EPK – Nameless King – Order of The Black Flame (2022)
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“With this EP we really wanted to set the best first impression possible with quality production and songwriting that wouldn’t feel out of place in a playlist with staple bands of the genre. We feel that even though it’s still early in the band’s life, we’ve already managed to carve out a sound that perfectly describes our identity and what we want to get out of creating music. It’s a perfect sum of all our different influences and the direction we want the band to keep going in. The response from people so far has been far beyond what we expected, and we don’t intend to ever stop that momentum.” – Nameless King
For fans of At The Gates, Mors Principium Est, The Black Dahlia Murder, Heaven Shall Burn, Carcass
Band: Nameless King
Album Title: Order of The Black Flame
Release Date: March 25, 2022
Label: Self-Release
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Band: Nameless King
Album Title: Order of The Black Flame
Release Date: March 25, 2022
Label: Self-Release
Track Listing:
1. Amalgamated Kin – 5:06
2. Imprisonment – 4:21
3. Order of the Black Flame – 5:41
4. Grand Executioner – 6:53 ft. guest guitar solo Joey Hockin (Apprentice)
EP Length: 22:02
EP Recording Credits:
• All songs performed by: Nameless King
• All songs written by: Colton Hession
• Produced by: Jeff Black
• Mixed by: Jeff Black
• Mastered by: Jeff Black
• Album Artwork by: aleh_z
• Canadian Content (MAPL)
EP Recording Band Line Up:
Colton Hession – Guitar & Bass
Kurt Steigleder – Guitar
JR Painter – Vocals
Andrew Fox – Drums
Live Band Line Up:
Colton Hession – Guitar
Kurt Steigleder – Guitar
JR Painter – Vocals
Steve Cuddington – Drums
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The EP as a whole (LYRICALLY & MUSICALLY)
A fast, in-your-face collection of four songs with songs that are very dynamic with many tempo changes and many elements from different metal subgenres from melodic death metal, thrash metal, and even hints of prog, black, and deathcore.
Track by Track (LYRICALLY & MUSICALLY)
Track 1 – Amalgamated Kin
Lyrically the song tells the story of the boss character Oceiros, the Consumed King from Dark Souls 3. Musically it’s mostly pure melodic death metal, with a very black metal chorus along with a hardcore two-step feel to the solo section.
Track 2 – Imprisonment
This song is the outlier on the EP lyrics-wise and is the only song not about a character from Dark Souls, but instead about the game Super Monkey Ball. The lyrics were written in a way that unless you analyzed them extremely closely, you wouldn’t be able to tell they were about Super Monkey Ball. Musically it was written as a shorter, more standardly structured song with a high-energy power metal-ish solo section.
Track 3 – Order of the Black Flame
This track tells the story of the boss character Sister Friede from Dark Souls 3. It’s a very groove/thrash heavy song with the first full-on breakdown of the EP. We purposely had it appear later into the EP to make the breakdown section hit that much harder, hoping to have people not expect it.
Track 4 – Grand Executioner
This track is about the boss character Executioner Smough from the first Dark Souls. Musically it was designed to be very frantic with lots of sudden tempo and time signature changes, with every new section feeling different from the last, with a prog intro, hardcore breakdown, and pure thrash verses/solo section.
Top – L- R – JP Sauve – Bass, JR Painter – Vocals, Kurt Steigleder – Guitar
Bottom – L- R – Colton Hession – Guitar, Steve Cuddington – Drums
Photo Credit – Jade Weekes
Riffy melodic death metal from Vancouver, BC lyrically inspired by Soulsbourne and other fantasy video games
BAND STORY ANGLES / FUN FACTS:
1. Every one of the band’s songs are about Dark Souls, with a small handful of songs about other video games.
2. We weren’t exactly sure when we wanted to start recording the EP until Jeff Black of Gatekeeper announced he wanted to start doing engineering for other bands aside from his own. We were the first ones to reach out to him so we get to have the honour of the first project he worked on! We’re so happy with how it turned out and how easy he is to work with that so long as he’s doing music engineering, we want him to be our guy.
3. As we were jamming and getting ready for our first show, Colton started playing Dammit by Blink 182 out of nowhere and the whole band joined in. That’s when we decided to end off our set by building up to what seemed like was going to be a huge and heavy breakdown, but kicked into a faster version of Dammit. The look on the crowd’s faces is something we’ll never forget, and it was incredible how wild they moshed for it.
4. At one point one of the lines in Imprisonment was “these bananas are a life risk” and we haven’t stopped laughing about it since. At some point down the road, we want to print that on the back of a shirt as an inside joke that literally only the band members will understand.
5. Despite being named after the Dark Souls 3 boss “Nameless King”, we have yet to write a song about him. One day we might get to it.
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