Obsidian Kingdom release pro-shot live video for “The Polyarnik”

OBSIDIAN KINGDOM are releasing a pro-shot life video of the song “The Polyarnik”. The original track has been released on the eclectic Catalans’ latest full-length ‘A Year With No Summer’.

The video is now exclusively premiered by the official media partners listed below.

Metal Obsession (AU)
Rock Hard (DE)
Rockzone (ES)
Kaaoszine (FI)
Metalnews (FR)
Lángoló Gitárok (HU)
Metal Exposure (NL)
Ultraje (PT)
Metalfan (RO)
Crank it Up (SE)
Antichrist Magazine (UA)

OBSIDIAN KINGDOM comment: “As the echoes of ‘A Year with no Summer’ start to recede, we would like to share with you one last memory of our foregone European tour. ‘The Polyarnik’ was recorded live in Gdańsk on last November 9th before the watchful gaze of a mesmerized crowd. Thank you so much for walking with us through this surly year. It has been a rough journey, but also a wonderful and transformative experience, and now it’s time for us to move onto new territories. Again. See you on the other side!””

Video Credits

Recorded at B90 in Gdańsk, September 11th 2016
 
Live Sound and Production: Jorge Mur
Director of Photography: Dariusz Feluś
Venue Lighting: Jari Bron
 
Photography:
Alicja Korus
Bohumil Trunecka
Jarek Wojciechowski
Adam Zoltan
Aga Fortuniak
Dariusz Feluś
 
Editor: Dariusz Feluś
 
Video production: Fractal Videos
www.facebook.com/FractalVideos
 

OBSIDIAN KINGDOM have performed “The Polyarnik” in support of their current full-length ‘A Year With No Summer’, which is streaming in full at Bandcamp 

http://obsidiankingdomsom.bandcamp.com 

and still available in various formats from the Season of Mist shop:

http://smarturl.it/ObsidianYearShop

Regarding ‘A Year With No Summer’, OBSIDIAN KINGDOM commented: “Our new album ‘A Year With No Summer’ is a spiked cocktail of city spleen, conspiranoia and personal trauma; blue like the stagnant water in the pool of a marooned holiday resort and heavy like the silence after the next radiant apocalypse.”

Artwork and track list of ‘A Year With No Summer’ can be viewed below in the limited Digipak version.

OBSIDIAN KINGDOM have been cunningly avoiding easy categorisation since their inception in the Catalan capital of Barcelona, Spain, where the band was formed in 2005. 

Their sophomore album ‘A Year With No Summer’ is now adding to the eclectic puzzle and a big step in an continuing evolution. To say that the Catalans move further away from their roots in extreme metal and towards a more progressive sound is equally correct as misleading. There are still burning guitars and harsh riffing to be found, yet there is also simply much more of everything else. Contrasts, shifts, and raw emotions created and guided by intricate rhythm patterns, electronic tapestries as well as highlights are combined into a carefully composed musical painting of monumental dimensions. There are hints of the epic approach offered by such influences as PINK FLOYD and MARILLION, yet OBSIDIAN KINGDOM use a far darker range of colours on their pallet. There is a constant sense of drowning, darkness and depression threading through ‘A Year With No Summer’, which binds the wide stylistic range offered by its diverse song material together. 

When the Catalan newcomers self-released their debut full-length ‘Mantiis – An Agony in Fourteen Bites’ in 2012, the 500 copies they had pressed sold out in a blink of an eye. Their conceptual album on a violent crime and its dramatic repercussions features a single song divided into fourteen tracks, which flow through different genres. ‘Mantiis’ progressive character and post-modern approach set against extreme metal prefigures the even larger step now taken by ‘A Year With No Summer’

OBSIDIAN KINGDOM once again follow new paths in an untiring search for their own unique expression unhindered by conventions or style boundaries. This is a record to get your headphones on and listen with diligence to be rewarded with the pleasure of finding great music off those tracks already taken too many times before.

Current line-up
Rider G Omega: guitars and vocals
Ojete Mordaza II: drums
Seerborn Ape Tot: keys
Eaten Roll I: guitars
Om Rex Orale: bass

Guest vocals 
Attila Csihar (MAYHEM) on “The Kandinsky Group”
Kristoffer “Garm” Rygg (ULVER) on “10th April”

Style: Experimental Rock

www.facebook.com/obsidiankingdom

Shop: http://smarturl.it/ObsidianYearShop

Available formats
Digipak CD
Gatefold vinyl LP in various colours