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The Silver Key

by CRYSTAL VIPER

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  • Record/Vinyl + Digital Album

    Release date : 28/06/2024

    Includes digital pre-order of The Silver Key. You get 1 track now (streaming via the free Bandcamp app and also available as a high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more), plus the complete album the moment it’s released.
    shipping out on or around June 28, 2024
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      €24.90 EUR or more 

     

  • Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album

    Release date : 28/06/2024

    Includes digital pre-order of The Silver Key. You get 1 track now (streaming via the free Bandcamp app and also available as a high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more), plus the complete album the moment it’s released.
    shipping out on or around June 28, 2024
    Purchasable with gift card

      €15.90 EUR or more 

     

1.
Return To Providence
2.
Fever Of The Gods 04:09
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3.
Old House In The Mist
4.
The Key Is Lost
5.
Heading Kadath
6.
Book Of The Dead
7.
The Silver Key
8.
Wayfaring Dreamer
9.
Escape From Yaddith
10.
Cosmic Forces Overtake
11.
Gods Of Thunder Of Wind And Of Rain (Bonus track on CD/ Digital)
12.
Scream !

about

“The Silver Key” is heavier, faster, but at the same more epic and melodic than their previous works. In the past the band was very often balancing between Power Metal and Heavy Metal, but here, there’s no doubt that we are talking about pure Heavy Metal. First few minutes of new album make it obvious that we’re dealing with worshippers of Metal gods such as JUDAS PRIEST or IRON MAIDEN, as the album is full of epic and catchy vocal lines, twin guitar leads, ripping solos and all of this with massive, yet very dynamic rhythm section. The band had very unique approach to songwriting and production which was almost like a tribute to the mentioned classic acts, but except that CRYSTAL VIPER decided to show their love for the Metal culture and its current state, and incorporated in their songs several new elements, characteristic for other subgenres. So don’t get fooled by the term “female-fronted” which usually is associated with softer genres: CRYSTAL VIPER, founded and led by the vocalist and bassist Marta Gabriel (for the record: who for the last few years played rhythm guitar for the band), is simply as that METAL, and very serious about it.

credits

releases June 28, 2024

“The Silver Key” was produced and mastered by the Heavy Metal veteran Bart Gabriel, and was recorded and mixed by Rafal Kossakowski. Its cover artwork was painted by respected Guatemalan artist Mario Lopez, who was also responsible for the cover artwork of the previous album, “The Cult”. Like before, CD and vinyl version of the album will include different bonus tracks. "I guess everyone expected us to record another classic Heavy Metal cover songs, but we have decided to do something unusual this time, and we recorded BATHORY and MISFITS covers" says Marta Gabriel. "Both bands had huge influence on me, Quorthon was an amazing composer, and I actually even named my horse after him! And as our new album has both this very in-your-face energy and horror vibes, we thought that the MISFITS song will also be a very good choice" she adds.

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