BYRON (Heavy/Doom Metal – Finland) – “Chapter II: The Lotus Covenant” Full Album is out now & streaming online #Byron #heavymetal
Byron is a metal band from Finland. Music mixes elements of classic melodic metal, doom and NWOBHM. Lyrical themes are of the occult and esoteric, dreams, loss and horror literature.
After 2021 “The Omega Evangelion”, Byron starts the year 2024 with the successor, releasing their second full-lenght “Chapter II: The Lotus Covenant”
Soon after the Finnish heavy doom band Church Of Void ceased to exist in 2017, drummer Johannes Lahti, aka Byron V, started planning the release of few songs he had made during the years and were buried in the drawer. He had just joined the band Neon Angel and finished recording drums to their debut album “Neon Light District” (Sliptrick Records 2020) when he felt the time was right to get his songs to be heard. Enlightened by the realization of the few songs finally being pushed out, Johannes started composing more material in late 2019 and what started out as a studio project EP, first became two EPs and finally formed as a full-length album. A band called Byron was born. Their debut album “The Omega Evangelion” (2020, The Goatmancer Records) represented the birth of the band with tracks from different eras, bound together by a thematical line of endings and loss in various aspects, topped with Lovecraftian imagery. It is an eclectic serving of melodic heavy metal, moving from NWOBHM to occult rock and deeper into the gloomy depths of darker metal and back to stoner and doom, offering a sensation of beautifulness in decay, a beginning in every end. An evangelion of rebirth; of Alpha in Omega. Today, Byron returns with the brand new album “Chapter II: The Lotus Covenant” (2024, The Goatmancer Records). The Finnish heavy metal band, which mixes its eclectic sound from NWOBHM to doom metal and back again to occult rock and doom, once again moving thematically in Stephen King’s realms, based on the “Pet Sematary” novel (or – to be precise – the 2019 movie remake), the band’s sound steps deeper in black waters of melodic doom, not forgetting the rolling Byronic metal.
Track List:
01 Overture 00:00
02 The Lotus Covenant 01:49
03 Resignation 05:47
04 Sword Of The Apostle 09:51
05 Sometimes Dead is Better 17:11
06 The Golden Galley 22:14
07 Return To Celephais 24:55
08 The X 28:31
Band Members:
Johanna Eteläkari: Vocals
Jaakko Puusaari, Ville Koskinen: Guitars
Tino Kantoluoto: Bass
Johannes Lahti: Drums
Guest musicians:
Jyri Vahvanen: Guitars
Elias Kahila: Cello
Juho Savikurki: Keyboards
Magus Corvus: Narrator on “Return to Celephaïs”
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