BELPHEGOR
COUNTRY: AUSTRIA GENRE: DIABOLICAL DEATH METAL ART
BELPHEGOR - RELEASE TODAY "THE DEVILS"! [2022.07.29]
Diabolical death metal squadron BELPHEGOR have
released today their new album "The Devils" released via Nuclear Blast Records.
Once
again their trademark sounding "Diabolical Death Metal" will be brought
to the world. The outstanding
artwork was created by Greek artist Seth Siro Anton, with exalted design
elements influenced by renaissance and middle age paintings.
With "The Devils", long-running diabolical black death metal titans BELPHEGOR unleash
their twelfth studio album upon the masses, which proves to be one of the
strongest and most elaborate records in the groups career. Mixed & mastered at
renowned Fascination Street Studios by Jens Bogren (Kreator, Dimmu Borgir, At
The Gates), "The Devils" sounds absolutely crushing and dynamic, sonically
pushing the immense variety of the eight tracks to new heights.
The band comments: "Hail! Today we are finally unleashing our new
album "THE DEVILS" in its entirety!
I think the greatest strength of this twelfth BELPHEGOR album are the
many new elements incorporated into our unrelenting soundwall, which illuminates
the offering shine with an evil ritualistic light. We tried to push the
boundaries as musicians and as a band to bring the eight soundcollages to a new
level of “Diabolical Black Death Metal” extremity. An intense atmosphere
was our goal. "THE DEVILS" is the perfect demonstration of how we wanted to sound in
the year 2022, every aspect expressing what we seek within BELPHEGOR!"In Musick, Helmuth
The track list for the new album is as follows: I. THE DEVILS II. TOTENTANZ - DANCE MACABRE III. GLORIFIZIERUNG DES TEUFELS IV. DAMNATION - HOLLENSTURZ V. VIRTUS ASINARIA - PRAYER VI. KINGDOM OF COLD FLESH VII. RITUS INCENDIUM DIABOLUS VIII. CREATURE OF FIRE IX. BLACKEST SABBATH 1997 [Digipak bonus track]
GAEREA - RELEASE NEW TRACK AND MUSIC VIDEO "MANTLE"! [2022.07.26]
Cathartic black metal outfit
GAEREAare now proudly releasing their second new single
"Mantle", which is taken from the band's upcoming album "Mirage" set
for worldwide release on September 23, 2022 via Season of Mist.
About the track: Pain and pleasure. The most corrupt alliance against the
said paradise. Humanity stands right between these two edges of the same abyss,
without ever knowing the truthful form of one another. A cloak being dragged
away with every step we take into our said reality.
GAEREA comment on "Mantle": "A terrifying, fascinating and magnificent
mystery of how, between all forms of random life, we were the chosen ones to
suffer, to carry a burden we never truly recognize as our own to keep and die
for. An ultimate poem of how life dances an endless "Valsa" with death,
unmasked, falling in love for their creations as the floor is made out of bone
fragments."
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 04 Aug 22 Wacken (DE) Wacken Open Air
11 Aug 22 Schlotheim (DE) Party San Open Air
13 Aug 22 Jaromer (CZ) Brutal Assault
18 Aug 22 Oslo (NO) Midgards Blot 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
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.
NeKronos Promotion is Proud to present the band of the NeKroWeek, they are
BLACK ALTAR, an old fashioned Polish Terrorizing Black Metal band, respected and
worshiped on the underground of darkest metal forms! One of the best Polish examples of Black Metal and a reference in the genre!
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UPCOMING RELEASE:
"ARCANA OF THE HIGHER PRINCIPLES" DETAILS:
Black Metal demonical forceBLACK ALTAR
premiere
"Arcana of the Higher Principles". It's a compilation of 1 new, title song +
13 songs from the splits with Kirkebrann,
Beastcraftand Varathron /
Thornspawn.
1. Arcana of the
Higher Principles 2.
Deus Inversus 3. Ancient Warlust 4. Outro 5. Intro 6.
