Behind black shrouds of obscurity and desolation, the men of GAEREA deliver their odes in cascading maelstroms of aggression and beauty. Emerging from the age of pandemic to whatever awaits humanity next, the Portuguese horde remains on the frontlines of the next generation of extreme metal. With an EP and two albums to their name, GAEREA has rapidly distinguished themselves from the thousands of bands toiling away in the underground. Brewing their cauldron of sound from a recipe of pounding black-metal blast mixed with a touch of harrowed, reflective longing, many devotees of the darkened arts have flocked to their banner. With the emergence of third full-length album Mirage, those numbers are sure to grow.

Underground metal itself is a strange and cyclical beast. Trends come and trends go. But at no point in the genre’s history have we borne witness to what happened to the world in 2020. GAEREA met this challenge by releasing their second album, the aptly titled "Limbo", to excellent world reception. In the meantime, they found the total suspension of interactive life as it was previously known to be the perfect breeding ground for further creation and making. As the troupe’s main songwriter elaborates, "I lost two precious years of my life, years that I would rather have spent touring and growing as an artist. But they were crucial for us, these years, because not too many bands stayed relevant and productive. The pandemic gave us the time to make the best release we could. All the promo-shoots, interviews, videos, we all had time to prepare for everything. Mirage was the product of a sudden inspiration. The basic parts were written over about two weeks."

Such a stunning admission goes to show that art is fickle, and the artist is merely a vessel through which the sweet sorcery we call music may flow. It can mute itself to frustrating silence – or it can explode into being regardless of all consideration. For this band on the rise, it is most certainly the latter. Sizzling with ambition from day one, GAEREA may present one unique face to their audience, masked and enshrouded, but the truth is they have not remained changeless. "We are not the same band who recorded Limbo," he insists. "We are more eager to take on the world. If the pandemic taught us anything it is that nothing is certain."

This lack of certainty plays heavily into newest creation Mirage. As its name suggests, the inability to trust what our senses are telling us could be construed as one of the album’s central themes. Rather than constrict their art to mythological references or anti-religious tropes, GAEREA instead plumb the depths of the human experiences of isolation and suffering. "The concept, the subject, of each song is everyone, you, me . . . if people were alone together in Limbo, in Mirage they are truly alone. Nobody is truly real until they are alone."

If existential dread could be turned into sound, GAEREA have carved their own philosophical path through its stygian tunnels. It isn’t Satan, demons, death, or even suicide that is waiting for us there. "What if people finally reached their goal," he posits, "to end their suffering, and instead of dying they find themselves in a new reality, lost in a big city they were once a part of – they don’t know if anyone else is still alive. They are alone inside their own world." This theme of being alone in a world full of familiar scenes, unable to end things and unable to reach anyone else, might well terrify the listener more effectively than any glimpse into the imagined hellscapes of our nightmares. Being isolated in your own world is the real nightmare, and GAEREA strum the chords of this horror with nuance and a miserable grace.

Boasting a superior production that threads the needle between clarity and causticness, GAEREA unwaveringly admit their loyalty to countryman and producer Miguel Tereso of Demigod Recordings. "Miguel is fantastic," enthuses the band’s primary composer. "He comes from a brutal death metal background. I thought if this guy can pull off a punchy, modern, but still authentic production with a slam / death metal band, I wonder what he can do with a band like Demigod Recordings. He has a vision for a sound, and that is what I really like. He is not a black metal fan, but it’s this very external set of ears and eyes from a guy who really knows his craft, and he brings all of that to our sound." The fruits of this union are quite evident, as the turbulent moods of the title track are so wonderfully tossed between tension-building moments, and the explosive payoffs which set GAEREA apart from so many who try but come up short.

Tormented leads and building riffs sit atop some seriously explosive drumming, waxing and waning, on "Arson," a tempest of moods and one of the album’s centrepieces. Emotion, at times sounding triumphant in brilliantly wrought guitar leads, is skewered by vocals that bustle with shattering despair. The dichotomy is magnificent to behold. GAEREA’s composer makes no mistake. "I want to hear the throat on the album, and if we are a vocals-driven band, I don’t want to over-process them during the recording. Striking that balance is one of the beauties for me in this record."

