Long-running and critically acclaimed melodic/progressive death metal project, DESSIDERIUM, enters a new chapter with their forthcoming release for Willowtip Records, its first for the label. New album Keys to the Palace will be released on CD, double-vinyl gatefold LP, and digital formats on March 17.
The album’s first single, “Dover Hendrix,” is streaming now at youtu.be/nHaHZN1NHkU. The song is also available on all the usual digital platforms, including Bandcamp, Spotify, Apple Music, and Deezer.
Sole member and founder, Alex Haddad, shared his thoughts about Keys to the Palace: “This album was ten plus years in the making. A lot of the material here actually precedes that of the two previous releases. Completing this record means giving closure to this era of Dessiderium that has spanned across my twenties, and I see it as a well suited final chapter to this period. The two previous albums, Shadow Burn and Aria, provided no happy ending. They were both about defeat in their own way. Keys to the Palace reaches for triumph. This is an album about time travel that explores the polarity between past and future, innocence and disillusion, faith and despair, and adolescence and adulthood.”
Pre-order:
Willowtip: https://bit.ly/keys-willowtip
Bandcamp: https://bit.ly/keys-bandcamp
Track Listing:
1. In The Midst Of May
2. Dover Hendrix
3. Pollen For The Bees
4. A Dream That Wants Me Dead
5. Magenta
6. Keys To The Palace
Credits:
All music and words written by Alex Haddad.
Produced by Alex Haddad.
Guitars, bass, vocals, keyboard, and orchestrations/synthesizers by Alex Haddad.
Drum programming by Brody Smith.
Piano solos on “Dover Hendrix” and “Pollen For The Bees” performed by Thomas Leroy Meier.
Mixed and mastered by Mendel Bij De Leij.
Artwork by Adam Burke (Nightjar Illustration).