Oceans Above, Stars Below is the new album from Norwegian heavy metal band Triosphere that’s coming our way 28th August, via Frontiers Music Srl, but the title track’s already out as their new single with an official video to boot.
The band commented: “We’re proud and happy to release the title track off our upcoming album, Oceans Above, Stars Below. It is rich with contrast in emotion and intensity, and perhaps somewhat more complex than some of the other songs on the album.
“This mirrors the title and lyric which dives into themes of momentous changes, challenges, deception, acknowledging everywhere and everything that you’ve been and finding/discovering new ways forward within it all. We sincerely hope you’ll enjoy the music, and the official video we’ve made for it together with Kinorama Studio!”
Regarding the album itself, they said: “This has been a long, loooong haul! But we are happy and proud to say that we once again feel we’ve made a strong and killer album and thrilled to have teamed up with the great Frontiers Music for bringing this out into the world! It’s a more intense album, both in atmosphere and speed, with hooks and melodies that’s cooler than ever, and we deeply hope and believe the listeners will feel it was well worth the wait!
“As with our previous album, we knew that we wanted legendary Jens Bogren at Fascination Street Studios to do the mix of the album. The studio could at that time offer brand new, stellar facilities, so we decided to also record the drums and vocals there together with the excellent engineer/producer Alexander Backlund,” they continued. “This has lifted the audio quality of our albums to a new level, and we’re just so excited to finally share it all with the rest of the world!
“We’re also thrilled to properly share with you the album cover artwork by Giannis Nakos of Remedy Art Design! We were well familiar with Giannis’ quality-work when we first reached out to him, and based on our discussions around the album title and lyrics, he has created a truly intriguing eye-catcher of an artwork!”
Meshing hard rock, power prog and thrash metal, Triosphere released their debut album Onwards on FaceFront Records at the turn of 2006 to 2007, with it being awarded Best Metal Album from JPF, the world’s largest independent music organisation, at their annual JPF Awards in Nashville in 2009. The band then signed with AFM Records in 2010 for sophomore album The Road Less Travelled, and 2014’s The Heart Of The Matter, touring through Europe and at festivals as the years ensued.
Following the release of ‘Monster’s Ball’, Triosphere‘s first single from the new album, they followed it with ‘Of Tyrants’, about which they commented: “While our music over the years has been described as heavy metal with elements of thrash, ‘Of Tyrants’ is more thrash with elements of heavy metal! In-your-face attack with a catchy chorus and fierce guitar solos! Lyrically, it falls in the same category as the first single off the album, ‘Monster’s Ball’; how the history of mankind is one that’s layered thick with self-righteous destruction, led by a handful of tyrants, yet the tyrant lies dormant within us all.
“For the video, we went to Rome and the brilliant Greta and Ray in Kinorama Studio! These two hold a wide range of talents and have created killer visuals for this song! This studio already comes with a strong recommendation, and we will certainly add to that!”
Featuring Ida Haukland (bass and vocals), Marius Bergesen and Tor Ole Byberg (guitars) and Kenneth Tårneby (drums), Oceans Above, Stars Below consists of the following songs: ‘Premonition’, ‘Of Tyrants’, ‘Oceans Above, Stars Below’, ‘Monster’s Ball’, ‘Through The Phantom Wall’, ‘Shorelines’, ‘Lightning In A Bottle’, ‘Encore’, ‘Embers’, ‘Orpheus’ Bane’, ‘Cadence Of Chaos’ and ‘Gjenklang’.