In a world that increasingly elevates the shallow and the narcissistic, GAEREA pursues an artistic struggle of inward isolation, honest self-examination, and a dogged refusal to bow to the void that awaits. Thus, the persistence of their shadowed visages, draped in the masks which codify their anonymity while also creating a reliable extreme metal brand that fans can appreciate, especially in the live setting. "GAEREA are truly ourselves when we put these masks on, and we transcend into something different, and primitive," he asserts. "It still makes total sense, and this band would not be a band anymore if we ever dropped the masks."

As GAEREA prepares the release of Mirage, the world has resumed functioning, and as it lurches onward into its bleak future, one could stipulate that the pressure may be on to continue its rise amid the clamor of this renewal of activity. Does this challenge intimidate GAEREA? "We want to do better, but I don’t feel any pressure because we are in very good hands with the people we work with. We are building a strong team that really cares for us, stage-wise, promotional-wise, website and sales-wise. We are building a very structured confident teams that aims for the same goals we do. What I truly care about is continuing our ever-growing concept of the band GAEREA, and not becoming sterile, and I would not want people to be unaffected by our music. In the end we’re trying to express something within ourselves, and I don’t want it to be too complicated."

The beauty of GAEREA lies in the directness and simplicity found within their florid tapestry of extremity and aggression. Whether it is in the less-polished aural dynamite of their self-titled EP, or in the lustrous textures of Mirage, GAEREA is building a mighty edifice of underground metal. With talons dipped in the inky blood of black metal and scraped across the flesh of human suffering, GAEREA is leading a charge into the future of darkness, and all those who find beauty and power in the dark side of existence would do well to take heed.

WE ARE GAEREA.


MORE INFORMATION ON GAEREA AT:
OFFICIAL PAGE: HTTP://WWW.GAEREA.COM
Facebook Page: HTTPS://WWW.FACEBOOK.COM/GAEREA
INSTAGRAM: HTTP: https://www.instagram.com/gaerea_
Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/GAEREAOFFICIAL
BANDCAMP Site: HTTP://WWW.GAEREA.BANDCAMP.COM

Contact: AGENT.GAEREA@GMAIL.COM
BOOKING: DOOMSTAR BOOKINGS [Europe & Russia]: alexander@doomstarbookings.com
PORTUGAL: carlos.marreiros@primeartists.eu

Band of the NeKroWEEK - ZORNHEYM - Sweden - Symphonic Extreme Metal

ZORNHEYM
COUNTRY: SWEDEN
GENRE: SYMPHONIC EXTREME METAL



NeKronos Promotion is Proud to present the band of the NeKroWeek, they are ZORNHEYM (Sweden), one of the best Symphonic extreme metal bands out there! Constituted by experienced metal musicians who united to bring fourth a fresh pieces of horror tales mixed with extreme metal art! An horror painted scenario for the deadlier symphonic experience! Welcome to the Zornheim asylum!
Features former members of Devian, Dark Funeral (live), Scar Symmetry (live), Facebreaker and more!
Show your support and share this info to all your metal brotherhood if you like what you have heard!

The videoclip for "Keep the Devil Away" from the "The Zornheim Sleep Experiment" album released via Noble Demon Records:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XdrH6rw6qKE
 




 
"The Zornheim Sleep Experiment" Tracklist:
01. Corpus Vile
02. An Evil Within
03. Dead Silence
04. Keep The Devil Away
05. Slumber Comes In Time
06. Black Nine
07. The Veiling Of Bettelheims Eye
08. The Revelation
09. Keep Cutting
10. The Madness That Lurks Within (Epilogue)

ORDER:
physical / digital here: https://music.nobledemon.com/zornheym

 

ZORNHEYM BIOGRAPHY

Founded and led by multi-instrumentalist and songwriter Zorn, who was determined to shake up the traditional "metal-meets-symphony" approach after leaving iconic black metallers Dark Funeral, ZORNHEYM quickly grew from an ambitious idea into a dramatic musical and narrative driven concept revolving around the horrors of a mental institution and its prisoners. The band's critically acclaimed debut album, "Where Hatred Dwells and Darkness Reigns" opened the doors of the asylum in 2017, introducing the terrifying concept and gruesome characters within. Four years later and featuring 10 new tracks of powerful, cinematic and mesmerizing symphonic extreme metal, ZORNHEYM's upcoming album picks up where they left off, inviting the listener on a distracting journey, straight into the depths of the asylum! Once again, ZORNHEYM create their very own wall of sound by using a real choir and a string quartet and bring the story to life in a graphic novel that accompanies and expands upon the stories behind the album!

