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After breaking the charts worldwide with Escape Of The Phoenix (2021), Gothenburg's finest export of darkness, Evergrey, enters a bewildering new chapter with its new album, A Heartless Portrait (The Orphean Testament), out on 20 May via Napalm Records.
With the previously released, pounding album opener "Save Us", Evergrey lifted the curtain on an overwhelming journey through the progressive heaviness and searing emotionality. Yesterday unleashed the glistening second single "Midwinter Calls" draws the listener further into this multifaceted world of sound with its grooving instrumentation, flowing between boisterous dynamics and a next-level vocal performance by mastermind Tom S. Englund - one of the most distinctive vocalists in metal. The powerful track gleams with its melodic tunes and guitar riffs and marks just one out of many highlights of the new epos. The song features atmospheric audio recordings from the band's latest tour through Sweden, giving the song a special effect and fans another opportunity to leave their everlasting mark on Evergrey history.
Evergrey on "Midwinter Calls": "'Midwinter Calls' is the second song, but also the second chapter of a three-video story that reveals itself in reverse order, why make it easy, huh? This song is full of energy, and it's, once again, featuring our fans and the live audience of Gothenburg, Stockholm and Karlstad - Co-creating at its best! We can't wait to hear the whole world singing along to this when we play it live! Hopefully, you will find the video both thought-provoking and uplifting at the same time. What is important, who are we and why? The resistance is getting real!"
Celebrating over 25 years of metal mastery, Evergrey, led by founder, singer and guitarist Tom S. Englund, is known for wandering the realms of progressive and heavy melodic metal and painting sonic renderings with their twelve studio records released as of today. A Heartless Portrait (The Orphean Testament) reveals a ten-track mélange of which every note, every riff and every word seeps pure poetry - creating a ceaseless intensity that mesmerizes from the very first second.
The new album was recorded at Top Floor Studios Gothenburg, engineered by Jakob Herrman and produced by Tom S. Englund and Jonas Ekdahl, with mixing and mastering by Jacob Hansen at Hansen Studios (Volbeat, Destruction, Epica and many more), whereas the hauntingly beautiful album artwork was conjured by Giannis Nakos at Remedy Art Design.
Evergrey on the new album: "Here it is! A new album! Yet again! This is what we love about music, it never ends! Our mission is to write music so here you are! 10 new songs! 10 new Evergrey songs that we hope you will have by your side as your life continues to shift and grow. 10 songs that we wish will be part of the soundtrack when you're creating new memories and new possibilities in your life. 10 songs that we feel privileged to have you listen to. 10 songs that have risen through the ashes of two years where our creativity has had more time than ever to flourish. 10 songs we hope you will enjoy as much as we did writing them. As usual, we have given it our best and we can't wait to hear what you have to say! A new year, a new album, a new record label = new possibilities. All this can only be positive, right? Enjoy!"
Now, listen to "Midwinter Calls" - right below. Link
A Heartless Portrait (The Orphean Testament) tracklist:
01. Save Us
02. Midwinter Calls
03. Ominous
04. Call Out the Dark
05. The Orphean Testament
06. Reawakening
07. The Great Unwashed
08. Heartless
09. Blindfolded
10.Wildfires
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