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Advance Stream of VERITERAS Album ‘The Dark Horizon’ Available Now!

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Melodic Death Metal quartet VERITERAS has joined forces with No Clean Singing for the exclusive premiere of forthcoming album, The Dark Horizon! Stream the album at the link below!

VERITERAS is set to release its sophomore full-length album, The Dark Horizon, on April 11.

Pre-order: veriteras.bandcamp.com/album/the-dark-horizon

“It has a mythic atmosphere, often heroic, ancient, and barbaric, sometimes folk-ish and sometimes elegant and sometimes bombastic. It pounds the pulse so hard you might think your heart’s going to burst out of your chest, and the dual-guitar melodies hearken back to the golden age of Scandinavian melodeath with such splendor that you could easily imagine crowds shooting their hands heavenward, carried away.”

– No Clean Singing

“The Dark Horizon is a memorable album in every way. It’s seriously heavy, intensly aggressive but equally catchy and classy.”

– Games, Brrraaains & A Head-Banging Life

“We are once again completely convinced of the capabilities of this foursome and really only have one piece of advice for those who love melodic death metal: be sure to check out ‘The Dark Horizon.’ You will definitely enjoy it immensely.” (90/100)

– Musika

“This is highly impressive and is sure to alight the interest of acts within a similar vein, including the likes of Children of Bodom, Black Guard and early Dark Tranquility.” (92/100)

– Cult Metal Flix

“A very great sounding melodic mixture of black and death metal.”

– A Different Shade of Black Metal

In support of the album VERITERAS will be hitting the road with Finland’s Event Relentless for the nine-city “PNW U.S. Tour!” Dates are as follows:

4/18 Bellingham, WA @ The Shakedown

4/19 Bremerton, WA @ The Charleston

4/20 Spokane, WA @ Jackson Street Bar

4/21 Richland, WA @ Ray’s Golden Lion

4/23 Boise, ID @ The Shredder

4/24 Bend, OR @ Silver Moon Brewery

4/25 Portland, OR @ Mano Occulta

4/26 Olympia, WA @ The Crypt

4/27 Seattle, WA @ The Funhouse

Track Listing:

1 – Certainty

2 – Celestial Darkness

3 – Abyss

4 – Last Rites

5 – Sanctuary

6 – Manufactured Dreams

7 – Blinding

8 – Retrograde

9 – Light in the Darkness

The Dark Horizon really leans in on our old school melodic death metal roots, and as a result has a more blackened melodic death metal sound compared to our previous release, Shadow of Death. There’s more tremelo picking, more blast beats, but still holding on to a very melodic core. We’re very happy with how the album ended up, and we grew a ton through the process. The songwriting is more mature, the lyrics are stronger because Sean wrote most of them instead of me, the musicianship is better, and the mix is fantastic. We’re all super excited to be sharing this album with the world, and hope you enjoy listening to it as much as we enjoyed making it!”

– Santtu Winter (Veriteras)

Album Credits:

Music written and arranged by Santtu Winter and Veriteras. 

Songs “Retrograde” and “Blinding” written and arranged by Sean Osterberg and Santtu Winter.

 Lyrics by Sean Osterberg and Santtu Winter. Bass written and recorded by Matthew Kirkwold at Meow Sounds. 

Solos written and recorded by Major Bruno (first solo on “Sanctuary”), Eligio Tapia (second solo on “Sanctuary”), and Adonis Reed-Boulos (“Blinding”). 

Vocals on “Light in the Darkness” by Maria Mannisto. Tambourine performed by Jeff Smith (bassist emeritus and first-chair tambourinist).

Recorded by Don Gunn at The Office Studio in Seattle in July 2023.

Mixed and Mastered by Dan Swanö at Unisound Studio in Germany between August and November 2023.

Album artwork by Sean Osterberg.

BIO:

Veriteras is an old-school melodic death metal band based in Seattle, Washington (U.S.). Formed in 2018, they are inspired by the Scandinavian melodic death scene (early-era In Flames, Dark Tranquillity, Kalmah, etc.), and strive to write heavy songs with powerful and memorable melodies. After releasing two EPs in 2020 (Banished) and 2021 (Citadel), they debuted their first LP Shadow of Death in 2022, and toured Finland in support of the album. Now they are proud to present their follow-up LP, The Dark Horizon, in April 2024.

Line-up:

Santtu Winter: Guitar

Sean Osterberg: Guitar and Vocals

Jason Gooselaw: Drums

Major Bruno: Bass

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