Graceful: heavy fusion new album announced

Nantes-based experimental heavy rock quartet GRACEFUL share details about their sophomore album 'Demiurgia' - coming out on September 17th through Vlad Productions. Two industrial stoner breathtaking singles are available now: "Psylle"and "Water Bombs".

Polished up by Magnus Líndberg from Swedish post-metal band Cult Of Luna, GRACEFUL's new album 'Demiurgia' tackles the question of duality by making light of experimental rock, trip hop and stoner rock. The mix is as daring and vibrant as coherent. The ten tracks' whole story is sprinkled by inspired sonic sets, mechanical and organic sound effects, various in-depth vocal techniques and an highly addictive groove. Mike Patton's very own singing style and Faith No More's wilderness are never very far away from this gem; Godspeed You Black Emperor! and their off the beaten path's industrial atmospheres could also be mentioned here, as well as Queens Of The Stone Age's wicked stoner rock.

GRACEFUL love to free the emotions, with their mind contradictions. That is exactly the reason why the band chose to release the singles "Psylle" (gentle, melodic) and "Water Bombs" (powerful, intense) - they highlight a creative and clever work on the notion of contradiction.

Listen to Psylle & Water Bombs

Claude Orain (bass, guitar) comments: "Demiurgia is about psyche and its instabilities. As the first track suggests, it opens "The Passage" towards the abysses of a twisted mind looking for inner peace somewhere among his own flaws. We chose to work with Black Box Studio to record the ten tracks of this second album. The place is known for being a good choice to record live. And it's true! Except for the first track, which is kind of a bridge between our debut album and this one, the whole thing sounds very organic. We wanted something raw, warm, to feel the breath of the amps, to seize the moment..."

Recorded live at Black Box Studio near Angers (France) by Arthur Lauth from Brown Bear Recording, and mastered by Magnus Líndberg (of Cult Of Luna), 'Demiurgia' is arriving on September 17th via Vlad Productions - available at the following formats: CD, vinyl, streaming and download.

GRACEFUL new album 'Demiurgia' Out September 17th 2021 via Vlad Productions

TRACK LISTING:

1. The Passage

2. Enemy

3. Demiurgia

4. Water Bombs

5. Two

5. Scrapes

7. I Hope You Run Fast (If You Don't Wanna Die)

8. Dawn

9. Psylle

10. Crossing

From madness to contemplation, from violence to lyricism, Nantes's quartet GRACEFUL deliver a language that fuses experimental rock and trip hop soundings. A bold identity that questions human duality, plays with ambiguity, confuses the listener without loosing itself at any time.

As an introduction to their uncompromising molten world, the band's debut album 'No One Hears Us' sees the light on 2017. Their Mike Patton-like vocal techniques guide the experienced ear from one extreme to the other, strictly rejecting any kind of boredom to better showcase a clever and thrilling artistic exploration. Graceful create unique atmospheres with the help of sound effects and industrial or electronic elements firmly rooted in a heavy rock basis, and peppered by a raucous groove.

Graceful's live performances are also particularly remarkable: three guitars and two basses are playing intermittently on stage! The show is total and astonishing. Their sophomore album 'Demiurgia', recorded live at Black Box studio (Noyant-la-Gravoyère, France) by Arthur Lauth and mastered by Magnus Líndberg (of Cult Of Luna), is coming out on September 17th 2021 through Vlad Productions.