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Subscribe to our channel for new releases: @AOPRecords?sub_confirmation=1 Subscribe to Spotify for new releases: AOP Records (EU-Shop) AOP Records (US-Shop) Digital platforms: Bandmerch (USA) Follow us: AOP Records Facebook AOP Records Instagram Harakiri for the sky Facebook Harakiri for the sky Instagram Managment: aswallow[@] Booking Europe/UK: alexander[@] Booking North America: liamfrith[@] Booking South America: info[@] Directed by Andreas J. Borsodi Art of Propaganda is proud to present the highly anticipated third album of Harakiri for the Sky, III: Trauma. Released in 2014 by Art of Propaganda, Harakiri for the Sky's Aokigahara reaped widespread critical acclaim for its startling synthesis of skyscraping post-rock textures and emotive black metal fury. Breathtaking and torturous in equal measures, the highwater mark that Aokigahara set has somehow been eclipsed by III: Trauma. Immediately, the album kicks off with an 11-minute epic titled “Calling the Rain,“ and indeed do Harakiri for the Sky summon forces both natural and supernatural. As the record winds through seven more equally scintillating epics, III: Trauma swells and swirls, crests and crushes, effortlessly dancing between genres with nary an ounce of self-consciousness. Not for nothing is the album titled Trauma: the emotional landscapes the band travail scrape both the direst depths and fleetingly blissful extremes of the human psyche. But, as masterful as the band are at this point, this is not new territory for Harakiri for the Sky; they have been a steady work in progress from the start. Founded in 2011 in Vienna, Austria, the aim of Harakiri for the Sky has always been to create a unique mixture of melancholy and aggression, madness and meaning, and wrapped in alternately manic/mellow songs that bridged black metal and atmospheric post-rock. The band was initially begun as a studio project by erstwhile Bifröst member M. S. joined by vocalist/lyricist J. J., and has recently been expanded to a live lineup. With that lineup secured, Harakiri for the Sky then embarked upon four successful European tours with the likes of A Forest of Stars, Der Weg Einer Freiheit, and Agrypnie among others, encompassing over 20 countries to date. Now prepared to release the masterwork III: Trauma, Harakiri for the Sky will take this volatile-yet-beautiful new concoction on the road for the remainder of 2016: massive sound-walls and the barest of emotions await! Recorded by M.S. and Daniel Fellner Mixed and Mastered by Daniel Fellner Produced by M.S. Words & Vocals by J.J. Layout & Artwork by Tristan Svart Lyrics: The poems I wrote for the last few years Were nothing, but vague prophecies But they abode what they promised So be careful what you wish for, you might get it… Some guys, they just give up living And start dying little by little, piece by piece Some guys bury their hopes beneath disrooted trees But most of them just die a wretched death near these streets… My memories got stolen… …so hail to the thief Irony causes laughter, but laugther causes pain These mountains, one day, will soak the sea But I won’t witness, I won’t neighter hear nor see… I can already hear the chains clatter behind my ears I can feel the flames searing all last evidence That we have lost this battle doesn’t mean we‘ve lost the war But only when we‘ve lost everything, we’ll be free to leave… …we’ll be free to leave… We shared the thirst of swans in the summer We shared alignment, the lack long after This city will be the death of me… To be homebound will be the death of me… I can never regret, I can feel sorrow, but at least it’s not the same thing I take leave heavy at heart, although it was out of our hands… We shared the thirst of swans in the summer We shared alignment, the lack long after This city will be the death of me… To be homebound will be the death of me… All Rights Reserved To Harakiri For The Sky & AOP Records © 2016
