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Watch TÝR’s “Hammered” video HERE
Faroe Islands-based Viking metallic icons TÝR right this moment unleash their newest single and accompanying video for “Hammered.” The observe comes by means of the group’s ninth full-length studio album, Battle Ballads, set for launch on April twelfth through Metallic Blade Data!
When TÝR teamed up with the Symphony Orchestra of the Faroe Islands on February eighth, 2020, to file the double-disc/DVD launch A Night time At The Nordic Home, founding frontman Heri Joensen was thrilled to deliver collectively two of the music varieties he loves most – folks and classical – into his band’s unorthodox type of music. However on the time, he couldn’t have imagined what a profound impression the collaboration would have on his musical imaginative and prescient, and the way a lot it could affect and inform the album he would write a couple of years later.
“There’s a purpose classical music known as classical,” Joensen says. “It’s the classical manner of doing it. And it creates these epic sounds that slot in completely with the form of metallic we do in TÝR. So, there’s full orchestration on all the new songs.”
With Battle Ballads, TÝR has crafted an album that resounds with their trademark Viking metallic sound — a crushing, hovering, batch of classical embellished songs that conjure photographs of galloping steeds, clashing swords, and hard-fought victories. On the identical time, the band has experimented with new writing kinds and musical strategies and created songs which might be structurally less complicated, but musically extra variegated. For Joensen, it’s a transparent illustration of how he plans to proceed exploring totally different approaches sooner or later whereas staying true to the spirit of thunderous Viking metallic.
“We consciously determined to make this a extra direct album with songs which might be simpler for listeners to get instantly than among the stuff on our final album, or perhaps even on our 2006 album Ragnarok, which was very progressive,” says Joensen. “With Battle Ballads, there are progressive parts right here and there, however we tried to maintain the songs based mostly on one or two musical concepts every, and work on every part from there. So, in a manner, it’s extra concise than our final album, nevertheless it’s extra epic due to the symphonic parts.”
There’s no escaping the masterful mix of melody and savagery on Battle Ballads straight from album opener and newest single, “Hammered,” which funnels infectious riffs and searing licks by quite a lot of rhythm and tempo adjustments.
Joensen feedback, “The music begins with the hammering of metallic in opposition to metallic, forging, then melodic riffing over a easy however classical chord development that evolves all through the music. Driving drums, heavy metallic over a symphonic soundscape. An adventurous backdrop to the forging of weapons of warfare, blades of battle. This was previously however now it’s right here with a fast-paced singalong refrain. Ideas on the obvious inevitability of warfare and our response to it. Balancing our enthusiasm in opposition to our defeatism.”
Watch TÝR‘s “Hammered” video at THIS LOCATION.
Watch TÝR‘s beforehand launched video for “Axes” at THIS LOCATION.
As a lot as TÝR would have preferred to put in writing, rehearse, and file with a symphony, schedule conflicts made it unattainable to have the band and classical musicians to be in the identical place on the identical time. So the band did the subsequent neatest thing. With Joensen on the helm, they wrote ten thunderous songs for Battle Ballads, then the bandleader despatched the compositions to a Danish colleague Lars Winther residing in England, who added the orchestral samples, paying shut consideration to the tone and tempo of the songs so the violins, violas, cellos, woodwinds, and horns match complimented the standard rock devices. When the samples have been all in place the album sounded spectacular, however the tones weren’t completely blended. So, TÝR despatched the album to veteran producer Jacob Hansen (Volbeat, The Black Dahlia Homicide, Amaranthe) in Denmark to place collectively the ultimate combine.
Battle Ballads options the beautiful paintings of by Gyula Havancsak and can be launched on CD and digital codecs in addition to vinyl within the following colour variants:
Sea Blue Smoke (US)
Maroon Marbled (EU – Ltd. 800)
180g Black (EU – Ltd. 500)
Thunderous Sky Blue Marbled (EU – Ltd. 300)
Teal Inexperienced Soften With Purple Splatter (EU – Ltd. 200)
Flame Splattered (EU – Ltd. 200)
Discover pre-orders at: metalblade.com/tyr
In celebration of the discharge of Battle Ballads, TÝR will return to North American phases this Spring for The Battle Ballads headlining tour. The tour will begin on March twenty eighth in Baltimore, Maryland and make its manner by over two dozen cities, coming to an in depth on April twenty sixth in Greensboro, North Carolina. Assist can be supplied by Trollfest, Æther Realm, and The Dread Crew Of Oddwood. The tour marks TÝR‘s first North American run since 2019. Tickets are on sale now. See all confirmed dates beneath.
TÝR w/ Trollfest, Æther Realm, The Dread Crew Of Oddwood:
3/28/2024 Baltimore Soundstage – Baltimore, MD
3/29/2024 Gramercy Theater – New York, NY
3/30/2024 Center East Downstairs – Boston, MA
3/31/2024 La Supply De La Martinière – Quebec Metropolis, QC
4/01/2024 Studio TD – Montreal, QC
4/02/2024 Brass Monkey – Ottawa, ON
4/03/2024 Horseshoe Tavern – Toronto, ON
4/04/2024 The Sanctuary – Detroit, MI
4/05/2024 Reggies – Chicago, IL
4/06/2024 Skyway Theater – Minneapolis, MN
4/07/2024 Park Theater – Winnipeg. MB
4/08/2024 The Alternate – Regina, SK
4/09/2024 Starlite Room – Edmonton, AB
4/10/2024 Dickens – Calgary, AB
4/12/2024 The Rickshaw – Vancouver, BC
4/13/2024 El Corazon – Seattle, WA
4/14/2024 Bossanova Ballroom – Portland, OR
4/15/2024 Cornerstone – Berkeley, CA
4/16/2024 1720 – Los Angeles, CA
4/17/2024 Brick By Brick – San Diego, CA
4/18/2024 Nile Theater – Mesa, AZ
4/19/2024 Rockhouse Bar & Grill – El Paso, TX
4/20/2024 Come And Take It Reside – Austin, TX
4/21/2024 The Granada – Dallas, TX
4/22/2024 White Oak Music Corridor – Houston, TX
4/24/2024 Conduit – Orlando, FL
4/25/2024 The Masquerade (Hell) – Atlanta, GA
4/26/2024 Hangar 1819 – Greensboro, NC
TÝR:
Heri Joensen – vocal, guitar
Hans Hammer – guitar
Gunnar Helmer “Gunz” Thomsen – bass
Tadeusz “Tad” Rieckmann – drums
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