Finland’s Metal De Facto have just released their latest single, “Rise Amaterasu.” The track will open their upcoming album, Land of the Rising Sun Part. 1, and introduces the band’s new vocalist, Aitor Arrastia. The full-length is part one of two, arriving February 09th, via Rockshots Records. Keep reading below for the single and more.
Stream “Rise Amaterasu” here.
Pre-order Land of the Rising Sun Part. 1 on CD here standard vinyl here, and transparent splatter vinyl here.
Metal De Facto consists mainly of guitarists Esa Orjatsalo (ex Dreamtale) and Mikko Salovaara (Kiuas), bassist Sami Hinkka (Ensiferum, ssSHhh), keyboardist Benji Klint-Connelly (Everfrost) and drummer Atte Marttinen (ex Kivimetsän Druidi). It was announced however in 2022 that former vocalist Mikael Salo (ex Thy Row, ex Dyecrest) would no longer be the band’s singer. On the same day, the band’s new vocalist Aitor Arrastia hailing from Spain was announced along with the announcement of the band’s upcoming second full-length album, Land of the Rising Sun Part 1. The album will be the first of two parts, themed after Japanese culture.
Land of the Rising Sun Part. 1 tracklisting:
01 Rise Amaterasu
02 Code of the Samurai
03 Heavier Than a Mountain
04 Slave to the Power
05 Divine Wind
06 Tame the Steel
07 Superstars
08 47 Ronin
Previous single – “Code of The Samurai” – https://bfan.link/code-of-the-samurai
Metal De Facto will play shows on the release weekend with Dreamtale and Everfrost (Everfrost only in Helsinki) in Finland!
Show Dates:
Feb 09, 2024 – Yo-talo, Tampere, FIN (with Dreamtale) – Ticket info here.
Feb 10, 2024 – On the Rocks, Helsinki, FIN (with Dreamtale and Everfrost) – Ticket Info here
More from Metal De Facto:
Exploding onto the metal scene in 2019, Finnish power metal band Metal De Facto made their debut with Imperium Romanum, a full-length with a theme-driven collection of songs about ancient Rome that was bombastically nostalgic old-school power metal. These fresh but familiar songs quickly caught the attention of metal listeners worldwide, notably with the first single “The Conqueror” amassing over 200,000 video views and over 600,000 streams on various streaming platforms.
In early 2020, the band held their first headlining show in Helsinki, which attracted fans from all over the world to attend the show in a packed On the Rocks club. This success quickly led the band to continue performing live, opening for prime moving metal bands Ensiferum and Beast in Black.
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