DAWNRIDER "Five Signs of Malice" album details.
Our second October 3rd / Keep It True Rising festival release is the fifth full-length album of Portuguese doom metal pioneers DAWNRIDER who celebrate their 20th anniversary with "Five Signs of Malice". With an emphasis on bottom-end, ultra heavy riffs and Hammond-style keys, it offers a vintage doom metal experience that borders on proto-doom with psychedelic elements. Like their last album, it was mixed and mastered by Tony Reed (Pentagram, Mos Generator, Saint Vitus, Electric Wizard, Blues Pills...), and while being quite loud, it's still pleasantly organic sounding. DAWNRIDER's style shares many similarities with NOMAD SON, BLOOD FARMERS, DOOMRAISER, REVEREND BIZARRE and OGRE, and is definitely inspired by the genre forefathers: BLACK SABBATH, DEEP PURPLE, PENTAGRAM, BEDEMON, TROUBLE, SIR LORD BALTIMORE and BLUE CHEER.
Filipe Relêgo, the band's vocalist and bass player, had this to say about the album's lyrical themes: "To talk about human nature is also to talk about the bestiality in human beings, their dark side, and their capacity to brutalise, to attack, even to take the lives of their fellow human beings. On 'Five Signs of Malice' we deal with this dark and disturbing subject, which is undoubtedly inherent in human reality."
Last week, the first lyric video for "Perishing Hour" was published on 666MrDoom channel. Today, you can watch a new one, also created by the band's guitarist, Hugo Conim, for "King Crow"
here and a static promo clip for "Twelve Severed Heads" here.
All three songs are now available for streaming from the Bandcamp player on the DAWNRIDER page, as well. The full album track list is as follows:
2. Old Beast
3. King Crow
4. Lawless Road
5. Perishing Hour
6. Outro
(Cover photo by Sónia Nunes, cover layout by Ruben Azevedo)
You can find more info about "Five Signs of Malice" and see the high-res cover on the page of this release.
As mentioned above, the CD will be out this weekend at Keep It True Rising festival where we'll have our merch table. Those who won't be there can order it now from our SHOP page. Until October 10th, our German customers can benefit from the Deutsche Post shipping rates, while everybody else will have their orders shipped from Italy after that date (pre-orders are active for all countries). You can buy it in the 2 New Releases bundle with IGNITOR "FHorns and Hammers", saving 4,00 Euro.
If you don't collect CDs, you can order the album as digital download (in lossless formats) from our Bandcamp page. It will be distributed digitally as well and made available from iTunes, Amazon MP3, Google Music, Spotify and other retailers and services.
