Oakland black metal innovators Secret of the Sky have dropped another new video for a song off of their sophomore album Pathways which drops in North America today!
The video is for the song “Eternal Wolves”, and it is well worth a watch.
Invisible Oranges is also streaming Pathways in its entirety.
Secrets of the Sky are on the road in North America with Anaal Nathrakh and Incite and will be playing with North in June.
Check out tour dates and the video for “Eternal Wolves” here.
Oakland doom metal innovators Secrets of the Sky are now streaming their sophomore album Pathway over at Invisible Oranges.
Pathway will officially drop on May 19.
Secrets of the Sky will be touring throughout the United States with Anaal Nathrakh, Incite and North through June.
Check out the video for “Angels in Vines” as well as Secrets of the Sky tour dates here.
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Oakland’s doomiest sons, Secrets Of The Sky have nothing to fear in terms underground acceptance. The band’s already garnered critical acclaim for their past work and are set to return with Metal Blade release Pathways, a record that builds on their already formidable mix of styles with even more dynamics. “Angel In Vines” is very Type O meets Daylight Dies reminiscent to my ears, in the best way! Waves of sound will hurl you across vast spaces and the new music video is a dance of life versus the toxic.
Elaborates guitarist Clayton Bartholomew, “For this video, we went back to director Andrew Nethery, who also did the video for the song ‘Decline’ from our first record, To Sail Black Waters. He did a great job for that video and was an easy guy to work with. For the ‘Angel In Vines’ video, we let him run with his own vision. The song itself relates to the loss of innocence, and he found an interesting analogy to express this same sentiment, while keeping the video abstract and not just giving away the premise of the song. We like that he was able to avoid cliché and the imagery he was able to capture is a definite work of art on its own.”
See it BELOW.
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After touring in support of (the Metal Riot highly approved) To Sail Black Waters over the past two years, Secrets of the Sky are back. They’ve completed tracking their sophomore album at Trident Studios with producer/engineer Juan Urteaga (Testament, Machine Head, Cattle Decapitation). Details and new music will be released this summer.
Secrets of the Sky comments on joining forces with Metal Blade Records: “We are very excited to be joining the Metal Blade Records roster. The Metal Blade legacy, reputation and commitment to heavy music has stood the test of time. The staff we have been working with genuinely “get” what it is that our band is doing and have been tremendously supportive of it thus far. We are also pleased to announce that our second full length will be released in the coming months. The album was again recorded by Juan Urteaga at Trident Studios and is another abstract concept piece. We believe we pushed ourselves in writing it to further develop our sound and we put more focus on creating a collection of songs that flow from beginning to end, while still retaining the cinematic qualities we originally set out with on our debut.”
Metal Blade have really hit the mark lately with new music from Primordial, Visigoth, Motor Sister and now this great news, sure to fertilize minds with heavy seeds falling from above.
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“Pursuit/Predator,” GODHUNTER‘s latest plodding and antagonizing anthem and the lead track to the band’s upcoming GH/0ST:S split LP with Metal Riot very much approved band SECRETS OF THE SKY, is now playing a month ahead of the album’s release at Invisible Oranges.
The song summons the memory of the Zodiac Killer and churns with violence and the sociology of stress in the zeitgeist. It all ends in an early-Kylesa style tribal melt down with shouts towards the sun, beckoning for reason’s justice.
Stream 7 minute banger “Pursuit/Predator” RIGHT HERE.
Oakland-based sextet, Secrets Of The Sky,will begin their next West Coast trek in just one week, followed by another tour of the coast just several weeks later.
First up, Secrets of The Sky will head out on a headlining voyage next Friday, March 28th, with a week-and-a-half of shows confirmed throughout Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Utah, Colorado and across their native California through the second week of April.
Secrets Of The Sky‘s upcoming West Coast tour with Godhunter was also announced earlier this week. On June 6th and 7th the two acts will rendezvous at the annual Doom In June Fest in Las Vegas, both set to perform amidst the lineup including Novembers Doom, Christian Mistress, Acid Witch, Ides of Gemini, Demon Lung and more. From there they’ll co-headline a course through Oakland, San Luis Obispo, Glendale, Palm Desert, Tucson and Phoenix. A special collaborative release from both bands is presently being finalized to be sold on this tour, with full details to be announced in the coming days.