ZORNHEYM are:
Zorn - Guitars
Scucca - Guitars and Backing Vocals
Bendler- Vocals
Steve Pygmalion - Drums


MORE INFO ON ZORNHEYM ON THE FOLLOWING LINKS:
OFFICIAL SITE/STORE: HTTPS://ZORNHEYM.BANDCAMP.COM/
FACEBOOK: HTTP://WWW.FACEBOOK.COM/ZORNHEYM
TWITTER: HTTP://WWW.TWITTER.COM/ZORNHEYM
INSTAGRAM: HTTP://WWW.INSTAGRAM.COM/ZORNHEYM_OFFICIAL
YOUTUBE: [ LINK ]

ABYSSIC - Reveal details on "Brought Forth in Iniquity"!

ABYSSIC
COUNTRY: NORWAY
GENRE: DOOM DEATH METAL



ABYSSIC - REVEAL DETAILS ON "BROUGHT FORTH IN INIQUITY"!
[2022.09.09]

Orchestral Doom / Death metal dark entities ABYSSIC will release their 3rd album entitled "Brought Forth In Iniquity" on October 28th through Osmose Productions.

The album art was created once again by Mitchell Nolte Art and Illustration for ABYSSIC, exclusively.

ABYSSIC convey sombre funeral doom draped in Norwegian black metal majesty and sophisticated 70’s progressive rock. Expect low-tuned sinister riffs and discerning orchestration. A delight to your tormented ears!



ABYSSIC are:
Memnock – lead vocal, contrabass
Makhashanah – bass, vocal
Tjodalv – drums
Elvorn – guitar
André Aaslie – keys


MORE INFORMATION ON ABYSSIC AT:
OFFICIAL SITE: http://www.abyssic.com/
FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/abyssicofficial
YOUTUBE CHANNEL: [ LINK ]

BOOKING/CONTACT: abyssicofficial@gmail.com

2022.09.24 - SACRED SIN + BLEEDING DISPLAY + SPEEDEMON + LAST PISS BEFORE DEATH - RCA Club - Lisboa

 

SACRED SIN - Concerto de apresentacao "Storms Over the Dying World"
BLEEDING DISPLAY - Concerto de apresentacao "Dawn of a Killer"
+ SPEEDEMON + LAST PISS BEFORE DEATH @ RCA CLUB | LISBOA

DATA:

- 24 Setembro (Sábado) | RCA Club | Lisboa
Morada: Rua João Saraiva, nº 18 · Bairro De Alvalade 1700-250
Lisboa, Portugal | https://www.facebook.com/rcaclublx

HORÁRIOS:
Abertura: 20:30

BANDAS:
SACRED SIN |Portugal|: https://www.facebook.com/sacredsinpt
BLEEDING DISPLAY |Portugal|: https://www.facebook.com/bleedingdisplay.official
SPEEDEMON |Portugal|: https://www.facebook.com/speedemon.band
LAST PISS BEFORE DEATH |Portugal|: https://www.facebook.com/lastpissbeforedeath

BILHETES:
Reservas: 10€ (1 bebida ligeira incluída)
https://linktr.ee/rcaclub
(Encerram 48h antes de cada espetáculo.)
No dia: 12€ (1 bebida ligeira incluída)
+info: https://fb.me/e/2Fi8WSEuK

VIDEOS:

SACRED SIN : "Storms Over the Dying World" : Videoclip:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpD6ibB6fNc



BLEEDING DISPLAY : "Basement Torture Killing" : Videoclip:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rnzxJSD_FCE





EVENTO  FACEBOOK [LISBOA]: https://www.facebook.com/events/3389535241326808

MAIS INFORMAÇÂO EM:
RCA CLUB: https://www.facebook.com/rcaclublx
SACRED SIN: https://www.facebook.com/sacredsinpt

