ARTIST: DAWNRIDER
TITLE: "Five Signs of Malice"
GENRE: Doom Metal
RELEASE DATE: October 3rd, 2024
LABEL: Metal On Metal Records
CATALOG ID: MOMR20116
BARCODE: 8022167091167
FORMAT: CD in jewel case • 6 tracks (approx. 41 min.) • 8 pages stapled booklet with lyrics, band photos and info • All full-color
TRACK LISTING:
1. Twelve Severed Heads
2. Old Beast
3. King Crow
4. Lawless Road
5. Perishing Hour
6. Outro
Total playing time: 40:42
YOUTUBE:
• "King Crow" lyric video
• "Twelve Severed Heads" static promo clip
• "Perishing Hour" lyric video
OVERVIEW:
"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 FARMERS, 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.
SELLING POINTS:
• Fifth full-length album of these Portuguese doom metal pioneers, founded 20 years ago.
• Mixed and mastered by Tony Reed (Pentagram, Mos Generator, Saint Vitus, Electric Wizard, Blues Pills...).
• Organic sound/production perfectly fitting their '70s hard rock and proto-doom influenced style.
• For fans of: Nomad Son, Blood Farmers, Doomraiser, Black Sabbath, Deep Purple, Pentagram, Bedemon, Trouble, Blue Cheer, Sir Lord Baltimore, Reverend Bizarre, Orchid, Ogre...
Cover photo by Sónia Nunes, cover layout by Ruben Azevedo.
