EPK – Dune – Years of Chains (2024)
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“If you like it Heavy and to Head Bang, then we are the answer, it’s a deep dive into subjects from a different POV looking at it from our prospect, songs are groove-oriented with an aggressive feel and heavy riffs to give the listener a fun experience of raging tones.” – DUNE
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“Galloping thrash metal from Saudi Arabia, Refuge is taken from Dune’s first ever EP, Years Of Chains, which arrives next month. Incredibly, 2024 marks the twentieth anniversary of Dune’s formation, so whether you’ve been into them for a while or are new to their particular brand of noise, there’s no bad time to get on board. Refuge may be a little rough around the edges, but there’s no arguing with those riffs!” – Metal Hammer
“As you’ll discover through “Sieve” (if you haven’t yet heard the EP), Dune ride the sandstorm of thrash, but with a healthy dose of groove and the spreading of a pernicious atmosphere. Yet with this opening song they don’t dive right in, instead luring listeners with exotic and eerily wailing guitars and the heavy metallic throb of the bass. Even when the intensity mounts, the eeriness of the opening persists — but sounds much more ominous and malicious. The music thunders and slashes, squirms and shrieks, and memories of James Hetfield spring vividly to life when the vocals first come in — though the vocals also descend into menacing depths. Consistent with the lyrics, the song sounds diabolical, and increasingly so as the chords gloriously blare. The reverberations of a djinn-like solo enhance the diabolism. But the song is also hook-filled, and head-moving, catchy as well as bone-rattling and sinister.” – No Clean Singing
“There is a moment during “Years of Chains” where Dune vocalist Samer Nakhala lets fly with a scream which could have been lifted from any mid-90s Slayer recording. Elsewhere throughout this four-track effort, Dune takes you on a trip combining old-school and modern thrash metal. Like the scream, you can pick out plenty of influences such as Pantera and Slayer throughout these eighteen minutes while lyrically, the band explore a world of dark thoughts and aggression. All combined, “Years of Chains” is a veritable feast of punchy thrash for those who like to bang their hands.” – V13.net
““Years of Chains” is really a very good first coming, and people can expect great things of DUNE, indeed. 8/10” Metal Temple
““Sieve,” the opening track builds suspense and fills the listener with a sense of foreboding. Directing the chaotic edge into the whirlwind.” – The Median Man
“This has a bit of a classic metal and groove thing, pushing into thrash a bit. (from Saudi Arabia!)” – The Moshpit – WORT 89.9 FM (Madison, WI)
“DUNE bring a bit of a breath of fresh air into the scene with their direction of groovy thrash and it will certainly be interesting to see how the band develops in the future. And Master Olaf: I’ll suggest Saudi Arabia as the destination of our metallic trip around the world when I get the chance.8/10″ – Zephyrs Odem
“With “Years Of Chains” Dune offers an EP mixing thrash with djent and groovy sounds with great efficiency. 4/5″ – Music Waves
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EP Title: Years of Chains
Release Date: May 31, 2024
Label: Self-Release
Track Listing:
1. Sieve – 4:41
2. Reject – 5:06
3. Insidious – 4:28
4. Refuge – 4:35
EP Length: 18:52
EP Recording Credits:
• All songs performed by: Dune
• All songs written by: Dune
• Produced by: Dune
• Mixed by: Crushing Studio
• Mastered by: Crushing Studio
• Album Artwork by: Mamdoh Tawili
EP Band Line Up:
Samer Nakhala– Vocals
Abdulrahman Ghazali – Guitars
Mamdoh Tawili – Bass / Back Vocals
Mustafa Karazoon – Drums
Live Band Line Up:
Samer Nakhala– Vocals
Meshary Sangoora – Guitars
Mamdoh Tawili – Bass / Back Vocals
Mustafa Karazoon – Drums
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About the EP Artwork:
The EP artwork represents the struggles that we all have, having parts of the lyrics from each song pouring into the skull head and then pouring from the eyes and mouth, a representation of struggles and spiral into madness and to a dark place.
About the EP:
It is a dark journey into subjects and deep dark thoughts influenced by our culture and personal traumas.
This EP has come from a mixture of hard work, ambition, and lots of dark thoughts and aggression.
The recording process was fun yet we looked for perfection to make the songs as we imagined them with the best quality that we could make.
Track By Track:
1 -Sieve: The introduction to the EP, Eerie starts to chaos and aggression.
2- Reject: Groovy song with dark story.
3 – Insidious: Heavy Trip through deep personal matters of confusion and breakups.
4- Refuge: Punching Music in your face and demonic verses.
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STORY ANGLES – FUN FACTS:
1. In 2007 Refuge was a song that was recorded multiple times during the years but we were never satisfied with the result as it we face either issues with quality or doesn’t sound as we hoped , our vocalist screamed in the recording so hard that his balls started hurting the next day , still we didnt like the result and scraped that whole thing
2. The Bassist was found in a supermarket Ads board, literally , Dune had a beginner bassist where the band was looking for someone who could add strength to the band , the vocalist found an ad in the supermarket board ( where people can put up anything they are looking for or requests ) of someone looking for bass teacher , he contacted the person and lied saying I play guitar and I can teach you bass , the plan was to trick him into joining the band as a bassist and as they met they clicked and Mamdoh have joined DUNE as their bassist
3. Samer ( Vocalist ) Yazan ( Ex-Guitarst ) used to meet up late night to write and play music since Samer used to work as Hotel Receptionist where he is only free late night /early morning .
4. Reject was redone multiple times and the song structure had drastic multiple changes , the demo of the song sounds nothing like the final result as we kept removing and adding parts till we felt the song became tight and make sense.
5. In the early years around 2006 or 2005 we had the band full equipment stolen after a rehearsal , we kept our stuff in our cars and went to chill somewhere to later come and find out that someone broke into our cars and stole our stuff , were talking about guitar and guitar , bass , pedals effects , Amps , mics , you could imagine how devastating such incident to a band specially we were very young and were so broke financially , after months we kept saving and tried to build up and bought instruments again till got all we need and kept moving forward as a band.
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DUNE is a thrash metal band mixed and fused with other influences such as Djent, Nu-Metal, Oriental & Groove metal. Formed around 2004 and going on hiatus in 2007 at the peak of the Saudi metal scene, the quartet resurrected in 2021.
They have performed multiple live shows from the old SA METAL era and made their live return at the first Riyadh Inferno & Riyadh Desert Rock Fest in 2022 along with multiple metal nights at Soroor Music Centre & Syrup Lounge.
Fast forward to 2024, DUNE is now preparing to unleash a chainsaw of heavy guitars, chunky clicky bass slaps, high drums techniques, and aggressive vocals on their forthcoming EP “Years of Chains” that draws upon their own life experiences and musical style to create their signature middle eastern metal sound.
SHARED STAGE WITH: DUSK, ENTROPIA, MOUJA, LICENSE TO KILL, Immortal Pain, GIMMIX, Crimson, Reprobate, APOY
Festivals:
2023 – Riyadh Inferno 2 – Saudi Arabia, Riyadh
2022 – Desert Rock – Saudi Arabia, Riyadh
2021 – Riyadh Inferno – Saudi Arabia, Riyadh
2021 – Heavy Arabia Launch Party – Saudi arabia, Riyadh
2006 – Underground Metal 2 – Saudi Arabia, Riyadh
2005 – Underground Metal – Saudi Arabia, Riyadh
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