– October twenty eighth, 2024 –
“Kinship” Full-Size Out Now On Steel Blade Information
Photograph by Nikolaj Bransholm
Watch/stream IOTUNN’s “Earth To Sky” HERE
Danish/Faroese epic progressive steel collective IOTUNN are happy to unveil their video for “Earth To Sky.” The crushingly gorgeous monitor is featured on the band’s Kinship full-length, out now on Steel Blade Information!
A monolithic album arising from the primeval sea, IOTUNN‘s Kinship is a mythological journey via eight tracks that span immense spheres each musically and lyrically, exploring the deep roots of human nature, its connection and disconnection with all the things and everybody, and the way our decisions have all the time outlined ourselves and the lives lived.
Feedback guitarist Jesper Gräs on “Earth To Sky,” “This tune is, in some ways, impressed by the custom of movie music. It’s progressive and but easy at its core and presents a sound stuffed with themes, moods, and emotions which actually unfold within the mid-sections however are always current all through. Once we have been finished with the album, all of us obtained hit by this one in a really particular manner which we had not foreseen, and we discovered it to be a pure single from the Kinship album. It holds many issues which we maintain dearly, consists of lots of the core components which is IOTUNN, and it has among the most brutal steel of the album.”
Provides guitarist Jens Nicolai, “This tune is constructed on two linked concepts besides a few minor detours, so it’s a manner of writing that we’ve finished earlier than – to see what number of colours we will paint inside very restricted settings. Because it turned out, the body obtained larger and greater and wealthy on motifs, and it’s obtained a number of cool transitions.”
Watch IOTUNN‘s “Earth To Sky” video at THIS LOCATION.
Watch IOTUNN‘s beforehand launched movies for “Twilight” HERE, “I Really feel The Night time” HERE, and “Iridescent Method” HERE.
Kinship unfolds the story of a prehistoric tribesman. It tells the story of life’s manyfold situations as themes of unity/disunity, gentle/darkish, physique/thoughts, nature/tradition, good/evil, creation/destruction, and human/inhuman seem all through the album. The album additionally exhibits IOTUNN reveal their musical worlds to their fullest scales up to now which has been the dream achievement in composing the providing.
Already praised by critics globally, Kinship has earned the #1 slot on soundcheck lists in such esteemed publications as Steel Hammer Germany, Scream Journal, Aardschok, Inferno Journal, and Powermetal.De.
“The creation of Kinship has been probably the most intensive and wild journey we’ve ever been a part of,” says Jesper Gräs, “Like trekking up the Galdhøpiggen mountain in Norway, we now have crossed peak after peak and seen issues constantly brighter and wider till we reached the highest, the top. By no means have we been prouder and extra happy, and we hope our followers – outdated and new – will take this album into their hearts and let it unfold from there.”
The paintings and artwork items of Kinship have been created by ink and graphite illustrator and artist, Saprophial (Hammers Of Misfortune), with the design and format created by artwork director Brian Ames at Steel Blade Information. Kinship was combined and mastered by Jacob Hansen at Hansen Studios Denmark (Arch Enemy, Katatonia, The Black Dahlia Homicide, Volbeat, Týr).
IOTUNN‘s Kinship is on the market on CD and digital codecs in addition to vinyl within the following shade variants:
Darkish Jade Marbled (US)
180g Black (EU)
Olive Beige Marbled (EU)
Teal w/ Purple, Orange + Yellow Splatter (EU – Ltd. 300)
Vivid Orange (EU – Particular Version feat. expanded 20-page booklet + patch – Ltd. 1,000)
Discover orders at: metalblade.com/iotunn
IOTUNN Stay:
1/09/2025 Pumpehuset – Copenhagen, DK
1/10/2025 Voxhall – Aarhus, DK
1/11/2025 Godset – Kolding, DK
4/05/2025 Epic Fest – Roskilde, DK
9/06/2025 Brynerocken 2025 – Bryne, NO
9/07/2025 John Dee – Oslo, NO
“Certainly, there’s numerous meat in these songs. IOTUNN, to their infinite credit score, by no means makes you are feeling like they’ve bitten off greater than they’ll chew. The songs on Kinship are merely an excessive amount of of an pleasing journey. That is the subsequent degree of melodic demise steel.” – Blabbermouth
“Solely eight songs are wanted as pillars to create a powerful palace of an album. Hardly ever has a band satisfied so early of their profession, and so shortly on one document — and the belief that has been shortly constructed up isn’t dissatisfied over the course of the extra-long songs, in order that the greater than one-hour operating time doesn’t even start to really feel that lengthy. Really nice artwork.” – Steel Hammer Germany
“Kinship is totally fucking enormous. IOTUNN are constructing their very own sonic universe, and it’s genuinely mind-blowing.” – Steel Hammer UK
“The manufacturing is top-notch, balancing the intricate, progressive components with heavy, galloping sections in a manner that feels natural. The renewed power and vigor with which IOTUNN strategy this album make it an exhilarating hear from begin to end.” – Distorted Sound
“With Kinship, IOTUNN creates a world of their very own, stuffed with feelings, love, devotion, and mystical depth, for 70 minutes. It’s intense, gripping, and full of affection. That is nice artwork, as near the darkish core of 1’s personal existence as it’s unattainable within the try to understand and translate it….Anybody who doesn’t hearken to this masterpiece is lacking out on the sweetness and energy of music! I say: Thanks, IOTUNN!” – Steel Glory
“…it’s arduous to think about how this type of music might be made any higher… Kinship deserves nothing apart from the best grade.” – Steel.de
“…important listening…” – Wonderbox Steel
“This album strikes an intricate stability between aggression and melody, providing an expertise that feels each forceful and refined. The band pours an immense quantity of melody into their hardened buildings, making a dynamic soundscape that’s as brutal as it’s lovely.” – Steel Temple
“Kinship is a masterpiece. It doesn’t get any higher than this.” – Metalized
“IOTUNN has introduced Denmark and the Faroe Islands again on the map, and seems in some ways as one of the vital spectacular bands ever from these international locations.” – Scream
“Even for those who suppose you’ve identified heavy steel for many years, every so often there are vital innovation drivers like IOTUNN that carry again the childlike enthusiasm of the early days.” – Deaf Endlessly
IOTUNN:
Jón Aldará – vocals
Jens Nicolai Gräs – guitar
Jesper Gräs – guitar
Eskil Rask – bass
Bjørn Wind Andersen – drums
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