ASSEMBLE THE CHARIOTS have announced their debut album!
Titled Unyielding Night, the upcoming album from the Finnish extreme metal band is their debut full-length album, and is scheduled to be released in July this year, via Seek & Strike.
Speaking about the upcoming debut album, the band shares, “from the beginning, our collective mindset was to primarily focus on the story and to ignore musical trends and boundaries, as we wanted the album to feel like a movie soundtrack. We also wanted to make playing the songs live fun as well. This means that instead of only writing super technical and complex songs, we took a different approach by contrasting the more challenging parts with more simpler elements whenever the songs needed them. This provided us the freedom to perform and enjoy the music on a whole different level.
Our new music is a non-traditional combination of traditional elements to create an epic showcase of what metal can be in modern times. The way the songs have been arranged and composed keeps the listener aware and drags you into the song. Every note and hit has been carefully crafted with a greater picture in mind. This, in conjunction with the highly thought-out lore behind the songs, creates a combination that truly feels fresh and unique in a pretty saturated field. Our sincere wish is that anyone who stumbles upon this album, would be open to listening to it as a piece of heavy metal history, instead of an example of what a specific genre should to them sound like.
If you like blast-beats, mega-epic orchestrations, spectacular live shows and nerding out to intricate lore, or if you are just yearning for a unique sounding metal band to add to your song libraries, ASSEMBLE THE CHARIOTS is your band.”
Alongside the announcement of the debut album, ASSEMBLE THE CHARIOTS have released a new music video for a new song lifted from the upcoming album; Evermurk. The new song is the latest single to be released from the upcoming debut album, following on from Galactic Order and Empress.
Speaking about the new single, the band says, “our newest single, Evermurk, almost didn’t make the album. After several revisions with different tempo and key variations and alternative endings, we made the song fit perfectly. We had to make some pre-determined compositional decisions on the songs around Evermurk before finishing the single. Evermurk has all the essential ASSEMBLE THE CHARIOTS elements, such as syncopated double kick patterns, menacing riffs and gigantic choruses. We decided to further elevate the song with an atypical vocal style, adding extra drama on the composition in order to tell the story. Story-wise, the song is the long awaited counterpart to our previous stand-alone single, Empress. Where Empress is the depiction of the goddess of light in the ATC universe, Evermurk refers to the dark entity, which is directly controlled be her darkness. Evermurk is the embodiment of the darkness spreading through the cosmos. This dichotomy can be directly heard in the composition of the song with it having very evil and menacing verses, yet very epic choruses filled with melody and major chords.”
Watch the official music video for Evermurk here:
Also, you can view both the track list and artwork for the upcoming debut album below:
Track List:
1. Aquilegia in Peril
2. Departure
3. Admorean Monolith
4. As Was Seen by Augurers
5. Shimmering, Pulsing Glow
6. Evermurk
7. Reavers March
8. Ephemeral Stream
9. Emancipation
10. Keepers of the Stars
11. Empress
12. Last Line of Defence
13. Galactic Order
14. Equinox
Unyielding Night is set for release on July 19th via Seek & Strike. Pre-orders are available now and can be purchased here.
For more information on ASSEMBLE THE CHARIOTS like their official page on Facebook.