Finnish heavy metal outfit GREEN KING share the third and final single from their upcoming debut album “Hidden Beyond Time”. “Steel on Ice” is inspired by the immortal metal era of the ’70/80s, and features galloping riffs, melodic dual- guitar arrangements and fierce vocals. The single is released on The Sign Records today, the 25th of November.

Listen to “Steel on Ice” through your favorite sreaming platform or right here:

Green King on “Steel on Ice”:
Steel On Ice is one of the first songs that shaped Green King’s music into what it is now – up-front guitar harmonies and riffs that make your fingers wiggle. The song tells a story about love towards ice, warrior’s urge to destroy one’s enemies, war and love at the gates of hell. Behind all this is Sega Megadrive, NHL97 and many hazy nights spent at our practice place’s dirty couch.

Green King’s debut album “Hidden Beyond Time” will be released on the 16th of December via The Sign Records. The album will be available on transparent violet vinyl, green vinyl, CD (digipack) and all streaming platforms and is available for pre-order through Bandcamp or at THIS LOCATION

Tracklist:

1. Gates of Annihilation
2. Godkiller
3. Prelude to Massacre
4. Steel On Ice
5. Taunter’s Theme
6. Tervakiituri
7. Where Speedian Dwells
8. Lifetakers

Finland’s GREEN KING launch the single “Where Speedian Dwells”. The single tells the true story of Green King kicking out violent nazis from their rehearsal space. A true heavy metal attack, “Where Speedian Dwells” offers thrilling guitar harmonies, chugging riffs, and gutsy vocals communicating a strong anti-nazi message. The single is the second one leading up to Green King’s debut album “Hidden Beyond Time”, which will be released on The Sing Records on the 16th of December.

Listen to “Where Speedian Dwells” through your favorite sreaming platform or right here:

Green King explains the story behind “Where Speedian Dwells”:
“This song is equally a love-letter to our old practice place called “hellhole”, and equally our antifascist anthem. Hellhole was a smelly basement complex in an old industrial building where people used to party a lot. The song is partly about that place and our love for all the drunken times we’ve spent there. 

There’s a line in the song that says “hole caused”. There’s a backstory for that. One time these black metal youngsters, who had their practice room upstairs from our ‘hellhole’, asked if they could do a gig in our place. There was this huge hall in the basement next to our rehearsal rooms and they wanted to play the gig there. Of course we said yes because we wanted to hear these young dudes play black metal. However, it turned out that the audience they brought along were a bit too much into national socialism. There even was this older guy in full SS uniform. Needles to say we weren’t too happy about that and started to kick them out. Like in the movie “Anchorman”, things escalated pretty quickly. With some help from our friends in a band called Baltimor, we finally managed to kick those nazi scums out. 

That incident gave this song a whole new meaning, we gave the nazis their own medicine at hellhole, the “holecaust”. The song is called “where Speedian Dwells” because we didn’t want anyone to mix it up with the term “holocaust” so we changed the title and the lyrics. The title is also a reference to those many, many drunken nights spent in our beloved hellhole. 

Long story short, this song is about kicking some nazi ass while doing drugs in hellhole. Let this song be our antifascist anthem, our own “Nazi Punks Fuck Off”.“

Green King are:
Eliel Salomaa : Guitars and vocals
Lauri Lyytinen : Guitars
Heikki Nyman : Bass
Otto Bigler : Drums

The Sign Records is proud to announce that Finnish heavy metal group GREEN KING has joined the label. Originally formed as a side project to play stoner rock- inspired heavy music, Green King‘s members have long been part of the Finnish music scene in bands such as Rokets, Black Lizard, Rusty Triggers, and United Seafood. Quickly making a name for themselves in the heavy underground scene for their monumental riffs and colossal guitar harmonies, the Helsinki based four piece released the EP “Rock Alley Tapes” earlier in 2022. Now, the group is set to launch their debut, full length studio album “Hidden Beyond Time” in winter 2022, with the first single “Godkiller”, now available on all streaming platforms.

Listen to “Godkiller” through your favorite streaming platform or right here:

Green King comments: 

Godkiller is a song that pays homage to an 80’s thrash/speed metal band Holy Terror. The title comes from a video game I used to play when writing this song, so Godkiller isn’t much of a statement against christianity rather than a big heavy metal nerd out, but maybe let’s not tell that to the Jesus freaks out there. We’re proud and excited to release the first single from our upcoming album with the Sign records, this for sure is a milestone for us as a band!

Green King are:
Eliel Salomaa : Guitars and vocals
Lauri Lyytinen : Guitars
Heikki Nyman : Bass
Otto Bigler : Drums