Tophet 7. Winds ov Decay 8. Pentagram Sacrifice (Beastcraft cover) 9. Outro 10. Tophet (industrialized by PreEmptive Strike 0.1) 11. Intro 12. Nighthunter 13. I'm Demon 14. Deep Cut in the Open Wound of Mankind
BLACK ALTAR BIOGRAPHY
Anno Bastardi 1996
In the darkest abyss of chaos where time and space are impenetrable, Black
Altar came into existence. It took its earthly shape during blasphemous
Sabbath in the Night of Walpurgia Anno Bastardi 1996, when it was summoned by
the voice of Shadow. He, as the first guardian of Black Altar,
have started an unholy crusade, thus awaking fear and pain among the
hypocritical and hideous christian lambs.
1997
The first stroke into their rotten system of values was a demo entitled "Na
Uroczysku..." (On a secret place..) which gained a recognition among several
groups of listeners. It was recorded by Shadow in 1997 at Selani
Studio with the help of Doc (RIP), Vader's drummer, in the role of a
music engineer. Released under Shadow's own label - Odium Rec.,
the first issue of 500 copies was sold out rapidly, making the name of Black
Altar popular in Poland and in other countries as well.
2003/2004
In September 2003 at Selani Studio Black Altar recorded their debut album
entitled "Black Altar". It was a great improvement in the development of
the band. The new hymns are still more extreme and more technical. "Black
Altar" was mixed and mastered at Studio X. For the track "Fire ov
Immortal Self" a professional video was recorded. In April 2004 the material
is released in the form of CD and a gate-fold LP by the German Christhunt
Productions. Odium Rec released a limited to 666 copies hand-numbered with
corpse blood cassette version of "Black Altar".
2006
After releasing the debut album Shadow parts with his musicians and as of
that moment Black Altar became temporarily a one-man band. In 2006
WarKult Prod from Peru released remastered version of Black Altar "Wrath
ov the Gods" (with 4 bonus tracks) as split, slip case cd, with Nebular
Mystic (Nor).
In October 2006 Black Altar finished record session of their second
album called "Death Fanaticism".
2008
2nd album “Death Fanaticism” was released on cd by Odium Records.
2009
On 2009 Antichristian Front Rec (Spa) released “Death Fanaticism”
on vinyl, limited to 500 copies.
Night Birds Records (Ukr) released „Death Fanaticism” tape version
limited to 300 copies and Propaganda Records (Ukr) pro tape limited to
666 copies.
On October 2009 7 Gates Rec (Pol) released digi pack A5 version of „Death
Fanaticism” album, limited to 500 copies. First 100 with a t-shirt.
2010
On July 2010 Black Altar recorded tracks for mini album "Suicidal
Salvation" and for the split Black Altar/Varathron/Thornspawn during
the same session.
2013
On January 2013 Black Altar / Varathron / Thornspawn “Emissaries of the
Darkened Call” split was finally unleashed by Odium Records as a
jewel case cd version and as a deluxe gatefold vinyl limited to 350 copies on
black, and to 150 copies on clear vinyl by Floga Rec/Hellsfire Rec from
Greece. Moreover, the A5 digipack was released via Black Saw Prod (Mex) and
BlackDeath Coven (USA) and a tape version limited to 140 copies in cardboard
box via RawBlackKult Prod from Bolivia. There were 3 new tracks of
Black Altar + intro and outro.
Also mini album “Suicidal Salvation” was released by Darker Than Black
Records on digipack cd.
2017
Gefandi Ör Andlät and Daemonum Subeunt, both from Ondskapt, joined
Black Altar.
Split with Beastcraft was released by Odium Records on digipack cd,
Lp, wooden box (limit to 50) and by Blackwood Prod (Uk) on tape limited
to 100 copies. Videoclip for “Tophet” song was shot with the
participation of James Stewart (Vader), Acerbus (Ondskapt), V. Priest (Acherontas)
and Sorath Northgrove (Beastcraft).
