EPK – Dusk – Spectrums (2023)
Publicist – Jon Asher – jon[@]ashermediarelations[.]com
Album Title: Spectrums
Release Date: February 17th, 2023
Label: Self Release
Distribution: Distrokid
For fans of Currents, Born of Osiris, Polaris, Future Palace, Novelists, Deftones
“This album is a statement of its own, from working with local artists like Khalid C from the melodic death band Entropia, and Abdulrahman Elghazali (Featured in a previous EP To Where I Belong) âFear Is The Thing They Desireâ to collaborating with international artists and adding vocals such as “Aron Harris from the Death Metal NewYork based band “Solemn Vision” and the great âJaani Peuhuâ previously from the highly recognized band âSwallow The Sunâ and his band âlanaiâ
The album âSPECTRUMSâ is a total of 12 songs with some twists in the vocals featuring other languages like German, Finnish, And Arabic.
With a complete theme idea behind the album, it aims to do the first half of the album or (side A), aggressively sounding, and more guitar-focused and adding more aggression to each track while the listener moves forward.
The second half (Side B) aims for a new sound from DUSK infusing more of the electric/EDM-ish sound where it’s more focused and digitized sounding and widely more appealing to the non-metal listener, all while keeping the same aggression level building up with each track.
With the name comes the main idea which is giving the music and letting everyone I wanted to work with, put their creative input and point of view, discussing real topics and relatable stories so that the average listener feels the connection and experiences a full emotional journey throughout the whole album.
“Something To make all people from different aspects of life can relate to”.
As things developed with time, I decided to infuse different languages and different styles, genres, and sounds, I wanted to bring more to the table and make this album a possible gateway to new audiences and perhaps fans from both sides, the metal heads & the non-metal listeners.” – DUSK
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Album Title: Spectrums
Release Date: February 17th, 2023
Label: Self Release
Distribution: Distrokid
Track Listing:
1. The World We Used To Know Ft. Abzy & Khalid C – 5:42
2. Digging Deeper Ft. Alex Hamilton – 4:05
3. Breath In, Breath Out Ft. Adnan – 4:20
4. Hatred Ft. Alex Hamilton – 3:12
5. Lethal Perspectives Ft. Aron Harris – 3:02
6. Agnes Of Rome Ft. Abzy – 5:00
7. Burning In My Mind Ft. Moe Steiger – 3:31
8. Karma Will Find You Ft. Moe Steiger – 4:19
9. Someone To Trust Ft. Jon Thomas – 3:38
10. Only You Ft. Jaani Peuhu – 5:39
11. Celestials Ft. Iman Ahmed & Abudlrahman Elghazali – 4:37
12. Absence Of Full – 2:18
Album Length: 50:00
Album Credits: All recordings were done by DUSK
⢠All songs performed by: DUSK
 All songs were written by: The features + Mohammed AlKudwah for the song Hatred Ft. Alex Hamilton
⢠Produced by: DUSK
⢠Mixed by: Tom Haberland
⢠Mastered by: Tom Haberland
⢠Album Artwork by: Giannis Nakos (Remedy Art Designs)
Album Band Line-Up:
DUSK – One man band
Live Band Line Up:
Band members will be different with each region or country. The Constant member is DUSK himself.
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The album as a whole (LYRICALLY & MUSICALLY):
This album is a statement of its own, from working with local artists like Khalid C from the melodic death band Entropia, and Abdulrahman Elghazali (Featured in a previous EP To Where I Belong) âFear Is The Thing They Desireâ to collaborating with international artists and adding vocals such as “Aron Harris from the Death Metal NewYork based band “Solemn Vision” and the great âJaani Peuhuâ previously from the highly recognized band âSwallow The Sunâ and his band âlanaiâ
The Album âSPECTRUMSâ is a total of 12 songs with some twists in the vocals featuring other languages like German, Finnish, And Arabic.
With a complete theme idea behind the album, it aims to do the first half of the album or (side A), aggressively sounding, and more guitar-focused and adding more aggression to each track while the listener moves forward.
The second half (Side B) aims for a new sound from DUSK infusing more of the electric/EDM-ish sound where it’s more focused and digitized sounding and widely more appealing to the non-metal listener, all while keeping the same aggression level building up with each track.
With the name comes the main idea which is giving the music and letting everyone I wanted to work with, put their creative input and point of view, discussing real topics and relatable stories so that the average listener feels the connection and experiences a full emotional journey throughout the whole album.
