German folk metal band Harpyie has a new single out, ‘Herz Aus Eisen’ featuring Johnny/Soulbound taken from from their upcoming studio album, Voodoo, due for release on 25th October through Metalville Records, as have been a number of other single releases.
In ‘Herz aus Eisen’, that translates to heart of iron, the front men sing together about the struggle for perfection, the urge to be a perfect person in a seemingly perfect world – and to transcend humanity in the process? To leave it behind? Powerful, gloomy and without morals, the song leaves the listener alone with the question: Is this a good thing?
With a good dose of social criticism, Harpyie conjure up a mix of medieval rock and modern metal, making Soulbound an apt featuring partner.
Available digitally, you can check out the official video here at RAMzine.
Who hasn’t heard of The Neverending Story? Mythical creatures, enchanted worlds of fantasy and an underprivileged boy who has to make every imaginable sacrifice to save them. Why him? Is he a tool? Is he self-determined or a fool? On the bands previous single, ‘Atreju’, Harpyie sing a hymn to all the everyday heroes who sometimes ask themselves these questions and yet carry on and continue to carry the light across the river, even if nobody will probably remember them later…
You can check out the video to the single here at RAMzine.
Musically, a combination of strong nu-metal sounds, pop elements and modern sound elements, the five musicians are said to have injected Voodoo with “a powerful, cool and danceable charm – which can keep up with any modern top chart production”.
Hailing from Bad Oeynhausen in East Westphalia, since Blindflug their debut album back in 2012, Harpyie has played its way into the hearts of the German metal community with their authenticity and consistently individual approach.
Whether at the Wacken Open Air or the Summerbreeze, the five rebels have thrilled the young and genre-breaking target groups as well as the traditional metal fans. With their last album, Harpyie also made it into the German album charts reaching 34th place, and proved folk metal has mainstream appeal.
‘Schildmaid’ was their previous single and on it Harpyie offered their “ode to women”. With motifs from the emancipated Viking world, the “woman in Valhalla” becomes a symbol of feminism and poses the question of the degradation of men to the elevation of women. Embedded in power metal and medieval rock elements, Harpyie deliver a powerful response to one of the omnipresent challenges facing our world today – in keeping with the spirit of their new album Voodoo. You can check out the video for this and previous singles here at RAMZine.
‘Zombiemann’ came before that single release, and therein they accused people of standing still. Whether followers, enemies of progress or non-self-thinkers: The classic Harpyrie song postulates that keeping old flesh together can only lead to the final destination of immortality. This is one of the songs on the new album that addresses the division in society and calls for bridges to be built and unity to be found in diversity.
The title track having been also a single and featuring Skindred‘s Benji Webbe. In the video, Harpyie celebrate a macabre, dark ritual together with Webbe and resurrect Papa Legba, a spirit or saint in voodoo: As a seducer of the dark side, the Keeper of the Crossroads enchants with South American sounds and a nu metal flavour. As in the songs on the album, life affirmation and artistic outcry come together in the style of voodoo, where roses and skulls exist side by side.
‘Omen’ was the second single from their forthcoming new studio album, Voodoo and it guest featured famous German streamer and musician Kalle Koschinsky, ‘Omen’ mixes medieval folk rock/metal infused with a 90s Eurodance heritage, acting as the ultimate party song.
Prior to that the band released ‘Ikonoklast’ as a single, where the band showed they now had a modern and much fresher look than before, Harpyie having cast off their medieval shackles and entered a new era in their history with the song being a rebellious anthem concerning individualism and humanity.
Available digitally, you can check out the videos to all those singles here at RAMzine.