2018
Gefandi Ör Andlät and Daemonum Subeunt left Black Altar.
2019
Compilation of “Suicidal Salvation” mini album and Black Altar
songs taken from the split with Varathron / Thornspawn was released by
Odium Records as digipack, Lp and wooden box. Also Legions ov Darkness
(UK) unleashed cdr wooden box limited to 66 copies and tape limited to 100.
Re-edition of the debut album “Black Altar” was released by Odium
Records on digipack and Wooden Box (limited to 20 copies) with new mastering
and layout.
2 songs for the split wth Kirkebrann was recorded.
2020
Black Altar is preparing for the first concerts in it’s history.
BELPHEGOR
COUNTRY: AUSTRIA GENRE: DIABOLICAL DEATH BLACK METAL ART
BELPHEGOR - IN FASCINATION STREETS STUDIO IN SWEDEN! [2022.07.06]
Diabolical death metal squadron
BELPHEGOR new album "The Devils" scheduled to be
released on the 29th of July 2022 via Nuclear Blast Records
has beenMixed & mastered at
renowned Fascination Street Studios by Jens Bogren (Kreator, Dimmu Borgir, At
The Gates).
Helmuth states: “We have once again changed our formula and worked
with another production team for »THE DEVILS«. So we remained thrilled and it
was a challenge. To compose, rehearse and record »THE DEVILS« was a great
journey, as always. Drums have been recorded by David Diepold and engineered by
Randy Castillo. Serpenth and I did the mixing down and mastering with producer
Jens Bogren at Fascination Street Studio in Örebro/ Sweden. Jens forged us a
brilliant and massive soundwall. All sounds exactly as we wanted to in 2022.”
STUDIO VIDEOS:
TRACKING OVERDUBS, ACOUSTIC GUITAR & LEADS:
"Helmuth tracking leads, acoustic guitars, and some overdubs for the
upcoming album"
"Get a glimpse of some tracks off the album "THE DEVILS", titled
DAMNATION - HÖLLENSTURZ, KINGDOM OF COLD FLESH, TOTENTANZ - DANCE MACABRE
and the title track itself. "THE DEVILS" is by far our most diverse and
dynamic record in
BELPHEGORhistory.
We composed, rehearsed, and recorded the album with two different tunings again
[Drop A# and A], a lot of extra work for bass and guitar, different strings/ set
ups etc, but in the end it was all worth it. This project was a thrilling and
challenging experiment, a magickal journey into the abyss. All our inspiration
flew in this twelfth full length beast and it sounds exactly as we wanted it to
in 2022." In Musick, Helmuth
"Fellow countryman David Diepold played the session drums for "THE
DEVILS", which he recorded at Fascination Streets studio in Sweden
with David Castillo, where we also mixed and mastered the album with
Jens Bogren. David is such a talented drummer and did some outstanding work
on our new album "THE DEVILS". Be prepared for maximum snare assault."
In Musick, Helmuth
With "The Devils", long-running diabolical black death metal titans BELPHEGOR unleash
their twelfth studio album upon the masses, which proves to be one of the
strongest and most elaborate records in the group’s career. Mixed & mastered at
renowned Fascination Street Studios by Jens Bogren (Kreator, Dimmu Borgir, At
The Gates), “The Devils” sounds absolutely crushing and dynamic, sonically
pushing the immense variety of the eight tracks to new heights.
The track list for the new album is as follows: I. THE DEVILS II. TOTENTANZ - DANCE MACABRE III. GLORIFIZIERUNG DES TEUFELS IV. DAMNATION - HÖLLENSTURZ V. VIRTUS ASINARIA - PRAYER VI. KINGDOM OF COLD FLESH VII. RITUS INCENDIUM DIABOLUS VIII. CREATURE OF FIRE IX. BLACKEST SABBATH 1997 [Digipak bonus track]
BELPHEGOR
COUNTRY: AUSTRIA GENRE: DIABOLICAL DEATH BLACK METAL ART
BELPHEGOR - "THE DEVILS" DELAYED TO 29TH OF JULY 2022! [2022.06.28]
Diabolical death metal squadron BELPHEGOR have delayed
the release of their new album "The Devils" to the 29th of July 2022 via Nuclear Blast Records.
