San Francisco's Nite rejoin Sentient Ruin once again to bring us another unforgettable blackened heavy metal epic, in the form of "Voices of the Kronian moon", their brand new second full-length album offered you by Sentient Ruin as an exclusive limited edition cassette tape officially licensed from Season of Mist.
On this new heroic chapter of darkness-forged steel, the San Francisco heavy metal blazers (who feature current and past members of Satan’s Wrath, High Spirits and Dawnbringer) double down on their unique and fascinating formula to pack in another staggering forty-minutes of blazing leads, unforgettable riffs, and absolutely earth shaking songwriting to redefine the ancient undying heavy metal flame and catapult the genre into the future. The band's well established and unique fusion of styles builds further upon the captivating foundation laid on their pervious staggering debut album "Darkness Silence Mirror Flame", and is evolved further and rendered even more epic and evocative, fusing the timeless power of NWOBHM with dark blackened vocals and enthralling atmospheres to tell us an unforgettable tale of dark lore, electrifying fantasy and otherworldly heroism. "Voices of the Kronian moon" displays an unparalleled array of chromatics as it effortlessly swings between the galloping epics of Iron Maiden and 70's Judas Priest, the unrivaled harmonies and hooks of legendary hard rockers like Scoprions and Thin Lizzy, and the malevolent shadow-born esotericism of darker acts like Hellhammer and Amebix.
Nite was formed in San Francisco CA, in 2018 by Van Labrakis (Satan’s Wrath, Mencea), Scott Hoffman (Dawnbringer, High Spirits), Bryan Coons (Older Sun, Motorhome) and Pat Crawford (Serpents of Dawn, Older Sun). Unapologetically classic yet aesthetically and stylistically transformative, the band delivers traditional heavy metal heavily influenced by the NWOBM and the heavy metal titans of the 70s and 80s paired with blackened malevolent vocals, a fusion of elements which has resulted in an epic, majestic, yet spectral and cryptic sound. Their highly original syncretism of different ancestral ingredients of heavy metal brings us back to a golden age of the genre when when razor sharp guitars, blazing leads, earth shattering bass and pounding drums were already a long established pillar of the style, being first faced with the rise of evil growled vocals of bands like Venom and Possessed without ever actually meeting, a communion which Nite accomplished forty years later with masterful effect to unfold their own personal sonic storytelling of horror, darkness and despair. Nite’s debut album "Darkness Silence Mirror Flame" was released on Vinyl, CD and streaming from Creator-Destructor Records in March 2020 to critical acclaim, and re-issued on cassette tape via Sentient Ruin that same summer. The second album "Voices of the Kronian moon" followed in 2022 this time via Season of Mist but with Sentient Ruin again licensing a cassette version.