EPK – Dune – Years of Chains (2024)

EPK – Dune – Years of Chains (2024)

Publicist – Jon Asher – jon[@]ashermediarelations[.]com

“If you like it Heavy and to Head Bang, then we are the answer, it’s a deep dive into subjects from a different POV looking at it from our prospect, songs are groove-oriented with an aggressive feel and heavy riffs to give the listener a fun experience of raging tones.” – DUNE

For fans of Testament, Slayer, Pantera, Metallica, Korn

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EP Title: Years of Chains
Release Date: May 31, 2024
Label: Self-Release

Track Listing:
1. Sieve – 4:41
2. Reject – 5:06
3. Insidious – 4:28
4. Refuge – 4:35
EP Length: 18:52

EP Recording Credits:
• All songs performed by: Dune
• All songs written by: Dune
• Produced by: Dune
• Mixed by: Crushing Studio
• Mastered by: Crushing Studio
• Album Artwork by: Mamdoh Tawili

EP Band Line Up:
Samer Nakhala– Vocals
Abdulrahman Ghazali – Guitars
Mamdoh Tawili – Bass / Back Vocals
Mustafa Karazoon – Drums

Live Band Line Up:
Samer Nakhala– Vocals
Meshary Sangoora – Guitars
Mamdoh Tawili – Bass / Back Vocals
Mustafa Karazoon – Drums

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About the EP Artwork:
The EP artwork represents the struggles that we all have, having parts of the lyrics from each song pouring into the skull head and then pouring from the eyes and mouth, a representation of struggles and spiral into madness and to a dark place.

About the EP:

It is a dark journey into subjects and deep dark thoughts influenced by our culture and personal traumas.

This EP has come from a mixture of hard work, ambition, and lots of dark thoughts and aggression.

The recording process was fun yet we looked for perfection to make the songs as we imagined them with the best quality that we could make.

Track By Track:
1 -Sieve: The introduction to the EP, Eerie starts to chaos and aggression.
2- Reject: Groovy song with dark story.
3 – Insidious: Heavy Trip through deep personal matters of confusion and breakups.
4- Refuge: Punching Music in your face and demonic verses.

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STORY ANGLES – FUN FACTS:

1.     In 2007 Refuge was a song that was recorded multiple times during the years but we were never satisfied with the result as it we face either issues with quality or doesn’t sound as we hoped , our vocalist screamed in the recording so hard that his balls started hurting the next day , still we didnt like the result and scraped that whole thing

2.     The Bassist was found in a supermarket Ads board, literally , Dune had a beginner bassist where the band was looking for someone who could add strength to the band , the vocalist found an ad in the supermarket board ( where people can put up anything they are looking for or requests ) of someone looking for bass teacher , he contacted the person and lied saying I play guitar and I can teach you bass , the plan was to trick him into joining the band as a bassist and as they met they clicked and Mamdoh have joined DUNE as their bassist

3.     Samer ( Vocalist ) Yazan ( Ex-Guitarst ) used to meet up late night to write and play music since Samer used to work as Hotel Receptionist where he is only free late night /early morning .

4.     Reject was redone multiple times and the song structure had drastic multiple changes , the demo of the song sounds nothing like the final result as we kept removing and adding parts till we felt the song became tight and make sense.

5. In the early years around 2006 or 2005 we had the band full equipment stolen after a rehearsal , we kept our stuff in our cars and went to chill somewhere to later come and find out that someone broke into our cars and stole our stuff , were talking about guitar and guitar , bass , pedals effects , Amps , mics , you could imagine how devastating such incident to a band specially we were very young and were so broke financially , after months we kept saving and tried to build up and bought instruments again till got all we need and kept moving forward as a band.

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DUNE is a thrash metal band mixed and fused with other influences such as Djent, Nu-Metal, Oriental & Groove metal. Formed around 2004 and going on hiatus in 2007 at the peak of the Saudi metal scene, the quartet resurrected in 2021.

They have performed multiple live shows from the old SA METAL era and made their live return at the first Riyadh Inferno & Riyadh Desert Rock Fest in 2022 along with multiple metal nights at Soroor Music Centre & Syrup Lounge.

Fast forward to 2024, DUNE is now preparing to unleash a chainsaw of heavy guitars, chunky clicky bass slaps, high drums techniques, and aggressive vocals on their forthcoming EP “Years of Chains” that draws upon their own life experiences and musical style to create their signature middle eastern metal sound.

SHARED STAGE WITH: DUSK, ENTROPIA, MOUJA, LICENSE TO KILL, Immortal Pain, GIMMIX, Crimson, Reprobate, APOY

Festivals:
2023 – Riyadh Inferno 2 – Saudi Arabia, Riyadh
2022 – Desert Rock – Saudi Arabia, Riyadh
2021 – Riyadh Inferno – Saudi Arabia, Riyadh
2021 – Heavy Arabia Launch Party – Saudi arabia, Riyadh
2006 – Underground Metal 2 – Saudi Arabia, Riyadh
2005 – Underground Metal  – Saudi Arabia, Riyadh