BlackEternal - Darkness Embrace II: The Oakenford Chronicles

 

Label: Self-Released
Format: Digital
Genre: Cinematic, Symphonic, Black Metal
Country: United States

BlackEternal is like something you haven't heard before, completely different approach to not only symphonic black metal, but metal as a whole.

The band tells a horror stories not only through symphonic black metal music and cinematic atmosphere, BlackEternal hired professional actors to come into the studio and play the roles of the characters within the story. There is a plot, Characters and even story-twists. Listening to BlackEternal is very much like experiencing a movie unfold in your ears as it is a full story from start to finish told by actors, the lyrics, and the music together as one put together the entire picture.

"Darkness Embrace II: The Oakenford Chronicles" is the 3rd full length album, acting as a direct sequel to their last release "Darkness Embrace" however all their previous releases are true to this cinematic style.


On the evening of January 13th 2020 ..
A team of paranormal investigators ventured deep into the depths of the legendary Oakenford Castle to conduct an investigation into the reported hauntings. During their EVP session they awoke something from the other side. . Something sinister...Something evil...

On the following morning, the sole survivor; Tiffany J. Morgan was found on the brink of death. Severely injured, paralyzed and covered in blood. She told a maniacal tale. A tale of a demonic attack. A Sinister Entity to blame for the death of everyone at the castle that night. The bodies of her closest friends, her fiancée, and 13 other victims all brutally decimated. Found mentally unfit to stand trial for their murders and haunted by the voices of the demonic spirits she once escaped, she is now confined to a padded cell at Oakwood Isle. A dilapidated psychiatric hospital reserved only for the most deranged, violent murderers and the criminally insane. This is her story... These are The Oakenford Chronicles.

With dark, haunting melodies, Ice-cold synth, Demonic vocals and melodic guitars, BlackEternal's sequel to “Darkness Embrace” will take you back into the realm of Haunting Symphonic Black Metal. Prepare to be submerged into a cinematic tale of madness, insanity and absolute horror As BlackEternal welcomes you to “Darkness Embrace Part 2: The Oakenford Chronicles”

Tracklist:

1. The Oakenford Chronicles (Prologue)
2. Pavor Nocturnus
3. Chronicles I
4. Voices From The Crypt
5. Halls of Madness
6. Chronicles II
7. Nocturnem Infernalis
8. The Haunting of Oakwood Isle (Intermission)
9. Thorne's Domain
10. Chronicles III
11. Demonic Spirits II
12. Darkness Embrace II
13. Capta Est (Chronicles IV)

Line-up:
BlackEternal is 'Nightmare Eternal' - on vocals and all instruments.

For fans of Cinematic story-telling, Atmospheric / Symphonic black metal, Horror movies...

Credits:
All songs recorded, edited mixed and mastered at Area 51 Studios in Henderson NV using Studio one 4 professional

Website: www.BlackEternal.com
Bandcamp: https://blacketernal.bandcamp.com/releases
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/NightmareEternal
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC46mpEuoYG8P6-r0AAGAPuw/featured
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/6D8zj2AYSbrwnxuPpLi6rP
Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/us/artist/blacketernal/1317188234

 

Zgard - "Place of Power"

 Zgard's seventh studio album features eight fascinating epic pagan black metal tracks and is set to be released on May 21st via Schwarzdorn Production.

Tracklist:
1. Arise
2. Trap of Cold
3. Old Ruins
4. Ascension Fog
5. The Fiendmother
6. Place of Power
7. Last Harvest
8. Thaw

Line-up:
Yaromisl – Vocals, Bass, Guitars, Keyboards
Dusk - Screaming Vocals
Lycane - Drums

For fans of Falkenbach, Moonsorrow...

Website: www.schwarzdorn.de
Bandcamp: https://schwarzdornproduction.bandcamp.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/schwarzdornproduction
https://www.facebook.com/Zgard
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/user/schwarzdorn
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3dDWjMtsKPXKvfnYcsmBPB?si=LHxt3Iw1RsGj2LF2wUSHqQ
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/schwarzdorn_production/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/schwarzdornprod
Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/schwarzdorn

 

ILLUSORY - Crimson Wreath (ROCKSHOTS Records Release: 21 May 2021)

Rockshots Records Signs Greece's Illusory For New Album "Crimson Wreath" Out May 2021

Rockshots Records is proud to announce their latest signing of Greece's Illusory for their third full length “Crimson Wreath” planned for release May 2021. Having opened for such legendary acts Blue Oyster Cult, Warrel Dane, Geoff Tate, and Gus G, the heavy metallers new album is the next step in their widely praised evolution to follow 2016's Polysllabic (7hard/7us) and 2013's "The Ivory Tower" (The Leaders Records).

Melodic, riffy, cerebral, and complex "Crimson Wreath" is a very emotional and melodic release, yet heavy and strong at the same time. Both new fans and ones who have been listening to the band for years will indulge themselves in this latest offering of classic, progressive, epic, and thrashy performances. Lyrical themes found on “Crimson Wreath” are mostly anti-war, but the full length also includes a thematic unit consisting of three songs that deal with human loss as both guitarist George Papantonis' parents passed away while the band was in studio recording it.

