Satan - 'Songs in Crimson' (official album stream)

Full length album νούμερο επτά για τους Satan. "Songs in Crimson" ο τίτλος και κυκλοφόρησε σήμερα. Οι Satan υπάρχουν στο heavy metal σύμπαν 4,5 δεκαετίες. Δημιουργήθηκαν το μακρινό 1979 και συνεχίζουν, με διαλείμματα, μέχρι τις ημέρες μας (αν κι όχι πάντα με αυτό το όνομα). Έχουν κυκλοφορήσει επτά "ολοκληρωμένους" δίσκους (συν τρία demos, κάποια singles, ένα ep, τρεις συλλογές και δύο live albums)...

Δελτίο τύπου: «Satan’s history is storied, their albums and incendiary live shows, iconic. The Newcastle, England-bred lineup may quip that their career has been “forty-four years of prolonged mayhem with a twenty-year lunch break” -forming in 1980, eventually pausing before reuniting in 2011- but circa 2024 finds the band thriving, writing, recording, and touring at the top of their game.

Proof positive is their seventh studio album, and third for Metal Blade, Songs In Crimson. If 2022’s Earth Infernal album was brutal, up-tempo and with loud guitars, guitarist Russ Tippins calls Songs In Crimson “concise. It’s more to-the-point and gets there quicker.

One of the reasons behind the album title is that this record is very ‘song’ focused. There’s more punch this time around. Each chorus speaks for itself.” With influences from King Crimson to Mercyful Fate, Satan’s own stylings remain unique, the band’s NWOBHM origins a springboard for musical and lyrical creativity, commentary, and nonconformity.

While Songs In Crimson features lyrics including “a once-great nation is going down” and “this is the end of an era,” Satan offers no quick fix. “There is always hope; solutions are not for us musicians to proclaim,” Tippins believes.

“Each song has its own different theme. While there is no title track as such, the song ‘Deadly Crimson,’ which is an anti-capitalism narrative, is as close as it gets to that. As a concept, making money from money is fatally flawed in that it depends on constant growth,” Tippins says. “But constant growth is obviously impossible; a conveyor belt of sacrificial lambs.”

Tippins continues, “‘Turn The Tide’ is the classic ‘King Canute’ scenario -- the deluded head of state who believes himself to be divine and sets out to prove it by standing in front of the sea and ordering the waves to retreat.

They don’t of course. We are kind of using that as an allegory to illustrate the ridiculous standpoint of certain Jingoistic Brits who believe that foreigners have no place in our country. It’s the shortest song on the album. And also the fastest!”»

Band: Satan
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Location: Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear, England
Formed in: 1979
Genre: NWOBHM, Heavy Metal
Lyrical themes: Society, Personal, History, Violence, Injustice
Years active: 1979-1984, 1984-1985 (as Blind Fury), 1985-1988, 1988-1989 (as Pariah), 1997-1998 (as Pariah), 2004, 2011-present

Album: "Songs in Crimson"
Type: Full length
Release date: September 13th, 2024
Label: Metal Blade Records
Format: CD, 12" vinyl, Digital

Track listing:
01. Ascendancy
02. Burning Portrait
03. Twelve Infernal Lords
04. Mercury’s Shadow
05. A Sorrow Unspent
06. Luciferic
07. From Second Sight
08. Poison Elegy
09. The Blood Ran Deep
10. Earth We Bequeath

Band members:
Brian Ross - vocals
Russ Tippins - guitars
Steve Ramsey - guitars
Graeme English - bass
Sean Taylor - drums

Miscellaneous staff: Eliran Kantor Cover art