German extreme metallers Ketzer unveil a new single entitled ‘No Stories Left’ ahead of the release of their forth full-length studio album ‘Cloud Collider’. Set for release on the 12th of April via Metal Blade Records, from what we have now heard, ‘Cloud Collider’ may just be the bands strongest release yet.
Fans of the band will already know that Ketzer is a band that have continually aimed to defy the stringent confines of genre and have always composed material that effortlessly moves between the realms of thrashing intensity and blackened atmospherics. Promising ‘epic melodies that will haunt you long after the last tone has faded away’, ‘Cloud Collider’ was recorded at Markus Stock’s infamous ‘Klangschmiede Studio E’ as well as Laurent Teubls ‘Sculpt Sound Studios’ in autumn 2018 with the album’s visuals created by cover artist Adam Burke and illustrator Johannes Stahl.
In a press release regarding the album, the band stated that, ‘Lately, we have been possessed by storms. First there is a breeze, then the sky darkens: A sense of electric energy starts to fill the air. A sense of sheer power, building up, waiting to erupt. ‘Cloud Collider‘ will strike you like a force of nature. When recording an album after months of hard work, blood and sweat, it is always our greatest wish, accompanied by the most terrifying fears, that the recordings will be able to ‘catch’ the songs and their certain, special spark. When we hear the final result for the first time, we have to think: ‘THIS is how the next chapter must sound’. Only then, we can be satisfied. With all the more pride and joy we can now say about ‘Cloud Collider‘, that both is the case, and it is without a single doubt! THIS is how Ketzer has to sound in 2019! It is new and it is old and it is everything. It is fast and it is slow and we just can’t wait to bring these songs to the stage. This album is a piece of work that we feel embodies all aspects that stand and stood for the sound of Ketzer now and then. An album that manages to still go one step further to form something new!’
Released as the album’s first single ‘No stories Left’ features the voice of the legendary Proscriptor McGovern of Absu fame who also released the following statement regarding is appearance, ‘It is with inordinate honor to announce my co-vocalist appearance on ‘No Stories Left’: the first single to be issued on Ketzer‘s upcoming album ‘Cloud Collider‘. What I contemplate = I uproariously touch with voice. What I enter into imagination = I make myself one with; however, a tower can fall twice’.
Available for pre-order now, you can find the first single ‘No Stories Left’ below.