{"id":1816,"date":"2014-06-13T09:00:49","date_gmt":"2014-06-13T07:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cruzdelsurmusic.com\/?p=1816"},"modified":"2014-06-12T16:44:39","modified_gmt":"2014-06-12T14:44:39","slug":"darkest-era-severance-cd-officially-released-in-europe-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cruzdelsurmusic.com\/blog\/index.php\/2014\/06\/darkest-era-severance-cd-officially-released-in-europe-today\/","title":{"rendered":"DARKEST ERA \u201cSeverance\u201d CD officially released in Europe today along with new videoclip"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span lang=\"EN-IE\"><strong>DARKEST ERA<\/strong> have released a new video for the track <em>&#8216;Beyond the Grey Veil&#8217;<\/em> on the same day that the band&#8217;s new album &#8216;Severance&#8217; receives its European release via<strong> Cruz Del Sur Music<\/strong>. The video can be seen here:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">httpv:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Ns0rYSEDAnI&amp;feature=youtu.be<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span lang=\"EN-IE\">Speaking about the new video, Guitarist Ade Mulgrew said: &#8220;<em>Beyond the Grey Veil is the thematic centrepiece of the album. All roads lead to that song in some ways and it&#8217;s pretty representative of the kind of atmosphere we wanted to conjure up \u00a0on Severance. Even Costin Chioreanu based the album artwork on it. \u00a0The video was directed by Angus Mitchell, an extremely talented guy who was instantly on the same page as us in terms of the aesthetic we wanted to achieve.<\/em>&#8220;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>DARKEST ERA<\/strong> sophomore album <strong>\u201cSeverance\u201d<\/strong> Compact can be purchased here.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cruzdelsurmusic.com\/store\/index.php?route=product\/product&amp;product_id=717\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-484 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cruzdelsurmusic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/PayPal-Buy-Now-button.bmp.jpg\" alt=\"PayPal Buy Now Argus Martyrs\" width=\"147\" height=\"47\" \/><\/a><!--more--><br \/>\nThe album has received a series of praising reviews by the metal press around the world, definitely showing <strong>DARKEST ERA<\/strong> taking a step ahead of their previous work \u201cThe Last Caress of Light\u201d. The band is headed towards a more mature, introspective and darker song-writing.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Listen to a free streaming preview of &#8220;Severance&#8221; here. The album was recorded at <strong>Data Recording Studios<\/strong> in Ballyheigue, Ireland and produced by <strong>Chris Fielding and Darkest Era<\/strong>. The artwork was created by <strong>Costin Chioreanu<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: 0; width: 250px; height: 250px;\" src=\"http:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/album=1241522548\/size=large\/bgcol=ffffff\/linkcol=0687f5\/minimal=true\/transparent=true\/\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" seamless=\"\"><a href=\"http:\/\/cruzdelsurmusic.bandcamp.com\/album\/severance-2\">Severance by DARKEST ERA<\/a><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Fantastic, isn&#8217;t it? The following are some early press&#8217; comments:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>\u201cExcellent, well rounded and heartfelt metal.<\/em>\u201d \u2013 <strong>Worm Gear Zine <\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em> \u201cIf you love <\/em>The Last Caress of Light<em> as I do, then you will also love <\/em>Severance.\u201d \u2013 <strong>Last Rites<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>\u201cThis is Celtic metal redefined, the next wave of the Irish scene<\/em>.\u201d \u2013 <strong>New Noise (5\/5)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>&#8220;Die auf zwei Positionen umbesetzte Belfast-Truppe greift das Thin-Lizzy-Erbe einmal mehr gekonnt auf, metallisiert das Ganze aber in Primordial-Tradition, ist dabei allerdings melodischer, zug\u00e4nglicher, passt in ein homogenes Miteinander von Skyclad, Doomsword und auch Atlantean Kodex.&#8221;<\/em> <strong>(Rock Hard)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>\u201cThe band utilizes songwriting as its greatest strength with tremolo picked guitar riffs and memorable vocals being featured throughout.\u201d<\/em> \u2013 <strong>Heavymetal.About.com (4\/5)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>\u201cThe core is melodic Maiden-esque metal \u2014 harmonized guitars and clean-sung choruses full of bluster and power \u2014 but Darkest Era incorporate anything and everything, from black metal tremolo riffs to folkish doom, all bent to the will of classic songwriting.\u201d<\/em> \u2013 <strong>Stereogum<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, the vinyl version of the album has suffered a slight production delay, but it will be available worldwide by the beginning of July.<\/p>\n<p>The CD format can be purchased directly from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cruzdelsurmusic.com\/store\/index.php?route=product\/product&amp;product_id=717\" target=\"_blank\">Cruz Del Sur Music e-store at this link.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DARKEST ERA have released a new video for the track &#8216;Beyond the Grey Veil&#8217; on the same day that the band&#8217;s new album &#8216;Severance&#8217; receives its European release via Cruz Del Sur Music. The video can be seen here: httpv:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Ns0rYSEDAnI&amp;feature=youtu.be Speaking about the new video, Guitarist Ade Mulgrew said: &#8220;Beyond the Grey Veil is the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,1071,218,717],"tags":[1416,884,249,361,3,1427,77,292,100,1072,284,396],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cruzdelsurmusic.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1816"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cruzdelsurmusic.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cruzdelsurmusic.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cruzdelsurmusic.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cruzdelsurmusic.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1816"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.cruzdelsurmusic.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1816\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1820,"href":"https:\/\/www.cruzdelsurmusic.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1816\/revisions\/1820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cruzdelsurmusic.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cruzdelsurmusic.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cruzdelsurmusic.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}