Spanish sludge/post-metal collective Ikarie to release sophomore album »Arde« this Friday on Avantgarde Music; first single »Santa Sangre« streaming!

Spanish sludge/post-metal collective Ikarie is gearing up to release their sophomore album »Arde« this Friday, March 17th, 2023 via Avantgarde Music.

Listen to the first single »Santa Sangre« below!

Tracklist:
01. Sacrificio
02. Santa Sangre
03. La Sed
04. 40 Días
05. Surcos (Ciutat Morta)
06. Kanno Sugako
07. Tomie
08. Arde
09. Titane II
10. Flores En El Asfalto

Courtesy of Metaversus PR:

Spanish doom/post-metal six-piece Ikarie is back with their sophomore album »Arde«, two years after the acclaimed debut »Cuerpos En Sombra«. Here is how the band introduces their work:

“If »Cuerpos En Sombra« was about pain, »Arde« is about transformative rage. In the first part we presented a series of characters and desolate places, with bodies and souls sunk in misery and mud, of ghosts who are victims but are not aware of the fact that they are being victims.

In this part of the trilogy that doesn’t happen, although the denunciation and lamentation is maintained, it is no longer spoken of the land in that sense but of burning everything for a new beginning, from that fire, so deep and painful, which hanges the shape of things, like magma and the creation of stars, like a collision of planets, there is no way back after that.

With the advice of a forensic psychologist and criminologist, we have selected passages from history, victims and paradigmatic and tremendous characters that exemplify Hannah Arendt’s concept of the ‘banality of evil’ properly, because as a society we are part of it, and therefore, it is a call to revolution.”

Avantgarde Music will release »Arde« on CD, LP, and digital platforms on March 17th. Find digital pre-orders at Bandcamp HERE.

Music by Daniel G. Lyrics and concept by María V. Riaño.
Produced by Daniel Gil and María V. Riaño.
Recorded and Mixed by Daniel Gil at 7Barbas Studio.
Mastered by Brad Boatright at Audiosiege Studios.
Cover art by Deborah Sheedy.

Ikarie is:
Daniel Gil – Guitar
María V. Riaño – Bass
Pablo Egido – Vocals
Paco Porcel – Guitar
Dom Santoro – Drums
Luis Albadalejo – Guitar

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