The band comments:

"The band is thrilled! When we look back, from the first minute to the last one, from the moment we pressed “record” on the very first drum tracking, to the latest addition and album wrap-up, we can’t stop thinking about all the things we set and done during those recordings and the long hours of arranging every little album detail. “Crimson Wreath” has become a member of our discography and our most recent brainchild. And we are totally proud of it!"

Three singles "Besetting Sins", "All Blood Red" and "Ashes To Dust" are scheduled to be released leading up to the album's sales date. 

For fans of Iron Maiden, Queensryche, Savatage, Jag Panzer, an album trailer for "Crimson Wreath" can be viewed on Rockshots Records YouTube channel: https://youtu.be/gFhL3kPBG88

The album will be released on May 21, 2021 -
ALBUM PRE ORDER: http://bit.ly/CrimsonWreathCD

#1 SINGLE "Besetting Sins" # on February 12, 2021

SPOTIFY: http://spoti.fi/3tSk2Qj 
LYRIC VIDEO: https://youtu.be/9L179x_ygPE

"This is the opening track of the album and also our first single off the "Crimson Wreath" album. A very heavy song with fast guitar gallops, an Eastern flavor, a melodic chorus and a progressive twin guitar melody in the middle of the song. It speaks about religion, the Seven Deadly Sins and especially about an ancient Greek emotion called Acedia…" 


#2 SINGLE "Crimson Wreath" # on March 12, 2021

SPOTIFY: http://spoti.fi/3l5wMz0 

VISUALIZER: https://youtu.be/vjESuD9tNfc

 "The eponymous title of the album is a very complex song. It starts with some clean guitars and a beautiful piano theme and by the end of it, everything changes! There is a strong bridge in the middle, with some really big-sounding guitars and a tribal drumming part, which leads into a twin-guitar melody followed by keyboards and a great vocal bridge! “Crimson Wreath” is about a land invasion nowadays and it describes the emotions of the people who woke up under attack." adds the band. 

Track Listing:
1. Besetting Sins (5:01)
2. Acedia (2:11)
3. Crimson Wreath (6:35)
4. Immortal No (4:25)
5. All Shall Fade (1:51)
6. All Blood Red (5:48)
7. The Voice Inside Me (1:28)
8. S.T. Forsaken (8:08)
9. Ashes To Dust (5:51)
10. A Poem I Couldn’t Rhyme (4:22)
An Opus Of Loss And Sorrow:
11. Pedestal I: Past Forever Last  (6:07)
12. Pedestal II: The Isle Of Shadows (9:08)
13. Pedestal III: Agony’s Last (6:53)
14. Fortress Of Sadness (10:04)
Album Length: 1:18:00

ILLUSORY is: 
Dee Theodorou – Vocals
George Papantonis – Guitars
Greg Bakos – Guitars
Niki Danos – Bass
Makis Vandoros – Keyboards
Costas Koulis – Drums

Keyboards on Crimson Wreath performed by George Konstantakelos and Dee Theodorou

Album Credits:
All songs composed, arranged and orchestrated by ILLUSORY
Produced by Yiannis Petroyiannis
Co-Produced byDee “K.man” Theodorou
Engineered and edited by Dee “K.man” Theodorou at theiCave StudioandYiannis Petroyiannisat the Matrix Studios
Mixed and Mastered by Yiannis Petroyiannis at theMatrix Studios
All songs composed, arranged and orchestrated by ILLUSORY
Art cover Design / Layout by Panagiotis “Hammer” Sfiris
Art concept conceived and directed byStiver Graunne
Photography by Vaios Roupis
Photo processing by Manos Psakis

Guests:
Choir on “The Isle Of Shadows” and “Fortress Of Sadness”: Anastasia Papadopoulou (Upon Revival), Gregory Koilakos (Fortis Ventus), Nancy Moschopoulou (Fortis Ventus) and Ophelia Baudelaire
Soprano Parts on “Fortress Of Sadness” by Nancy Moschopoulou (Fortis Ventus)
Additional Vocals on “Fortress Of Sadness” by Ophelia Baudelaire
Lullaby Intro on “Agony’s Last” by Mary Tirou
Classical Guitars on “Acedia” and Acoustic Guitars on “The Isle Of Shadows” by Dimitris Fakos
Piano on “All Shall Fade”, “Fortress Of Sadness” and “Past Forever Last” by Alexandros Roumeliotis
Narration on “Ashes To Dust” by Grigoris Valtinos
Narration on “Acedia” by Paul Logue
Narration on “The Voice Inside Me” by Stiver Graunne
Narration on “The Isle Of Shadows” by George Papantonis
Gang Voices by the Ivories & Gregory Koilakos (Fortis Ventus)
Choral Arrangements by Dee Theodorou


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