OnĀ December 26, 2020 the Atmospheric Progressive Metal band Coldun released the new music video along with the accompanying lyrics for the new upcoming album “Grand Sun Ritual” second singleĀ “The Forest And The Soul,” watch it below:
FrontmanĀ ColdunĀ says: “It’s about a transcendental journey in the transition between life and death, which is interwoven with the symbolism of the forest as a place of connection with creation. The song describes the beautiful feeling of walking this transition – like flying through a forest perfectly.“
Initiated as a solo project by singerĀ ColdunĀ himself in 2006,Ā ColdunĀ has meanwhile grown into a veritable formation.
The group is made up of top-class musicians and long-time companions, all of whom have gained experience and competence through various band activities and projects in the last 20 years.
On the impressively art-minded 2014 second work “Collapsing Polarities” the whole timeless class ofĀ COLDUN’sĀ aesthetic-philosophically impregnated work is already revealed.
Now the musicians climb the logical next step together with their enthroned throat emperor:
The new and third album with the inspiring title “Grand Sun Ritual” was mixed and mastered in the Priory Recording Studios Birmingham by Greg Chandler (Esoteric) in outstanding quality.
TheĀ Atmospheric Progressive MetalĀ of the soulful top experts from the Ore Mountains is once again vocalized in a highly uplifting manner with the absolute grand championship, for which the unmistakably evocative exceptional voice of frontmanĀ ColdunĀ stands so uniquely.
“Grand Sun Ritual“, a real soul slurper, shows influences from Doom to Post Metal and connects both worlds, which the tasteful creators love so much.
Thus,Ā ColdunĀ let atmospheric and deeply rich ambient sounds come together with wild Rock/Metal guitar riffs and drums in an amazingly fluid way, deliciously refined with the classic aroma of 70s guitar and Hammond feeling.
The necessary edge in the often majestic sound image is provided by hard, sometimes even Post-Black stagings, which can ultimately bring a modern, but always fully genuine and down-to-earth high-class sound to brilliant radiance.
In terms of content, the new long-player revolves around the eternally topical questions of humanity about the respective meaning of life and death.
The thought-provoking lyrics of the songs show a radically positive basic tenor, which stands for Coldun‘s personal conviction that in death nothing is absolute – and certainly not an end.
In recent years he has developed and cultivated relevant impulses for this insight as a distinctly spiritual character by means of various journeys to areas of the world that are correspondingly revealing for him.
The first single taken from the album is the title-track, read the article about on our webzine: [News] Coldun to release āGrand Sun Ritual,ā first single revealed
Tracklist:Ā
01. Grand Sun Ritual (07:41)
02. The Forest And The Soul (06:23)
03. Down Below (07:42)
04. Salvation Day (08:32)
05. Stories Untold (05:19)
06. Hail Out To Thebes (09:16)
07. I Dreamed That Dream (06:34)
Lineup:
Coldun / Vocals, Bass, Hammond, Synths
ZK / Guitars
MR / Guitars
NC / Drums
Pre-Orders on CD and Digital are open through Bandcamp: https://coldun.bandcamp.com/album/grand-sun-ritual
