In celebration of their European tour with Insomnium and Omnium Gatherum beginning this week, today, Austin, Texas based melodic death metal unit HINAYANA have released a brand new single, entitled “Tempest Horizon”. Following in the footsteps of their latest album, Shatter And Fall, which Blabbermouth dubbed “monstrously heavy and instinctively dramatic”, the new track is equally crushing and melodic while boasting accessible grooves, icy blastbeats, massive guitars and dynamic vocal intensity. The track arrives alongside a dark, ominous music video.
Frontman Casey Hurd states about the track: “‘Tempest Horizon’ is about the storm that exists at the edge of every soul as it passes into the next realm. Breaching the barrier between life and death, the tumultuous journey the spirit makes when no longer confined to its mortal shell. The song is meant to be punchy and straight to the point, building off the HINAYANA sound but with new aggression and vigor – hinting at the band’s next era.”
HINAYANA European tour supporting Insomnium & Omnium Gatherum: 15.01.25 FR – Paris / Le Trabendo 16.01.25 NL – Utrecht / TivoliVredenburg 17.01.25 DE – Oberhausen / Turbinenhalle 18.01.25 DE – Leipzig / Hellraiser 19.01.25 CZ – Prague / Roxy 21.01.25 DE – Berlin / Festsaal Kreuzberg 22.01.25 DE – Hamburg / Markthalle 23.01.25 DE – Frankfurt / Batschkapp 24.01.25 CH – Pratteln / Z7 25.01.25 DE – Stuttgart / Im Wizemann 27.01.25 DE – München / Backstage 28.01.25 AT – Vienna / Simm City
Order HINAYANA’s Latest Album, Shatter And Fall, HERE
In 2018, HINAYANA first ensnared the masses with their self-released debut, Order Divine, and later defied the pandemic with their subsequent 2020 release, the Death Of The Cosmic EP. Produced by frontman Casey Hurd and Kevin Butler with mastering by Dan Swanö at Unisound, their latest, 2023’s Shatter And Fall, serves as a darker, more solemn work in comparison to their previous releases, yet superior without question in songwriting, technicality and cohesiveness. Shatter And Fall also features guest contributions from melodic death metal purveyors Tuomas Saukkonen of Wolfheart and Vincent Jackson Jones of Aether Realm. Setting them apart from contemporaries like Insomnium, Amorphis and Swallow the Sun, Shatter And Fall blends modern, accessible elements with equal parts melody and menace.
Shatter And Fall track listing: 1. Slowly Light Collides 2. Mind Is A Shadow (feat. Vincent Jackson Jones) 3. How Many Dreams 4. Spirit And Matter 5. From Our Darkest Moments 6. Reverse The Code 7. Lost To Flame 8. The Answer 9. Triptych Visions 10. A Tide Unturning (feat. Tuomas Saukkonen) 11. Taken
HINAYANA is: Casey Hurd – Guitar/Vocals Daniel Vieira – Drums Erik Shtaygrud – Guitar Michael Anstice – Keyboard Matt Bius – Bass
Austin, Texas based melodic death metal band-to-watch HINAYANA will release their massive sophomore full-length album, Shatter And Fall, this Friday, November 10, 2023 via Napalm Records.
Following their stunning recent singles “Reverse The Code” and “Triptych Visions”, HINAYANA have released their third new single,“A Tide Unturning”, featuring guest vocal contributions from Tuomas Saukkonen of WOLFHEART. The track shines as one of the most brutalizing yet pensive metal ballads of 2023, as flowing melodies and deep resonating guitars surround the crushing voices of Saukkonen and frontman Casey Hurd.
In 2018, HINAYANA first ensnared the masses with their self-released debut, Order Divine, and later defied the pandemic with their subsequent 2020 release, the Death Of The Cosmic EP. Produced by frontman Casey Hurd and Kevin Butler with mastering by Dan Swanö at Unisound, upcoming Shatter And Fall serves as a darker, more solemn work in comparison to their previous releases, yet superior without question in songwriting, technicality and cohesiveness. Shatter And Fall also features guest contributions from melodic death metal purveyors and labelmates Tuomas Saukkonen of WOLFHEART and Vincent Jackson Jones of AETHER REALM.
