Morten Veland (SIRENIA, MORTEMIA and founder of TRISTANIA) released the seventh Mortemia song from ‘The Covid Aftermath Sessions’ today. The track is entitled ‘Samurai’ and features Marina La Torraca from the bands Exit Eden & Phantom Elite on guest vocals. The song is a cover version by the artist, producer and songwriter Michael Cretu. It’s available on all digital platforms as of today, the 8thof March 2024.
Song on digital platforms: Samurai (feat. Marina La Torraca) by Mortemia – DistroKid
Morten Veland:
“I’m proud and honoured to welcome Marina La Torraca from Exit Eden and Phantom Elite as my special guest for ‘The Covid Aftermath Sessions’. The song that we have done together is a cover version of one of my favourite producers outside the metal genre; Michael Cretu. The song we have chosen is called ‘Samurai’, and this is also the first time I release a song in the German language. Marina did an amazing performance on our version of Samurai, and I found it awesome that we could do this song in German. There is an English version of the song as well, but Marina and I both preferred to do the German version for our collaboration. I feel truly privileged and thankful to have Marina on board this project, the song is now available on all digital platforms.”
Marina La Torraca:
„When Morten reached out to me about it, I was stoked. Many of my talented colleagues have collaborated with him on his super cool project called Mortemia, and I know he means business! But the choice of song is what caught me right away: Morten wanted to cover the German version of “Samurai”, which I found super unusual – and I looove unusual! He also had no idea that despite of being Brazilian, He also had no idea that I actually live in Germany. So that was a pretty funny coincidence! A couple of months later, here we are: we both put quite some work into this track, so I hope everyone enjoys this metalized tribute to this 80’s masterpiece.“
After 11 years of silence Norwegian multi-instrumentalist, producer and artist Morten Veland activated his solo project Mortemia during the early stages of the Covid 19 pandemic, this time with a brand new concept consisting of collaborations with multiple guest singers. ‘The Pandemic Pandemonium Sessions’ was a series of singles released on a monthly basis, each song featuring a well known and highly profiled guest singer from the metal scene. Now he is ready to endeavor on the next project entitled ‘The Covid Aftermath Sessions’, once more the project will feature multiple amazing guest singers.
So far the following singers has contributed for his collaborations:
Madeleine Liljestam (Eleine)
Marcela Bovio (Stream of Passion, Ayreon, MaYaN, Dark Horse White Horse)
Alessia Scolletti (Temperance, ERA)
Liv Kristine (Liv Kristine, ex-Theatre of Tragedy, ex-Leaves Eyes)
Melissa Bonny (Ad Infinitum, The Dark Side of the Moon)
Brittney Slayes (Unleash the Archers)
Maja Shining (Forever Still)
Erica Ohlsson (Metalite)
Heidi Parviainen (Dark Sarah, ex Amberian Dawn)
Zora Cock (Blackbriar)
Linda Toni Grahn (Anima Veil, ex Follow the Cipher)
Caterina Nix (Chaos Magic)
Federica Lanna (Volturian)
Ulli Perhonen (ex-Snow White Blood)
Ambre Vourvahis (Xandria)
Fabienne Erni (Eluveitie, Illumishade)
Lindy-Fay Hella (Wardruna)
Margarita Monet (Edge of Paradise)
Marina La Torraca (Exit Eden, Phantom Elite)
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