NEWS RELEASE
Montreal, QC – March 7, 2025
Out Now! California Power Metal NIVIANE “Queen of Phantoms”
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The wait is over — Sacramento, California’s Niviane unleash their powerful new album, “Queen of Phantoms”, out today March 7th, 2025! With a refined lineup, sharpened songwriting and a thunderous production, this release solidifies the band’s place at the forefront of modern power metal.
Crafted with precision over the past years, “Queen of Phantoms” represents Niviane’s strongest and most dynamic work to date. The album was written during the pandemic lockdowns and carefully shaped to highlight the band’s evolution, featuring a new rhythm section with drummer Isaiah AR and bassist Tyler Satterlee who inject fresh power into the music. Each of the 11 tracks offers a different shade of power metal, from blistering speed and aggression to uplifting melodies and dark atmospheres pushing beyond the genre’s conventions.
Featuring the commanding title track “Queen of Phantoms”, the emotionally charged “Tomorrow’s a New Day” and the thunderous “Under Black Flags” just to name a few, the album strikes a perfect balance between heaviness and melody. “Queen of Phantoms” showcases Niviane’s signature blend of intricate guitar work, anthemic choruses and cinematic storytelling, appealing to fans of Judas Priest, Queensrÿche, Primal Fear and Nevermore.
The album’s official lyric videos for “Queen of Phantoms” and “12 BC Legions” further bring its powerful themes to life, visually enhancing its dark, immersive storytelling. The latest official music video for “Tomorrow’s a New Day” explores deep and personal themes of mental health, setting it apart as one of the band’s most moving compositions.
With “Queen of Phantoms”, Niviane delivers a bold and unapologetic statement—this is power metal at its finest, evolved and redefined. Experience the full force of Niviane’s latest masterpiece now!
CD order – https://rockshots.eu/products/niviane-queen-of-phantoms-cd
Spotify – https://spoti.fi/3FmnmwY
Music Video – “Tomorrow’s a New Day” – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UvsYzy3h2WI
Lyric Video – “12 BC: Legions” – https://youtu.be/PTB6RGW0v-E?si=muAcYq8O_b9_lB-V
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Tracklist:
1. Queen of Phantoms
2. 12 BC: Legions
3. 12 BC: Germania
4. Beacon In The Darkness
5. Some Wounds… Never Heal
6. All Debts Repaid
7. Tomorrow’s A New Day
8. Event Horizon
9. Our Maze
10. Gunslingers & Graves
11. Under Black Flags
Band line up
Aaron Robitsch: Keys & Orchestration
Gary Tarplee: Guitars
Isaiah AR: Drums
Mark Miner: Guitars
Norman Skinner: Vocals
Tyler Satterlee: Bass
More info:
https://www.rockshots.eu
https://www.facebook.com/nivianemetal/
https://www.instagram.com/nivianemetalofficial/
https://x.com/nivianeofficial
About:
Niviane is an American metal band formed in 2015 hailing from Sacramento California. The band melds together their collective influences of classic heavy metal, thrash, and power metal.
The line-up consists of guitarists Mark Miner & Gary Tarplee, bassist Tyler Satterlee (Blessed Curse), Drummer Isaiah AR, Keyboardist Aaron Robitsch (Grave Shadow, Crepuscle) & vocalist Norman Skinner (Forbidden, ex-Imagika).
Niviane has toured and performed with such bands as Amon Amarth, Testament, Warrant, Hammerfall, Primal Fear, Angra, Delain, Soulfly, Rhapsody, Amorphis, Butcher Babies & more.
The band has released 2 studio albums “The Druid King” in 2017 & “The Ruthless Divine” in 2020 including 3 spectacular music videos for their songs “The Berserker”, “Fires In The Sky” & “Psychomanteum”. A 3rd album “Queen of Phantoms” is completed and scheduled to be released in 2025.
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What the press had said:
THE DRUID KING (2017)
allabouttherock.com – Eleven tracks of pure heavy epic power metal with soaring vocals and majestic anthems
dangerdog.com – Creative and compelling American melodic power metal. Easily recommended.
deadrhetoric.com – Combining traditional/power metal with class, grace, and a sense of worldwide sophistication that places the songwriting and performances at a level rarely achieved this early in a band’s career.
knac.com – Melodic elements as well as the science fiction and fantasy themes should appeal to fans of AMON AMARTH, ICED EARTH, IRON MAIDEN
maximummetal.com – Based on this debut alone, Niviane are going to be a young band to watch.
THE RUTHLESS DIVINE (2020)
darkscene.at – This mix of thrashy ingredients, pounding rhythms and omnipresent, subtly epic melodies will put a big grin on your face.
earshot.at – “The Ruthless Divine” is again pure and damn energetic US power metal with everything that goes with it.
knac.com – This is metal to bang your head to, put your fist in the air and show the whole entire world how very proud you are to be a METALHEAD!An 11 track masterpiece that will get any headbanger banging their head! This is music that is meant to be played for the METAL MASSES!
metalgodstv.com – A superb one hour of power from an emerging great of the power metal genre – Niviane are on fire, and have delivered a sensational album.
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