SAINT DEAMON To Release Fourth Studio Album ‘League Of The Serpent’
April 18th, 2023
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Swedish / Norwegian melodic power metal band Saint Deamon issue fourth full-length studio album League Of The Serpent on April 21st, 2023 through AFM Records.
“The songs have all their characteristic Saint Deamon trademarks as on our previous records,” guitarist Toya Johansson commented. “New for this record is that we’ve taken the rhythmic dimensions a step further than before. We didn’t aim for a drastic change when it comes to this but wanted to develop our polyrhythmic thinking, which I hope can be heard on some of the songs.”
“There was a fresh joint feeling of ‘urge of renewal’,” bassist Nobby Noberg added. “Not to break with the past just because of change, but trying to refine the essence of what we are and have come to be, and tweak the hell out of it.”
“This album has been written in many ways similar to how we made our debut In Shadows Lost From The Brave back then (2008),” vocalist Jan Thore shared. “The songs are all new and fresh, no older song ideas have been used. The album consists of everything you can expect from Saint Deamon. Heavy, fast-paced, slow, powerful and melodic – it’s all here. I really feel that what you hear on League Of The Serpent is the best version of Saint Deamon.”
As was the case with predecessor Ghost, League Of The Serpent was mixed by Oscar Nilsson at Crehate Studios in Gothenburg, Sweden. Mastering was handled by Thomas “Plec” Johansson.
The track listing is as follows:
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01. ‘At Break Of Dawn’
02. ‘League Of The Serpent’
03. ‘The Final Fight’
04. ‘Lord Of The Night’
05. ‘A Lie To Be Undone’
06. ‘Raise Hell’
07. ‘Lost In Your Sin’
08. ‘Gates Of Paradise’
09. ‘Load Your Cannons’
10. ‘Heaven To Heart’
11. ‘They Call Us Deamons’
Saint Deamon’s line-up is as follows:
Jan Thore Grefstad (vocals)
Toya Johansson (guitars)
Nobby Noberg (bass, ex-Dionysus)
Alfred Fridhagen (drums, Gaia Epicus)
Directed by Ted Lindén, a music video was filmed for the track ‘Load Your Cannons’.
In addition, an official lyric video was created for the track ‘At Break Of Dawn’. “‘At Break Of Dawn’ is the fourth song about Captain Saint Deamon and his crew,” Saint Deamon commented. “This time while they were out pirating. A rival or enemy if you will – came to the captains home island to rob and destroy the captains town and the captain goes for revenge. The fights are happening while the town is on fire. In the end our captain takes back what was his.”
Both clips can be viewed below.
Third studio record Ghost was released in September 2019 via Ram It Down Records.
Promotional photograph by Åsa Holmstrand.
