Dawnrider - 'Twelve Severed Heads' (official audio)

Οι Dawnrider μας έρχονται από την Πορτογαλία. Σχηματίσθηκαν πριν από είκοσι έτη (το 2004) και αρέσκονται σε αργόσυρτους (doom metal) ρυθμούς. Έχουν κυκλοφορήσει πέντε "ολοκληρωμένους" δίσκους, ένα ep, ένα live album, μία βιντεοκασέτα (VHS) και κάποια singles.

Το πλέον πρόσφατο πόνημά τους φέρει τον τίτλο "Five Signs of Malice" και "βγήκε" προ ημερών (3 Οκτωβρίου 2024) σε cd, βινύλιο και σε ψηφιακή μορφή μέσω της δισκογραφικής εταιρείας Metal on Metal Records. Από τα αρχική μέλη της Πορτογαλικής μπάντας έχει (απο)μείνει μόνο ο κιθαρίστας Hugo Conim...

Δελτίο τύπου: «"Five Signs of Malice" is the fifth full-length release by Portuguese doom metal pioneers Dawnrider, celebrating their 20th anniversary this year. Clocking in at just over 40 minutes, it consists of five songs and an outro that blend into one another seamlessly, creating an immersive listening experience.

It's a bottom-end-heavy, guitar-heavy and '70s-style-keyboard-heavy album, driven by chunky riffs just as much as the organ which gives it a vintage flair, bordering on proto-doom with psychedelic undertones. While the band maintains mostly a shuffling doom tempo with ponderous jamming grooves, they occasionally break into pumping mid-tempo sections.

Filipe Relêgo's deep, commanding vocals, also featured on their previous album, paint dark pictures of villainy, depravity, lechery, dread and decadence.

The production is richly organic, thanks in large part to the exceptional mixing and mastering work by Tony Reed (Pentagram, Mos Generator, Saint Vitus, Electric Wizard...).

Dawnrider's new offering will be a perfect addition to collections featuring albums by Nomad Son, Blood Fermers, Doomraiser, genre forefathers Black Sabbath, Deep Purple, Pentagram, Bedemon, Trouble, Sir Lord Baltimore and Blue Cheer, as well as doom disciples such as Reverend Bizarre, Orchid or Ogre.»