The six-member crew has also been busy raking in new endorsements over recent weeks in efforts to continually re-maximize their massive auditory delivery, and recent sponsorships from Spector Basses, Dean Markley Strings, Eventide effect pedals and Pigtronix effect pedals have all been sanctioned.
Italian label, Kolony Records, released To Sail Black Waters worldwide in October, exposing the planet to the band’s expansive, powerhouse style of fusing progressive elements into their crushing doom metal foundation. Three of the band’s six members each contribute with multiple instruments, layering synth/keys, violins and an array of vocal styles atop the crushing rhythm section and massive triple guitar attack, resulting in a dense and stunning forty-one minute opus. Bulldozing over doom, death, black, prog and post-metal genre boundaries, the expansive power of To Sail Black Waters was recorded over an eight month period of recording sessions at Trident Studios with engineer/producer Juan Urteaga (Testament, Machine Head, Cattle Decapitation), and appeared on over a dozen best of 2013 lists including Decibel, MetalSucks, Metal Injection, Metal Insider and more.
Watch SECRETS OF THE SKY’s “Decline” video, which was filmed with Andrew Nethery (Melvins, Kyuss Lives, Dead Meadow) at THIS LOCATION, and explore To Sail Black Waters in its entirety HERE.
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Secrets of the Sky is six guys from California making some seriously dark and sludgy metal. If you have not heard of them yet you need to check out their music immediately. You won’t soon get their beautifully dark music out of your head.
These master metal musicians dropped their debut album To Sail Black Waters a week ago via Kolony Records and have just finished ripping across the west coast with In The Silence.
I had the chance to catch up with them over the weekend to talk about the record, touring and how things are going with Kolony Records.
Check out the Metal Riot interview here.
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Californian self-professed Blackened Progressive Doom Metallers Secrets of the Sky will release their debut album, To Sail Black Waters, on October 8 via Kolony Records.
Check out the Metal Riot review of To Sail Black Waters here!
California progressive doomers Secrets of the Sky and In the Silence have announced a west coast tour.
Secrets of the Sky will be touring in support of their upcoming debut To Sail Black Waters which will be released by Kolony Records on October 8.
In the Silence will be touring in support of their album A Fair Dream Gone Mad, which was released last May by Sensory Records.
The tour will start on October 4 in Sacramento and will run nine dates, wrapping up on October 12 in Oakland.
Check out the tour dates here.
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Oakland doom metallers Secrets of the Sky have premiered the lyric video for the song “Sunrise” off of the upcoming album To Sail Black Waters.
Guitarist/keyboardist Clayton Bartholomew had this to say about “Sunrise”:
“We are proud to be releasing the lyric video for the song ‘Sunrise.’ The video was put together by vocalist Garett Gazay, and he used imagery that he felt best conveyed his lyrical content and theme for the song. We think it turned out nicely and summarizes the metaphorical concepts laid out by the lyrics. Enjoy!”
To Sail Black Waters will be released in Europe on October 4 and 5 and in North America on October 8 via Kolony Records.
Check out the “Sunrise” lyric video as well as an audio stream of “Decline” here.
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Oakland, California prog-doomers Secrets of the Sky have signed to the Italian label Kolony Records.
Secrets of the Sky are currently touring on their debut album To Sail Black Waters.
Secrets of the Sky have one show coming up with KEN Mode and Torche on May 21 in Oakland.
Check out the To Sail Black Waters tracklisting and the Secrets of the Sky line-up here.
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There are some bands more adept at riding the chaos than others in the storied history of underground music. From noise and hardcore pioneers like Steel Pole Bathtub to Man Is The Bastard to synth/indie/post-core bands like Six Finger Satellite to numerous grindcore bands like Fuck The Facts, etc.- some groups just embody the concept of "fuck it/let's really go for it" more than others. NY's Black Mesa sits proudly in that same spirit of frenzy and ferocious inventiveness, as evidenced by their recent compilation of insanely manic live performances. Whatever sub genre they throw in the emotional blender, you are bound to enjoy a deliciously nutritious smoothie of muddy sonic punk purée.
