GWYDION reveals hot details from their upcoming self-titled album

Created: 12 September 2020 | Written by Edvardsen | Hits: 944

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Folk Viking Metal warriors Gwydion will release their brand new and self-titled album on November 13th through Art Gates Records worldwide!

The cover art has been created by Joe A. Arca (Dragonfly, Noctem, Coffeinne …) and represents all of Gwydion history, in this case it shows the Battle of Trees (Cad Goddeu) where Gwydion animates the trees of the forest to fight as his army.

Comment from the band about the new album: “25 years have passed, and we are eager to release this ultimate masterpiece to our fans! This album sums everything you want to hear from the band, we have put everything we had on this one, it’s a big album with almost 74 minutes!! It’s epic, melodic, dramatic, heroic, everything you expect from Gwydion! This will also have many surprises including several special guests that you will be amazed!!

So Triskelion Horde, get yourselves ready because at 13th of November we march together and fight until the end!

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Tracklist as follows:

1. Stand Alone
2. The Bards
3. The Chair of the Sovereign
4. Hostile Alliance
5. Battle of Alclud Ford
6. Cad Goddeu
7. Gwydion
8. Dead Song
9. Steed Song
10. Ale Mead and Wine
11. A Battle
12. Plaeu Yr Reifft
13. Hammer of the Gods
14. A Roda

The album has been recorded at The Pentagon mixed, mastered and produced by Fernando Matias.

After 25 years as a band and releasing four albums of studio: “Ynys Mon” (2008), “Horn Triskelion” (2010), “Veteran” (2013) and “Thirteen” (2018), Gwydion are more than ready to unleash their ultimate opus.

Pre Order options coming!

Influences:
Epic, Death , Black , Viking , Folk

ONLINE

http://www.gwydion.org/

https://www.facebook.com/GwydionPT

https://www.instagram.com/gwydionofficial/

https://twitter.com/gwydionmetal

http://www.myspace.com/gwydionmetal

http://www.lastfm.com.br/music/Gwydion

http://www.reverbnation.com/gwydion

http://www.youtube.com/gwydionmetal

BIOGRAPHY/LOGO

Gwydion's journey started in 1995, a project founded by a group of friends that shared the same passion for metal and interest in Celtic culture. During these first stages of the band, three demos were presented to the Portuguese metal scene and dozens of gigs were performed throughout Portugal.

In 2007, Gwydion prepared to record their first full-length album "Ynys Mön". Their originality and effort triggered the interest of the German label TROLLZORN, which offered a contract to release the album. With Ynys Mön, Gwydion finally started to draw some international attention and ultimately received an invitation to make an European tour in October 2008 with top bands TYR, HOLLENTHON, ALESTORM, and SVARTSOT: the RAGNAROK AASKEREIA'S TOUR.

During 2009, Gwydion played in nearly all major metal Portuguese metal festivals, delivering a distinct sound and attitude, and received continuously great feedback. At the end of the year, Gwydion finished the recordings and production of their second album "Horn Triskelion". "Horn Triskelion" truly represented fifteen years of accumulated experience and ideas. The readers of Portugal's biggest metal magazine LOUD magazine have chosen GWYDION to be the 2nd best band over 2010 + their album "Horn Triskelion" was considered the 3rd best album of 2010!

Now, in 2013, Gwydion presents "VETERAN". Fans will experience a slightly different musical-style, as the music is much more epic and "metal" than folk compared to the previous release. Since the beginning of the band, they had a very influential epic component in their songs, so naturally when they created "VETERAN", they decided to have a strong mixture of heavy metal riffs and epic/folk songs. "VETERAN" is a story of a warrior since his birth through his training, conquests and defeats with relevance to the History of Portugal.