Setting them apart from contemporaries like Insomnium, Amorphis and Swallow the Sun, Shatter And Fall blends modern, accessible elements with equal parts melody and menace, emerging as a fresh entry in this year’s most head-turning metal offerings.
Frontman Casey Hurd says about the album: “Shatter And Fall is about Karma, one’s own fate, consequences, grief about our own actions, depression, loss of faith, yin and yang, light and dark, and our own unchanging nature as humans. It’s darker, heavier, and more diverse than our previous releases. We’re evolving and expanding on our sound to include more catchy and anthemic elements in addition to the darker, heavier material. This new album is a significant milestone for HINAYANA.”
Introductory track “Slowly Light Collides” opens the heavy gates of Shatter And Fall without hesitation, setting the stage for its impending intensity with a potent mixture of headbang-inducing heaviness and hair-raising melodies and harmonies. Second track “Mind Is A Shadow”, featuring guest vocals from Vincent Jackson Jones of fellow American melodic death metal frontrunners AETHER REALM, hits equally hard with a gripping, chunky verse riff and searing chorus. Frontman Casey Hurd’s deep growls juxtapose effortlessly with Jones’s skyscraper screams before a seizing solo from Erik Shtaygrud marks the track’s apex. Anthems like “How Many Dreams”, “The Answer” and enthralling groove machine “Reverse The Code” – the latter boasting one of the album’s most flourishing closer passages – march further into the icy depths, proving Shatter And Fall as a multifaceted melodeath record.
Powerful “Spirit And Matter” and somber yet essential, spine-tingling “Triptych Visions” feature some of the album’s most melancholic and introspective moments, traversing expansive peaks and valleys of deep metallic intensity and some of the album’s most delicate, acoustic-driven moments. The implementation of diverse styles, showcased by the varied instrumentation and intensity of songs like touching interlude “From Our Darkest Moments”, versus massive, crushing sonic saga “Lost To Flame”, poise the band for undeniable recognition. All-consuming single “A Tide Unturning”, featuring guest vocal contributions from Tuomas Saukkonen of Finnish melodic death icons WOLFHEART, shines as the most desolate summit of Shatter And Fall, serving as one of the most brutalizing yet pensive ballads of 2023. The album ends on the grimmest note of all with blackened closer “Taken”, a re-recorded, renewed look back at a track originally released on the band’s 2014 demo Endless – marking an apt finish to a contemplative, emotional album tangling with themes of fate, grief and inevitable consequence.
Shatter And Fall track listing: 1. Slowly Light Collides 2. Mind Is A Shadow (feat. Vincent Jackson Jones) 3. How Many Dreams 4. Spirit And Matter 5. From Our Darkest Moments 6. Reverse The Code 7. Lost To Flame 8. The Answer 9. Triptych Visions 10. A Tide Unturning (feat. Tuomas Saukkonen) 11. Taken
HINAYANA is on tour in Europe and the UK now, supporting headliners WOLFHEART and fellow support act BEFORE THE DAWN. See below for all dates!
Austin, Texas based melodic death metal band-to-watch HINAYANA recently announced the release of their unmissable upcoming sophomore full-length album, Shatter And Fall, out November 10, 2023 via Napalm Records. Setting them apart from contemporaries like Insomnium, Amorphis and Swallow the Sun, Shatter And Fall blends modern, accessible elements with equal parts melody and menace, emerging as a fresh entry in this year’s most head-turning metal offerings.
Today, following their recent debut of massive first single “Reverse The Code“, HINAYANA reveals the somber yet spine-tingling second single “Triptych Visions”. The track features some of Shatter And Fall’s most melancholic and introspective moments, with a grooving introduction, unforgettable chorus and an exemplary solo.
Frontman Casey Hurd says about “Triptych Visions”: “Be it addiction or simply yearning for another life, we can often get lost in our mind’s eye. ‘Triptych Visions’ is about one’s own inability to break loose from such a vicious cycle of self-destruction and escapism, regardless of the pain it always ends in. The track showcases an intense and emotional facet of HINAYANA’s new sonic direction.”
