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(news) Finnish melodic metal band Scars Of Solitude releases new single ‘No Riddance’!

Photographer: J-V Hintikka

Finnish melodic metal quartet Scars of Solitude has released a new single. No Riddance is the second single taken from the group’s upcoming EP called If These Walls Could Talk to be released later this year.

Watch the music video: https://youtu.be/E5e9ZyOtOYQ 

Listen to the single:

Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3uMj2N8
Apple Music: https://apple.co/2Q2nvfN
Amazon: https://amzn.to/3mMnnNm
Deezer: https://www.deezer.com/us/album/218072432
Tidal: https://listen.tidal.com/album/178609899


According to the band’s singer/guitarist Tuomo Laulainen“No Riddance is a explosively energetic and vitally melodic metal anthem with a catchy chorus of which’s energy and straightforwardness is borrowed from pop-punk. The song used to go with the working title ’Paramore’ for a long time. The song’s lyrics were written during the sleepless nights accompanied by arrythmia and anxiety as if it were the exact opposite of the song’s musical side.”
The music video for No Riddance was filmed during the “busy gigging year” of 2020 and it is filled with the band’s hearty spirit and its live energy. Luckily the band could go and play most of their planned shows safely even during the weird year and only had to cancel two of them.
The EP still has no release date but it should see the light of day during the second half of the year. More details will follow once the release date has been set. 

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Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcH4O8CN_X0BJfQj26E44fg
Twitter: https://twitter.com/scarsofsolitude

(news) Polish progmetallers FACTOR 8 release the official video for – Insomnia!

Polish progressive metal band FACTOR 8 release the official video for “Insomnia”.

“Insomnia” is the second single off the yet-untitled EP which is planned for late 2021. “The Valkyries”, the debut record of the band from Bydgoszcz was released in 2016.

Factor 8 are:

Bartek Wojciechowski (vocals)

Mariusz Lemański (guitars, backing vocals)

Kamil Robaczewski (bass)

Peter ‘Lestath’ Leszczyński (drums, samples)

Daniel Pradella (keyboards)

Video: Peter “Lestath” Leszczynski ( Red Sun Studio ) – project direction, cameraman, lights, fx, video edit, post-production

Radosław Górski ( RADVISUAL ) – art direction, 3D modeling, animations, graphic

Video Edit : Peter ‘Lestath’ Leszczyński

Dariusz Głuchowski: Camera assistant

(news) Vreid offered touching and eerie tribute to Valfar with their new video!

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Norway´s VREID just released their fourth video taken off their new album and movie project and with this video and song they pay touching and eerie tribute to their past, namely the late singer Valfar and their former band Windir.

VREID comments: “Into the Mountains is the essence of Sognametal, a hymn to Sogndal and a celebration of our ancestors and legacy. Late winter 2020 preparing for the new album, I went through my old recording hard discs and I found some old ideas for riffs that I had made in 2002. It was from a session between the 1184 and Likferd albums from WINDIR. I also found some unused keyboard parts recorded by Valfar from the same period. I could not remember these and became euphoric by rediscovering this. So, I blocked out the outside world, locked myself in the studio, and it instantly sent me 20 years back in time. I felt spellbound while working on this song. For a few days it felt like me and Valfar were working together in the studio again, and what a weird and fantastic session it was. The dynamic of working together with Valfar is something that I will always miss, and these strange days it felt like journeying into a lost time. The result of this session is “Into the Mountains”, a song that feels so pure, fresh and vital for us, yet with a great homage to our olden times. Life is a strange and curvy road.”