 

Band of the NeKroWEEK - WORMWOOD - Sweden - Melodic Black Metal

WORMWOOD
COUNTRY: SWEDEN
GENRE: MELODIC BLACK METAL



NeKronos Promotion is Proud to present the band of the NeKroWeek, they are WORMWOOD. A Swedish metal band who explore different sounds within the genres of Melodic Black Metal with a mix of Folk Metal. WORMWOOD delivers a refined Blend of Dark Melodies, Crushing Riffs, Technical Percussion over Ethereal Landscapes of sound in a unique mix.
Show your support and share this info with your metal brotherhood, this if you like what you have heard!

Check the band videoclip "Arkivet" from the same titled latest album:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d80HOdRS00c






WORMWOOD "ARKIVET" Tracklist:
1. The Archive
2. Overgrowth
3. End of Message
4. My Northern Heart
5. Ensamheten
6. The Slow Drown
7. The Gentle Touch of Humanity

ORDER CD, LP & MERCH:
https://orcd.co/arkivet
https://wormwood-official.bandcamp.com/merch

BIOGRAPHY:

Formed in 2014, Wormwood have had quite the musical journey. Starting off as a black'n roll band, then turned into a melodic black metal band with folk and rock influences. Now, they have advanced to their true form, which is an unique take on Scandinavian black metal.

Lyrical themes goes from the vastness of the cosmos, northern lore, the hardships of the 1800-hundreds and the fall of mankind.


DISCOGRAPHY:
2015: The Void: Stories from the Whispering Well
2017: Ghostlands: Wounds From A Bleeding Earth
2019: Nattarvet
2021: Arkivet *

* [ Read the Nekronos Promotion Hell Review :: HERE :: Rate 9,5/10 ]


LINEUP:
Nine - Vocals
Tobias Rydsheim - Lead Guitar/Keys/BackUp Vocals
Jerry Engström - Rhythm Guitar
Oskar Tornborg - Bass/Vocals
Tatu Kerttula - Drums


MORE INFORMATION ON WORMWOOD AT:
Official Site: http://www.wormwood-official.com/
Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/WormwoodSWE/
Youtbe Channel: https://www.youtube.com/officialwormwood
Twitter: https://twitter.com/WormwoodSWE
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/wormwoodofficial/

Contact: OfficialWormwood@gmail.com

GAEREA - Release guitar play-through video of "Mirage"!

GAEREA
COUNTRY: PORTUGAL
GENRE: BLACK METAL



GAEREA - RELEASE PLAY-THROUGH VIDEO OF "MANTLE"!
[2022.09.05]

Cathartic black metal outfit GAEREA are now releasing a brand new guitar play-through video for the track 'Mantle'. The song is taken from the band's upcoming third album "Mirage" which will see the light on September 23, 2022 via Season of Mist.

GAEREAs guitar play-through for the track "Mirage" can be found at the link below:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y78FuTjTnjk



PRE-ORDER "MIRAGE" AT:
https://orcd.co/gaerea-mirage



GAEREA  previously announced new European tourdates, together with label mater GAAHLS WYRD and SAOR. A full list of confirmed shows can be found below:

GAEREA 2022
21 Sep 22 Riga (LV) NOASS
22 Sep 22 Tallin (EE) Sveta Baar
23 Sep 22 Helsinki (FI) On the Rocks

