NIGHTBORN Releases a Fast-Paced, Hard-Hitting, Gut-Crushing, Uncompromising Metal Feast

Hammer of the Heretic EP

Out Now

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“Godless will hammer you down!”

Story: Ralph Greco, Jr.

Nightborn releases their new EP, featuring four brand-new songs, as a follow-up to their 2022 album ‘Unhuman’. The band explains, “With ‘Hammer of the Herertic’, the idea was to experiment with different approaches and themes in each song, while maintaining that fast, dynamic, skull crushing beat that defines the Nightborn style.”

The first track, “Impenitent Ones,” is a straightforward, rhythmic, and chaotic thrash piece, with shrieking vocals designed to inspire instant headbanging, opening the EP with intensity. The theme of the song is autophagia. The second track, “Hammer of the Heretic,” is a more traditional thrash song but maintains the high energy, introducing a groovy and melodic midsection. The theme explores revenge by heretics against their inquisitors as well as bearing elements that relate to the philosophies of the occult. The third track, “Pulls of Darkness,” opens with an acoustic section and transitions into realms of melodic black metal at times, while still retaining Slayer-like riffing. The song delves into the allure of darkness that exists within every human being that we cannot escape. The final track, “The Undertow,” is a hard-hitting blast-beat-driven song that moves into death metal territories, with a hard and heavy groovy midsection. The theme of this song addresses pure hatred toward theocratic dictatorships and their inevitable fall.

For the recording of the EP, the frontman Arda used an extremely rare Ken Lawrence Explorer guitar, the only one of its kind in the world. This guitar played a crucial role in the creation of this EP, sparking inspiration. On each song, Arda, tried a different style of singing.

The aim was to create an atmosphere to grasp unrelenting, speed-driven thrash/death mania. The EP includes all music and lyrics written by Arda in classic Nightborn fashion, with Simon McKay (The Agonist) performing the drum parts, which were recorded and mixed at Chris Donaldson’s studios. Hubert Wiecek (Ex-Decapitated, Dieth, Blasphemer) handled the bass parts, and the EP was mixed and mastered by Remi LeGresley (Grizzly Productions) in Montreal, Canada.

Stream Hammer of the Heretic here:

https://open.spotify.com/album/6iH4o6qyEToT7oA6X5XAGc?si=mJqsavqdQ4aVjBOlTv3K5Q

HAMMER OF THE HERETIC

I have lived

Far too long

So long I endured

All things end

Near me, it dwells

The illness can’t be cured

Hiding in the morrow

Those things of grief and sorrow

Fate’s a sea

Without a shore

No lead there to follow

Crushing

Bashing

Avenge

Hammer it down

Godless

Faithless

Saintless

Hammer it down

We have drunk

From rivers dark

Of rupture, ruin and rend

For no one will

Outlive his days

Not all knees can bend

Crushing

Bashing

Avenge

Hammer it down

Godless

Faithless

Saintless

Hammer it down

Existence is loneliness

Won’t laugh again nor weep

For there’s no God stronger than death

The beauty of its sleep

All you have

Won’t remain

In a world that’s faded grey

Judgement of the holy one

A mask that’s gone frail

Shadow of gods afar

The dimming weary star

Before I leave

One last time

Bury the snake of life

Crushing

Bashing

Avenge

Hammer it down

Godless

Faithless

Saintless

Hammer it down

Hammer of heresy

Hammer of heresy

Godless will hammer you down

Photo Credit: Cihan Kahraman

About NIGHTBORN:

 

NIGTHBORN is a thrash metal band formed in 2012 by Arda K. that initially started as a one-man project, though some of the compositions date back even further. Nightborn focuses on producing melodic thrash metal, blending an old-school sound with elements from the revival scene.

Nightborn’s first album Skyeless was released in 2017 and was mastered at Fascination Street Studios in Sweden, which has previously worked with artists such as Kreator, Arch Enemy, Dark Tranquillity, and Sepultura. The album cover art was created by Eliran Kantor, while the single artwork was done by Maximilian Mende. Nightborn’s lyrics often explore politically anti-system sentiments, the allure of dying and death, somberness, desperation, hatred and rage, serial killers and murder, the dark nature of the human mind, nightmares, and the night itself.

The band’s second album, Unhuman was released in 2022 and was also mixed and mastered at Fascination Street Studios. The album consists of fast, unrelenting thrash metal for the fans of great bands such as Slayer, Testament, Kreator, Sepultura and Exodus with additional dark melodic elements. The drum parts on Unhuman were performed by Krimh of Septic Flesh, Decapitated and Behemoth. Additional guitar edits were carried out by Gokalp Ergen, the vocalist of Mezarkabul.

Metal Injection premiered the video for “Grave Madness” from the Unhuman album on June 6th, writing “Nightborn’s new video for “Grave Madness” is pretty gross…the song also shreds”. The video was directed by infamous dark performance artist Louis Fleischauer. VIEWER WARNING! Discretion is advised as the video features REAL blood, skulls, bones, body modification, and actual hanging by hooks.

Watch “Grave Madness” Exclusively at Metal Injection here:

https://metalinjection.net/video/nightborns-new-video-for-grave-madness-is-pretty-gross

Outburn Magazine premiered the video for “Temporal Nightmare” from the Unhuman album on July 25th, calling the video a disturbing visual nightmare.

Watch “Temporal Nightmare” Exclusively at Outburn here:

https://outburn.com/all-features/nightborn-temporal-nightmare/

Decibel Magazine premiered the video for “Aphelion Dusk” from the Unhuman album on August 15th, a video about vampiric witches and blood sacrifice of infants.

Watch “Aphelion Dusk” Exclusively at Decibel here:

https://www.decibelmagazine.com/2024/08/15/video-premiere-nightborn-aphelion-dusk/

 

Next up for Nightborn is to start touring and performing to promote Hammer of the Heretic EP.

NIGHTBORN is:

Arda K. – Vocals & Guitars

Ege B. – Guitars

Ata A. – Bass

Serkan B. – Drums

 

 

NIGHTBORN online:

Official Site: www.nightbornofficial.com

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nightborn.official/

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@nightbornofficial/featured

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/nightborn.official

 

 

MUSIC:

Bandcamp: https://nightborn-official.bandcamp.com/

Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/us/album/unhuman/1646723467

Deezer: https://www.deezer.com/us/album/357221257

Tidal: https://listen.tidal.com/album/248669106

Amazon Music: https://listen.tidal.com/album/248669106

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/6iH4o6qyEToT7oA6X5XAGc?si=mJqsavqdQ4aVjBOlTv3K5Q

 

Contact NIGHTBORN:

nightborn@gmx.com

yasemin@staticreative.com

Photo Credit: Gkcessu

Ralph Greco, Jr. is the devilishly clever nom de plume of professional writer/musician Ralph Greco who lives in the wilds of suburban New Jersey. He is also a podcast co-host, but as everyone has a podcast these days, this fact is of very little consequence.

Ralph can be reached by writing ralphiedawriter@gmail.com

 

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