French heavy metal act Nightmare has unleashed their brand new studio offering entitled Encrypted, the band’s twelfth album, out now on AFM Records. Also out now, the second single taken from it, ‘Nexus Inferis’, that’s out now.
The band commented on ‘Nexus Inferis’: “This track is our album opener and has a hell of a riff matched with catchy melodies on the whole song. Lyrically, it is highly connected with the Encrypted concept : What if the end was just the beginning or a passage to hell (inferis)?”
‘Nexus Inferis’ is out now and available digitally here. It is the third release by Nightmare featuring new lead vocalist Barbara Mogore, the first having been a rerecording of ‘Eternal Winter’, that came out as a single and was originally released on the band’s 2009 album Insurrection, the new version still available on all digital services here you can also check out the video here at RAMzine. That was followed by ‘Saviours Of The Damned’ also from the Encrypted album, still available on all digital services here and that you can check out the video to it right here at RAMzine.
“We are thrilled to present our new music video!” said Nightmare at the time of the first recording with Mogore. “We choose to take an old classic song from Nightmare and rerecorded it in the studio with our new vocalist Barbara, to give this track another vibe, a new musical approach and a new dimension. ‘Eternal Winter’ never had its own music video, so we have decided to bring other highlights to this song and make it sound like you never heard it before.”
As the band stated: “With the arrival of Barbara transcending Nightmare in new dimensions, we have decided to move to new heights in terms of musical approach to make Encrypted our most ambitious album to date in terms of production, musical direction and achievement.
“You can find here some traditional power metal riffing in the trademark of Nightmare but also extreme metal parts and some highlights even reaching melodic death metal; making Encrypted our most varied opus so far, beyond all boundaries and expectations.”
Encrypted was produced by Simone Mularoni at Domination Studio, the artwork was created by Franck Jeannin, and it features the tracks: ‘Nexus Inferis’, ‘The Blossom Of My Hate’, ‘Voices From The Other Side’, ‘Saviours Of The Damned’, ‘Wake The Night’, ‘Encrypted’, ‘Incandescent’, ‘White Lines’, ‘Borderlines’ and the 2023 version of ‘Eternal Winter’.
Founded in 1979, French heavy metal pioneers Nightmare has been an integral part of the European metal scene for the past three decades, and have been prolific with their album releases, while updating and evolving their sound.
With eleven studio albums under their belt and having toured worldwide, playing some of the biggest metal festivals like Wacken, Hellfest, 70,000 Tons Of Metal, Motocultor Open Air or Gods Of Metal, Nightmare has also supported the likes of Def Leppard, Sabaton, Saxon, Grave Digger and Blind Guardian. Their last album was 2020’s Aeternam, and two years later the band parted ways with singer Madie and Barbara Mogore joined,
Bassist and founding member Yves Campion said: “With Barbara joining the band in September 2022, jumping immediately into live performances with Full Metal Holiday in Mallorca (October 2022), 70000 Tons Of Metal cruise in January 2023 and an extensive European tour together with labelmates Rhapsody Of Fire in spring 2023, we have improved into new highlights and goals reached by Barbara’s talent to perform! Now, we are back to the studio for the recordings of what should be our most ambitious album so far, bringing Nightmare to new horizons, be ready to expect the unexpected”
Encrypted can be ordered here.