GAEREA
+Gaahls Wyrd + Saor + Winterfylleth
30 Sep 22 Haarlem (NL) Patronaat
01 Oct 22 Arlon (BE) Lentrepot
02 Oct 22 Cologne (DE) Club Volta
03 Oct 22 Berlin (DE) Holle 44
05 Oct 22 Poznan (PL) U Bazyla
06 Oct 22 Krakow (PL) Hol
07 Oct 22 Prague (CZ) Futurum
08 Oct 22 Vienna (AT) Vienna Metal Meeting
09 Oct 22 Budapest (HU) Instant
11 Oct 22 Milan (IT) Slaughter Club
12 Oct 22 Martigny (CH) Les Caves Du Manoir
13 Oct 22 Lyon (FR) CCO Villeurbanne
14 Oct 22 Barcelona (ES) Boveda
15 Oct 22 Madrid (ES) Story Live
16 Oct 22 Toulouse (FR) Le Rex
17 Oct 22 Paris (FR) Petit Bain
19 Oct 22 London (UK) The Garage
20 Oct 22 Antwerp (BE) Zappa
22 Oct 22 Essen (DE) Turock
24 Oct 22 Munich (DE) Backstage Halle
25 Oct 22 Frankfurt (DE) Das Bett
26 Oct 22 Leipzig (DE) Hellraiser
27 Oct 22 Hamburg (DE) Logo
28 Oct 22 Copenhagen (DK) Vega
29 Oct 22 Gothenburg (SE) Pustervik
30 Oct 22 Stockholm (SE) Slaktkyrkan


[ Cover artwork for "Mirage" created by the SAROS Collective ]

Track-list
1. Memoir (8:17)
2. Salve (5:26) [WATCH]
3. Deluge (6:31)
4. Arson (8:54)
5. Ebb (5:32)
6. Mirage (6:38) [WATCH]
7. Mantle (5:17) [WATCH]
8. Laude (6:26)
9. Dormant (Bonus track) (7:46)
Total: 1:00:47

PRE-ORDER:
https://www.gaerea.com/ or
https://redirect.season-of-mist.com/GaereaMirage

Formats:
CD Digipak
CD Digibook
2x 12" Gatefold (Black)
2x 12" Gatefold (Dracula / limited to 300)
2x 12" Gatefold (White / limited to 500)
2x 12" Gatefold (Gold / limited to 700)

Recording Studio: Demigod Recordings
Producer/Sound engineer: Miguel Tereso
Mix/Master: Miguel Tereso (Demigod Recordings)


Style: Cathartic Black Metal

Behind black shrouds of obscurity and desolation, the men of GAEREA deliver their odes in cascading maelstroms of aggression and beauty. Emerging from the age of pandemic to whatever awaits humanity next, the Portuguese horde remains on the frontlines of the next generation of extreme metal. With an EP and two albums to their name, GAEREA has rapidly distinguished themselves from the thousands of bands toiling away in the underground. Brewing their cauldron of sound from a recipe of pounding black-metal blast mixed with a touch of harrowed, reflective longing, many devotees of the darkened arts have flocked to their banner. With the emergence of third full-length album Mirage, those numbers are sure to grow.

Underground metal itself is a strange and cyclical beast. Trends come and trends go. But at no point in the genre’s history have we borne witness to what happened to the world in 2020. GAEREA met this challenge by releasing their second album, the aptly titled "Limbo", to excellent world reception. In the meantime, they found the total suspension of interactive life as it was previously known to be the perfect breeding ground for further creation and making. As the troupe’s main songwriter elaborates, "I lost two precious years of my life, years that I would rather have spent touring and growing as an artist. But they were crucial for us, these years, because not too many bands stayed relevant and productive. The pandemic gave us the time to make the best release we could. All the promo-shoots, interviews, videos, we all had time to prepare for everything. Mirage was the product of a sudden inspiration. The basic parts were written over about two weeks."

Such a stunning admission goes to show that art is fickle, and the artist is merely a vessel through which the sweet sorcery we call music may flow. It can mute itself to frustrating silence – or it can explode into being regardless of all consideration. For this band on the rise, it is most certainly the latter. Sizzling with ambition from day one, GAEREA may present one unique face to their audience, masked and enshrouded, but the truth is they have not remained changeless. "We are not the same band who recorded Limbo," he insists. "We are more eager to take on the world. If the pandemic taught us anything it is that nothing is certain."

This lack of certainty plays heavily into newest creation Mirage. As its name suggests, the inability to trust what our senses are telling us could be construed as one of the album’s central themes. Rather than constrict their art to mythological references or anti-religious tropes, GAEREA instead plumb the depths of the human experiences of isolation and suffering. "The concept, the subject, of each song is everyone, you, me . . . if people were alone together in Limbo, in Mirage they are truly alone. Nobody is truly real until they are alone."