In 2018, HINAYANA first ensnared the masses with their self-released debut, Order Divine, and later defied the pandemic with their subsequent 2020 release, the Death Of The Cosmic EP. Produced by frontman Casey Hurd and Kevin Butler with mastering by Dan Swanö at Unisound, upcoming Shatter And Fall serves as a darker, more solemn work in comparison to their previous releases, yet superior without question in songwriting, technicality and cohesiveness. Shatter And Fall also features guest contributions from melodic death metal purveyors and labelmates Tuomas Saukkonen of WOLFHEART and Vincent Jackson Jones of AETHER REALM.
Frontman Casey Hurd says about the album: “Shatter And Fall is about Karma, one’s own fate, consequences, grief about our own actions, depression, loss of faith, yin and yang, light and dark, and our own unchanging nature as humans. It’s darker, heavier, and more diverse than our previous releases. We’re evolving and expanding on our sound to include more catchy and anthemic elements in addition to the darker, heavier material. This new album is a significant milestone for HINAYANA.”
Introductory track “Slowly Light Collides” opens the heavy gates of Shatter And Fall without hesitation, setting the stage for its impending intensity with a potent mixture of headbang-inducing heaviness and hair-raising melodies and harmonies. Second track “Mind Is A Shadow”, featuring guest vocals from Vincent Jackson Jones of fellow American melodic death metal frontrunners AETHER REALM, hits equally hard with a gripping, chunky verse riff and searing chorus. Frontman Casey Hurd’s deep growls juxtapose effortlessly with Jones’s skyscraper screams before a seizing solo from Erik Shtaygrud marks the track’s apex. Anthems like “How Many Dreams”, “The Answer” and enthralling groove machine “Reverse The Code” – the latter boasting one of the album’s most flourishing closer passages – march further into the icy depths, proving Shatter And Fall as a multifaceted melodeath record.
Powerful “Spirit And Matter” and somber yet essential, spine-tingling “Triptych Visions” feature some of the album’s most melancholic and introspective moments, traversing expansive peaks and valleys of deep metallic intensity and some of the album’s most delicate, acoustic-driven moments. The implementation of diverse styles, showcased by the varied instrumentation and intensity of songs like touching interlude “From Our Darkest Moments”, versus massive, crushing sonic saga “Lost To Flame”, poise the band for undeniable recognition. All-consuming single “A Tide Unturning”, featuring guest vocal contributions from Tuomas Saukkonen of Finnish melodic death icons WOLFHEART, shines as the most desolate summit of Shatter And Fall, serving as one of the most brutalizing yet pensive ballads of 2023. The album ends on the grimmest note of all with blackened closer “Taken”, a re-recorded, renewed look back at a track originally released on the band’s 2014 demo Endless – marking an apt finish to a contemplative, emotional album tangling with themes of fate, grief and inevitable consequence.
Shatter And Fall track listing: 1. Slowly Light Collides 2. Mind Is A Shadow (feat. Vincent Jackson Jones) 3. How Many Dreams 4. Spirit And Matter 5. From Our Darkest Moments 6. Reverse The Code 7. Lost To Flame 8. The Answer 9. Triptych Visions 10. A Tide Unturning (feat. Tuomas Saukkonen) 11. Taken
In other news, HINAYANA will join headliners WOLFHEART and fellow support act BEFORE THE DAWN on a tour of Europe and the UK this fall! The tour will take place all throughout November and will visit London, Paris, Budapest, Berlin and many more major cities! Don’t miss this exciting lineup – see below for all dates.