The band comments: "BELPHEGOR
legions, the manufacturing of the gatefold sleeves for our new LP "THE DEVILS"
will take a few weeks longer than expected. There's no delivery source to get
the vinyl carbonate in time. So once more, we must reschedule the physical and
digital release of "THE DEVILS" to July 29th, 2022 to ensure you all may
experience the new record at the same time!" In Musick, Helmuth
With "The Devils", long-running diabolical black death metal titans BELPHEGOR unleash
their twelfth studio album upon the masses, which proves to be one of the
strongest and most elaborate records in the group’s career. Mixed & mastered at
renowned Fascination Street Studios by Jens Bogren (Kreator, Dimmu Borgir, At
The Gates), “The Devils” sounds absolutely crushing and dynamic, sonically
pushing the immense variety of the eight tracks to new heights.
The track list for the new album is as follows: I. THE DEVILS II. TOTENTANZ - DANCE MACABRE III. GLORIFIZIERUNG DES TEUFELS IV. DAMNATION - HÖLLENSTURZ V. VIRTUS ASINARIA - PRAYER VI. KINGDOM OF COLD FLESH VII. RITUS INCENDIUM DIABOLUS VIII. CREATURE OF FIRE IX. BLACKEST SABBATH 1997 [Digipak bonus track]
SEVENTH STORM COUNTRY:
PORTUGAL
GENRE: HEAVY METAL
SEVENTH STORM RELEASE SECOND MUSIC VIDEO FOR THE SINGLE "HAUNTED SEA"! [2022.07.07]
Can you hear the roaring sea? Hitting the shore
on August 12th, SEVENTH
STORM‘s debut album “Maledictus” mixed melancholic gothic metal,
with harsh hard rock and now, the band has unveiled a second single "Haunted
Sea" is a soaring track that will be the beginning of a dramatic journey
into the unknown.
Drummer Mike Gaspar announces:“Haunted Sea takes us on a voyage
through the treacherous waters. Overcoming the dangers and fears of this life.
No other way out but to fight through the waves to reach dry land. Finding love
and peace for all.
This song was the first to be written as a band. The strength and unity is what
we bring to life in this epic story ! We, Seventh Storm, salute all and invite
you to discover this dark treasure.
Hail to the winds and waters that fill our souls.
There is no turning back!”
The album is available in these configurations:
2LP in gatefold (clear or blue/white marbled) incl. free poster
Digipak CD Download or stream CD-Digi + T-Shirt (Atomic Fire Shop exclusive bundle) Blue/White/Black Marbled Vinyl + T-Shirt (Atomic Fire Shop
exclusive bundle) Clear Vinyl + T-Shirt (Atomic Fire Shop exclusive bundle) CD-Digi + Blue/White/Black Marbled Vinyl + T-Shirt + „Eye“ Patch (Atomic
Fire Shop exclusive bundle)
NOCTEM COUNTRY:
SPAIN
GENRE: BLACK DEATH METAL NOCTEM - REVEAL DETAILS ON "CREDO CERTE NE
CRAS" NEW ALBUM!
[2022.07.22]
Spain's black death metallers
NOCTEMhave
revealed details on the bands sixth full-length album entitled "Credo
Certe Ne Cras" to be released via
MNRK Heavy on 28th of October 2022.
The blood and fire spewed forth onstage by
NOCTEM is a
visceral, fitting companion to their unrivaled sound, a vicious black metal
assault enhanced with a signature Iberian flourish.
