Romanian avant-garde and dark metal trio BLOODWAY have released an animated video for the newest album’s title-track “A Fragile Riddle Crypting Clues”, featuring GRAVE PLEASURES’ Mat McNerney.
“A Fragile Riddle Crypting Clues” was released by the Italian label I, Voidhanger Records in the fall of 2017. The album represents the ending of a conceptual trilogy given that “A Fragile Riddle Crypting Clues” is the last song on the newest full length. Lyric-wise, the song sums up the overall theme on BLOODWAY’s third record. “A Fragile Riddle Crypting Clues” ends with a spoken-word passage by Mat McNerney, the singer of Grave Pleasures, Hexvessel and former vocalist in Dødheimsgard for the “Supervillain Outcast”. The video was created by Bloodway’s mastermind Costin Chioreanu and is based on the surreal imagery which illustrated thelatest record. The visual metaphors got thus animated and engaged in a hypnotic experience.
Romania’s BLOODWAY will release a new album on 3rd November 2017. The video of “Midlight Scout”, the first single coming from the album “A Fragile Riddle Crypting Clues” it’s out now (watch below)! More details here:
Romania’s BLOODWAY cement their relationship with I, Voidhanger Records by releasing “A Fragile Riddle Crypting Clues”, the closing chapter of a trilogy which started in 2014 with the “Sunstone Voyager And The Clandestine Horizon” EP and continued the following year with the band’s first full-length, “Mapping The Moment With The Logic Of Dreams”. Lead by Costin Chioreanu, one of the most celebrated graphic artists within today’s metal field, BLOODWAY blend black metal, progressive metal, heavy rock and psychedelia in equal parts, forging a very peculiar style that revolves around deep emotions and dark inner visions, exactly like Chioreanu’s surreal art.
“In this new chapter the same character from the previous albums returns to the world of humans, but with a different and larger perspective, animated by his experiences and mental transformations,” Chioreanu explains. “The world is nothing but a prison, with virtual walls risen from the controlled collective intellect, where all the prisoners are locked in by themselves. Everyone is free to go and live outside the so-called system, but nobody really wants to leave the cells for the unknown.”
It’s a concept made of disenchantment and melancholy, and yet the album is more aggressive than BLOODWAY’s past material, as well as extremely dark. “In this prison, our character buries his achieved illusions about humanity and rediscovers memories from childhood,” Chioreanu continues; “he is attacked by chimeras, fears imposed by will, but at the same time he reaches illumination by simply accepting reality in it’s complete and horribly deceiving splendor. So he realizes that everything is nothing but a matter of perception.”
From the lyrical perspective, “A Fragile Riddle Crypting Clues” is BLOODWAY’s most introspective record, one that truly investigates Costin Chioreanu’s spirit, as underlined by two intense spoken words recited by Tomas Lindberg (At The Gates) and Mat McNerney (Hexvessel). “I never spoke straight about my personal experiences and personal life the way I am doing now,” he says. “I felt truly free and confident with myself doing this record, and that fueled its specific nature. I think our goal as a band was to bring into this world a very special record, by all means. I am deeply confident that we succeeded.”
TRACKLIST
1. Not Whom, But Where (feat. Tomas Lindberg) (2:21)
2. The Startling Grotesque (5:04)
3. Don’t Wake The Void (8:09)
4. Midlight Scout (6:15)
5. Prison Paradise (7:25)
6. The Incident (6:25)
7. Encounters To Pray For (4:54)
8. A Fragile Riddle Crypting Clues (feat. Mat McNerney) (5:11)
Check out the video “Midlight Scout” of the very first single off the new record:
VALBORG (Germany) & BLOODWAY (Romania) will release a digital split EP via Bandcamp on July 7th.
In the aftermath of the joint “Horrors of the Unknown“ tour in fall 2015 (see the documentary video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N61L3Zu5OTU) both bands decided to celebrate their friendship through a very special event: while being in Bucharest earlier this year for a concert and the recording of a coming 7“, VALBORG teamed up with BLOODWAY to spontaneously create and record a song together: “Karbon Winter“. Together with “Ashes“, featuring only the guitarists of both bands, it will be made available as a digital EP via Bandcamp on July 7th.
