Cruz Del Sur Music is proud to announce the signing of Massachusetts based power metallers ADAMANTIS. The label will re-release the band’s “Far Flung Realm” debut on a limited edition Compact Disc and Vinyl (Gatefold LP + 7’’) in March 2021.

 

“We are eternally grateful to Anderson Tiago from [YouTube channel] NWOTHM Full Albums,” says the band. “He helped us first with finding our audience, and then later on by reaching out to Cruz Del Sur on our behalf. Anderson is a fantastic person to work with and one is very respected in the scene. We can’t be happier about our continued collaboration with him.”

 

ADAMANTIS formed in 2016 when drummer Evgeny Gromovoy and guitarist Javier Estrada moved to Boston for work where they met guitarist Jeff Taft and former singer Ashley Caval via an internet post calling for musicians sharing similar influences to start a band. The band played across New England and culminated their run with the release of “Thundermark” EP. Soon after the release, Ashley and original bassist Liz Cleary left and the trio continued working on new material, eventually adding bassist Cody Pelchat and vocalist Jeff Stark to complete the lineup.

 

The resultant “Far Flung Realm” full-length immediately earned high marks for its take on 1990s era European power metal. The members of ADAMANTIS cite the likes of GAMMA RAY, RUNNING WILD, BLIND GUARDIAN and early NOCTURNAL RITES as key influences as well as early MANOWAR and Viking-era BATHORY. The key, however, to the band’s sound is their democratic writing process — all members of ADAMANTIS contributed across the 10 songs that would comprise the finished product.

 

“Though the songs are conceived initially by a single member, every member has contributed in some way to every song,” comments the band. “After Ashley and Liz left, we kept writing songs but stopped playing shows, which allowed us to work more on our initial ideas and give them time to evolve, whereas the previous EP was primarily a way to release in a physical medium the songs we had been playing live for over a year. With ‘Far Flung Realm’ we also were fortunate to work with experienced producer Christian ‘Moschus’ Moos, who also helped shape our sound and added some light string and flute arrangements.”

 

 

Far Flung Realm tracklist:

1. Into The Realm
2. Unbound Souls
3. Misbegotten Dream
4. Puppeteers Bane
5. Fire And Brimstone
6. Imagination
7. Journey's End
8. Oracle's Prophecy
9. Second Sight
10. Siege Of Arkona
11. Voron (The Ravensong)

 

 

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https://www.facebook.com/adamantisband/

https://www.instagram.com/adamantis_metal/

https://adamantismetal.bandcamp.com/

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAM7P3nD4sTRe3XuzmVMMVQ

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Jeff Stark - Vocal
Jeff Taft - Guitars
Javier Estrada - Guitars
Cody Pelchat - Bass
Evgeny Gromovoy - Drums

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Adamantis formed in late 2016 in Boston when two longtime friends met two veterans of the Madrid heavy metal underground circa the early 2000s. The band crafts a blend of power metal that draws influences from the sound pioneered by European bands such as Gamma Ray, Running Wild, Hammerfall and Blind Guardian, flavoring it with their love of classic metal forerunners like Iron Maiden, Queensryche, Judas Priest and Saxon.

 

Upon fleshing out a full lineup, Adamantis spent 2017 and 2018 performed relentlessly throughout New England, opening for the likes of Ross the Boss and Gygax and culminating their run with the release of the Thundermark EP in 2018.

 

Having taken 2019 to focus on songwriting, the band returns now with their debut full-length album ‘Far Flung Realm’, mixed by Christian ‘Moschus’ Moos of Spacelab Mixing (HAKEN, Delain, Luca Turilli’s Rhapsody). Building on the groundwork laid by their prior release, the ten tracks of ‘Far Flung Realm’ showcase the strength and diversity of the band’s musical palette, from the thunderous speed of “Puppeteer’s Bane’ to the crushing march to war and soaring choirs of the Manowar-esque hymn ‘The Siege of Arkona’, with new frontman Jeff Stark’s dramatic vocals adding new and welcome color to the band’s sound.

 

The album is set to be released in both digital and physical format on October 23rd, 2020. The lyric video for the first single ‘The Oracle’s Prophecy’, featuring guest vocals by Elisa C. Martin (Hamka, Fairyland, ex-Dark Moor) is set to be released in early September. The second single, “Misbegotten Dream’, will follow in October.

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Far Flung Realm - 2020

?? - 2021

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Power Metal
United States