Blackend Death Metallers SAILLE have released a video for “Empty Expanse”, a track from their upcoming fifth album, V, out April 9 on CD/digital formats via Black Lion Records. Watch the video below.
Playing blackened death metal, Saille built a firm reputation for their impressive live performances on festivals all over Europe in the past years. Saille is a five-piece, with members residing in The Netherlands, Spain and Belgium.
The fifth full-length album from Saille, entitled V, is another landmark in the band’s existence. After a rough period of time, Saille felt the need for a dramatic make-over, seeking a deeper darkness, both live and in the studio. Visually and sound wise Saille improved immensely and a new frontman from the Netherlands was announced. Jesse Peetoom is two metres of charisma, musical talent and vocal power.
The artwork for V was drawn by French artist Vincent Fouquet of Above Chaos (Inquisition, Tsjuder, Kataklysm).
Lyrically, Saille deals with “The fearful, the uncanny and the weird. Therefore, the album contains eight creepy tales, sarcastic stories with somewhat funny twists. It will make the listener quiver and shiver, with a grin on their face.”
Blackend Death Metallers SAILLE have announced their fifth album ‘V’, set to be released on April 9th on CD/Digital via Black Lion Records.
Playing Black Metal/Blackened Death Metal, SAILLE built a firm reputation for their impressive live performances on festivals all over Europe in the past years. SAILLE is a five-piece, with members residing in The Netherlands, Spain and Belgium.
The fifth full-length album of SAILLE, entitled ‘V’, is another landmark in the band’s existence. After a rough period of time, SAILLE felt the need for a dramatic make-over, seeking a deeper darkness, both live and in the studio. Visually and sound wise SAILLE improved immense and a new frontman from the Netherlands was announced. Jesse Peetoom is two metres of charisma, musical talent and vocal power.
It’s time for ‘V’, which release date has been set on April 9th, 2021 to be released by Black Lion Records, Sweden.
Artwork was drawn by French artist Vincent Fouquet of Above Chaos. (Inquisition/Tsjuder/Kataklysm).
Lyrically SAILLE deals with ‘The fearful, the uncanny and the weird’, therefore the album contains 8 creepy tales, sarcastic stories with somewhat funny twists. It will make the listener quiver and shiver, with a grin on the face.
Black Lion Records are proud to welcome Blackend Death Metallers SAILLE into the label’s roster family.
The band has played several European festivals ranging from Summer Breeze (DE), Graspop , Eindhoven Metal Meeting 2x (NL), Antwerp Metal Fest 2x (BE), Metal Méan (BE), Vlamrock (BE), Ragnarok (DE), Bloodstock Open Air (UK), Metalgate Death Fest Open Air (CZ), Incineration Fest (UK), Dark Easter (DE), and many more! having toured across Czech Republic, Bulgaria, United Kingdom, Romania, Malta, Germany, France, Spain, Belgium, Netherlands, Denmark, Austria, Switzerland.and many more places! the band will be releasing their fifth full length with us next year!
Black Lion Records ceo Oliver Dahlbäck comments, I am delighted to announce and welcome Saille into Black Lion’s roster having gotten to know Reinier this year through his other company Aimed&Framed.
It was clear that SAILLE were hard working and dedicated to their craft and with a strong foot in the European festival scene and new album at the door step it felt like a perfect opportunity to form a new bond with SAILLE and we look forward to releasing their new album worldwide in 2021.
Reinier Schenk comments: “We’re glad to announce SAILLE is signing with Black Lion Records. We’ve been waiting long enough now, due to the current situation, but it’s time to move on and release what we’ve been working on. It will be a relief to finally present our frontman Jesse and get to work with the entire band again, making videos and promo for the fifth album. It’s a pleasure to be acknowledged and accepted by Black Lion and we see things the same way. Looking forward to next year. We can only hope SAILLE can climb the stages again as well!”
With the release of their new album ‘Eldritch’ imminent, epic black metallers SAILLE have unleashed a brand new song and lyric video, ‘Eater Of Worlds’.
Watch ‘Eater Of Worlds’ Here:
Based on the classic horror novel ‘It’, by American author Stephen King, ‘Eater Of Worlds’ is probably the most dynamic song on the forthcoming album. It’s also very diverse, but all the while flowing effortlessly through a myriad of textures for which the Belgians are renowned for.
“This song has a mix of aggression, melancholy and epicness,” comments keyboardist Dries Gaerdelen. “Especially with the real recorded trumpets and strings. These really add to the quality of the song together with the rawest screams on any Saille album so far from Dennie Grondelaers. This one is a joy to play live and we’re eager to bring it to the stages.”
‘Eldritch’ is set to be release on November 10th 2014, 55 minutes of epic black metal
Belgian epic black metallers SAILLE are only a few weeks away from releasing their brand new record, “Eldritch”, which will hit the shelves on 10th November via Code666 Records. Over the last number of weeks the band has been offering fans insight into the recording process via a series of studio videos. Here is “Eldritch” in the making…
Drum recordings:
Piano Recordings:
Guitar Recordings:
Classical Instruments Recordings:
Vocal Recordings:
“‘Eldritch’ differs quite a bit from our two previous albums,” keyboardist Dries Gaerdelen begins. “We wanted the new songs to be more guitar oriented and more edgy, so we worked on the songs in a different way than we used to. Guitar players Reinier Schenk and Jonathan Vanderwal started writing the songs from a guitar perspective adding the keyboards and drums later on. On our two previous albums ‘Ritu’ and ‘Irreversible Decay’ the songs were created the other way around.”