NOCTEM
follows that career landmark with a new, definitive masterpiece, merging the
crushing cacophony of angry, adrenaline-fueled lust with newfound sorrows
and mournful melodic might. "Credo Certe Ne Cras" (“I Believe With
Certainty That There is No Tomorrow”) is a work of art. The album demands to
be experienced as much as listened to, invoking ritualistic examination.
The band comments: "It gives us divine pleasure, and great delight
to finally be able to present the first single from our next full-length
album to our faithful horde of devils. "We Are Omega" represents a new dawn,
and the oncoming album - a new era."
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
HATE - "FINAL DECLARATION NORTHERN TOUR 2022"
COMPLETE SCHEDULE AND LINE UP! [2022.07.05]
Mighty Polish blackened death cultists HATE,Vader and Thy Disease
will team up once again to hit Scandinavia and Baltic countries! The tour will
start with 3 exclusive shows in Poland and will head to the north.
The line-up will be supplemented with black metal from the swamps of Florida –
The Noctambulant , who will perform on every show of the tour except
Reykjavik.
Thrash metal psychos from Finland – TakaLaiton will be opening the stage
starting from the first show in Lublin on 29.08 and till Jyvaskyla on 07.09.
Then the reinforcement will come from viking metal warriors from Ireland -
Ren Marabouand the Berserkers , who will join the tour from Umea on 08.09 and
until Drammen on 16.09.
Here’s the ultimate schedule of the FINAL DECLARATION: Northern Tour 2022:
FINAL DECLARATION NORTHERN TOUR 2022 HATE +
VADER + THY DISEASE The
Noctambulant +
TakaLaiton
+ Ren
Marabouand the Berserkers 29.08.22 - PL / LUBLIN – ”Wirydarz CK” 30.08.22 - PL / OLSZTYN – “Kuznia Spoleczna” 31.08.22 - PL / BIALYSTOK – ”Zmiana Klimatu” 01.09.22 - LT / VILNIUS - “Kablys” 02.09.22 - LV / RIGA - “Republika“ 03.09.22 - EE / TALLINN - “Tapper” 04.09.22 - FI / HELSINKI - “On the Rocks“ 05.09.22 - FI / TAMPERE - “Yo-talo“ 06.09.22 - FI / SEINAJOKI - “Rytmikorjaamo“ 07.09.22 - FI / JYVASKYLA - “Lutakko“ 08.09.22 - SE / UMEA - “Droskan“ 09.09.22 - SE / BORLANGE - TBA 10.09.22 - SE / STOCKHOLM - "Hus 7" 11.09.22 - SE / GOTEBORG - "Sticky Fingers" 13.09.22 - DK / ROSKILDE - "Gimle" 14.09.22 - DK / ODENSE - "Kansas City" 15.09.22 - SE / MALMO - “Plan B“ 16.09.22 - NO / DRAMMEN - “Union Scene“ 17.09.22 - IS / REYKJAVIK - “Gaukurinn“
Rugia track-listing
1. Rugia
2. The Wolf Queen
3. Exiles of Pantheon
4. Saturnus
5. Awakening the Gods Within
6. Resurgence
7. Velesian Guard
8. Sun of Extinction
9. Sacred Dnieper
BLACK ALTAR PREMIERE COMPILATION "ARCANA OF THE HIGHER PRINCIPLES"! [2022.07.11]
Black Metal demonical forceBLACK ALTAR
premiere
"Arcana of the Higher Principles". It's a compilation of 1 new, title song +
13 songs from the splits with Kirkebrann,
Beastcraftand Varathron /
Thornspawn.
1. Arcana of the
Higher Principles 2.
Deus Inversus 3. Ancient Warlust 4. Outro 5. Intro 6.
Tophet 7. Winds ov Decay 8. Pentagram Sacrifice (Beastcraft cover) 9. Outro 10. Tophet (industrialized by PreEmptive Strike 0.1) 11. Intro 12. Nighthunter 13. I'm Demon 14. Deep Cut in the Open Wound of Mankind
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 bands that unleashes some of the most sickening
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!
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)
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, GAEREAhad
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.
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"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.
