EPK – Helevorn – Espectres (2024) – Meuse Music Records – Out Sept 13th
Publicist – Jon Asher – jon[@]ashermediarelations[.]com
“We think it can be an intense experience for those who want to connect something very emotional and very philosophic with dark and gloomy music. This album is based on Hauntology, described first by Jaques Derrida and after by the philosopher Mark Fisher. He wrote ‘The Ghosts of My Life’, an amazing book where he describes the ‘slow cancellation of future’ and a lot of great concepts about the specters and the absences. How they make us what we really are. Is a fantastic concept to write a Doom Metal album, isn’t it?” –Â
For fans of Paradise Lost, My Dying Bride, Draconian, Swallow The Sun
Band: Helevorn
Album Title: Espectres
Release Date: September 13th 2024
Label: Meuse Music Records (BE)
Facebook.com/helevornband/ | Instagram.com/helevornband | Youtube.com/@Helevornband
Helevornofficial.bandcamp.com | Spotify
Album Title: Espectres
Release Date: September 13th 2024
Label: Meuse Music Records (BE)
1. Inherit the Stars (6:36)
2. The Defiant God (5:07)
3. Signals (4:47)
4. When Nothing Shudders (5:49)
5. Unbreakable Silence (7:15)
6. L’Endemà (5:37)
7. The Lost Futures (5:46)
8. Children of the Sunrise (4:40)
About The Album Artwork:
That’s an old fig tree. In the middle of a dead soil field. But it lives. That tree is not only what it is, it exists due to a series of absences that make it present in the world. That’s the same for the human beings.
So that fig tree is moved, so is more than real or maybe is a ghost. Â
About the album as a whole (LYRICALLY & MUSICALLY):
Explained by Josep Brunet – Vocals
We think it can be an intense experience for those who want to connect something very emotional and very philosophic with dark and gloomy music.
This album is based on Hauntology, described first by Jaques Derrida and after by the philosopher Mark Fisher. He wrote ‘The Ghosts of My Life’, an amazing book where he describes the ‘slow cancellation of future’ and a lot of great concepts about the specters and the absences. How they make us what we really are. Is a fantastic concept to write a Doom Metal album, isn’t it?
Track by Track (LYRICALLY & MUSICALLY):
Explained by Josep Brunet – Vocals
1. Inherit the Stars: The connection we have with the Universe. What would happen if we all die and the Earth disappears? Very Helevorn Song.
2. The Defiant God: God gets angry with humankind. Should we pray more or should we fight for him until death?
3. Signals: The hit. The beginning of the song (the key part that makes you dance) was made with guitar melodies before entering to record the album. It was there that our producer suggested we record a key sequence to make it more ‘gothic’. And there is a guitar solo performed by Biel Gaya that is awesome.
4. When Nothing Shudders: It starts very slow and it ends very very high. It’s about the genocide of Palestine. Very raw and real.
5. Unbreakable Silence: Dedicated to Mark Fisher and people who finish their lives due to mental illness. That’s not an individual issue but a problem that we , the society, should work in common.
6. L’Endemà : A song in Catalan, our mother tongue, with some female vocals performed by Ines Gonzalez. Very heavy, doom, and with a beautiful chorus.
7. The Lost Futures: The slowest and doomed song we have ever written. Very old school. No future because post-Fordism killed it.
8. Children of the Sunrise: It was just a piano song that turned into a very special song in the studio with a very special guest appearance of Thomas Jensen of Saturnus. Dedicated to all the children who came to this world to make it a better place. I thought about my two children when I was writing it.
=============================================
L-R – JM Rubio – Bass, Sandro Vizcaino – Guitars, Pedro S Bonnin – Keys, Josep Brunet – Vocals, Alex Correa – Guitars
Photo Credit – Tuco Martin
HELEVORN FIFTH ALBUM
We started the recording sessions of our fifth album on January 29th, 2024, again with Miquel A Riutord ‘Mega’ at his studios in Inca (Mallorca). The same studio where we recorded our last two albums.
The last three years have been very intense for the band due to some lineup changes. The fact is we had to ask Sebastià Barceló (Trallery) to record the drums because it was impossible to find a permanent drummer.
Moreover, the last year was very productive (we decided to not play live so much), we composed the eight songs that we had just recorded at the studio. Â We finished the sessions some days ago.
About the new songs:Â
The songs are a bit different than in the past because is the first time that the new guitar player (Alex) has composed the 60% of the album, so we can say that ‘is Helevorn but in a new (but) same way’. You will find the same atmosphere, and the same feelings but played a bit differently. Maybe more raw, with more details, more technique, etc. We really love the way that the band started working with the new members and how they put their ideas in common.
We definitely found comfortable with the idea of  ‘Mediterranean Doom’ in our previous album, but now is, without any doubt, less epic, less ‘folkie’, and more Doom and Metal. And as always, we can say that we are so proud of this album and maybe they are the best songs we have ever recorded (is very common to say that, I know).
About the concept:
We love to write about real things, and we have always done it.
This time it came to our hands the book of Mark Fisher ‘Ghosts of my Life’ and we decided that we wanted to talk about it. The ‘hauntology’ gave us the departure point where we started to write non-stop and gave life to our songs.
Mark Fisher wrote about how post-Fordism and neoliberalism broke the way that music and culture, in general, were able to create something new, so that’s the ‘slow cancellation of future’. The examples he gave are fantastic.
The idea that Fisher talks about the âspectersâ is the part we have dug more into.
How these specters conform to our thoughts, our feelings, and our longings.
Indeed, it is something philosophic but at the same time kind of ethereal.
Espectres” is due out on September 13, 2024 from Meuse Music Records.
Discography:
2024 – Espectres – LP
2019 – Aamamata – LP
2014 – Compassion Forlorn – LP
2010 – Forthcoming Displeasures – LP
2005 – Fragments – LP
Shared Stage with: Swallow The Sun, Katatonia, Dracononian, Saturnus, Rotting Christ, Primordial, Esoteric, Poema Arcanus, Majestic Downfall
Tours and Fests:
2022 – Supporting Saturnus and Esoteric in their European Tour
2022 – Metal Gates Festival (ROM)
2022 – Gothoom Open Air (SK)
2019 – Doom Heart Fest (ITA)
2019 – Canadian Tour with Majestic Downfall
2016 – Madrid is the Dark Fest (SP)
Metal Over Malta, Dutch Doom Days, Metal Holidays/Wacken, tours around Spain, etc.