On May 28, the Romanian dark metal band BLOODWAY – lead by the renowned Romanian graphic designer Costin Chioreanu from Twilight13media – have returned on stage after eight months of absence. With this occasion, the band performed together with the Norwegian black/thrash metal masters AURA NOIR in Fabrica Club from Bucharest, Romania. Below you can watch live footage from the show with BLOODWAY performing the songs “Garden of Diurnal Fractals” and “Mirror Twins”:
The songs Garden of Diurnal Fractals and Mirror Twins come from the album Mapping the Moment with the Logic of Dreams that was released on 25 September 2015 by I, Voidhanger Records from Italy. The album it is available for streaming and can be bought in digital format from the official Bandcamp page of the group, here.
In the fall of 2015 BLOODWAY was in a tour called “Horrors of the Unknown” together with the bands PERIHELION from Hungary and VALBORG from Germany. Below you can see a short documentary made by Gina Sandulescu about this tour:
Also on Bandcamp it’s available the EP Sunstone Voyager and the Clandestine Horizon that was released on February 27, 2014 by I, Voidhanger Records, here.
BLOODWAY has released a new video, this time for the song ‘Mirror Twins’, taken from the band’s upcoming album “Mapping the Moment with the Logic of Dreams”, set to be released on 25th of September via the Italian label, I, Voidhanger Records as a jewel case CD, including a booklet that has 20 pages.
The video was directed by Costin Chioreanu and it was filmed also by him together with Gina Sandulescu and Ghita Alexandru Adrian. The characters in the story were played by Crina Cristina Marian, Alexandra Victoria Dragu and Ghita Alexandru Adrian. Watch it below.
“Why did we cross 1500 kilometers and why did we have to reach three distant places in Bulgaria in order to film this video? It is because there we found the perfect sceneries to illustrate this song in the proper way. If someone reads the lyrics and goes deep into the story, then he/she will understand what I am saying. I think that we were very lucky that we did not have to cross half of the planet to reach these places. Or we did not have to struggle, like we did for the previous video, to imitate that space where unfortunately and most probably, we will never have the access… And yes, I am talking about Cosmos.” – Costin Chioreanu, 24th of September
Here you can listen and preorder the “Mapping the Moment with the Logic of Dreams” album.
Tracklist for “Mapping the Moment with the Logic of Dreams”:
1. Seeding Distance (1:49)
2. The Transfinite Castaway (7:05)
3. Walking Past Near The Lighthouse (6:55)
4. Mirror Twins (4:09)
5. Early Glade Test Pilot (6:47)
6. A Hallow Bridge (5:57)
7. Garden Of Diurnal Fractals (5:33)
8. Mapping The Moment With The Logic Of Dreams (4:51)
Total running time 43:06
BLOODWAY– the band led by the Romanian graphic designer Costin Chioreanu from Twilight13media (At the Gates, Mayhem, Arcturus, Darkthrone, Sigh, Einherjer, Leprous, Paradise Lost, Bloodbath, Arch Enemy, Vulture Industries etc) – have released a new video “The Transfinite Castaway”, the opening song of their new album, “Mapping the Moment with the Logic of Dreams”. The video was directed and edited by Costin Chioreanu and filmed by the same artist, together with Gina Sandulescu and Marius Costache. The characters in the story were played by Claudiu Chihaescu and Crina Cristina Marian.
Watch the video below:
The “Mapping the Moment with the Logic of Dreams” full length will be released on 25th of September and is available for pre-orders at I, Voidhanger Records. Pre-order HERE.
Tracklist for “Mapping the Moment with the Logic of Dreams”:
1. Seeding Distance (1:49)
2. The Transfinite Castaway (7:05)
3. Walking Past Near The Lighthouse (6:55)
4. Mirror Twins (4:09)
5. Early Glade Test Pilot (6:47)
6. A Hallow Bridge (5:57)
7. Garden Of Diurnal Fractals (5:33)
8. Mapping The Moment With The Logic Of Dreams (4:51)
Total running time 43:06
