Melodic/Power Thrashers, Among These Ashes will release new studio album, “Embers of Elysium”, on December 6th, 2024, via Alone Records!
The album clocks in at over an hour of music and features 12 new tracks, plus a bonus song, from the band.
A lyric video for new single, “Serpents Among Rats”, is available below.
“It’s very hard for me to pick a favorite track of ours because I have to love the track in order for it to make it on one of our albums”, explains guitarist Richard Clark. “That said, ‘Serpents Among Rats’ is exceptionally memorable for me because it embodies all of my favorite elements of metal. It’s melodic, heavy, and aggressive; the lyrics are clever, the vocals are delivered beautifully, and the band is crushing. Lyrically, this track is about how the societal elite, particularly politicians, manipulate and fuel division among the people. The lyrics encourage seeing through that behavior and unifying to rise above it”.
As for the forthcoming album, “Embers of Elysium”, Clark goes on to say that it “is quite the leap for us in every aspect from ‘Dominion Enthroned’. Where ‘Dominion Enthroned’ was a full concept album, the first eight tracks on ‘Embers of Elysium’ are standalone, and the last four tracks are part of a fictional sci-fi/horror concept called ‘Chronicles of the Obsidian Reign’. I can say with confident humility that every song on this album was crafted and delivered without compromise. The wide range of all of our influences is on display on this album. I think we executed it tastefully and with precision, and I hope it resonates powerfully with listeners”.
Tracklist:
1. Embers of Elysium
2. Serpents Among Rats
3. Faceless War Machines
4. Of One Blood
5. Stronger Than Death
6. Storm Within
7. The Undertow
8. The Enemy In I
9. Through Ethereal Voids
10. The Hybrid Bloodline
11. A Presence Unknown
12. The Obsidian Reign
13. The Undertow (feat. Brooke Rousseau)*
* (Bonus track)
Album Credits:
Recorded by Among These Ashes
Mixed and mastered by Matt Roach
Cover Art by Jayson Cessna
Among These Ashes is a melodic power/thrash metal band hailing from Detroit, Michigan (USA). The band’s central focus is the creation of stellar, highly-memorable metal songs. The group’s sound is crushingly heavy and punctuated by cerebral arrangements, thought-provoking lyrics, and dynamic shifts in tempo and aggression. Among These Ashes’ debut musical offering, “Dominion Enthroned”, is a conceptual tour de force, inspired by modern societal parallels and struggles. Originally released independently, the record was later re-released under a single-album contract with Alone Records on vinyl and CD formats.
In April 2023, the band released an original single, entitled “The Enemy in I”, which lyrically chronicles the woes of self-destruction. The band recorded a cover of “Sirens” by Savatage as an accompaniment to this release. In March 2024, Among These Ashes independently released a cover of W.A.S.P. track, “Restless Gypsy”.
The band features Jean-Pierre Abboud (Traveler) on lead and harmony vocals, Dylan Hamann (Variform) and Richard Clark on lead and rhythm guitars, Kane Bochatyn on bass, and Kyle Wagner (Nethergate) on drums. Together, this line-up is committed to its vision of consistently delivering uncompromisingly heavy music to the metal hordes.
Line-up:
Richard Clark: Lead/rhythm guitar, backing vocals, production, and songwriter
Jean-Pierre Abboud (JP): Lead and harmony vocals (JP is also the vocalist for traditional metal band, Traveler)
Dylan Hamann: Rhythm guitar
Kane Bochatyn: Bass
Kyle Wagner: Drums
Weblinks:
facebook.com/AmongTheseAshesMetal
instagram.com/amongtheseashes_official
