ORYAD have unleashed their music video for the new single “Eve”, the vibrant and yet beautifully diverse song. The mystic prog metal ensemble from Tennessee and Colorado combine opera, jazz and metal into their distinctive and delicately crafted sound. “Eve” is taken from the forthcoming album, Sacred & Profane which will be released on May 25th.
The band comments:
“This song is a monologue wherein Eve speaks back to her original tempter, to stand up for her own personhood rather than take the blame for all of humanity’s weaknesses. The poetry was inspired by Edna St. Vincent Millay’s Sonnet II in Epitaph for the Race of Man. We loved adding heavy doom and black metal touches to this song to give an edge to one of myth’s mothers of mankind.”
Watch the video for “Eve” here: https://youtu.be/84mDXOraYRE
Each song on the Sacred & Profane speaks for the deep connection with nature and its spirits. The music holds the ability to carry its listeners through a colorful pallet of emotions, a journey which the band describes as follows: “In our society we have anesthetized so much of the human experience and partitioned off parts of ourselves, claiming that anger, for example, can only be ugly. That grief should be hidden. That it is socially acceptable to only revel in their brighter siblings love, joy, and hope…which only makes those three more cloying and homogenized”.
Although the band has been working on music since 2017, the new and fresh material, written from 2020-2022, creates a more progressive doom opera style, adding modern elements to the symphonic metal foundation. Compared to their mini album Hymns of Exile & Decay, which the band released in June 2021, the sound of ORYAD has elevated to a broader level, with heavy emphasis on ritual and dance at their live shows. ORYAD keep their artful eye on creating a live experience for the audience that feels more like a musical emotional journey, connecting with nature and myths, rather than simply just playing songs during their eye catching live performances: “The songs are an exploration of ourselves, grief, and our connection to the universe through the vehicles of myth”, the band describes.
ORYAD band lead Moira Murphy and her operatic, powerful vocal performance constitute the force of the band. Although in the early steps of each creative process, Moira and drummer Matt Gotlin-Sheehan joined hands, the process then continued in team effort with additional musicians Luca and Adam, who are classically trained in jazz, to meet the music’s majestic and powerful demands.
Pre-order Sacred & Profane here: https://orcd.co/oryad
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Credits:
Written by: Moira Murphy, Matt Gotlin-Sheehan, Luca Grieman, and Adam Sanders
Lyrics by: Moira Murphy
Recorded by: Moira Murphy, Matt Gotlin-Sheehan, and Luca Grieman
Recorded at: at The Band Cave Studios, Denver, CO
Mixed and mastered by Vikram Shankar
Photos by Emily Winders
“Eve” Video Credits:
Video Production: Mad Designs & Media
Director: Hannah Maddox
Video Crew: Hannah Maddox and Chris de la Vega
Makeup Artist: Adrienne Aragon
Track Listing:
1. The Path: Part I
2. Scorched Earth
3. Blood
4. Lilith
5. Eve
6. Alchemy
7. Wayfaring Stranger
8. Through The Veil
9. Slice Of Time
10. The Path: Part II