German folk metal band Harpyie has a new single out, and it’s a topical one – ‘Zombiemann’ accuses 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. 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.
You can check out the video here at RAMZine.
The song comes from their upcoming studio album, Voodoo, due for release on 25th October through Metalville Records, as have been a number of recent releases.
The title track having been their third such, featuring Skindred‘s Benji Webbe.Available digitally, there’s also a video you can check out here at RAMzine.
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.
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.
‘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.
