Less than one month to go until melancholic progressive metallers AMORPHIS release their highly anticipated new album »Queen Of Time«, on May 18th via Nuclear Blast. Today, the band has revealed the epic and mesmerising second single, ‘Wrong Direction’.
The album is available for pre-order in various formats (pre-order digitally to receive ‘Wrong Direction’ and ‘The Bee’ instantly), here. Pre-save the album via Spotify, here.
The cover artwork, which was created by French artist Jean “Valnoir” Simoulin from Metastazis, captures the feeling of the lyrics and the music. With Pekka Kainulainen‘s (lyricist) words, the lyrical theme is universal: “Cultures rise, flourish, and are destroyed. The story of man is the story of searching, finding, and forgetting. A single spark can set the world afire, a single idea can give birth to a new culture. The greatest can stagnate into insignificance, the smallest can hold the power for change. The lyrics on this album are distant echoes of ancient forest peoples, from a time when meaning was proportioned by the cosmic forces that govern birth and death. If the connection was lost, they sought for a strand of knowledge, found a new direction, and a new age began.”
Watch the video featuring long-time lyricist Pekka Kainulainen, here
»Queen Of Time« – Track Listing:
01. The Bee
02. Message In The Amber
03. Daughter Of Hate
04. The Golden Elk
05. Wrong Direction
06. Heart Of The Giant
07. We Accursed
08. Grain Of Sand
09. Amongst Stars
10. Pyres On The Coast
Bonus Tracks (DIGI, 2LP, and MAILORDER EDITION only)
11. As Mountains Crumble
12. Brother And Sister