WOLFHEART w/ HINAYANA and BEFORE THE DAWN | Europe/UK 2023: *without Hinayana 03.11.23 CH – Aarau / KiFF* 04.11.23 BE – Louvain La Neuve / Mass Deathtruction Festival* 05.11.23 GB – London / The Dome* 06.11.23 NL – Rotterdam / Baroeg 07.11.23 FR – Paris / Backstage By The Mill 08.11.23 DE – Siegburg / Kubana 09.11.23 DE – Trier / Mergener Hof 10.11.23 NL – Helmond / Cacaofabriek 11.11.23 DE – Essen / Turock 12.11.23 AT – Innsbruck / PMK 14.11.23 DE – Munich / Backstage Halle 15.11.23 HU – Budapest / Barba Negra 16.11.23 AT – Vienna / Szene 17.11.23 DE – Leipzig / Hellraiser 18.11.23 DE – Weissenhäuser Strand / Metal Hammer Paradise 19.11.23 DE – Berlin / ORWO Haus 20.11.23 CZ – Prague / Futurum Music Bar 21.11.23 PL – Warsaw / Hydrozagadka 22.11.23 PL – Kraków / Kamienna12 23.11.23 DE – Dresden / Chemiefabrik 24.11.23 DE – Mannheim / MS Connexion Complex 25.11.23 DE – Hannover / Musikzentrum 26.11.23 NL – Maasstricht / Muziekgieterij
HINAYANA is: Casey Hurd – Guitar/Vocals Daniel Vieira – Drums Erik Shtaygrud – Guitar Michael Anstice – Keyboard Matt Bius – Bass
In 2018, Austin, Texas based melodic death metal unit HINAYANA ensnared the masses with their self-released debut, Order Divine, and later defied the pandemic with their subsequent 2020 release, the Death Of The Cosmic EP. Now, the band returns with their long-anticipated sophomore full-length, Shatter And Fall, out November 10, 2023 via Napalm Records – and it proves well worth the wait.
Produced by frontman Casey Hurd and Kevin Butler with mastering by Dan Swanö at Unisound, Shatter And Fall features guest contributions from melodic death metal purveyors and labelmates Tuomas Saukkonen of WOLFHEART and Vincent Jackson Jones of AETHER REALM. Setting them apart from genre greats like Insomnium, Amorphis and Swallow the Sun, Shatter And Fall incorporates modern, accessible elements, emerging as a fresh entry in this year’s most unmissable metal offerings. The album serves as a darker, more solemn work in comparison to their debut, yet superior without question in songwriting, technicality and cohesiveness.
Today, the band kicks things off with groove-laden first single “Reverse The Code”. Backed by an impressive official music video, the track boasts catchy chorus progressions, engaging verses and technical aptitude, blending progressive touches with punishing extremity.
Frontman Casey Hurd says about the track: “Regrets and mistakes. ‘Reverse The Code’ is about our hopeless and futile desire to be able to go back in time and change things in our past. The single serves as a perfect introduction to the fierce evolution of our sound that is Shatter And Fall.”
Shatter And Fall not only proves itself as an impressive sophomore entry for HINAYANA, but a benchmark in the annals of American melodic death metal history.
Frontman Casey Hurd adds about the album: “Shatter And Fall is about Karma, one’s own fate, consequences, grief about our own actions, depression, loss of faith, yin and yang, light and dark, and our own unchanging nature as humans. It’s darker, heavier, and more diverse than our previous releases. We’re evolving and expanding on our sound to include more catchy and anthemic elements in addition to the darker, heavier material. This new album is a significant milestone for HINAYANA.”
Introductory track “Slowly Light Collides” opens the heavy gates of Shatter And Fall without hesitation, setting the stage for its impending intensity with a potent mixture of headbang-inducing heaviness and hair-raising melodies and harmonies. Second track “Mind Is A Shadow”, featuring guest vocals from Vincent Jackson Jones of fellow American melodic death metal frontrunners AETHER REALM, hits equally hard with a gripping, chunky verse riff and searing chorus. Frontman Casey Hurd’s deep growls juxtapose effortlessly with Jones’s skyscraper screams before a seizing solo from Erik Shtaygrud marks the track’s apex. Anthems like “How Many Dreams”, “The Answer” and enthralling groove machine “Reverse The Code” – the latter boasting one of the album’s most flourishing closer passages – march further into the icy depths, proving Shatter And Fall as a multifaceted melodeath record.
