Italian Legendary Power Metallers DRAKKAR have released their second video interview (of 3) in a series covering their new album “Chaos Lord”, coming on March 26th. This time it’s the singer, Davide Dell’Orto, giving us his thoughts and insight about the new Drakkar full-lenght, the sixth in their long history.
The band spent most of 2019 writing and recording the album, which was supposed to be released in 2020, when… a world pandemic happened! Now it is finally ready for release, and it will be out before end of March! Recordings were held at Elnor Studio under sound engineer and producer supervisor, Mattia Stancioiu (Crimson Dawn, Labÿrinth, Sunstorm, Madhour). That’s metal for you all… Stay power!
Born in 1995, Drakkar is one of the prime movers of the Italian Power Metal scene, together with bands like Rhapsody Of Fire, Labÿrinth and Domine.
Italian Legendary Power Metallers DRAKKAR have released the first of the video teasers, entitled “The Coming of the Chaos Lord” in which they give you details and thoughts about their brand new album “Chaos Lord”, coming out on March 26th via Punishment18 Records.
In this first installement, DRAKKAR’s guitarist and original member Dario Beretta talks about the album in general, and what the band set out to achieve with it.
The band spent most of 2019 writing and recording the album, which was supposed to be released in 2020, when… a world pandemic happened! Now it is finally ready for release, and it will be out before end of March! Recordings were held at Elnor Studio under sound engineer and producer supervisor, Mattia Stancioiu (Crimson Dawn, Labÿrinth, Sunstorm, Madhour). That’s metal for you all… Stay power!
Born in 1995, Drakkar is one of the prime movers of the Italian Power Metal scene, together with bands like Rhapsody Of Fire, Labÿrinth and Domine.
Recently, legendary power metal band DRAKKAR signed a record deal with Punishment 18 Records for the release of their new full-length, titled “Chaos Lord”. Today the band has unleashed the first taste of the upcoming album, the official audio for “Lord of a Dying Race”, stream it below.
The band spent most of 2019 writing and recording the album, which was supposed to be released in 2020, when… a world pandemic happened! Now it is finally ready for release, and it will be out before end of March! Recordings were held at Elnor Studio under sound engineer and producer supervisor, Mattia Stancioiu (Crimson Dawn, Labÿrinth, Sunstorm, Madhour). That’s metal for you all… Stay power!
Stream “Lord of a Dying Race” below.
Born in 1995, Drakkar is one of the prime movers of the Italian Power Metal scene, together with bands like Rhapsody Of Fire, Labÿrinth and Domine.
Legendary power metallers DRAKKAR have signed a record deal with Punishment 18 Records for the release of the band’s long-awaited new album in 2021! More details will be revealed soon.
A couple words from Dario: “We are very happy to have found a new home at Punishment 18 for Drakkar. I’ve been very satisfied with their work on the last 2 Crimson Dawn records. I’ve known Corrado Breno for ages and he’s a real professional who is always truthful, and never afraid to speak his mind, which is something I value immensely. He and the rest of the P18 staff have been very supportive of our efforts, and also of the launch of our Patreon page, so it was only natural to ink this new deal with them”. More details – and MORE METAL – will follow soon! Ps. Band portraits are from the great Alessandro Bragalini, as usual!
Born in 1995, Drakkar is one of the prime movers of the Italian Power Metal scene, together with bands like Rhapsody Of Fire, Labÿrinth and Domine.
Milan-based Power Metallers DRAKKAR have announced the release of a new EP in November. The EP, titled “Falling Down”, will be out in digital version on the band’s Bandcamp page and will be available in both physical and digital version, with one additional song, exclusively on the band’s Patreon page.
