EPK – ADON – Self-Titled (2024)
Publicist – Jon Asher – jon[@]ashermediarelations[.]com
“While we hope that new fans will find many things to love about the album, the intention behind the music has always been artistic expression. We hope that in this way, people can connect with the album. We want people to be totally immersed in the cacophony of sound that is this album. We hope that it feels akin to be taking a journey through time and space and that they might consider what lies beyond this realm.” – ADON
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Album Title: Adon
Release Date: April 12, 2024
Label: Self-Release
Track Listing:
1. Ascension – (6:08)
2. Ãther – (5:27)
3. Adon – (16:43)
4. Azimuth – (5:19)
5. Axiom – (3:48)
6. Ãon – (11:03)
Total Length – 48:28
Album Recording Credits:
⢠All songs performed by: Adon
⢠All songs written by: Ãthelwulf II, Nath
⢠Produced by: Adon
⢠Mixed by: Dave Otero (Flatline)
⢠Mastered by: Dave Otero (Flatline)
⢠Album Artwork by: Adon
Album Band Line Up:
Nath – Guitars, Bass, additional vocals
Ãthelwulf II – Vocals, additional instrumentation
James Stewart – Drums
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The album as a whole (LYRICALLY & MUSICALLY)
As a whole, this album represents lifelong dreams. The pursuit of which escaped us as younger folk but found proper creative footing as we matured. It represents all of our influences in a way that, hopefully, can only be described as âADONâ. The album explores themes of war, power, death, apocalypse, cosmos, emergence, transformation, and repeating history, oftentimes through the lens of ancient Viking/ Saxon era imagery. Musically it finds its core in black metal though it couldnât possibly only be described as that.
We believe it is uniquely us, and we made it for ourselves. Â We love to share our creative expressions with others though, and we hope that others can find meaning as we do.
Track by Track (LYRICALLY & MUSICALLY)
1. Â Ascension – This song sets the tone for the album with its brutality. Â The lyrics as we wrote them visually focus on the beginning of an apocalypse, and the hopeless futility of survival. The title âascensionâ conjures imagery of a kind of torturous rapture.
2. Â Ãther – A non-stop onslaught of violent themes and images of battle. A war cry in the spirit of Vikings, taking flight on wings of vengeance.
3. Â Adon – This song tells a classic story of a man playing at being God. However, in this story, the subject an ancient king, is given a glimpse into the unfathomable and loses himself in the abyss before glimpsing an unknown eternity. The character of king I (Ãthelwulf II) is based on my own line of ancestry of Saxon kings and their mix of pagan & Christian ideologies. This idea of asking God for the power to subjugate is delightfully paradoxical and all too common in our own history. To further tie into these ideas, a large portion of the lyrics for this song are written and performed in Olde English. I enlisted the help of an Olde English expert to help me translate my ideas and spent a good amount of time working on my pronunciation. Olde English is also present in other songs as well, but most prominently here.
We titled the song âAdonâ to further draw a line to concepts we frequently touch upon in our lyrics. The ancient word, âAdonâ, can be translated as meaning âThe Lordâ. Adon as a god character in mythology, to me, personifies hubris. Calling yourself the Lord of anything is an expression of hubris in a human context. Â I thought exploring this idea of unhinged hubris to be quite interesting. This imagery is also the main theme on the albumâs cover.
4. Â Azimuth – Originally inspired, like many of the songs on this album, by the Arthurian legend, but changed over time into a vision of destiny and decay, exploring the themes of emergence and transformation.
5. Â Axiom – Put simply, this song tells the story of a person being stretched into nothingness upon entering a black hole.
6. Â Ãon – Another musing on apocalypse, telling a more complete story from our world ending completely to the unknown reaches of the cosmos. We use the imagery of a trumpet signaling the end of the age of the earth, as described in Judeo-Christian texts a motif musically and lyrically. Â I found it quite interesting to imagine a single blare of a horn signaling the end of humanity; the end of an age.
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1. Â Every song on the album features a guest musician or two.
-Chris Beattie (The Zenith Passage, Dreamer) adds lead and solo guitar to Ascension, Ãther, Azimuth, and Ãon. While our music isnât anywhere near as complex as Chrisâ own bands, we felt that his beautifully moving soloing style and unbelievable technical proficiency fit perfectly throughout the album.
  -Justin Sakogawa (Warscythe, Splattered, ex-Defeated Sanity, Vile) contributes solos on both Axiom and Adon. Justinâs style takes an equally precise technical performance and injects it with a more traditional âDeathâ influenced soloing style that was perfect for the songs he contributed to.  He also makes an appearance in the music video for Axiom to shred his parts on that song.
 -Ember Belladonna provides some haunting and ethereal flute to Axiom and Adon. Her contributions to Adon truly take that song to another level and give it a cinematic and psychedelic edge.
– Kyle Schaefer (Fallujah, Archaeologist) adds his vocals to the track âAdonâ at key moments throughout the track.
2. We were lucky enough to connect with James Stewart (Decapitated, ex-Vader) during the pandemic and he graciously agreed to track drums on our EP. He offered us the option to have him on or debut when we got around to it, and we couldnât pass up the opportunity. His home recording setup got a significant upgrade between our EP and album, and his performances are unforgettable. Having him involved to offer his insights and advice and his impeccable professionalism made the production of the album that much better.
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ADON was ideated long ago, but finally emerged in the winter of 2020 with their EP release ‘Arkane’.Â
Mixed and mastered at Endarker Studio in Sweden, it was clear from the start that ADON sought to craft extreme metal that was rooted in the foundations of the genres that inspired them, but stood on their own in the music they crafted.
The sound of the EP reflected their grimmer influences while teasing a future that was much darker and intense, with more room for experimentation within a Blackened/Death sound.
With their full-length, self-titled debut album, ADON reached their sights further still…
Recorded throughout 2022, the core of ADON remains whilst also featuring several collaborations from the likes of Kyle Schaefer (FALLUJAH), Chris Beattie (THE ZENITH PASSAGE, DREAMER), and Justin Sakogowa (SPLATTERED, WARSCYTHE), and several other talented guests, and was mixed and mastered by a staple of extreme metal, Dave Otero.
With an enormous, crushing, and relentless sound that still finds room for experimentation, ADON is ready to unleash on the planet their apocalyptic debut this coming April 2024.
Discography:
– 2024 – Self-Titled – LP
– 2020 – Arkane – EP
