ARDOURS
LAST PLACE ON EARTH
DEBUT ALBUM
OUT 09.08.19
(Frontiers)
First single
‘LAST MOMENT’
out now
Watch the video below:
Ardours is a new alternative/gothic metal band formed by Tristania singer Mariangela Demurtas and multi-instrumentalist/producer Kris Laurent. Their forthcoming debut album, ‘Last Place On Earth’, is an exciting, fresh sounding record straddling rock, metal and gothic atmospheres with prominent vocal melodies and hooks. In the words of Demurtas, “the album is a carousel of fatalism, confusion, insight, enlightenment, self-deception, bitterness, loss of faith, apathy, closure, and hope of a new dawn spinning relentlessly towards the looming contours of the end. Or the complete opposite. We definitely like to leave as much free interpretation as possible to the audience.”
Explaining the first single from the album, ‘Last Moment’, she continues: “it is a song about approaching the end. It is actually optimistic and positive compared to some of the others; however, it focuses on the notion that something better than this world is waiting, so we can leave life with a radiant hope. In the video we wanted to show our identity in a way that the audience could see how we express ourselves lyrically and musically.”
The line-up for ‘Last Place On Earth’ is rounded out by Demurtas’ fellow Tristania member Tarald Lie on drums, who also wrote the lyrics for the songs.
Fans of The Gathering, Lacuna Coil, latter-era Tiamat and Idle Hands should certainly keep their eyes and ears open for Ardours.
LAST PLACE ON EARTH
TRACKLISTING
1 What Else Is There
2 Catabolic
3 Last Place On Earth
4 Design
5 Last Moment
6 The Mist
7 Therefore I Am
8 Truths
9 No One Is Listening
10 Totally
ARDOURS
Mariangela Demurtas – vocals
Kris Laurent – guitars, bass and keyboards
with
Tarald Lie – drums
Nico Etelavuori – bass on ‘Design’
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