Unleash The Archers announce new album ‘Phantoma’
UNLEASH THE ARCHERS have announced a new album!
Titled Phantoma, the upcoming album from the Canadian power metal band is the follow-up to 2020’s Abyss, and is scheduled to be released in May this year, via Napalm Records.
The upcoming album was mixed and mastered by Jacob Hansen, and with lead guitarist Andrew Kingsley at the helm as both principal songwriter and producer.
Frontwoman and lyricist Brittney Slayes conceived the upcoming album’s concept back in 2021; before the swarm of pressing commentary surrounding AI began to reach an all-time high. Led by the album’s protagonist Phantoma, a Phase 4 / Network Tier 0 unit – model A, the story recounts the trials of AI gaining sentience on a dystopian, near-future planet earth.
Alongside the announcement of the new album, UNLEASH THE ARCHERS have released a new music video for a new song lifted from the upcoming album; Green & Glass.
Speaking about the new song and its accompanying music video, the band says, “we struggled for a while to decide which song would lead the way for this record, and in the end chose Green & Glass because it is the song that inspired the cover artwork, but also because it doesn’t give too much away about the concept behind the album. We wanted nothing more than to be able to create a fully cinematic retelling of the story through our music videos, and were so stoked when the boys at RuneGate Studio expressed an interest in learning how to use Stable Diffusion to make our dreams come true! They trained the model on the work of Bo Bradshaw, which gives it a beautifully unique animation style; we got to bring his magnificent t-shirt artwork to life!”
Watch the official music video for Green & Glass here:
Also, you can view both the track list and artwork for the upcoming new album below:
Track List:
1. Human Era
2. Ph4/NT0mA
3. Buried In Code
4. The Collective
5. Green & Glass
6. Gods In Decay
7. Give It Up Or Give It All
8. Ghosts In The Mist
9. Seeking Vengeance
10. Blood Empress
Phantoma is set for release on May 10th via Napalm Records. Pre-orders are available now and can be purchased here.
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