HEROD Swiss Noise Makers To Release New Album, Sombre, SÂVER To Release Debut Album They Came With Sunlight, LABIRINTO Release Video For Divino Afflante Spiritu
Herod have arisen from the ever- prosperous Swiss music scene. Throughout their young 4 years of presence, they have already shared the stage with such acts as Gojira, Crowbar, The Ocean, Carcass, Obituary, Napalm Death and Voivod – Attesting their repute as the bus boy’s of King Herod, serving up whole sides of rare riffs, disposition, beauty and authority.
Initially the brain child of guitarist Pierre Carroz, 2014 saw Herod’s debut release “They were None” via Mighty Music and a subsequent European tour. Following the departure of original vocalist David, former THE OCEAN (Precambrian) vocalist Mike Pilat was recruited for follow up album “Sombre Dessein”. Pilat also plays guitar and Herod are now furnished with a supplementary layer of musicality to complement both heaviness and soundscape aspects of their palette.
CARCASS guitar player Bill Steer makes a guest appearance on the track “Fork Tongue”.
Watch new video Fork Tonguehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3La0CoA7D0
Watch first single & video Reckoning
Recorded and mixed by Swiss audiophile Julien Fehlman, mastered by Magnus Lindberg from Cult of Luna, “Sombre Dessein” is an album of staggering riffs, intricate yet groovy polyrhythmic patterns and sheer heaviness. The bi-lingual vocal approach adds an unusual but intriguing aspect to the band’s delivery of their craft.
„The concept of the album is about the end of our Judaeo-Christian and thermo-industrial civilisation. The artwork and video clip are made up from footage of “Shipbreakers”, people who dismantle huge container ships which end up mooring to die on Indian or Bangladeshi shores“, comments Pierre Carroz. HEROD create a strong musical and visual image of the abysses of the human consumption project, „which turns out to be hell on earth for these people whose every day work involves constantly risking their lives to feed their families“, Carroz says.
SÂVER To Release Debut Album They Came With Sunlight On March 8
Watch the video for I Vanish here
The band comment: “The video is a direct reference to the visuals we’ve been using live during the past year. The visuals is created by Simen Skari, and it displays abstract, wave-like formations that is constantly evolving while at the same time appear quite repetetive, which we feel matches our music quite well. Implementing these visuals into the video, it feels like a natural continuation of what we are doing in a live setting.“
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Divino Afflante Spiritu is the first single/videoclipe from Labirinto‘s new likewise named record. The whole album is very emotionally charged and the single/videoclip is no exception.
“It was conceived at very difficult moment when we had lost our very dear dog Joca, who had always been with us, since the beginning of Labirinto. This video is dedicated to him. It’s a myriad of emotions that flood over us everytime we play the song. We tried to convey all these feelings in the video in a more surrealistic way. We shared the concept and ideas we had with clip director André Schutz and he was able to synthesize everything in a dark but very beautiful way, full of metaphores.” says Labirinto’s guitarrist Erick Cruxen.
According to Schutz: “Adding images to instrumental music is a trap. You have to be very careful so that the plot doesn’t steal the music’s lead role. That’s why we chose to create a visual atmosphere without a very clear narrative, but in which the conceptual elements would look more evident. We tried to build a space that would be located between the spiritual and mudane worlds and that’s where the characters of the video gravitate.“
