BELETH are Chris Long and Sebasthian Bentos-Pereira
“Black Speech” is a track taken from BELETH critically acclaimed album “Silent Genesis” out via Wormholedeath worldwide.
Black Speech is about depression taking a physical form, and speaking to you from behind, trying to manipulate and influence your thoughts and decisions, and ultimately destroy you.
BELETH music delivers a dark, heavy, driving punch, with an element of groove, catchy riffs, and ferocious, guttural vocals. Influences come from a large and diverse background of metal sub-genres, which can make it difficult to pinpoint a specific category to their sound.
DIABOŁ BORUTA is a Polish band which has been in the scene since 2010 and plays folk metal since the beginning. However, with the upcoming album, it undeniably changes its musical direction.
New studio album called „Żywioły” offers in addition to the folk-rock atmosphere lots thrash and heavy metal parts and the whole thing has been enriched with death and black metal parts, as well as elements of ethnic music and classical, melodic rock. The vocal parts have been solidly varied a from clean singing to growls and screams.
The lyrics contain descriptions of the four elements according to Slavic mythology: Historyię o Wiedźmaku (eng. The History of the Witcher) and the Pielgrzym sons, as well as two songs in English, The last song from the album – Ziemia (Dreamtime) tells about … Aborigines.
Date of release is scheduled on 17 January 2022 and will out as CD. City hall of Rzeszów (capital of Sub-Carpathian region) is main supporter of this release.
Bob Katsionis’ Symmetric Records proudly presents the return of an underground cult legend: VALIDOR!
Having already released three studio albums: “In Blood In Battle” (2011), “Dawn Of The Avenger” (2012) and “Hail To Fire” (2016) and the re-issue of their debut album in 2020, it is about time to move on to their next chapter. “Full Triumphed” continues the epic journey of VALIDOR! The band is led by guitarist/singer/songwriter Odi “Thunderer” Toutounis and once again we get 9 new chapters telling stories of War, Ancient Greek Heroes, Roman Gladiators, Gods & Demons and even iconic 80’s culture legends like the “Silverhawks” or Robocop on the track “Man Of Steel”! Musically we got the epic storytelling of bands like Virgin Steele and Bathory, the raw power and big sound of Manowar are here combined with the galloping guitars of Iced Earth, plus the Dorian melodies of Running Wild and Blind Guardian and even some thrash and speed metal passages to form the truly unique sound of VALIDOR:Blood Metal!
In the words of Bob Katsionis: “I’ve been working with Odi since 2009. While looking like a guy who listens to nothing by Manowar, Odi carries a background of musical influences spanning from early Black Metal to Greek composers like Manos Hadjidakis or Basil Poledouris and from King Diamond to Death, Kreator, and Megadeth!So, making music with a guy with such an open mind and a clear target of what he wants to achieve, is nothing but a pleasure. His sense of melody and groove is also second to none! I also admire his desire to sing the songs all by himself even if he’s not your typical “epic metal singer”. The way he spits out every word is so meaningful and powerful that it could not be replaced by anyone. And for me, this is what makes projects like Validor so special through time.”
Producer Bob Katsionis handles the lead guitar, bass, and keyboard duties once more and the line-up is completed by drummer Apollo Giannoulis.
Artwork was once again made by Kostas Tsiakos (www.papergoblin.com) also responsible for some great art behind Warlord, Born Of Fire, Dexter Ward and many more.
Following the policy of other Symmetric Records releases, “Full Triumphed” is not going to be fully available through any streaming service (like Spotify or iTunes etc.) and can only be ordered directly from Symmetric Records’ Bandcamp website in digital or physical form on a Deluxe Digipak CD with an 8-page booklet and for the first time on a fiery-red CASSETTE to please even the most old-school fans and can only be found here:https://validor.bandcamp.com/
“The Ten Thousand” [Lyric Video 2022]
(Watch it here)
TRACKLISTING: 1. Dawn Of New Age 2. Son Of Steel 3. Man Of Steel 4. Strong Winds 5. Blood Metal Legions 6. Silverhawks 7. Gladiator 8. The Ten Thousand 9. Conquest Of Steel All Music & Lyrics by Odi Thunderer LINE UP: Odi Thunderer: Vocals, GuitarBob Katsionis: Lead Guitar, Bass, KeyboardsApollo Giannoulis: Drums & Classical Percussion CREDITS: Produced and mixed by Bob KatsionisRecorded Jan-Feb 2021 at Sound Symmetry Studio, Athens, GRMastered by Nasos Nomikos at VU Productions, Piraeus, GRArtwork by Kostas Tsiakos (www.papergoblin.com)Logo by Odi Thunderer
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