– November nineteenth, 2024 –
Band To Reissue “Awakening From Dukkha” And “Knowledge Eyes” Full-Size Albums + New Video Now Enjoying
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Steel Blade Data is happy to welcome Interior Mongolian metallic collective NINE TREASURES to its esteemed roster.
Thanks to 3 acclaimed albums, hundreds of thousands of streams, and European excursions and festivals (Wacken Open Air, Woodstock Poland, and many others), metallic heroes NINE TREASURES are nicely on their strategy to engaging in their objective of a Mongolian metallic revolution. Shaped by vocalist/guitarist Askhan Avagchuud in 2010 within the autonomous area of Interior Mongolia in China, NINE TREASURES are a singular mixture of heavy metallic and conventional Mongolian instrumentation, using each standard vocals and Mongolian throat singing. Guitars, bass, and drums collide with indigenous string devices together with the balalaika and the morin khuur (horsehead fiddle), leading to a sonic kaleidoscope that follows no set template. Enjoying one-hundred-plus competition exhibits and headlining gigs per yr in Asia, to audiences of as much as 50,000, NINE TREASURES are on the high of their sport.
Feedback Askhan Avagchuud (guitars, vocals, balalaika, tovshuur), “We’re excited to be on Steel Blade. We’ve all the time been impressed by heavy American and European bands. America and Europe are essential for us to tour and create a relationship with Steel music followers from these nations we admire.”
NINE TREASURES has almost accomplished an epic new file, greater than 5 years within the making, which can drop on Steel Blade subsequent yr. Within the meantime, the band will re-release the twelve-song compilation album Awakening From Dukkha in addition to a remaster of 2017′s Knowledge Eyes.
Awakening From Dukkha collects re-recorded songs from NINE TREASURES‘ three studio LPs, 2012′s Arvan Ald Guulin Honshoor, 2013′s 9 Treasures and 2017 Knowledge Eyes. The band’s evolution has been profound. “We experimented quite a bit and thru our whole journey, we felt like we have been getting higher with every album,” Askhan says. “However the primary vibe for us has all the time been the identical, which was the pentatonic japanese music combined with heavy metallic. We don’t do half step notes usually, that’s why the vitality is analogous all through all of our albums.”
That mentioned, the brand-new music on the as-yet-untitled 2025 LP shall be a large step for the band, because the frontman explains, “This new album is completely different from any of our previous releases. We added centered manufacturing element and advanced the way in which we write music. We’re centered on huge riffs and galvanizing moments that take our viewers on a journey; that’s a part of the custom we grew up in.”
The band takes its title from a bunch of objects referenced in historical Mongolian folklore, NINE TREASURES contact on the mythology and fairy tales of their homeland. Askhan, a practising Buddhist, is intent on utilizing their music to convey consolation, and ease the struggling of others. “I need to share the teachings I’ve realized with individuals like me who’ve skilled nervousness or life struggles who search refuge and therapeutic in music,” Askhan says. “We would like NINE TREASURES to convey optimistic and galvanizing vitality into the world – the best factor we are able to do with that is to encourage individuals.”
Watch a video for NINE TREASURES‘ “Knowledge Eyes” HERE.
The reissues of Awakening From Dukkha and Knowledge Eyes shall be launched digitally on January tenth, 2025.
Awakening From Dukkha (Re-Recorded) Observe Itemizing:
01. Black Coronary heart
02. Arvan Ald Guulin Honshoor
03. Fable Of Mangas
04. Nomin Dalai
05. Tes River’s Hymn
06. Ten Years
07. The Dream About Historical Metropolis
08. Reward For Tremendous Horse
09. The Finish Of The World
10. Knowledge Eyes
11. The Cussed
12. Three Years Outdated Warrior
Knowledge Eyes (Remastered) Observe Itemizing:
01. Ten Years
02. The Finish Of The World
03. My Hulunbuir
04. Knowledge Eyes
05. Hushuu Youngster
06. Us
07. Gown Of Prince
08. Don’t Need To Dance
09. The Cussed
NINE TREASURES:
Askhan Avagchuud – guitars, vocals, balalaika, tovshuur
Orgil – bass, backing vocals
Saina – balalaika, backing vocals, guitars
Namra – drums
Nars – morin khuur, backing vocals
NINE TREASURES Discography:
十丈铜嘴 Arvan Ald Guulin Honshoor (2012)
9 Treasures (2013)
Knowledge Eyes (2017)
Awakening From Dukkha (2021)
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