“Our new drummer Kevin De Leener had a big impact on the creation of this album, as his input from a drummers perspective was higher than we’re used to. These factors, songs being based on drums and guitars, form a solid base for haunting melodic black metal songs.”
“We started writing the new songs immediately after the release of our second album ‘Ritu’ (2013). This gave us more time for the pre-production process, which made everyone more prepared and focussed. After the recording of the drums, bass and guitars, we chose again to record some real classical instruments. We have recorded violin, cello and trumpet as we have done on our previous albums; new to ‘Eldritch’ are the introductions of the oboe and a great stage piano. Recording these instruments isn’t the easy way, but it sure adds to the atmosphere we wanted to create.”
“All of the lyrics on ‘Eldritch’ were written by Saille’s vocalist Dennie Grondelaers and are based on horror literature, both classics, turn-of-the-20th-century and modern stories & books. The lyrics explore the pure nature of horror as conceived in different times and media. They complete the songs by adding in horror, the untouchable and the uncomfortable in an organic and unforced way.”
“Although we didn’t intend to make a Lovecraft based album, H.P. Lovecraft’s influence is noticeable throughout the whole record, and can’t be ignored. Even stronger, the source of every song, except for ‘Walpurgis’ (based on Goethe’s Faust), can be considered as proto-, post- or pure Lovecraftian.”
“As the album will also be released in a limited digipak edition, we decided to go the extra mile and we contacted all currently living writers (or their heirs) of the books we based our lyrics upon. In the ‘Eldritch’ digibook we have received permission from all writers, even Stephen King, to use quotes from the real books. These quotes will be displayed next to our lyrics for our fans to compare/embrace.”
Earlier this month Belgian epic black metallers SAILLE revealed details of their forthcoming album ‘Eldritch’ which will be released on 10th November via Code666 Records. The band has since released a teaser video and offered some further insight into the album, discussing the writing, recording and artwork.
Watch The ‘Eldritch’ Teaser Here:
“‘Eldritch’ differs quite a bit from our two previous albums,” keyboardist Dries Gaerdelen begins. “We wanted the new songs to be more guitar oriented and more edgy, so we worked on the songs in a different way than we used to. Guitar players Reinier Schenk and Jonathan Vanderwal started writing the songs from a guitar perspective adding the keyboards and drums later on. On our two previous albums ‘Ritu’ and ‘Irreversible Decay’ the songs were created the other way around.”
“Our new drummer Kevin De Leener had a big impact on the creation of this album, as his input from a drummers perspective was higher than we’re used to. These factors, songs being based on drums and guitars, form a solid base for haunting melodic black metal songs.”
“We started writing the new songs immediately after the release of our second album ‘Ritu’ (2013). This gave us more time for the pre-production process, which made everyone more prepared and focussed. After the recording of the drums, bass and guitars, we chose again to record some real classical instruments. We have recorded violin, cello and trumpet as we have done on our previous albums; new to ‘Eldritch’ are the introductions of the oboe and a great stage piano. Recording these instruments isn’t the easy way, but it sure adds to the atmosphere we wanted to create.”
“All of the lyrics on ‘Eldritch’ were written by Saille’s vocalist Dennie Grondelaers and are based on horror literature, both classics, turn-of-the-20th-century and modern stories & books. The lyrics explore the pure nature of horror as conceived in different times and media. They complete the songs by adding in horror, the untouchable and the uncomfortable in an organic and unforced way.”
“Although we didn’t intend to make a Lovecraft based album, H.P. Lovecraft’s influence is noticeable throughout the whole record, and can’t be ignored. Even stronger, the source of every song, except for ‘Walpurgis’ (based on Goethe’s Faust), can be considered as proto-, post- or pure Lovecraftian.”
“As the album will also be released in a limited digipak edition, we decided to go the extra mile and we contacted all currently living writers (or their heirs) of the books we based our lyrics upon. In the ‘Eldritch’ digibook we have received permission from all writers, even Stephen King, to use quotes from the real books. These quotes will be displayed next to our lyrics for our fans to compare/embrace.”
Colin Marks of Rain Song Design was commissioned for the cover art and comments. “When Saille first approached me regarding the artwork for Eldtritch they had a few general conceptual guidelines in terms of mood, tone and lyrical themes. But beyond that I was pretty much given free reign on the content of the artwork. I had a few things in mind, and toyed around with some quick basic sketches, but ultimately settled on an idea, which would eventually result in the current cover image.”
“The band requested something quite dark, with hints of horror, so I wanted to give the image a fairly vast and ominous atmosphere. An initial suggestion referred to certain lyrical themes of an ancient library of sorts and/or occult characters, so I took this as a good starting point and constructed this huge dark old structure built into a large cave-like rock formation. It was important to keep the tone dark and mysterious, with a tiny barely noticeable figure within the entrance, which people can read into however they wish. The additional artwork in the layout ties in with the cover concept and further explores the surroundings. I wanted it to represent not only the music, but also the bands various influences, and hopefully we’ve achieved that quite accurately.”
