Nevermore - This Godless Endeavor
Posté : 14 mai 2005, 17:00
ça sort le 26 juillet chez Century Media

“The ultimate heavy metal band” (BW&BK), Seattle’s Nevermore, are set to deliver This Godless Endeavor July 26th during their mainstage summer appearance on MEGADETH’s Gigantour. Creating metal’s most progressively innovative, insidiously addictive, and blazingly entangled music, mesmerizing vocalist Warrel Dane, backed by guitar virtuoso Jeff Loomis and the jackhammer rhythms of bassist Jim Sheppard and drummer Van Williams are now joined by guitarist Steve Smyth (ex-TESTAMENT/DRAGONLORD) who marks his Nevermore recording debut. Smyth toured extensively with the band throughout 2003 and 2004, including a U.S. tour with DIMMU BORGIR and CHILDREN OF BODOM, and performance at Germany’s prestigious Wacken Open Air Festival.
Traveling to England’s Backstage Studios (ARCH ENEMY, KREATOR), the band reunites with production wizard Andy Sneap (OPETH, MACHINE HEAD) who “provided an atmosphere conducive to creativity,” says Dane. “This album contains the trademark Nevermore songcraft you have either come to love or hate,” he continues, “and some of the most ripping guitar work we’ve recorded.”
Stark artwork by Hugh Syme (RUSH, Megadeth) incorporates the “theme we’ve developed over the last few albums of everyone wearing a mask,” he explains. With the title, This Godless Endeavor, being a discussion on, as Dane sees it, “the on-going struggle between science and religion.” Psyched to be part of the Gigantour, “an alternative to what has become a corporate endeavor,” Dane is ready to let fans experience the immediacy and urgency that have played such a huge part in their songs “mind boggling sophistication” (Terrorizer).