If existential dread could be turned into sound, GAEREA have carved their own philosophical path through its stygian tunnels. It isn’t Satan, demons, death, or even suicide that is waiting for us there. "What if people finally reached their goal," he posits, "to end their suffering, and instead of dying they find themselves in a new reality, lost in a big city they were once a part of – they don’t know if anyone else is still alive. They are alone inside their own world." This theme of being alone in a world full of familiar scenes, unable to end things and unable to reach anyone else, might well terrify the listener more effectively than any glimpse into the imagined hellscapes of our nightmares. Being isolated in your own world is the real nightmare, and GAEREA strum the chords of this horror with nuance and a miserable grace.

Boasting a superior production that threads the needle between clarity and causticness, GAEREA unwaveringly admit their loyalty to countryman and producer Miguel Tereso of Demigod Recordings. "Miguel is fantastic," enthuses the band’s primary composer. "He comes from a brutal death metal background. I thought if this guy can pull off a punchy, modern, but still authentic production with a slam / death metal band, I wonder what he can do with a band like Demigod Recordings. He has a vision for a sound, and that is what I really like. He is not a black metal fan, but it’s this very external set of ears and eyes from a guy who really knows his craft, and he brings all of that to our sound." The fruits of this union are quite evident, as the turbulent moods of the title track are so wonderfully tossed between tension-building moments, and the explosive payoffs which set GAEREA apart from so many who try but come up short.

Tormented leads and building riffs sit atop some seriously explosive drumming, waxing and waning, on "Arson," a tempest of moods and one of the album’s centrepieces. Emotion, at times sounding triumphant in brilliantly wrought guitar leads, is skewered by vocals that bustle with shattering despair. The dichotomy is magnificent to behold. GAEREA’s composer makes no mistake. "I want to hear the throat on the album, and if we are a vocals-driven band, I don’t want to over-process them during the recording. Striking that balance is one of the beauties for me in this record."

In a world that increasingly elevates the shallow and the narcissistic, GAEREA pursues an artistic struggle of inward isolation, honest self-examination, and a dogged refusal to bow to the void that awaits. Thus, the persistence of their shadowed visages, draped in the masks which codify their anonymity while also creating a reliable extreme metal brand that fans can appreciate, especially in the live setting. "GAEREA are truly ourselves when we put these masks on, and we transcend into something different, and primitive," he asserts. "It still makes total sense, and this band would not be a band anymore if we ever dropped the masks."

As GAEREA prepares the release of Mirage, the world has resumed functioning, and as it lurches onward into its bleak future, one could stipulate that the pressure may be on to continue its rise amid the clamor of this renewal of activity. Does this challenge intimidate GAEREA? "We want to do better, but I don’t feel any pressure because we are in very good hands with the people we work with. We are building a strong team that really cares for us, stage-wise, promotional-wise, website and sales-wise. We are building a very structured confident teams that aims for the same goals we do. What I truly care about is continuing our ever-growing concept of the band GAEREA, and not becoming sterile, and I would not want people to be unaffected by our music. In the end we’re trying to express something within ourselves, and I don’t want it to be too complicated."

The beauty of GAEREA lies in the directness and simplicity found within their florid tapestry of extremity and aggression. Whether it is in the less-polished aural dynamite of their self-titled EP, or in the lustrous textures of Mirage, GAEREA is building a mighty edifice of underground metal. With talons dipped in the inky blood of black metal and scraped across the flesh of human suffering, GAEREA is leading a charge into the future of darkness, and all those who find beauty and power in the dark side of existence would do well to take heed.

WE ARE GAEREA.


MORE INFORMATION ON GAEREA AT:
OFFICIAL PAGE: HTTP://WWW.GAEREA.COM
Facebook Page: HTTPS://WWW.FACEBOOK.COM/GAEREA
INSTAGRAM: HTTP: https://www.instagram.com/gaerea_
Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/GAEREAOFFICIAL
BANDCAMP Site: HTTP://WWW.GAEREA.BANDCAMP.COM

Contact: AGENT.GAEREA@GMAIL.COM
BOOKING: DOOMSTAR BOOKINGS [Europe & Russia]: alexander@doomstarbookings.com
PORTUGAL: carlos.marreiros@primeartists.eu