“Something To make all people from different aspects of life can relate to”.
As things developed with time, I decided to infuse different languages and different styles, genres, and sounds, I wanted to bring more to the table and make this album a possible gateway to new audiences and perhaps fans from both sides, the metal heads & the non-metal listeners.
Track by track (LYRICALLY & MUSICALLY):
Side A:
1- The World We Used To Know Ft. Abzy & Khalid C (Talks about how things could or did change and are taken for granted.).
2- Digging Deeper Ft. Alex Hamilton (Talks about betrayal and the behavior of being stabbed in the back by a loved one).
3- Breath In, Breath Out Ft. Adnan (Talks about waking up from all the toxic environment and people and becoming above it to see it clearly).
4- Hatred Ft. Alex Hamilton (Talks about the powerful politician abusing their power and corrupting the future of the children).
5- Lethal Perspectives Ft. Aron Harris (Talks about someone with a Megalomania and or someone that thinks highly of himself and reminds him that he is not god).
6- Agnes Of Rome Ft. Abzy (Talks about a real ancient Rome story that happened (c.â 291 â c.â 304) about a girl that was going to be a saint and preserved herself for marriage when someone tried to drag and rape her but couldn’t, and after that, the people accused her of witchcraft and took her life unfairly).
Side B:
7- Burning In My Mind Ft. Moe Steiger (Talks about when someone has a consistent tick in his mind and can’t get rid of it and the longer this idea or the thing that keeps spinning in his mind the more of a burning feeling he feels).
8- Karma Will Find You Ft. Moe Steiger (Talks about someone in the metal scene in Saudi that thinks he controls everything in the music aspect).
9- Someone To Trust Ft. Jon Thomas (Talks about giving that last hope of trust to someone to find that it was worth giving it to this right person).
10- Only You Ft. Jaani Peuhu (Talks about the person that can cure my evil thoughts and dark past with her love and touch).
11- Celestials Ft. Iman Ahmed & Abdulrahman Elghazali (Talks about love and wanting the person to stay with me and go on a journey just for the two of us).
12- Absences Of Full (Album Outro Instrumental) (The end of it all, the instrumental outro is just a closure for all these feelings and with it. it puts the album into the end of a phase of my music projects).
Photo Credit: John Abutas
Dusk is a lead electric guitar player with experience of nearly 10 years in the music field, working in various music genres such as Metal, Rock, Hip-hop, Jazz, Soul, R&B, and EDM. Some of his musical influences are of the likes of Currents, Erra, Volumes, Led Zeppelin, Andy James, Buckethead, and many more.
Since 2020, he has been releasing his solo projects in metal subgenres like metalcore, djent, melodic metal, and progressive metal. Since its inception, Dusk has released two EPs âTo Where I Belongâ (2021) featuring guests Madani Zakri and Abdulrahman Elghazali and âAscensionâ (2020) along with multiple singles.
In 2023, DUSk releases the first full length, an labrum featuring 12 tracks with many guests such as like Khalid C from local Saudi melodic death band Entropia, and Abdulrahman Elghazali (Featured in a previous EP To Where I Belong – âFear Is The Thing They Desireâ) to collaborating with international artists such as Aron Harris from the New York Death Metal based band Solemn Vision and the great âJaani Peuhuâ previously from the highly recognized band âSwallow The Sunâ and his band âLanaiâ. Vocals are also sung in many other languages like German, Finnish, and Arabic.
The debut album “Spectrums” is due out on February 17th, 2022.
Discography:
2020 – Ascension – EP
2020 – Enrapture – Single
2021 – Particles Of Shapes – Single
2021 – Rotten Roots – Single
2021 – To Where I Belong- EP
2022 – Origin Ft. Brett Anspach – Single
2022 – Spectrums – LP
BAND STORY ANGLES / FUN FACTS:
1. Fun fact, Dusk is the nickname/stage name I choose to go with when deciding on this genre and type of music, a lot of people think at first that it’s a band name but it actually just me and the reason for that is because my background was very melodic and mostly instrumentals, I wanted to give presence to my previous style in music, so that’s why DUSK, the minutes between day and night as in my music for it being between the dark and melodic breaks and the pure connection in these dynamics
2. Fun Fact: I used to be a DJ in my college days in the UAE, and my music career started right then and there, that was in 2013.
3. Fun Fact: I’m a self-taught musician and producer, I never took a class although I’ve been wanting to for almost half of my career but being too lazy about and hoping for one day to get this done and over with.
