Greek funeral doom/death metal band Shattered Hope announces their new EP »Memoir« to be released November 9th via FYC Records!

Athens, Greece based funeral doom/death metal band Shattered Hope has announced their new EP, entitled »Memoir«, which will be released on November 9th, 2024 via FYC Records.

200 copies of 180gr black vinyl will be available by FYC Records in November 2024, along with unique merch and digital format. Rest of formats, digi CD and cassette will follow in the beginning of 2025.

Tracklist:
01. In Waning My Days
02. A Crevice Of Painful Light
03. Ble Himonas (Diafana Krina cover)

Courtesy of FYC Records:

Shattered Hope’s music can be described mainly as atmospheric doom/death – funeral doom metal.

The band was formed in Athens in July 2002. After many line-up changes, it was finally settled in December 2003 that Shattered Hope would be a six member band. Thereafter, the band played its first gigs at many clubs and open festivals, performing their own tracks as well as covers of My Dying Bride, Paradise Lost, Saturnus etc.

In June 2005 the first demo was released under the name »A View Of Grief« which included 6 songs. It received great reviews on magazines, fanzines and webzines. After that release the band played many live gigs for its promotion.

In September 2007, Shattered Hope recorded their second demo »Promo 2007« that contains two tracks. Many performances followed for its promotion in Greece and abroad, some of which along with well-known bands of the scene such as Saturnus, Mourning Beloveth, Ataraxie, Mar De Grises, Mourning Dawn, Ahab, Pagan Altar and many others.

Meanwhile the band was composing its debut album, which was finally recorded in December 2010 under the name »Absence«. It’s consisted of seven mournful stories. »Absence« was released by Solitude Productions. Shattered Hope promoted »Absence«, making a start with a support act to the godfathers of doom My Dying Bride in January 2010, one of their most memorable shows. In the years that followed the band participated in many great festivals, such as, Doom Shall Rise, Ghost Fest, Dublin Doom Day, Dutch Doom Days and other local and European festivals.

At the same time, Shattered Hope had started composing their second album which was released in February 2014 by Solitude Productions. »Waters Of Lethe« is a more funeral and extreme shape of their music, consisting of six dark and heavy songs. In February 2014, Shattered Hope became a five-member band as they stopped using keyboards in their music.

In July 2019 Shattered Hope recorded their third album, named »Vespers«, a darker and colder shape of them, which was released later on November 2020 once again from Solitude Productions.

In the first months of 2024 the band recorded an EP titled »Memoir« which is consisted of two Shattered Hope songs and a cover to Diafana Krina (Διάφανα Κρίνα), a band that influenced Shattered Hope in many different ways. A new co-operation started that year with FYC Records, that released »Memoir« EP.

And so the story goes…

DOOM ON!!

Shattered Hope is:
Nick – Vocals
Sakis – Guitars
Thanos – Guitars
Thanasis – Bass
Yiannis – Drums

Bojan Bidovc // music enthusiast, promoter, misanthrop and sometimes a journalist as well