Powerful “Spirit And Matter” and somber yet essential, spine-tingling “Triptych Visions” feature some of the album’s most melancholic and introspective moments, traversing expansive peaks and valleys of deep metallic intensity and some of the album’s most delicate, acoustic-driven moments. The implementation of diverse styles, showcased by the varied instrumentation and intensity of songs like touching interlude “From Our Darkest Moments”, versus massive, crushing sonic saga “Lost To Flame”, poise the band for undeniable recognition. All-consuming single “A Tide Unturning”, featuring guest vocal contributions from Tuomas Saukkonen of Finnish melodic death icons WOLFHEART, shines as the most desolate summit of Shatter And Fall, serving as one of the most brutalizing yet pensive ballads of 2023. The album ends on the grimmest note of all with blackened closer “Taken”, a re-recorded, renewed look back at a track originally released on the band’s 2014 demo Endless – marking an apt finish to an contemplative, emotional album tangling with themes of fate, grief and inevitable consequence.
Shatter And Fall track listing: 1. Slowly Light Collides 2. Mind Is A Shadow (feat. Vincent Jackson Jones) 3. How Many Dreams 4. Spirit And Matter 5. From Our Darkest Moments 6. Reverse The Code 7. Lost To Flame 8. The Answer 9. Triptych Visions 10. A Tide Unturning (feat. Tuomas Saukkonen) 11. Taken
In other news, HINAYANA will join headliners WOLFHEART and fellow support act BEFORE THE DAWN on a tour of Europe and the UK this fall! The tour will take place all throughout November and will visit London, Paris, Budapest, Berlin and many more major cities! Don’t miss this exciting lineup – see below for all dates.
WOLFHEART w/ HINAYANA and BEFORE THE DAWN | Europe/UK 2023: 11/3 (CH) Aarau // Kiff* 11/4 (BE) Louvain La Neuve // Mass Deathtruction Festival* 11/5 (UK) London // The Dome* 11/6 (NL) Rotterdam // Baroeg 11/7 (FR) Paris // Backstage By The Mill 11/8 (DE) Siegburg // Kubana 11/9 (DE) Trier // Mergener Hof 11/10 (NL) Helmond // Cacaofabriek 11/11 (DE) Essen // Turock 11/12 (AT) Innsbruck // Pmk 11/3 (SD) Liubliana / / Orto Bar 11/14 (DE) Munich // Backstage Halle 11/15 (HU) Budapest // Barba Negra 11/16 (AT) Vienna // Szene 11/17 (DE) Leipzig // Hellraiser 11/18 (DE) Weissenhäuser Strand // Metal Hammer Paradise 11/19 (DE) Berlin // Orwo Haus 11/20 (CZ) Prague // Futurum 11/21 (PL) Warsaw // Hydrozagadka 11/22 (PL) Krakow / / Kamienna12 11/23 (DE) Dresden // Chemiefabrik 11/24 (DE) Mannheim // Ms Connexion Complex 11/25 (DE) Hannover // Musikzentrum 11/26 (NL) Maastricht // Muziekgieterij
HINAYANA is: Casey Hurd – Guitar/Vocals Daniel Vieira – Drums Erik Shtaygrud – Guitar Michael Anstice – Keyboard Matt Bius – Bass
Austin, Texas-based melodic death metal unit HINAYANA are gearing up to announce some exciting future plans very soon, but in the meantime, have treated fans with a brand new music video for the colossal track “Pitch Black Noise”, cut from their crushing Death Of The Cosmic EP, released in 2020 via Napalm Records. The video was filmed by fellow melodic death metal musician Tuomas Saukkonen, frontman of labelmates Wolfheart.
The track’s melancholic atmosphere blends with hair-raising melodies and earth-shaking vocals, acting as a perfect bridge between the recent EP and what is to come next from HINAYANA!
Vocalist/guitarist Casey Hurd states about the track and video: “’Pitch Black Noise’ is one of the first songs I ever wrote for HINAYANA, but still holds so many of the key elements of the band’s sound even today. It has remained one of our favorites to play live over the years. Filmed in Leipzig, Germany by Tuomas Saukkonen of Wolfheart, we’re thrilled to give our 2020 EP one last hoorah with this new music video.”
HINAYANA started out as a one-man band spearheaded by frontman Casey Hurd, and subsequently released the crushing full-length, Order Divine, in 2018. Otherworldly and haunting while maintaining a massive heaviness peppered with undeniable groove, 2020’s Death Of The Cosmic EP was primarily self-produced by the band with mixing/drum recording from Kevin Butler and mastering by Swallow The Sun’s Juho Raiha.
