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Swedish goth rock/metal band OUTSHINE will be presenting their fifth full-length “The Awakening” this coming May 2022 via Rockshots Records. The album follows their four previous LPs since beginning in 2007. With a vision of darkness and melancholy in a visual landscape, their forthcoming album is all about what has happened in the world during pandemic times.

Now, the band shares their music video for the album’s second single “Our Misery“. Similar to their first single “It´s All Lies”, except this track is more about “our” misery, our plague. “The song is about the last few years under Covid when totalitarian movement that spread like a wildfire. All the lies, the biased mainstream media spreading fear and pushing narratives that divides people even further. But the thing is that this is not their misery, their greif. It´s everybody’s misery, “Our Misery”, our plague. We think it is someone else problem and as long as I comply everything will be fine. But that is not the way, we are all in it together. We shouldn´t listen to the divisive mainstream media, elites or woke mentality that is trying to divide people and paint “scapegoats” when it is the elites and bought media that is the real plague. It´s our misery and we need to unite, we need to enlighten our fellow man to evolve and get out of this movement“, says band founder, guitarist, and vocalist Jimmy Boman.

Digital:https://bfan.link/our-misery

Outshine‘s new album “The Awakening” was produced by Jimmy Boman & Kenny Boufadene at Studio Meltdown, Sweden, and was recorded and re-recorded numerous times at Grand Recordings, Gothenburg, Sweden between 2015-2019. Final recordings were done in 2020 at Studio Meltdown, Kungsbacka, Sweden.

“The Awakening” will feature eight dark, melancholy, film noir-ish, heavy, and gloomy tracks with more of a Sisters Of Mercy, Paradise Lost & Type O Negative feel to it with influences from 1980’s horror movies soundscapes.

Boman adds:

“The album’s first songs are about the dark side of the pandemic and then the other songs turn more to fighting back, realizing that you yourself need to wake up and open your eyes. The final songs are about we, the common people, need to unite and fight back. Should you trust everything that is said and shown in mainstream media and TV? The idea of this record is to get the listener deep into darkness and soul-searching to awake and open their eyes. I really hope they hear, see, and feel that now, finally, all pieces are in place for what Outshine should be all about. The videos we plan to present, the sound, the lyrics, are all in sync. And that they take the lyrics to heart since they are as important as a reflection on what has happened in society the last few years during the pandemic.”

Album CD Preorder – https://bit.ly/Outshine_CD
Vinyls:https://bit.ly/OUTSHINE_Vinyl

Previous single “It’s All Lies”
Watch “It’s All Lies” at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2KeeE2X_F8
Digital – https://bfan.link/it-s-all-lies