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The USA-based wayward occult rockers 1476 have released a lyric video for "When Comes The Dawn?", the first single from its forthcoming album In Exile, slated for release on 7 July.
1476's singer and multi-instrumentalist Robb Kavjian explains: "The track 'When Comes The Dawn?' revolves around owning the callousness of our days, while the rest of the album presents other worlds to explore as possible solutions, escapes, escalations, and other such paths. The song explores where we may be going wrong. For this reason, this song was intended to become the opening track of In Exile, but it ended up in the middle of the album because it just sounded much better there. We're quite happy to present this song as the first single instead".
There seems to be something sinister lurking beneath the beautiful surface of the lands that have become known as New England with the arrival of European settlers. Edgar Allan Poe, H. P. Lovecraft, and Stephen King, all three American originators of the horror genre were born and raised and created their dark masterpieces there.
Therefore it is hardly surprising that a band hailing from the infamous town of Salem, Massachusetts, such as 1476, created an album heading down a dark road. Yet In Exile is not telling stories about witches, ghouls, or tentacled beings emerging from the depth of the ocean. It is we, the people, who are on this path.
In Exile, each song represents a world of its own. It all started when singer and multi-instrumentalist Robb Kavjian pondered upon that ancient question of where people go when they die. In his mind, he started to imagine real persons and imaginary characters as mystical beings or deities; each with their own attributes and powers based on their individual traits. These avatars served as spiritual guides to their worlds during meditations that used visualisation techniques, and they also laid out their philosophies – not all of them agreeable to the musician but still dutifully recorded on this album.
This concept of individual worlds in the afterlife led to a stylistically quite diverse album, which does not make it easier to pin the sound of the band down with only a few words. In Exile contains elements of folk, rock, metal, punk, and also a healthy pinch of post-punk, which can be summed up loosely as 'wayward occult rock'.
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In Exile tracklist:
01. Lost in Exile
02. Lapis Fire: Through the Mist
03. Tristesse in Exile
04. Jade Fire: A Paragon
05. When Comes the Dawn?
06. May Mountains Never Fall
07. Where Kings Fall
08. A Queen in Exile
09. Beyond the Meadows, Beyond the Moors
10. Carnelian Fire: The Gallows
11. Where Are You?
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