EPK – Eternal Drak – Imprisoned Souls (2024)

Band: Eternal Drak
Title: Imprisoned Souls
Release Date: July 17th, 2024
Label: FirstWave Canada

Track Listing:
1. Soul Of Hate – 4:00
2. Circle Of Black Flames – 4:20
3. She Is A Magnet – 4:17
4. Haunting Place – 4:43
5. Oda A La Luna (Re Recorded) – 4:20
6. Take No Prisoners – 5:49
7. The Woman In Sandals – 4:04
8. The Mist – 3:26
9. Feasting The Anguish – 3:40
10. Bound By Ambition – 4:10
Album Length: 42:49

Album Recording Credits:
• All songs performed by: Eternal Drak
• All songs written by: Andres Martinez
• Produced by: Andres Martinez
• Mixed by: Andres Martinez
• Mastered by: Andres Martinez
• Album Artwork by: Disturbing Grace Design
• SOCAN member
• Canadian Content (MAPL)

Album and Live Band Line Up:
Eternal Drak Line Up 2024
Andres Martinez (Drakar) – Vocals, Guitar
Francisco Avella (XenX) – Drums

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About The Album Artwork

The central scene is taken by a 19th century Latin American style country house and on top of it is the dragon. The house is the place where all the paranormal stories and activities occurred and the dragon that witnesses and bears witness to all these stories. In art there are little things that represent each of the songs, things like a woman in sandals, the Bolivar sword, the fallen soldiers in the battle for independence.

About the album as a whole (LYRICALLY & MUSICALLY)

The album describes a horror story between thrash, black and death, from how the spirits were trapped, through several of the anecdotes that the residents of this enchanted place experienced but also possible points of view of the spirits that are trapped.

Track by Track (LYRICALLY & MUSICALLY)

1. Soul Of Hate
Theme that marks the beginning of the album with some fast thrash drums and guitars. The song describes a type of souls that are condemned for being full of anger towards whatever it is, this anger does not allow them to leave this plane.

2. Circle Of Black Flames
black theme with touches of doom that talks about that transition that souls have when they are condemned, they do not see an intense light but a black ring of flames that transports them through their condemnation

3. She Is A Magnet
A song that mostly belongs to the old and classic metal of the Venom style, but its rhythmic beats and the shape of the voice make it fall into Motor Head-style hard rock. The song tells the story of a woman who all her life has attracted condemned souls to her and how the souls perceive her as a light among the darkness.

4. Haunting Place
Catchy track with very Groovy drums and a touch of thrash. The song describes the place where the vast majority of the anecdotes occur, a 19th century house where many beings were trapped and the living are tormented.

5. Oda A La Luna (Re Recorded)
This song is a re-recording of a song originally recorded in 2000 and that belongs to the band’s first EP “La Resurreccion De La Orden Guerrera”. This song belongs to the black metal of the 90s and is an ode to the moon and to some ancestral beings who, after their battle with God, were banished to our world and transmitted a large part of their knowledge to us.

6. Take No Prisoners
Theme with a lot of more modern black metal style with some forays into thrash. The song tells the story of a battle for independence in the 19th century where an ambush created too many losses and deaths that were taken to the house where the paranormal acts currently occur.

7. The Woman In Sandals
Black metal song a little doom and a little rock & roll. It is a story of a woman who, after the battle, dedicated herself to taking the very wounded officers inside the house to give them care. This woman, after she died, continued repeating this action, trapped by her desire to help.

8. The Mist
Theme with a great presence of Thrash metal that tells how on the nights when the fog descends from the mountains, the living beings that live in that house group together to be able to better cope with the events that they know will occur.

9. Feasting The Anguish
Classic thrash black metal theme. The theme describes an evil entity in charge of keeping condemned souls in their state of desperation and constant search for communication with the living.

10. Bound By Ambition
Black metal theme that tells the story of some officers who at the time of death only thought about preserving their material assets and that ambition condemns them to remain trapped in that desire and ambition.

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STORY ANGLES / FUN FACTS ABOUT THE BAND

1. “Oda A La Luna” is the only song in Spanish on the album because it comes from the band’s first EP in 2002.

2. “She Is A Magnet” is a song based on one of the relatives of Drakar the composer, she was actually the focus of several paranormal experiences because somehow you attract them.

3. Live performances are in a waiting period because the band’s guitarist/vocalist has been adapting to his visually impaired condition. We hope that presentations can now be made with this new album.

4. The multiple changes and modifications requested by the band’s followers when listening to the song “Soul Of Hate” generated strong conflicts between its two members, reaching an agreement took time and efforts to understand the recommendations.

5. The sound of the guitars was recorded like a wall, 6 tracks of each guitar panned using the legendary and hated/loved Metal Zone as a base in 2 of them. The other 4 tracks used the Boss Gt-100, an excellent and very versatile pedalboard.