Eight Bells Post “Nadir”; Announce Legacy of Ruin Out Feb. 25
The announcement of the album details for Eight Bells‘ third full-length confirms the title as Legacy of Ruin, which was the title given when the Portland, Oregon, outfit first posted that they’d finished recording in Dec. 2020 with none other than Billy Anderson at the helm as engineer and mixer. In addition to that, and the striking cover art for Legacy of Ruin that you can see below, there’s also the tracklisting — six songs, three with guest violin — and a suitably apocalyptic theme unveiled, as well as the first audio, which is the new single “Nadir,” presented across five-plus minutes of engagingly anti-genre heaviness that’s more doomed than doom in its mood, if you catch my drift. Mortality of self, mortality of planet. The ephemeral everything.
It’s likewise encompassing and sad, but it would be. After releasing 2016’s Landless (review here) through the now-defunct Battleground Records, as well as Tartarus (the tape), and changing out their lineup around founder Melynda Marie Jackson — not to be confused with Melynda Marie Amann, who guests on vocals and keys — not to mention sitting on this record for at least most of this year, I’m pleased to have the album to look forward to. I guess that’s the plainest I can say it.
Preorders are up. You’ll find the link and PR wire details below. The “Nadir” video is, suitably, at the bottom of the post:
EIGHT BELLS release first single ‘Nadir’ taken from the forthcoming new album “Legacy of Ruin”
Pre-sale link: http://lnk.spkr.media/eightbells-legacy
EIGHT BELLS are now revealing the volcanic video single ‘Nadir’ taken from their forthcoming new album “Legacy of Ruin”, which is slated for release on February 25, 2022.
The avant-garde doom project from Portland, Oregon conceived by guitarist and singer Melynda Jackson has also unveiled cover art, tracklist, and further details of their new full-length below.
EIGHT BELLS comment: “Our first single, ‘Nadir’ is the newest song that was written right before the recording sessions”, writes singer and guitarist Melynda Jackson. “It is inspired by the ugly part of human nature and tendency to devour everything until it is gone. There is grief in understanding that ‘right now’ is all we have.”
With their third album, Portland metal experimentalists EIGHT BELLS have sharpened their songwriting approach to create a soundtrack for the end of the world. “Legacy of Ruin” again features the trio’s trademark haunting vocal harmonies along with sometimes blistering, and sometimes impressionistic guitar riffing to create heady atmospheres of dark and light.
The result of EIGHT BELLS’ musical exploration is an emotional and insistent odyssey that transcends genre and imbues contemporary metal with 19th-century Victorian ghostliness, cinematic soundscapes in combination with female and male vocal harmonies perfectly fitting the album’s lyrical story. “Legacy of Ruin” focuses on themes of the human condition, natural destruction, death, regret, loss, malice, and retribution.
Tracklist
1. Destroyer
2. The Well
3. Torpid Dreamer
4. Nadir
5. The Crone
6. Premonition
Guest musicians
Melynda Marie Amann – vocals on ‘The Well’ and ‘The Crone’
Melynda Marie Amann – Keyboards on ‘The Well’
Andrea Morgan – violin on ‘The Well’, ‘Nadir’, and ‘Premonition’
Tracked by Billy Anderson at The Hallowed Halls
Produced by Billy Anderson & Eight Bells
Mixed by Billy Anderson at Everything Hz
Mastered by Justin Weis at Trackworx
Artwork by Tom Robers
Layout by Ross Sewage
On further news, EIGHT BELLS will reissue their first two albums “The Captain’s Daughter (2013) and “Landless” (2016) parallel to the release of “Legacy of Ruin”. Both full-length recordings will be joined together under the title “Histories 2010 - 2016” as double-CD and triple vinyl editions that will also contain the bonus track ‘Purgatory’ and five demo versions.
Line-up
Melynda Jackson – guitar, vocals
Matt Solis – bass, harmonies
Brian Burke – drums
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