“We’ve had a new album ready for a while, and it was supposed to come out this year”, said Dario Beretta, Drakkar’s guitarist, “But the pandemic situation and the impossibility to play live has convinced us and the label that will put it out – whose name we cannot reveal yet – to wait until early 2021 to do a proper launch. However, we didn’t want to end 2020 without a new release, especially for our Patreon subscribers, so we’ve recorded 3 new songs and 1 cover version of “Toss a Coin to your Witcher” from the popular Netflix show. The EP will be available in digital version on our Bandcamp page in November, with 2 new songs plus the cover. Subscribers of our Patreon page will also get the digital version, plus a special, limited physical edition with one additional song. This version won’t be available anywhere else – only on www.patreon.com/darianmetal. It’s our way to thank our subscribers on Patreon for their support, which is more important than ever at a time like this, when live shows are very hard to come by”.
The EP also marks the first release of the new, 5-piece line-up of the band. “We decided to go on without a regular keyboard player”, said Dario. “We would like to give the biggest possible thanks to Emanuele Laghi for 5 years of incredible work. Our decision to go on as a 5-piece has absolutely nothing to do with the great contribution he’s brought to the band for as long as he’s been on board. In fact, he has also played on the aforementioned new album which will come out next year, and will continue to collaborate with us in the future as a special guest. However, our sound has evolved in a way which made keyboards less and less relevant, and it wouldn’t have been fair to Lele – or to any other keyboard player – to be officially in the band, and at the same time put to the sidelines in terms of actual contribution to the songs. We wish him the best for the future, and of course, he will keep being an integral part of my other band Crimson Dawn, so all his fans can rest easy, nothing has changed there!”.
The artwork for the new EP was created by Alessandro Bragalini, who’s been in charge of all Drakkar’s artwork since their comeback release from 2012, “When Lightning Strikes”. The new EP has been rercoded by Mat Stancioiu at Elnor Studio, who also worked on all the band’s releases since 2012.
San Diego’s longest running, still active Heavy metal band CAGE have announced 2 new exciting releases and a European mini tour with DRAKKAR, as support act on selected shows.
Their 5th studio album has been remixed, remastered, and partially re-recorded to modern day standards, and is being called SCIENCE OF ANNIHILATION RE-ANNIHILATED. The digipak will be released November 15, 2019 through STEEL CARTEL and features brand new cover art and 2 unreleased bonus tracks. Guitarist David Garcia says, “This album is where we took a very heavy, thrash oriented direction, and I really wanted to hear it in all of its intended glory. So we asked our current drummer SEAN ELG to re-record all of the drums and I went to work on remixing the entire record all over again.”
Vocalist SEAN PECK said “This is my favorite CAGE record, and when Dave suggested we make it sound right I was stoked. I re-sang a couple of parts and we had to re-do some guitars too but I love how it came out! The fact we were able to throw some bonus tracks on there makes it really cool too. This album was highly praised in the press back 10 years ago, when it first came out and many of these songs are still in our live set. MARC SASSO did a killer job on the new cover art. It is a different look for us and shows what came next after the original cover art scene depiction. Basically it is the armies of hell going into battle!”
Also being released on Nov 15, 2019 for the first time ever is their classic DARKER THAN BLACK album on double vinyl. This album garnered 10 album of the year awards and was widely heralded as perhaps CAGE’s finest achievement. Now it will be able to be heard on turntables all over the world with a limited run of only 500 units being pressed in 2 colors, Darker Than Black Black and Blood of the Innocent Red.
Cage is offering a special SCIENCE OF THE BLACK bundle package for both items that comes with a free turntable mat with all new artwork from MARC SASSO (DIO, HALFORD, ADRENALINE MOB).
For ordering information, visit http://www.cageheavymetal.com/store.htm, and to view their “Across the Sea of Madness” video from their 2015 Ancient Evil album, watch below.
To celebrate these new releases CAGE will be embarking on a quick mini tour in Europe where these new products will also be available.
A trailer for the new releases can be found here:
Confirmed tour dates:
November 29 Renchen Germany The Come Inn
November 30 Douai France Heavy Metal Destruction Festival (headliner)
December 1 Hautrage Belgium Canal 10
December 3 Moers Germany Dschungel Club
December 4 Breda Netherlands Bel Air
December 5 Bilzen Belgium South Of Heaven
December 6 Geleen Belgium Der Meister
December 7 Kuurne Belgium Blast From The Past Festival
