STORMCROW

Source: Blabbermouth.net

“Stormcrow”, the new EP from Indianapolis doomsters THE GATES OF SLUMBER, will be released on January 29 via Scion Audio/Visual, (a.k.a. Scion A/V), the in-house record label and lifestyle marketing division of the Scion marque produced by Toyota Motor Corporation for the North American market. The CD was recorded by Sanford Parker and it features cover artwork by Dave Quiggle.

“Stormcrow” will contain five brand new songs:

* Death March
* (Devil’s Grip) – Driven Insane
* Son Of Hades
* Dragon Caravan
* Of That Which Can Never Be

THE GATES OF SLUMBER last year parted amicably with drummer J. Clyde Paradis, who recorded and toured behind the 2011 album “The Wretch” (Rise Above Records).

THE GATES OF SLUMBER started in 1998 as a backlash against the stoner rock trend prevalent at the time and with their mixture of BLACK SABBATH, SAINT VITUS, PENTAGRAM, and prime-era CELTIC FROST, the band has crushed or converted unbelievers ever since.

“The Wretch” was released in May 2011 via Rise Above/Metal Blade. The CD was recorded at England’s Orgone Studios with producer Jaime Gomez Arellano (GHOST, ANGEL WITCH).

Nee Cee Agency has issued the following:

Surpassing the human being, resisting to the instinct dissolution, now that the world finds in the order its idiot consolation, now that the ability to regress as specie seems to be what actually distinguishes us from the other livings. To be worms has never been so easy as at this time. Which musical genre better than Black Metal could successfully face these dramatic and crucial humanity themes? Which world if not the one of the highest peaks and glaciers could supply the purest artistic and philosophic inspirations capable to awake the asleep consciousness of the most?

The necessary condition to enter in this world, which is the leitmotiv of the whole STORMCROW album “DISPOSITION TO TYRANNY” (2012), is to definitively forget the concepts of good and evil, to feel the Will as the drawing power of the existence.

As the attentive listener will catch in the remarkable lyrics of the album, the disposition to Tyranny is far from being a political concept, but It has to do with the will of every fragment of the nature that struggles and pretends its place into the universe.

After their previous work “WOUNDED SKIES” (2006 Dwell Records LA California), the Stormcrow quintet, formed by Zedar (Bass Guitar), Goraath (Drums, Voice, Keyboards), Narchost (Lead Guitar), Vastis (Voice) and Astaroth (Rhythmic Guitars), presents “DISPOSITION TO TYRANNY”, an album that benefits from a varied songwriting but solidly laced to the best violence and melancholy canons that the genre could offer, something that leaves room to the characterizing of each song even keeping at highest level the psychophysical involving of the listener.

The sensation of musical and conceptual deepness, the attention to graphic details and to stylistic production that you can feel meeting with the album “DISPOSITION TO TYRANNY”, are supported by a great histrionic attitude to live performances.

Shining, Dark Funeral, Hate, Enthroned, Vader, Mortuary Drape, Negura Bunget, are just some of the bands with which Stormcrow had shared the stage in years of shows through Europe like Belgium, Germany, France and Slovenia engaged in tours, gigs and festivals of the calibre of Metal Camp, to which the band took part in 2009, Filtrhock Festival and others.

Stormcrow will play with GORGOROTH on Friday May 11th at Rock N’Roll, Romagnano (ITALY)!

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