RISTRIDI

📸 Carigraphie – 🎨 Daniel Garelik

German guitarist RISTRIDI is best known on YouTube for his guitar covers. With over 20,000 subscribers, he regularly amazes his audience with his clear and precise playing. Until 2023, he was also the lead guitarist of the German dark metal institution Agathodaimon under the name Nakhateth and played a major role on their comeback album “The Seven” (Napalm Records).

After his two Black Metal solo albums under the banner OMEGA POINT, which focused on fighting his mental problems, RISTRIDI has now surrounded himself with a full band and some more guest musicians to change his message: there is light at the end of the tunnel! You just have to look for it and believe in yourself to make it through the night.

“DARK SOLSTICE” is a release that sheds a brighter light on the future. With the Power Metal and Prog Metal influences, the intention of this release is clear: prepare for better times, the long night will soon be over and there will be so much more to experience!

Watch below the official performance video ‘Genesis’. Directed by Ristridi.

RISTRIDI states about “Genesis”:
“‘Genesis’ is a song about my personal dealings with difficult times, with which I want to express the inner conflict about the new start after personal problems. Knowing that all the ‘promises’ and expectations of life you had as a young adult were always empty, there is still a little bit of hope that things will get better again. That this will be an uphill battle and that one will once again ‘conspire’ against oneself is clear from the beginning. But through creativity and with perseverance you may manage to take one step after the other and find new strength – even if the new songs and texts that emerge may never reach the public.”

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