View more videos for Death Of The Cosmic EP tracks “Cold Conception”, featuring trailblazing late Tengger Cavalry frontman and multi-instrumentalist Nature Ganganbaigal on Morin Khuur, and “In Sacred Delusion”, featuring Toni Toivonen of Hanging Garden now via the Napalm Records YouTube channel!
Austin, Texas-based melodic death-doom metal unit HINAYANA recently announced the upcoming release of their crushing Death Of The Cosmic EP – set for release on August 28, 2020 via Napalm Records.
Today, HINAYANA are shadowing the reveal of the music video for their charging, melancholy first single “Cold Conception”(featuring trailblazing late Tengger Cavalry frontman and multi-instrumentalist Nature Ganganbaigal on Morin Khuur), with another new track – the massive, warning “In Sacred Delusion”, featuring Toni Toivonen of Hanging Garden. The band has also launched a new lyric video to accent the riveting track.
Vocalist/guitarist Casey Hurd states about the track and working with Toni Toivonen: “’In Sacred Delusion’ is about the inevitability of our own self destruction. We are all in some way walking towards the flame of our own demise, both collectively as humans and individually as people. We are on a path that sometimes seems like we cannot stray from, eventually burning the world around us and giving into the hellscape we’ve made for ourselves. The song incorporates more of the band’s doomy side, with downtempo riffing and emotional passages topped off with the guttural vocals of Hanging Garden’s Toni Toivonen. It was a sort of surreal experience to be able to share a track with vocalist of a band which has inspired my own writing so much and that I’d listened to for so many years. Toni is a fantastic musician to work with and I know he’s been looking forward to seeing this track be released just as much we have, so this is a very special moment for all of us!”
Watch the new lyric video and listen to “In Sacred Delusion”HERE:
HINAYANA started out as a one-man band spearheaded by frontman Casey Hurd, and subsequently released the crushing full-length Order Divine in 2018. Otherworldly and haunting while maintaining a crushing, colossal heaviness and peppered with undeniable groove, their latest release, the upcoming Death Of The Cosmic EP, emphasizes improved production and keen songwriting. Primarily self-produced by the band with mixing/drum recording from Kevin Butler and mastering by Swallow The Sun’s Juho Raiha, fans will also notice the new EP’s heightened concept in comparison to the band’s previous releases.
Opening title track “Death Of The Cosmic” sets off with optimistic ambience, quickly blasting into an ethereal universe of blazing leads and acoustic soundscapes capped by vocalist Casey Hurd’s deep, menacing growls. “Cold Conception” rushes in with melancholic energy before transforming into a dark, galloping anthem accented by the Morin Khuur stylings of late Tengger Cavalry mastermind Nature Ganganbaigal and a melting solo from Erik Shtaygrud. Mystic instrumental interlude “Yet Here I Wait Forever” showcases the dynamic, softer side of HINAYANA before picking back up with the stunning down-tempo gripper “In Sacred Delusion”, featuring a guest appearance from Toni Toivonen (Hanging Garden). Death Of The Cosmic closes with the sorrowful 5-minute epilogue “Pitch Black Noise” – not only proving HINAYANA‘s identifiable auditory trademark of melding tranquility and thunderous intensity, but also underlining the existential depth of their lyrical approach.
Casey Hurd says about the EP: “Death Of The Cosmic is based on the severed connection between ourselves and the cosmic, spiritual force in the universe and the loss of hope for the cold, modern world man has created in nature’s place. Sonically, we wanted to make something that was beautiful but crushing at the same time, demonstrated in the title track of this EP, which in concept might be viewed as a microcosm of the whole EP itself. Something we tried to do was stray away from some of the more cliché elements of melodic death metal and instead focus on what is the very root/core of HINAYANA and what gives the band its own sound.”
Death Of The Cosmic EP tracklisting: 1. Death Of The Cosmic 2. Cold Conception feat. Nature Ganganbaigal 3. Yet Here I Wait Forever 4. In Sacred Delusion feat. Toni Toivonen 5. Pitch Black Noise
[EP Artwork: Travis Smith]
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